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Webinar: Celebrate Good Times: Earned Media
Thursday, June 30, 2022, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
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Celebrate Good Times: Earned Media
Brian Gavin, CFRE, and the
Communications & Marketing Team at Volunteers of America

Date: Thursday, June 30, 2022

Time: 12:30 p.m. Central Time

Celebrate Good Times and build brand awareness! Is your organization celebrating an anniversary? Join this lively and interactive session to learn various ways to leverage your organization's milestone anniversary, tell your story, and build your brand. Discover new strategies on how to build your social media following, increase donor support, and secure earned media. Hear from the award-winning communications and marketing team at Volunteers of America on how they turned their 125th Anniversary into marketing gold by lighting up popular skylines, securing proclamations, and ringing the opening bell of the NYSE.
Remember that webinars are FREE to ALL ALDE members, and we just need you to RSVP. Webinars are $75 for nonmembers. Not a member? Attend your first webinar free to experience ALDE! RSVP for free or pay to attend here.

Brian GavinBrian Gavin, CFRE, is Senior Vice President of Communications & Marketing with Volunteers of America in Alexandria, Virginia, where he most recently quadrupled national earned media within an 18 month period. Media coverage has appeared on CNN, FOX Broadcasting, CBS, and NBC, among other outlets, with $113 million in media value and 12.2 billion impressions, coinciding with the organization’s 125th anniversary.

Previously, Brian worked at Lutheran Social Services of New York as Vice President of Advancement & Communications, where he served as ALDE’s Big East Chapter President for two years. He currently serves on the ALDE Board of Directors. Brian held senior positions at Catholic Charities in communications and fundraising for over a decade - both at local offices in New York City and nationally at Catholic Charities USA.

Brian holds a B.A. in communications from The University of Scranton, as well as an M.A. in public communications from Fordham University, and is a member of The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He was awarded a 2021 Top 10 Global Marketer of the Year Award from OnCon Awards. He resides in Alexandria with his wife, April, and daughter, Caroline and enjoys being outdoors, laughing, and eating pizza.

Contact: Laurie Brill - [email protected]