MULTI-STATE
REGIONAL AWARDS

• IABC Silver Quill Award of Excellence, communications skills category, IABC/Southern Region communications contest (won over hundreds of entries from 27 chapters, 14 states). “Plan Now for the Future Pandemic” published June 2007 in Business South Texas 12 years before global Wuhan Flu pandemic broke out; prophetically spoke of how Texas was preparing for an inevitable outbreak. Lisa was Editor of publication as well.

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• IABC Silver Quill Award of Excellence (writing, special projects), IABC/Heritage Region “Las Vegas: A Downtown Renaissance” (first professional marketing brochure for City's EcoDev office). Client: City of Las Vegas, Office of Economic Development. 175 entries in category. 1999

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• “Best in Class” First Place award (special-section magazine or newspaper supplement), Literature & Sales Promotion Competition, sponsored by Northeast Economic Developers Association (utilities and economic development entities from 11 states). “Tradelink New Jersey,” a 38-page, quality-of-life magazine insert. Client: Public Service Electric & Gas. Given out to European high-tech firms to persuade them to move to NJ. 1997​

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• IABC Silver Quill Award of Merit, communications skills category, IABC/Southern Region communications contest (entries from 27 chapters, 14 states). InGenesis.org website. 2008

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• IABC Silver Quill Award of Merit, news category, IABC/Southern Region communications contest (entries from 27 chapters, 14 states). “Location California” (well-researched story about state’s top industries), Area Development national magazine. Appeared later in an annual edition of The World Book, published by the CIA. 2007

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• IABC Silver Quill Award of Merit (special events), District 5.  Won entire IABC Board (including myself) for “IABC San Antonio Reaches for the Stars” awards dinner marketing/execution. 2004