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ALPHABET SOUP:
The Advertising & Marketing Associations
by Ken Custer
In any industry, the standards, ethics and education of its members is usually best provided by professional organizations formed to support that industry. Advertising and marketing is no exception.
There are over 20 professional organizations that support the industry in Denver alone. These organizations consist of members from the professional community and represent all phases of the advertising and marketing industry. Through these organizations, the standards in Denver continue to rise and more and more national and international recognition is achieved.
It is imperative that those of us working in the industry support these organizations, not just with membership, but with active participation. The true benefits are realized by exhibiting your abilities on committees and in leadership roles.
In recent years, there have been situations arise that, because specific organizations existed and could act, events that threatened their phase of the business were met and corrected. Whether it was the elimination of specific types of advertising through legislation or the loss of funding by government entities, the organizations responded and worked to solve the problem.
Following is a recap of all organizations that Advertising & Marketing Review has been able to identify and capture information about. If you are not already involved, select the one that best suits your needs and get involved.
Art Directors Club of Denver
PO Box 1324, Broomfield, CO 80038
Email: ADCD@ADCD.COM
Web: www.adcd.com
Rene Bobo, Executive Director, 303-466-7888
Membership contact: Rene Bobo, 303-466-7888
The Art Directors Club of Denver believes in the power of creativity. We
believe it is our privilege and responsibility to do it, study it, teach it,
promote it, and honor it. Established in 1953, ADCD has a membership of
475 local professionals covering all facets of the business. We sponsor
nationally known speakers throughout the year and primarily meet at the
Westin Tabor Center Hotel in downtown Denver. The annual awards competition
is held in June and recognizes excellent work. For more information, visit our website at www.adcd.com
American Institute of Graphic Arts - Colorado
P.O. Box 481676
Denver, CO 80248-1676
303.375.4708
e0@hotmail.com
www.aigacolorado.org
Clare Kelly, President: clare@barkingotter.com
Cathy Smith, Membership: cathy@adlime.com
The purpose of the AIGA is to further excellence in communication design as a broadly defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force. The AIGA is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice.
The AIGA coordinates initiatives that focus national and grassroots efforts on 8 areas of crucial importance to graphic design in the 21st century: business, design history, education, environmental responsibility, internationalism, new technology, professional practice, and public service.
In addition to our monthly meetings; First Wednesday series in the Fall and Business Breakfast series in Spring, the AIGA Colorado Chapter presents our annual Valentine's Eve Art Auction, Sponsor Night and Student Portfolio Review. Beginning this January, we will be co-hosting Friday Afternoon Critiques with ADCD at participating studios and agencies.
American Marketing Association
P.O. Box 410655
Denver, CO 80246
303-675-5146
President - Martha Cusick, 303-860-0383
Web: amacolorado.org
The American Marketing Association is a professional organization dedicated to promoting marketing education and the achievement of marketing excellence. Dinner meeting are held the third Wednesday of each month, September through May. Meetings include speakers on topics pertinent to members and their businesses.
American Society of Media Photographers
ASMP Hotline - 303-860-1142
President - Tom·s del Amo, 303-581-9975
Membership - Jim Blech, 303-693-4728
Web: www.asmpcolorado.org
The ASMP purpose is to protect and promote the interests of photographers whose work is for publication. To promote high professional standards and ethics. To cultivate friendship and mutual understanding between photographers. Monthly meetings are held with professionals providing educational information beneficial to ASMP members. The Annual Image Festival is an elegant social evening filled with hundreds of great images provided by many ASMP Colorado photographers.
Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado
1089 Bannock St
Denver, CO 80204
303-757-7585
President - Bob Rubin, 303-757-7585
Membership - John McGuire - 303-777-9183
The Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado, founded in 1997, is an organization that insures Colorado's rich broadcasting heritage is preserved and recognizes people, past and present, who have contributed to radio and television in Colorado. The organization also provides assistance to colleagues who are in serious financial need. BPC meets quarterly with luncheon programs that feature speakers on topics of interest to the broadcast community. BPC has established the Broadcaster's Hall of Fame with eleven inductees up to this point. The Hall of Fame Banquet is held in mid-May each year. Membership is open to anyone with at least 15 years of employment in the broadcasting industry.
Business Marketing Association
2459 S Ammons St
Lakewood, CO 80227
303-607-9957
email: info@bmacolorado.org
Web: www.bmacolorado.org
President - Randee Gunn Liles
Marilee Yorchak, Executive Director
Membership - Garrett Gunter, 303-792-5200 X5269
BMA is the only national association focused exclusively on business to business marketing. The organization helps members improve business marketing communications abilities for greater productivity and profitability by providing unique access to information, ideas and experiences of peers. Dinner meetings are held the second Wednesday of each month. The Annual Winterfest Auction is held the first Wednesday of December.
Colorado Broadcasters Association
P.O. Box 2369
Breckenridge, CO 80424
970-547-1388
Fax: 970-547-1384
Email: cobroadcasters@earthlink.net
Executive Director - Marilyn Hogan
The purposes of the Colorado Broadcasters Association are to promote cooperation and understanding among its members; to foster and promote the development of the art of radio and television broadcasting; to encourage and promote customs and practices which will be for the interest of the public and the broadcasting industry; and to protect its members in every lawful and proper manner from injuries and unjust exactions.
Colorado Film and Video Association
600 Ogden Street
Denver, Colorado 80218-3350
phone: Office - 303-722-5220
Hotline - 303-675-5300email: office@cfva.com
web site: www.cfva.com
President - Jon Wickre, 303-741-3400
Membership: Cathy Moore, Treasurer (303) 837-8435
Organization mission:
The Colorado Film and Video Association promotes, develops and supports the film, video and multimedia's private sector through dynamic leadership and responsible representation. Our board of directors and committees are working with government and industry leaders to make Colorado one of the most desirable places to produce in the world.
Colorado Alliance of Illustrators
4706 E. Dartmouth Ave.
Denver, CO 80222
303-756-2527
President - David Veal
Membership - 303-756-2527
The Colorado Alliance of Illustrators (CAI), is an organization created to promote the trade of commercial illustration along the Colorado Front Range. Goals of CAI include promoting professional ethics and business practices, promoting illustration as a viable industry, promoting the membership and their collective work to art buyers and the public at-large, creating a forum for illustrators to meet and network, and providing for educational newsletters, workshops and seminars.
Every April CAI presents a gallery reception of member and non-member illustration work. This reception is open to all art buyers and related professionals, as are the monthly educational CAI programs (Sept-May). Art buyers and illustrators are welcome to call CAI for information on illustration transactions or industry ethics/practices. Members include illustrators, designers, venders, suppliers, students and clients. For more information or to join CAI call 303-756-2527.
Colorado Press Association
1336 Glenarm Place
Denver, CO 80204
303-571-5117
Fax: 303-571-1803
Denver Advertising Federation
Trish Bloemker, CAE, President
One Broadway, Ste. A300
Denver, CO 80203
(303) 758-0027 (phone)
(303) 758-6002 (fax)
Web address: www.daf.org
e-mail: info@daf.org
Chairman of the Board: John Skrabec, 303-964-3338
The Denver Advertising Federation is the oldest professional organization for advertising practitioners in the nation. More than 800 members representing advertisers, ad agencies, media companies, suppliers to the industry and students preparing for a career in advertising, make DAF one of the most vibrant advertising organizations in the nation.
The DAF hosts on average 19 luncheons featuring national recognized advertising experts. Educational seminars as well as DAF University offer unique opportunities for professional development. Sponge nights offer an informal atmosphere to rub elbows with some of the most talented creative types in the industry.
The Denver Ad Show, recognizes the best of the best in the Denver market. It is the first level of competition for the highly acclaimed national ADDY award. The Halo Awards, feature the most creative pro-bono work contributed by Denver's ad professionals to the non-profit community.
DAF serves as an advocate for the advertising industry in CO, promoting a positive image for the profession, encouraging its continued economic viability and protecting it from predatory legislation. Seventeen active committees provide unlimited potential for member involvement.
Denver Professional Chapter of The Association for Women in Communications
Local Web site: www.womenofcolorado.com/awc
National Web site: www.womcom.org
The Association for Women in communications is a professional organization that champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines by recognizing excellence, promoting leadership and positioning its members at the forefront of the evolving communications era.
International Association of Business Communicators--IABC Colorado
Address: P.O. Box 101262, Denver, CO 80250-1262
Phone: IABC Hotline, (303) 830-1588
E-mail: jtjames@ch2m.com
Web: http://www.iabc-colorado.com/
Primary contact: J.T. James, Immediate Past President
Membership contact: Tim Ringgold
IABC is the world's largest membership trade organization for communications professionals, with more than 100 local chapters throughout the United States plus 11 foreign countries. IABC is the leading resource for effective communication practice. We provide products, services, activities and networking opportunities to help people and organizations achieve excellence in public relations, employee communication, marketing communication, public affairs and other forms of communication. People around the world -- in every industry and in the public and nonprofit sectors -- have taken advantage of our resources to advance their careers and meet organizational objectives.
With nearly 175 members located mainly along the Front Range from Denver to Fort Collins, Colorado chapter membership has been continually growing. Members come from all areas of the communications field, from entry level to senior executive, from large corporations to small nonprofits and freelancers, in disciplines such as public relations, marketing communications, advertising, online communications, investor relations, writing, graphic design, video production, database marketing, printing, publications and more.
IABC Colorado typically holds monthly networking programs with a featured speaker in convenient locations around metro Denver on the third Tuesday of the month. The chapter also holds an annual communications awards competition, the Bronze Quill awards, usually in the spring or summer. 2000 was the best year in IABC Colorado's history. Check us out in 2001 and be part of the chapter's growth and professional development opportunities.
Media Communications association - International
P.O. Box 140898
Edgewater, CO 80214
303-692-4284
Email: amendb@mscd.edu
Web: www.mca-i.org (national & international)
www.mcadenver.org
President - Bob Amend, 303-556-2674
amendb@mscd.edu
Membership - Bob Amend
The Media Communications Association International is a global community of professionals devoted to the business and art of visual communication. Our members are professionals who work in video, film, distance learning, web design and creation, and all forms of interactive visual communications, along with all associated crafts. Our members create programs that use visual media to convey important messages and information for corporations, small businesses, agencies, non-profit organizations, the government, education, the medical field, broadcast and cable television.
The local chapter holds meetings on a variety of topics, and will conduct seminars and workshops in the new year. In addition, the chapter hosts the Denver Video Festival that is held in conjunction with the Film/Video Expo. The Festival Awards Banquet honors producers with the Bronze, Silver and Gold Peak Awards and the Best of Show.
METRODENVERDINOSAURS
2424 S Lima Way
Aurora, CO 80014
303-695-6599
Chairman - Jon McNutt
Membership - Jon McNutt
METRODENVERDINOSAURS is a social organization made up of advertising, marketing and media people who worked in the industry in Colorado prior to 1974. A brunch is held every spring and fall to keep the pioneers of the industry in contact with each other and provide a time to reminisce. The Pete Smythe band plays for every occasion, even now with an empty chair designated for Smythe. Lifetime dues are $10.00
Printing & Imaging Association Mountain States
5031 S. Ulster St. #350
Denver , CO 80237
(303)771-1578
jblanchard@piams.org
www.piams.org
Jennifer Blanchard - Controller/Director of Support Services
Same as above
The Printing & Imaging Association Mountain States is a nonprofit trade association dedicated to aiding its members achieve success by providing those services and activities which are of value to members in operating their businesses.
The PIAMS staff is dedicated to working on your behalf and serves as an extension of the staff at your company. PIAMS is guided by a board of directors and is primarily supported by dues revenue.
By joining PIAMS, you automatically become a member of Printing Industries of America (PIA) and the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF). The consolidated PIA/GATF organization is the largest graphic arts association in the world with over 14,000 member companies, comprised from the thirty local affiliate organizations.
Public Relations Society of America (PRSA Colorado)
Address: 11166 Huron Street, Suite 27, Denver, CO 80234
Phone: (303) 920-0176
Fax: (303) 458-0002
Web Address: www.prsacolorado.org
Primary Contact: Molly Bowler, APR, Bowler Consulting, PRSA President
Membership Contact: PRSA Office (303) 920-0176
The Public Relations Society of America is the world's largest association for public relations professionals. PRSA has more than 100 chapters and more than 16,000 members nationwide. With more than 400 members, the Colorado Chapter ranks as one of the most active chapters.
Members of our chapter work in corporations, counseling firms, institutions, service organizations and universities, reflecting the business and professional community of Colorado. Professionals involved in the association range from those in executive-level and senior-management positions to mid-management and entry level positions.
The chapter strives to accommodate all experience levels of its members. That's why we offer associate memberships to people with less than two years of experience or who are immediate past members of PRSSA (the student branch of PRSA). We offer member status to individuals who devote a substantial portion of their time to the professional practice of public relations or teaching and administering public relations courses at an accredited college or university.
PRSA members must adhere to PRSA's Code of Professional Standards, backed by effective endorsement procedures. For more information on PRSA Colorado, please call 303-920-0176.
Rocky Mountain Advertising Golf Association (RMAGA)
303-804 5870
Jerry Poulin, President
ejpoulin@aol.com
The Rocky Mountain Advertising Golf Association is celebrating its 34th year as an organization formed to promote and foster golf within the advertising and marketing communities in the Rocky Mountain area. We play 5 - 7 tournaments each year to encourage the good fellowship and camaraderie that comes from golf outings.
The tournaments are usually played on Mondays at a variety of private Country Clubs. This year's schedule includes; Columbine CC, Pinehurst CC, Hiwan CC, and Air Force Academy. These are handicapped and flighted tournaments with prizes and meals included. Your membership includes a CGA handicap.
As part of the National Advertising Golf Association, (NAGA), our members compete to represent our club at the National Tournament. In 1999, our team won the National "Golf Digest Trophy" for low net score in Las Vegas, NV. The 2001 National Tournament is at Pinehurst, NC.
Please call us to find out more, 303-804-5870.
Rocky Mountain Direct Marketing Association
P.O. Box 620822, Littleton, CO 80162-0822
Phone 303-914-8401 FAX: 720-922-9414
Email: info@rmdma.org
Web: www.rmdma.org
President: Kara Good, 303-298-5201
Membership: Ed Collins, Ross Printing, 303-287-3217
RMDMA is a thriving trade association made up of 650+ professionals. Members represent the best and brightest from database companies, general advertising agencies, full-service consulting firms, traditional catalogers and many new dot.com companies.
RMDMA brings in top-notch speakers for monthly luncheon meetings (generally held the first Wednesday of each month). Past speakers have included Arthur Hughes, Jock Bickert, Martha Rogers, Ed Brunett, and Claude Grizzard...all respected leaders in direct marketing.
RMDMA sponsors the only direct marketing certification program in the Western United States through Regis University. Classes began in September of 1998.
RMDMA sponsors an annual trade show, Direct Marketing Day, which draws hundreds of attendees, trade show booths, nationally recognized speakers, and an afternoon of seminars.
The Job Bank/Career Center is a tremendous member benefit, bringing together dozens of direct marketing professionals with genuine opportunities.
RMDMA honors one outstanding individual every year as "Direct Marketer of the Year." The recipient is recognized at an annual Holiday Gala event held in early December each year.
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