Denver’s Civica Adds 2 Full-Service Clients: Colorado Psychological Association & Occupational Therapy Association of Colorado

Civica Association Conferences & Exhibitions added two full-service clients in January: the Colorado Psychological Association and the Occupational Therapy Association of Colorado.

Since 1946, the Colorado Psychological Association has been the voice of psychology in Colorado. The association, which is affiliated with the American Psychological Association, advances the profession of psychology through advocacy and education for the promotion of psychological health and well-being.

The Occupational Therapy Association of Colorado advances the promotion of the Occupational Therapy profession through advocacy of public policy, education, collaboration and support of membership.

Civica, founded in 2011, serves from its Denver headquarters national, regional and statewide clients primarily in the health-care sector.

Stacie Cisco, CMP, Will Head Events Team At Denver’s Civica Management

Stacie Cisco, CMP and president-elect of Meeting Professionals International Rocky Mountain Chapter, joined Denver’s Civica Management in September as the association management company’s director of events.

At Civica, Cisco leads a team of meetings professionals working on behalf of the company’s roster of trade-association and professional-society clients.

Cisco’s career includes meeting-planning and events assignments at EchoStar Satellite Corp., The Arrangers Destination Management Company, CH2M Hill and, most recent, at Lone Tree Arts Center in the Denver suburb of Lone Tree, where she was rentals and events manager.

Her CMP designation came in September 2007. She received her bachelor’s of arts in communications in 2006 from Metropolitan State College, now Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Cisco is MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter’s president-elect for 2015-2016 having served as vice president of finance last term. She was awarded the MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter President’s Award in 2012 and 2013 and was named Planner of the Year award in 2010. She was also recognized by Visit Denver and received the “Go The Extra Mile” Award for her work with a large and challenging program in February 2011.

MPIRMC is an affiliate of Meeting Professionals International, the meeting and event industry’s largest global community with 24,000+ members. The MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter was the first chapter recognized in 1973.

2 AMC Institute Members Merge To Form Denver’s Civica Associations, Conferences & Exhibitions

Association, Conferences & Exhibition Management of Denver has combined with its crosstown rival, Civica Management, to form Civica Associations, Conferences & Exhibitions, the companies announced.

The combined company has as full-service management clients a mix of national, regional and state trade associations and professional societies. Civica, which before served primarily health and hospitality associations, now adds clients in sectors including education, public safety, retail, insurance and historic preservation.

Both AMCs are members of the AMC Institute. Civica’s founder, Don Knox, who is former business editor of The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, will helm the combined firm with ACE’s founder, Dorothy Shadrick, MBA, CAE, sharing top leadership duties while serving as executive director of some of the firm’s largest and longest-served clients. Along with additional staff members, the new company provides knowledge and experience to provide exceptional service to its clients.

Reporting to Knox and Shadrick are three directors, Sonja Hix-Cortina over membership, Susan Nolte over finance and Stacie Cisco over events. Hix-Cortina and Nolte have worked for Civica and its predecessor, Caruso Group International, for a number of years; Cisco — a veteran of EchoStar, CH2M Hill and The Arrangers Destination Management Company — was hired into her position recently.

“Through this combination, Dorothy and I intend to provide our clients with more resources and our employees with greater opportunities for professional growth,” Knox said. “Those two things, combined with our strongly held belief in the power of transformation, will fuel future growth for our clients and for our management organization.”

Shadrick said, “I am impressed with the level of experience, knowledge and skills that this new team is able to offer our clients. The opportunities to enhance our services to our current and future clients is exciting.”

New Study Shows AMCs Like Civica Management Bring Immense Value To Association Clients

DETROIT — A study of 167 associations shows that association management companies, or AMCs, deliver 317 percent more growth in net assets and 31 percent more growth in net revenue, as well as offering consistently higher income from products and services.

The study was conducted by Dr. James Gaskin of Brigham Young University and drew data from a random selection of associations with a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) tax status and budgets between $500,000 and $7.5 million. It was released publicly at a news conference held by the AMC Institute, which sponsored the study.

Civica Management is a member of the institute and manages nonprofit trade associations and professional societies primarily in the Rocky Mountain West.

In a statement for the media, Dr. Gaskin said, “Given the wide variety of associations surveyed, and the random sampling applied, the findings are remarkably consistent. When we analyzed the data, it was clear that AMC-managed associations of all sizes tend to be the strongest financially.”

Civica Launches New Website For Colorado Nurses Association

Civica Management, one of the country’s fastest-growing and most innovative association, nonprofit and events management companies, has launched a new website at coloradonurses.org on behalf of a client, the Colorado Nurses Association.

The 109-year-old association is the professional organization representing Colorado’s Registered Nurses.

In coming weeks, Civica will launch, also for the association, 11 other websites covering regional- and practice-based sections.

In the past two years, Civica has built in excess of 150 websites for its clients, most of which are trade associations and professional societies.

Civica Retained To Provide Insource Management Services To Colorado Nurses Association

Civica Management, one of the country’s fastest-growing and most innovative association management companies, will provide insource management services to the 109-year-old Colorado Nurses Association, effective immediately.

Under an agreement completed this week, some members of Civica’s staff will work out of CNA’s offices in southeast Denver. They’ll provide, among other things, membership services, websites and technology, event and conference planning, inbound and outbound telephone services, and board and committee training.

The insource agreement is a first for Civica, which to date has provided services to associations, organizations and foundations on an outsource basis.

Before this week’s agreement, Civica already was among Colorado’s largest association management companies. With the agreement, Civica solidifies its position as one of the two largest Colorado AMCs for health-care organizations and as the largest Colorado AMC serving the nursing profession.

Civica Becomes Full Member Of AMC Institute

Civica Management, one of the country’s fastest-growing and most innovative association management companies, has become a full member of the Alexandria, Va.-based AMC Institute.

AMC Institute provides resources to associations and association management companies such as Civica. It develops a standard of operations for its members and offer a formal accreditation process to ensure those standards are met.

Civica has been a member of AMC Institute through its Civica/Caruso affiliate. This fall, Civica Management itself became an AMC Institute full member.

Civica Launches New Website And Redesigned Emails For Home Care Association of Colorado

Civica Launches New Website And Redesigned Emails For Home Care Association of Colorado

Civica Management this week launched a new website and news portal for the Home Care Association of Colorado, a 43-year-old statewide nonprofit organization that represents the interests of the home care industry.

The association’s new website is www.homecareofcolorado.org.

Civica Client APTA Colorado Wins National Award

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — July 24, 2013 — The American Physical Therapy Association, at the start of its 2013 national meeting here, honored Civica client APTA Colorado with an Innovative Component Award.

APTA Colorado was recognized for its chapter and Private Practice Special Interest Groupwebsites, external communications including stories, video and photography, and social-media outreach. The Civica-managed effort, launched Jan. 1, has allowed the chapter to become the No. 1 state component on both Facebook and Twitter.

APTA Colorado President Tim Noteboom accepted the award from APTA President Paul Rockar and South Dakota Chapter President Chris Barrett.