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Blacktie America

Blacktie is a national company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, that provides our members with proven solutions for raising money, lowering costs and bringing people together.

Currently with eleven offices and growing, the company has worked with thousands of nonprofits to help make donor outreach and fundraising efforts easier and more productive. Blacktie is a facilitator of communications by and between nonprofits and their philanthropic supporters and the vital businesses who assist their efforts. Our mission is to empower nonprofit organizations by providing access to online event planning and convenient, easy, one-stop web-based technology for heightening awareness, raising money, managing events, communicating with supporters and managing critical data.

Our online event management software will help you:

  • Build greater awareness of your nonprofit
  • Level the playing field for more successful fundraising
  • Access a complete online suite of services
  • Command a comprehensive database management system
  • Know which dates are best for your events
  • Take your nonprofit organization to the next level
  • Increase the amount of money you raise
  • Excite your prospects and donors and keep them informed

With over 35 proprietary event planning and communication tools, Blacktie offers services to provide:

  • Sophisticated online registration, ticketing and RSVP capability
  • Online donation and recurring donation ability
  • Detailed event calendar for planning and scheduling events
  • Comprehensive online, silent and live auction packages
  • Easy to use software for seating charts, check-in sheets and name tag printing

Blacktie will go the extra mile to ensure that the awareness building and fundraising efforts of your non-profit organization are maximized. With the marketing skills, strategic focus and execution expertise, Blacktie can increase effectiveness and efficiency for your organization by:

  • Providing photojournalist coverage of events with photos posted on our website so your donors and prospects can view, purchase and email photos with the capability of adding them to Facebook
  • Offering the ability of using the internet to create email blasts and personalized newsletters
  • Providing a database management system that allows you easy access to your information
  • Giving you exposure on the Blacktie website that averages over 300K visitors monthly
  • Getting your business up and running quickly by providing easy but detailed, web-based training, with on-going project supervision and advice on web and email design services
  • Using strategy and campaign management consulting to help you determine how to best utilize our services to reach your goals

At Blacktie, we understand that fundraising is hard even in the best of times. Our goal is to make your efforts easier and your organization more effective. As you focus on moving your organization’s mission forward, Blacktie can make a noticeable difference by helping you to inspire more donors and prospects to support your cause. We will work with your organization using an integrated approach for communicating with your donors and prospects in a more coordinated and personal way.

https://www.blacktie-southflorida.com

EyeOnSouthFlorida

Eye on Channel (EOC) is a video production and media distribution company and is here to set a new stage in the ever-changing network television, satellite, cable, web, and mobile applications world of broadcasting, marketing and distribution, to provide, uncontrolled news and real stories of society that connects, communicates, entertains and creates social community hope and positive change for the NOW and FUTURE generations.

Eye on Channel’s robust affiliate group includes: Eye on Austin, Eye on Boston, Eye on California, Eye on Chicago, Eye on Colorado, Eye on D.C., Eye on Montreal, Eye on NOLA, Eye on NY and Eye on Park City. As well as niche markets such as: Eye on Cannabis, Devil in Divorce and Eye on Global Luxury.

http://www.eyeonsouthflorida.com/

Riverside Hotel

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The staff at the Riverside Hotel works hard to provide every guest with an exceptional experience while visiting Fort Lauderdale. And we’re proud to have been recognized for our accomplishments. https://www.riversidehotel.com/

The Riverside Hotel has received the following recent awards:

  • The Las Olas Company – Salute to Business Award “Business of the Year”
  • 2013 Best of the Best – Best Local Character Award – First place – Riverside Hotel. Go Riverwalk Magazine
  • 2013 Best of the Best – Best Food Quality – First Place – Wild Sea Oyster Bar & Grille. Go Riverwalk Magazine
  • 2013 Trip Advisor – Certificate of Excellence – Riverside Hotel
  • 2013 Trip Advisor – Certificate of Excellence – Indigo Restaurant on Las Olas
  • 2013 Preston’s Wine and Martini Lounge – Best Wine Event – Wine and Dine Wednesday
  • 2012 Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce – Chairman’s Award
  • Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce
  • 2012 Best of the Best – Best Restaurant – First Place – Indigo Restaurant on Las Olas. Go Riverwalk Magazine
  • 2013 #2 place – Best place to quench your thirst – Golden Lyon Vintage Pub
  • 2013 #2 place – Best place to meet people – Preston’s Wine & Martini Lounge
  • 2012 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival – Best New Sponsor Award
  • 2012 #2 Best Wine Experience in Fort Lauderdale – Preston’s Wine & Martini Bar
  • 2012 #2 Best Night Out in Fort Lauderdale – Golden Lyon Vintage Pub
  • 2012 #2 Best Live Music in Fort Lauderdale – Indigo Restaurant

Part of the reason for our success has been due to the great partnerships we’ve formed with other organizations in Fort Lauderdale, including:

  • Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau
  • Las Olas Boulevard
  • Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport
  • Greater Fort Lauderdale & Broward County Convention Center
  • Port Everglades
  • Stash Hotel Rewards

WSVN Channel 7

WSVN, channel 7, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Miami, Florida, United States, locally owned by Sunbeam Television. WSVN maintains studio facilities located in North Bay Village, and its transmitter is located in north Miami-Dade County. The station’s signal is relayed on low-powered translator WKIZ-LP (channel 49) in Key West.  wsvn.com

QuinnProQuo Strategies + Communication

At QuinnProQuo our Good Idea comes from the realization that a good idea, by itself, isn’t enough. It’s irreplaceable, but to bring it to reality requires the ability to engage and marshal the necessary resources and a successfully executed, realistic plan of action. After all, an idea without execution is just a daydream, and execution without a plan is chaos.

With that in mind we offer a variety of services designed to help you develop new ways to approach your business, build and inspire your “Dream Team” and efficiently make it happen, all with a special emphasis on the beneficial synergies realized when partnering the For-Profit and Not-For-Profit worlds.

To enable our clients to achieve their goals, QPQ follows a three step approach:

  • Conceive – Strategic Planning designed to support both For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Organizations and Foundations
  • Connect – Relationship Assessment, Development and Management
  • Create – Organization, Coordination and Execution

https://www.quinnproquo.com/

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

About Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood is the flagship-integrated resort of Hard Rock International, owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The renowned entertainment, gaming and hospitality destination unveiled a $1.5 billion expansion in 2019, highlighting the debut of the world’s first and only Guitar Hotel. Between three hotel towers, the resort boasts 1,271 luxury guestrooms. Amenities include a 42,000 square-foot Rock Spa® & Salon; an 18-acre recreational water experience; private “Bora Bora” style cabanas; more than 20 food and beverage outlets; a 26,000 square-foot retail promenade; 120,000 square feet of premier meeting and convention space; and an expansive gaming floor with more than 2,500 slots, more than 200 table games and a 45-table poker room. In 2023, the casino launched live craps, roulette and retail sports betting, offering 10 craps tables, 20 roulette tables, and sports betting locations including both electronic kiosks and kiosks with live sports betting agents. Introducing the new games is a historic milestone that immediately puts Florida in the same league as the world’s great gaming destinations. Hard Rock Live, ranked No. 3 and No. 5 worldwide in 2023 gross revenue for Pollstar Magazine and Billboard respectively, highlights A-list entertainers and performers, sporting events and live broadcast productions in an intimate 7,000-person capacity setting. Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood is located on 87 acres of the Hollywood Seminole Reservation along State Road 7 (U.S. Highway 441).

For more information, visit us online at www.seminolehardrockhollywood.com call 1 (800) 937-0010 or follow us: Facebook: @HardRockHolly, X: @HardRockHolly, Instagram: @HardRockHolly.

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