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Join FPRA Orlando for a lunch & learn (lunch provided by Olive Garden) on The Art of Storytelling featuring Darden Restaurants’ Senior Vice President of Communications Justin Sikora. Attendees will learn new methods on how to create and tell stories effectively to both internal and external audiences along with key learnings from Justin’s tenured career telling stories for various brands, including Darden, Time Warner (DC Entertainment) and Unilever’s AXE and Dove brands.
This compelling lunch & learn will be very popular. Space for the event is limited to FPRA members and FPRA students at this time.

FPRA Treasure Coast invites you to join us for Brews, Boots, & Bylines, our Rowdy, Howdy Holiday Party at the Islamorada Brewery & Distillery on Thursday, December 8! Celebrate the holidays with some of the greatest PR pros across the Treasure Coast – let’s mingle, eat, and let our boots hit the dance floor! Registration is $20 per person and includes one free drink and a specially-branded FPRA cookie. Seas The Day Food Truck will be on-site serving delicious food options, and for an additional $5, guests can boot scootin’ boogie their way through a line dancing lesson led by The Wild Roses.

Join your FPRA family at Ology Brewing Company’s Power Mill location for a Holiday Social on Thursday, Dec. 8! Significant others/spouses/partners are welcome. If you’d like to bring your donations for our holiday giving drive for Brehon Family Services, we will collect them at the social and deliver them for you.

Please RSVP by Wednesday, December 7.

Price
Members, Students, and Non-Members: FREE

Join us for this members-only (and their plus ones) for a night of networking and a great opportunity to participate in the annual raffle to benefit our scholarship programs.

Get ready to mix, mingle and unwind with your FPRA friends. Admission is $25 per person. Guests must RSVP online by Friday, December 2 at www.fpraswfl.org. Register today because spaces are limited!

Registration includes the choice of a beer, wine, or non-alcoholic beverage, heavy appetizers and a raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets will be available for purchase.

So, mark your calendars for Friday, December 9 and get ready for a fun-filled evening. The Merry Mixer event is a little different each year, but a few things remain constant: great food and drinks, and wonderful company.

‘Tis the season for good food and even better company! Join us for our member-only holiday mixer at 310 Park South. We have a dinner reservation at 7 p.m., conveniently located on Park Avenue in Winter Park. Space is limited, so please RSVP in order to join our dinner reservation! You are responsible for purchasing your own food and beverages. We can’t wait to see you there!

No matter the size, industry, model, or age of an enterprise, internal communications is the critical catalyst towards mission/vision success. Organizations are made up of people, whether two or 200,000. And, people need to be connected, informed, and encouraged. In this session, Garrett Wilburn will be covering the role of internal communications and some best practices for streamlining and elevating communications in any organization.

About Garrett Wilburn

Garrett Wilburn is the Director of Internal Communications at Compassion International. He leads a 10 person team to inspire, align and equip a global workforce across 27 countries. Garrett started his professional career doing PR, marketing communications and product brand launches at a Fortune 500. From there, he started a brand and communications consultancy to help not-for-profits, startups and intermediate size companies find greater success through brand development, PR, and marketing communications. His core belief is that individuals, teams, and organizations are exponentially better when they communicate well; communication is the catalyst to success. When not dabbling in the communications arts, Garrett spends his time on mountain-bound adventures with his wife, Allison, near their home in Colorado Springs, CO. He holds a B.A. in Mass Communications, an M.A. in Religion, and numerous certificates in disciplines such as leadership and social media strategy.

n appreciation of our members, FPRA Jacksonville invites you to attend our Holiday Social at Southern Grounds & Co. in Avondale.
Swing by and enjoy festive drinks and appetizers as you reconnect with your FPRA Jacksonville family, and we welcome new guests. There will be a drawing for a special prize as well.

FPRA Jacksonville will provide light appetizers, dessert bites, and holiday drink, sponsored by Hart & Associates. Additional food and beverage can be purchased on individual tabs.

Mingle with fellow FPRA members at our holiday mixer and chapter awards ceremony presentation. The awards ceremony originally scheduled for Sept. 30 was cancelled because of Hurricane Ian, so we want to take a little time to recognize the incredible talent within the chapter at this event. Non-members, friends and family are welcome to attend this casual event. Dinner is included in the ticket price, and there will be a cash bar.

The Volusia/Flagler Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA) will welcome Dr. Matt Wilson as the guest speaker at their December professional development luncheon for a presentation on Philanthropy and Public Relations. Dr. Wilson will discuss how bridging philanthropy and public relations can drive organizational success. This meeting will be held on Thursday, December 15 at 11:30 a.m. in the Dennis McGee Room at the Daytona Beach International Airport.

Matt Wilson, Ed. D., is a member of the Athletes First Initiative (AFI) leadership team. AFI’s purpose is to build out Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Collectives supporting intercollegiate student-athletes at Division I, II, and III universities. Currently, Wilson serves as Executive Director of the Hatters Collective Group, a collective group supporting Stetson University student-athletes with the ability to leverage their NIL opportunities.

Prior to his current role, Wilson spent the last five years with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) Athletics serving as Senior Director of Philanthropy. During his ERAU tenure, Wilson oversaw a more than a 100% increase in student-athlete scholarship support, assisted in the creation and development of multiple new ERAU Athletic fundraising initiatives (Week of Giving, Hoops & Heels Luncheon; Corporate Challenge Golf Event), and effectively executed multiple six and seven figure naming rights campaigns.

Register by noon on December 12 at fpravf.org. Lunch is included in the cost of $30 for members, $40 for non-members, and $15 for students. Walk-ins are accepted for a $5 additional surcharge.

Celebrate the year with CWC-FPRA at an in-person Holiday Party at Gold Coast Eagle Distributing on Wireless Court in east Sarasota.

In lieu of a Professional Development meeting in December, please join us for our Chapter Holiday Social! Details (including a firm date and time) will be announced in the next few weeks. Online registration will be available.

The Northwest Florida Coast Chapter will host its Second Annual Mingle & Jingle Holiday Mixer at Maxine Orange Studio Gallery in Fort Walton Beach. Join us for an evening of networking, celebration, and giving as they collect toys for the Northwest Florida Guardian ad Litem Foundation. Don’t forget to don your ugliest holiday sweater!

Our expert panel will take you through the rebranding process: internal and external research; translating mission and message into a new visual brand; considerations for website navigation and (re)design; and the comprehensive rebrand “to-do” list – including public relations and donor relations activities.

Panelists:
Murray Devine, Consultant/Web Developer, Make|Believe Design
Sharon Kunkel, APR, President, Wordslinger Marketing & PR
Paula Murray, Principal, Artefact Design / Co-Founder, Synergy Studios
Martha Wells, Project Coordinator, Carter