Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) April 06, 2012

ABBRA, the American Boat Builders & Repairers Association announced today it has appointed Gordon Connell as its new Executive Director and named Connell Communications its new Association Management Company. During their regular Board Meeting held recently at Roscioli Yachting Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida the ABBRA Board of Directors approved the new leadership and management plan for the national boat builder and boatyard trade organization.

Pam Lendzion, President of ABBRA said, ?We have been fortunate to have good administration and guidance over the years, and with this change our Board is pleased to have someone with Gordon?s experience to take the helm and continue to provide strong management leadership.? She noted, ?His vision and enthusiasm for our continued growth, ideas for expanded and enhanced service for members and shared belief that strong representation nationally on issues affecting the business of boating are refreshing.?

Gordon Connell worked in the recreational marine industry for nearly 11 years before establishing Connell Communications in February 2011. He served as the Director of Association Services for the Marine Industries Association of South Florida, one of the largest regional recreational marine trade groups in the U.S. and owner of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. He possesses management experience in all facets of association administration from member programs and services to legislative advocacy and engagement. Connell Communications is an association management company, public relations and marketing firm with clients that range from a small non-profit charitable foundation to the largest private maritime training school in the U.S.

?The opportunity to work with ABBRA as its Executive Director and provide management services for the association are challenges that not only excite and motivate me, but ones that I wholeheartedly embrace,? said Connell. ?This organization was established in 1943 and it is my belief is that there is still tremendous untapped potential within ABBRA as the representative for the boat builders and boat repair segment of the recreational marine industry in the U.S. With time, thorough planning and strategic execution you will see an even better organization that more effectively represents its members and their interests,? he added.

With the change in management, ABBRA is relocating its head office from Warren, Rhode Island to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and its new address is 3778 SW 30th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312. The Association?s new telephone number is 954-654-7821.

About American Boat Builders & Repairers Association (ABBRA)

Founded in 1943, ABBRA is a national marine trade organization that represents, is dedicated to, and seeks to strengthen and encourage professionalism in the boat building, marine service and boat repair industry.

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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) March 08, 2012

SCA Promotions is excited to announce it is a finalist in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Chapter of the American Marketing Association 2011 Marketer of the Year Awards. SCA is being recognized for its innovative 25th anniversary ?$ 25,000 Win-Win? Facebook promotion.

The objective of the promotion was to increase brand awareness, notify customers and prospects of its 25th anniversary, and also increase its Facebook fans. Customers received the chance to win $ 25,000 for themselves and an additional $ 25,000 for a favorite charity. The promotion ran from June 16 through December 31, 2011.

During the promotion period, SCA recorded 55,317 game plays with 3,016 unique registrations, and boosted its Facebook fan base from 225 ?likes? to 3,675 ?likes.?

?We are thrilled for our hard work to be recognized by the American Marketing Association,? said Tanya Mathis, Marketing Director. ?Our Facebook promotions combine the popularity of social networking with the excitement of the chance to instantly win life-changing prizes. Marketers are realizing that Facebook-based promotions can be a powerful way to encourage customer loyalty and increase their bottom line.?

The winner of the 2011 Marketer of the Year award will be announced April 18 at the DFW AMA Awards Gala, to be held from 5:30 p.m. ? 9:30 p.m. CST at the Hyatt Regency Downtown Dallas.

About SCA Promotions

Dallas-based SCA Promotions delivers promotional solutions and incentives that connect with consumers, without risk to the sponsor. For over 26 years, SCA has offered an entire suite of advanced, interactive promotions, imaginative contests, record-breaking sweepstakes, and inventive games designed to engage and motivate. SCA has covered billions of dollars and paid out over $ 170 million in cash and prizes for sales and consumer product promotions, lottery and casino jackpots, radio contests, direct mail, Internet, and sports promotions. SCA has offices in Dallas, London, Las Vegas, and Calgary, with affiliate partners across the globe.

scapromotions.com.

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BALTIMORE, MD (PRWEB) February 08, 2012

In an effort to reinforce transparency inside the clothing and textile recycling market, the Board of Directors of the Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association has formally approved a Donation Drop Box Operator Code of Conduct. The Code requires member firms to completely and fully inform the public by stating straight on their collection bins they are a for-profit organization. The policy also requires members to acquire permission prior to putting a bin on private property, to frequently preserve the bins, and to respond to troubles relating to their bins inside 24 hours. Review Sensible?s Donation Drop Box Operator Code of Conduct – http://www.SMARTasn.org.

According to the policy, member organizations working with charitable organizations need to provide contact information for the charity on the bin and should refrain from employing deceptive labels or logos that may confuse the public regarding their affiliation with charitable efforts.

?This Code represents an business finest practice we hope will be adopted by every person in the industry, not just Smart members. We are proud of our association with charities such as Goodwill, St. Vincent de Paul, and the Salvation Army,? says Jackie King, Executive Director of Smart. ?We want to defend and defend those relationships as greatest we can. However there are some in the business who take benefit of people?s charitable donations by using deceptive practices when labeling collection bins. Our members really feel a powerful sense of responsibility to donors who so graciously give.?

According to Goodwill, the sale of donated items not appropriate for their retail shops to clothing and textile recycling firms generates a lot more than $ 100 million annually. A representative of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries of Boston, MA says the clothing recyclers supply a critical source of income by acquiring the unsold charitable donations.

Wise encourages the public to be aware of and confirm the recipient of their clothing donations. The association recommends employing third-party critique services such as http://www.charitynavigator.org or http://www.charitywatch.org to assess the services of a possible charity recipient. Sensible also encourages folks to get in touch with their neighborhood State Lawyer Common?s office to establish if the named recipient charity or the private sector collector is registered and compliant with state and neighborhood regulations. Ms. King says a Smart member organization discovered to have violated any of the provisions of the Code of Conduct may face disciplinary action which includes the revocation of member advantages. She continues saying the business also dangers formal expulsion from the association.

About

Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles (Sensible) is an international nonprofit trade association that strengthens the economic possibilities of its diverse membership by advertising the interdependence of our market segments and delivering a common forum for networking, education and trade. Because 1932, Wise has been at the forefront of recycling. Intelligent members use and convert recycled and secondary supplies from used clothing, commercial laundries and non-woven, off spec material, new mill ends and paper from around the planet. Sensible member organizations develop thousands of jobs worldwide. Wise members prove every day that you can make cash by getting socially responsible.

For additional info on Intelligent, check out the association?s web site at http://www.SMARTasn.org. The following link will take you straight to informational videos on textile recycling http://www.smartasn.org/about/videos.cfm.

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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) November 11, 2011

The National Association of Expert AdvisorSM (NAEA) is the nation?s premier association for actual estate agents committed to excellence in sales and client service ? moved into high gear in its quest to elevate and strengthen the actual estate industry and its agents in this horrific actual estate industry.

As portion of its expansion method for 2012, the NAEA unveiled its newest designation ? the Certified House Selling AdvisorTM ? at Kinder Reese?s 5th Annual Exponential Growth Summit.

The designation is the first of its type in the market today that will identify for buyers and sellers who the top actual estate agents are in their industry place and far more importantly, who is going to do the greatest job for them.

?Consumers deserve the absolute best doable care and service when they buy and/or sell a residence. The Certified Property Selling AdvisorTM designation helps them know who to look to for guidance amongst the hundreds of real estate agents they have to decide on from in their location when they?re ready to go. For me, it?s a complete game changer that will aid me stand out from my competition even far more over the coming months?, said Lars Hedenborg, a Summit attendee from Charlotte, NC.

The Certified Property Selling AdvisorTM designation is the standard bearer for excellence for agents and is expected to turn the whole industry on its ear more than the subsequent six to twelve months. And, since it?s geared towards agents who want lengthy-term careers, the designation is congruent with President Obama?s job strategy that 1) stresses tax cuts for modest businesses and entrepreneurs to help them hire and grow and 2) increases jobs and income to aid a lot more people afford a house.

In addition to having the designation released at this year?s Summit, enterprise optimization expert and marketing and advertising guru, Jay Abraham, headlined the majority of the second day at the event.

Abraham, known as the $ 9.four billion man for the total earnings he?s helped his customers earn as a consultant, shared his secrets and strategies on how agents can optimize their real estate businesses, even in a tough marketplace like the 1 we?re seeing now.

He detailed his method of ?reverse engineering? your objectives and processes to make certain that you hit your objectives. In the course of 1 of his stints on stage, he stated that ?Most folks don?t have goals, they have thoughts and tips. They don?t have objectives due to the fact they don?t write them down. If you want to have goals and be guaranteed of reaching them? he continued ?you need to write them down and reverse engineer them, working from the end to the starting.?

A day with Jay Abraham costs a hefty $ 50,000, but Summit attendees got to see them as part of their participation in the event ? an wonderful chance at any cost.

About Kinder Reese Genuine Estate Partners:

Kinder Reese Genuine Estate Partners is an internationally recognized, actual estate coaching and advertising and marketing organization. As supporters of the NAEA, they work with far more than 25,000 actual estate agents across North America. They?ve been in business given that 2004.

Get in touch with:

Megan Spray, Director of Marketing

Kinder Reese Real Estate Partners

972-668-5090

http://www.KinderReese.com

“We Support The H.O.M.E. Foundation”

About The H.O.M.E. Foundation:

The Helping Other people Means Almost everything, or The H.O.M.E. Foundation, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping our Family members of Charities for the duration of these difficult financial occasions through added incentives, luxury raffles and high profile celebrity events. Our mission is to support charities reach their fundraising goals and to bring awareness to their praiseworthy causes.

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Associated Charities Press Releases

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) December 22, 2006

Charities Automobile Recycling Enterprises, LLC is continuing its lengthy-standing commitment to raise awareness and relief efforts this holiday season by recycling vehicles, running or not. WeCareCharities.com has enhanced the donation process just in time for the 2006 holiday season by supplying buyers with accessibility for on-line vehicle donations to benefit many charity partners such as American Lung Association of Orange County, Breathe California of Los Angeles, John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation and Riverside Sheriff’s Association.

WeCareCharities, founded in 1996, has a “wealthy history of facilitating vehicle donations and vehicle recycling to supply a tremendous value to our partner charities,” said Pamella Ball, WeCareCharities Executive Director. “WeCareCharities is unique, not only since the contributions can benefit the donor’s own community, but the consumer can choose from four charities to which the funds will be donated.”

In addition to turning vehicles into money for charities, WeCareCharities, offer consumers with transportation and storage of the donated vehicle. The donation feature is available all through California as properly as a toll-free telephone number for personalized support. WeCareCharities.com supply shoppers the option to “donate now” on their house page and then basically follow the on-screen prompts to pick the non-profit organization of their option from the list provided. “The revamped internet site makes vehicle donation less complicated than ever,” stated Ball, “and it is incredibly effective for those last minute donations as the year comes to a close.”

WeCareCharities provided roughly $ 350,000 in 2005 to their partner charities and recycled in excess of 3,500 vehicles. “We are committed to generating awareness of this special chance to relinquish a vehicle to offer support to the charities in which our workers and buyers live and work,” stated Ball. “We’re proud to use our time and resources, particularly in the course of the holiday season, to preserve our role as partner, neighbor and friend.”

Make contact with:

Pamella Ball, We Care, LLC.

888-694-6166

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From religious organizations to universities, there are much more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations in the U.S. with far more than 12.five million employees working behind the scenes to run the show. The non-profit sector expends billion in annual personnel expenses and represents billion in total annual spending budget outlays.

This means that if you manage to acquire a position with a religious organization, hospital, university, foundation, or other non-profit organization, you can expect stability, salary growth, employment growth, and a selection of jobs to select from.  Non-profit management MBA holders may function as: assistant director of fundraising, program analyst, program director, program officer, advertising and marketing/analysis associate, director, community outreach coordinator, finance director, director of information systems or director of public relations.

Best earners in this field are generally management personnel, and most hold a non-profit management MBA from an accredited college or university. Many management professionals in the non-profit sector earned an undergraduate degree in enterprise, obtained entry-level employment in the field and continued working on an MBA whilst gaining beneficial hands-in encounter.

Today’s MBA students have the choice of obtaining their degree on-campus, on-line, or through a blended format. Blended formats allow students to complete half of their degree on-campus and the other half on the web. Blended and online formats make it simpler for students to function full-time in the field even though pursuing an advanced degree.

When looking for on the web or classic programs, students can go by word of mouth or reputation, perform a Google or Bing search, or search college directories such as Bizdegrees.com. Princeton Assessment is an outstanding source for lists of best enterprise colleges as nicely as U.S. News and World Report. Both on-campus and on-line organization and management programs have been accredited by some of the following agencies:

-The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Organization (AACSB)

-The Association of Collegiate Organization Schools and Programs (ACBSP)

-The Council for Greater Education Accreditation (CHEA)

Many on the web programs have also been accredited by:

-Distance Education Training Council (DETC)

-Council on Occupational Education (COE)

Regional accrediting agencies contain:

-Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

-New England Association of Schools and Colleges

-North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

-Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

-Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

-Western Association of Schools and Colleges

If you come across a school that has not been accredited by any of the agencies listed above, check the U.S. Department of Education website at ED.gov for a complete list of recognized accrediting agencies.

Non-profit management MBA programs prepare students for a career in management by teaching every thing from enterprise computing and company finance to principles of advertising and principles of management. On the internet curriculums should require the very same courses as on-campus programs, so be certain to check the course listings for the online program you have chosen prior to beginning the application method. The following is a list of non-profit management MBA courses to look for:

-Business Computing

-Enterprise Finance

-Company Statistics

-Successful Career Management

-Entrepreneurship

-Human Resource Management

-International Organization

-Legal Environment Company

-Organizations: Structures &amp Behavior

-Principles of Management

-Principles of Marketing

-Writing and Speaking for Organization

To understand more about Non-Profit Management MBA programs, such as curriculum info, program information and widespread MBA coursework, go to bizdegrees.com. To discover much more about career trends and salary possible for non-profit managers, check out the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics.