Organization and Resources

Affiliations

Phoenix CVB
In Greater Phoenix, you'll find everything from world-class hotels, resorts and fine dining to exhilarating adventure, breath-taking golf courses, trendy shopping, modern nightlife and enriching culture. Whether you are planning a trip to Phoenix for business or pleasure, the Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitors Bureau is here to assist you.

Scottsdale CVB
Scottsdale is renown for everything from world-class resorts and fine dining to breath-taking golf courses, trendy shopping, active nightlife and enriching culture. Whether you are planning a trip to Scottsdale for business or pleasure, the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau is a great resource.

San Diego CVB
San Diego is California's second largest city and the United States' eighth largest. The variety of activities seems endless and the weather is near perfect all year round. Make the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau your first stop for information.

NACE New York Chapter
NACE is the oldest and largest professional association that addresses all aspects of the catering industry. Through the collective efforts of members, local chapters, committees and the Foundation of NACE, NACE is at the forefront of the issues that directly affect you and your business.

Go Green

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Waste & Recycling News
Waste & Recycling News is the leading weekly publication in North America for the waste management, recycling, landfill, and hazardous waste industries.

Industry

Barco
Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets: medical imaging, media & entertainment, infrastructure & utilities, traffic & transportation, defense & security, education & training and corporate AV.

Eastern Acoustic Works
EAW was founded almost three decades ago with a crystal-clear vision: every component of a professional loudspeaker must be carefully and exactingly formed into a cohesive system. The global audio marketplace readily agreed with this revolutionary (for the time) concept, quickly leading to a true paradigm shift in sound reinforcement. An entire industry had been transformed.

Martin Entertainment
Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, Martin Professional is a world leader in the creation of dynamic lighting solutions for the entertainment, architectural, and commercial sectors. Martin lighting solutions are industry standard on top tours and events, grace prestigious theaters, energize nightclubs, and decorate major television studios around the globe.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community.

The primary focus of our corporate community service activities is on developing initiatives to address specific societal issues, such as the environment, community economic development and education. We employ our resources, our technology and talent, in order to create innovative programs in these areas to assist local communities.

Green Efforts

The following is a list of some of the steps American Audio Visual Center has taken in an effort to be environmentally conscious.

At the Corporate Office:

  • We recycle paper, plastic, cardboard & aluminum. Proceeds from our recycling program benefit the Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
  • We are saving electricity by turning off computers, lights, etc. when not in use. Thermostats are turned off before/after business hours.
  • Several of the Corporate Office employees belong to carpools.
  • We have reduced our paper usage by sending most internal memos electronically and required reports from the field are sent via intranet.
  • We use recycled paper.

At our Various Hotel Offices:

  • Where available, our on-site AV offices participate in the hotel's recycling program. In locations where the hotel does not recycle, we encourage recyclable items to be returned to the local warehouse.
  • In our Northern California locations, collections bins have been placed in each of our hotel offices. Every two weeks, drivers collect the contents and return them to our local warehouse for sorting. Contents are then recycled with the following organizations:
  • Ink cartridges: recycle for breast cancer www.recycleforbreastcancer.com
  • Batteries, light bulbs, electronics: green citizen www.greencitizen.com
  • Paper, glass, plastics, metals: paper rush www.paperrush.com
  • We have eliminated paper with electronic only version of contracts organized on computer desktop verses paper filled binders.
  • Our Southeast Region has instituted several green initiatives including, but not limited to: the recycling of batteries, removed company name from mailing lists at www.dmachoice.org/MPS/, buying locally produced items from local stores, use of white boards and e-mails to replace paper notes, one day per month, managers make every effort to work from his/her home office to reduce vehicle use and pollution.