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SAAGNYEducates
New Jersey’s
Legislators At Its
Fall Showcase
At its September 20 Fall Showcase in
Teaneck, New Jersey, the Specialty
Advertising Association of Greater New
York (SAAGNY) hosted visitors from
the offices of New Jersey Sen. Cory
Booker and Rep. Scott Garrett. Mike
Schenker, MAS, principal at Newton,
New Jersey’s Mike Schenker Consulting
(UPIC: SCHENKER), escorted Dinesh
Suryawanshi, a projects specialist for
Sen. Booker, and Rob Pettet, a district
director for Rep. Garrett, around the
show, and introduced them to a number
of the show’s exhibitors and attendees to
learn about their respective businesses.
Schenker says, “In each case,
our guests ‘got it.’ They certainly
understood promotional products in
the most general sense, but they never
imagined an industry of $22 billion.
At the risk of putting words in their
mouths, I believe they left with a better
understanding about our industry as
a whole and, more importantly, the
people behind it.”
PPEF Executive Committee Visits
PPAI For 2017 PlanningMeeting
In October, PPAI hosted a visit from the Promotional Products Education Foundation’s
(PPEF) executive committee. Members of both PPEF’s 2016 and newly-elected 2017
executive committees met at the Association’s Irving, Texas, headquarters to develop
plans and budgets for 2017 as well as conduct longer-term strategic planning on the
future direction of PPEF. The final plans from the two-day session will go to the PPEF
Board of Trustees for approval.
PPAI President and CEO Paul Bellantone, CAE, (second from left) PPEF Foundation Manager Sara
Besly (third from left) and the Association’s staff hosted members of PPEF’s 2016 and newly-elected 2017
executive committees in October at its offices in Irving, Texas. Visitors included (from left) Immediate Past
Chair Pat Dugan, MAS; 2016 Vice Chair–Scholarship Carol de Ville, MAS; 2016 Immediate Past Chair
Kippie Helzel, MAS; Vice Chair–Strategic Planning & Budget Drew Davis, MAS; Chair Lori Bauer; Vice
Chair–Scholarships Brian Porter; Vice Chair–Fundraising Paula Shulman, CAS; 2016 Vice Chair–Strategic
Planning/Budget David Tate; and Vice Chair–Marketing & Recognition Stephanie Preston.
Mike Schenker, MAS, (right) introduces
Michele Jennrich, MAS, to (from left) Rob Pettet,
district director for Rep. Scott Garrett, and
Dinesh Suryawanshi, a projects specialist for
Sen. Cory Booker, on the SAAGNY Fall Showcase
show floor.
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Imagine Promotional Group
Raises Funds To Fight Alzheimer’s
On October 15, a team of 25 from Imagine Promotional Group, Inc. participated in
the Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Petaluma, California. They raised more than $4,000
to increase awareness and fund research to fight Alzheimer’s disease. Part of the
distributor’s fundraising efforts included raffling off a “Big Bad Beer Lovers Basket”
containing craft beer tours, craft beer, gift certificates and promotional items donated by
key suppliers including PCNA, PicnicTime, Peerless Umbrella, ETS Express and AdNArt.
Distributor Imagine
Promotional
Group’s team joined
the Walk to End
Alzheimer’s and
raised $4,000 to
fight the disease.
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