ASAE invites nominations for the 2014 Gold Circle Awards (GCA) competition that recognizes excellence, innovation, and achievement in association/nonprofit marketing, membership, communications, and component relations programs. Winners will be recognized during the Gold Circle Awards ceremony on June 17 at the 2014 Marketing, Membership, and Communications Conference in Washington, DC.

The awards program encompasses 16 categories such as branding, convention/meetings marketing campaigns, integrated communications programs, and membership recruitment campaigns. The deadline to submit entries is Friday, January 31. The Communications, Marketing, Membership and Component Relations councils are collaborating on this year’s awards program. For a full list of categories, please visit the Gold Circle Awards page.

“Each year, we look for great examples of communications and marketing tactics and campaigns from associations and nonprofits,” said Mike Boa, director of communications and marketing at the Casualty Actuarial Society and chair of the Gold Circle Awards Committee. “The GCA program is a great opportunity for association professionals to showcase how they are shaping their outreach efforts in innovative and creative ways to engage 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, communications, and component relations 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, skidwai@asaecenter.org, 202-326-9505.

About ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership
ASAE is a membership organization of more than 21,000 association executives and industry partners representing 10,000 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.

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