Events & Sponsorships

NCSC, CFC Host Statewide Editor Awards Dinner

Statewide editors from across the country convened in Arlington, Va., earlier this month for the annual Willies Awards banquet, hosted by NCSC and CFC. The group of communicators, in charge of publishing monthly statewide magazines supporting electric cooperatives, also held a Statewide Editors Association business meeting and attended an NRECA-sponsored industry issues update.

"CFC has hosted this awards dinner for more than two decades," said Mike O'Brien, CFC vice president of Corporate Communications. "It's always a pleasure to meet with old friends and see them be recognized for the amazing jobs they do."

The entries for this year's "Willies," named for Willie Wiredhand, the mascot and champion of electric cooperatives, were judged by a group of writing and editing professionals from Nebraska. The award for "Best Magazine Design" went to Texas Co-op Power; "Best Website" went to Georgia Magazine. A full list of winners is available under the "links" section of www.sea.coop.

John Grant, senior consultant, CFC Financial Advisory Services, presented at NRECA's issues update the following day and discussed how to communicate financial data effectively. He stressed three simple steps to presenting tricky data: identify a trend, compare it with data from peers and display the findings in a graph.

"Compared to just looking at a table full of numbers, when you see these same numbers in a chart or graph it 'sings,' and the message becomes much clearer," Grant said.

CFC Forum 2010

NCSC sponsored the keynote speaker at CFC Forum 2010. New York Times bestselling author Mitch Albom was the NCSC-sponsored luncheon speaker at CFC Forum 2010, held June 7-9 in Philadelphia. Albom is the author of the bestselling memoir of all time, Tuesdays with Morrie, as well as eight other books. View a video of Albom's presentation on cooperative.com.