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Waste Not, Want Not: Making Leftover Event Materials Serve the Community

PCMA Convene

But the fans’ enthusiasm went beyond the event itself: Many expressed a desire to take home WrestleMania XL’s promotional signage, which included 59 banners hung on street polls around the city and one large banner that decorated City Hall. The online auction for signs raised more than $33,000 for the PHLCVB Foundation.

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SEARCH Foundation Hits Giving Records

MeetingsNet

The SEARCH Foundation has hit a remarkable milestone. Kate Patay, CPCE, current chairwoman for the foundation, announced that news on Global Meetings Industry Day at the Catersource + The Special Event Gala Awards celebration in Orlando. It helped more than 40 families and individuals with distributions of $199,000.

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Podcast: The Event Industry Through the Eyes of a Student

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This episode of The Event Manager Podcast by Skift Meetings sees us joined by Panashe Mahakwa, a student at Vistula University in Warsaw and recipient of the 2022 MPI Foundation Student Scholarship Award. Mahakwa’s venture into the events industry began back in his home country of Zimbabwe, where he was studying accounting at university.

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PCMA’s First Omnichannel Convening Leaders: The Great, the Good and the Not So…

Velvet Chainsaw

While many in the chat room loved the intimate conversation between star athletes Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird, I found it a little insular and felt they missed an opportunity to drive home some lessons learned from their activism. PCMA has a talented and forward-looking Board, Foundation and Staff. The Good: Connections Made.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Vi Nguyen, CMP

Smart Meetings

She held this role for seven years before switching to sales, and she sees the foundational experience that she built in this original role as instrumental to her sales success. It has always been home for me.” Trust that your experience will be the foundation and that the EIC will provide tools.

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Coors Teams up with Brixton to Host an Intimate Benefit Concert Supporting Firefighters

Event Marketer

has been raising funds for the Wildland Firefighter Foundation (WFF) for the last eight years. And so continuing that thought, wildfires are a cause that Coors Banquet is really passionate about because we’re a brand that calls the west home. It’s why Coors Banquet, which has deep roots in the Western U.S.,

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unlocking support: strategies to engage your fundraising network

Do Good Events

In-home experience? Attend The Event Experience great venues & fantastic food Wine and dine with the movers and shakers of your community Learn more about the foundation and its goals Fun Saturday night with spouse or friends and be home at reasonable hour! Do you know the chef well, would they donate a private experience?