WASHINGTON—ASAE invites the association community to apply for the 2015 Gold Circle Awards (GCA) competition that recognizes excellence, innovation, and achievement in association/nonprofit marketing, membership, and communications. Deadline to submit entries is Friday, February 6, and winners will be announced in April.

The awards program encompasses 16 categories including: branding, convention/meetings marketing campaigns, integrated communications programs, and membership recruitment campaigns. The Communications, Marketing, and Membership councils are working together on this year’s awards program. For a full list of categories, please visit the Gold Circle Awards page.

“The GCA competition gives associations and nonprofits a chance to showcase their great work and demonstrate how they are implementing communications and marketing tactics and campaigns,” said Millie Hurlbut, CAE, Director of Marketing at the Association of the United States Army and chair of the Gold Circle Awards Committee. “It’s a great opportunity for the community to learn new, creative ways to conduct outreach and educate their target audiences.”

Entries for the Gold Circle Awards competition will be evaluated in each category based on established criteria for excellence in association marketing, membership, and communications programs. Judges from a variety of associations, nonprofits, and for-profit organizations will evaluate the entries.  

For more information about the GCA, visit www.asaecenter.org/goldcircle.

MEDIA CONTACT: Sabrina Kidwai, APR, CAE 202-326-9505, skidwai@asaecenter.org

About ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership
ASAE is a membership organization of more than 21,000 association executives and industry partners representing more 9,300 organizations. Its members manage leading trade associations, individual membership societies and voluntary organizations across the United States and in nearly 50 countries around the world. With support of the ASAE Foundation, a separate nonprofit entity, ASAE is the premier source of learning, knowledge and future-oriented research for the association and nonprofit profession, and provides resources, education, ideas and advocacy to enhance the power and performance of the association and nonprofit community. For more information about ASAE, visit www.asaecenter.org.