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Dust off your Dancing Shoes

Coming to the Dinner?  Make sure you wear your dancing shoes!  We recently booked all-journalist band Suspicious Package to play at the post dinner reception, sponsored by Pfizer Inc.  Suspicious Package exploded onto the Washington, DC music scene in May 2008 with their sell-out premiere performance at the Red and the Black in DC’s Atlas District. They’ve since performed at the Rock and Roll Hotel, the National Press Club, the Hard Rock Café, the embassies of Finland, Italy, Denmark, and Germany, Andrews Air Force Base, the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier in New York City harbor, and other venues.

Thank You to Our Recent New Table Buyers

The National Press Foundation would like to thank the organizations that purchased a tables recently for the 27^th Annual Awards Dinner:

1105 Government Information Group

Associated Press

AT&T, Inc.

Brunswick Group LLP

Chubb Corporation

Constellation Energy

Fleishman-Hillard, Inc.

General Motors Corporation

Heritage Foundation

Investment Company Institute

Johnson & Johnson

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Northwestern Mutual

Porter Novelli

Potomac Communications Group, Inc.

Powell Tate - Weber Shandwick

SmartBrief, Inc.

Subaru of America, Inc.

Taishoff Family Foundation

Tyco Electronics

The Annual Awards Dinner is the National Press Foundation’s largest source of unrestricted revenue.  By helping to defray our costs, our dinner supporters ensure that we are able to reach more journalists each year through our no-cost training programs.  To attend the dinner, click on the “make a purchase” or “request an invoice” buttons linked at the top of the column on the left.  For more information, contact Kerry Buker at Kerry@nationalpress.org.

Donate a Branded Item in the Awards Dinner Gift Bag

We’ve just received word that Prudential Financial will be donating the gift bags for the 27^th Annual Awards Dinner.  The gift bags are handed out to all 1,000 dinner attendees and are full of branded items from our sponsors.  We already have a few donations of branded items to go in the bags, but we are still on the lookout for more gift bag goodies.  If you are looking for a creative way to support the dinner , you may want to consider donating an item.  Past items have included magazines, chocolates, wine openers, baseball caps, pens, luggage tags & umbrellas.  Contact Kerry Buker at Kerry@nationalpress.org. 

Thank You to This Week’s New Table Buyers

The National Press Foundation would like to thank the organizations that purchased a table this week for the 27^th Annual Awards Dinner:

 

AARP

APCO Worldwide

AstraZeneca

CNN Washington

Independent Community Bankers of America

McClatchy Newspapers

Nuclear Energy Institute

PhRMA

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Toyota Motor Sales USA

 

The Annual Awards Dinner is the National Press Foundation’s largest source of unrestricted revenue.  By helping to defray our costs, our dinner supporters ensure that we are able to reach more journalists each year through our no-cost training programs.  To attend the dinner, click on the “make a purchase” or “request an invoice” buttons linked at the top of the column on the left.  For more information, contact Kerry Buker at Kerry@nationalpress.org.

You’re Invited…

The National Press Foundation would like to thank Ogilvy Public Relations for their donation of consulting and design services for the 27^th Annual Awards Dinner.  We just received the final version of this year’s invitation, and it looks great!  Take a look:
NPF 27thAnniversaryDinner Invitation v6

Awards Dinner Receptions Offer Opportunities to Network, Schmooze and Dance

We are excited to announce that we have secured sponsors for all three receptions to be held at the 27^th Annual Awards Dinner.  Less structured than the formal dinner program, the receptions are a great opportunity to network  with dinner guests, meet  new colleagues and contacts  and celebrate journalism.