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This holiday season, Weber Marketing gave $4,000 in donations and $2,000 in services to Agros International on behalf of their clients, partners and vendors. Agros International is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping poor, rural families in Central America escape their cycle of poverty with land, loans, micro-enterprise lending, and other essentials to create self-sustaining villages.

Using the organization’s new online gift catalog, Weber Marketing selected gifts that included cans of worms, women’s small business loans, acres of seed, and clean water projects.

Weber Marketing donated a flock of chicks to Agros on behalf of client Tracy Fournier, Senior Marketing Specialist for Cal Coast Credit Union, who said, “I am so glad Weber Marketing chose to help these people. It means more to us than sending us a gift of chocolates.”

Nancy Olmsted, VP Marketing at Columbia Credit Union in Vancouver, Washington, agrees. “I can’t think of a holiday gift I would have enjoyed more! What a thoughtful and impactful thing,” she said.

Since Agros was founded in 1982, they have helped over 6,000 people build new lives by providing land ownership, technical assistance, training, capital loans, village infrastructure, and volunteer service teams. These valuable resources support the vision of local community members as they build their own villages across Central America and Mexico.

“Agros is having a major impact, transforming lives by stopping the cycle of poverty in Central America,” said Mark Weber, President of Weber Marketing. “In our partnership with Agros, we’ve been able to integrate our credit union philosophy and cooperative spirit.”

Weber Marketing has been a proud pro-bono brand partner of Agros for over six years, helping them build a powerful international brand that supports their mission.

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For more information, contact Mark Weber, President at 206-340-6111, or Sean Dimond, Director of Marketing and Communications for Agros, at 206-528-1066.

The Credit Union Executive Society (CUES) honored Weber Marketing’s strategic partner EHS Design as the 2007 Supplier of the Year at the CEO Network Conference in Key Biscayne, Florida on November 5.

For the past three years, the CUES board of directors has honored supplier firms most committed to meeting the needs of its credit union membership across North America. Nominees, categorized by firm size, are judged on the exceptional contributions to the credit union industry. Weber Marketing won the same prestigious award last year.

Paul Seibert, CMC, vice president of financial services, accepted the award for EHS Design saying, “This is a significant industry recognition of our work and the many relationships we have developed over the past 15 years with the CUES organization, credit union clients, and friends across North America.”

For the past 20 years, EHS design has provided strategic growth planning, strategic branch planning, branch business modeling, prototype development and branding, architecture, design, real estate development and leveraging to credit union clients. The firm received over 20 letters of recommendation from CEOs/executives across the nation recommending it for this award.

Weber Marketing formed a partnership with EHS Design over ten years ago. The two firms have worked together on numerous, award-winning retail merchandising projects for financial institutions across the United States and Canada.

Seibert says, “The results of our work, over the years, has been to continually help clients create and operate powerful strategies, tactics, and measurement systems and strong differentiating brands that accelerate target growth that drives high ROI and ensures long-term viability and prosperity.”

For more information, please contact Randy Schultz at 206-826-0322.