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Terre Haute Chamber wins national award
for communications excellence:
Honors recognize skill
sets needed to create, plan, budget and execute quality programs
From the Terre Haute Tribune-Star
June 5, 2007
The Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce is a recipient of the American
Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) 2006 Award for Communications
Excellence (ACE). The chamber’s entry received an award
of merit. Entries receiving an ACE Award for Merit meet and exceed
the fundamental standards and criteria for communications excellence.
This is the 23rd year the award has been given.
The Awards for Communications Excellence is an annual competition
recognizing excellence in all areas of communications by chambers
of commerce. ACE continues to be the vehicle for the chamber community
to promote effective chamber communications, highlight initiatives,
introduce events and inform members.
“Chambers of commerce frequently conduct the broadest,
most far-reaching and comprehensive communications program in
their city, country or region,” said Allen Hester, chair
of the ACE awards and president of the Dyersburg/Dyer County (Tenn.)
Chamber of Commerce, “and they do it oftentimes with fewer
resources and smaller staffs than many other organizations. The
ACE Awards are designed and structured to recognize the skill
sets needed to create, plan, budget and execute quality communications
programs in this unique task environment that we call ‘Chamber
work.’ Every winning chamber, large or small, can take pride
in the fact that they can compete at the national level with the ‘best
of the best’ who do this important work.”
“ACCE is proud to honor, reward and celebrate the achievements
of outstanding communications programs, campaigns and projects
in the chamber profession,” added ACCE President Mick Fleming.
“We are very pleased ACCE’s panel of judges recognized
the outstanding work that began with the development of a strategic
plan and creation of our community brand, ‘Terre Haute,
A Level Above,’” explained Rod Henry, president of
the Terre Haute Chamber. “This is an unbiased assessment
of the community collaboration, planning, marketing and cooperation
which has been a catalyst in the positioning of our community
for $2.6 billion of economic activity.”
“The nomination we submitted was the result of the combined
efforts of the City of Terre Haute, MillerWhite, Terre Haute Economic
Development Corporation and the Chamber of Commerce,” Henry
noted.
Winners of the ACE Awards will be recognized during the
2007 annual convention, “The Chamber Meeting of Choice,” scheduled
for this August in Sacramento, Calif.
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