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Our team did a fantastic job recruiting new members to the chapter, developing relationships between members, and retaining members. We're extremely proud that 92% of our members renewed their membership; that is a testament to the ABC team ensuring our members receive a return on their investment in us.
Highlights include:
- The Empire State Chapter was the only chapter out of the 68 to win the top award in the six categories at the ABC National Awards.
- Outstanding Membership Retention
- Superior Contractor Percentage over 65
- Membership Growth
- Membership Goal Achievement
- Gold Grassroots
- The prestigious Mullan Award for Division 2
- Delivered over 40 informational webinars on regulatory, tax, financial, legal, and safety issues.
- The Chapter launched our STEP Safety recognition event and had the most STEP participants in the Chapter's history.
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The Construction Excellence Award Ceremony sold out. There wasn’t an empty seat in the house!!
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Our Eastern New York Clayshoot event had the most attendees in the past 20 years, with over 200 members!
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ABC held frequent Brews with Builders Networking events in each of the regions.
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We had historic turnout at all of our regional golf outings!
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Chapter member Diane Cahill of Cahill Strategies wins Beamer of the Year Award
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The Beamer of the Year is presented annually to the one person in the country who recruited more new members to ABC than anyone else. Think about that. There are more than 22,000 active members across this association, and our very own Diane took home the award after recruiting 12 new members.