Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/113255
•pg_33-42__BMT_pg3-58 2/27/13 9:06 AM Page 36 Last/Current Convention: Detroit Convention Dates: April 12-15, 2012 Venue/Hotel: Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center Room Nights: 1,471 Estimated Direct Spending: $1.1 million South Central Regional Conference Attendance: 3,200 Last/Current Convention: Houston Convention Dates: March 22-25, 2012 Venue & Hotel: Hilton Americas Houston Up Coming 2013 Conferences South Eastern Regional: Memphis Midwest Regional: Tulsa South Central Regional: New Orleans 84th Far Western Regional: Los Angeles 60th Mid-Atlantic Regional: Winston Salem, NC 79th Central Regional: Indianapolis 82nd North Atlantic Regional: Philadelphia 60th South Atlantic Regional: Charleston, SC 82 Great Lakes Regional: Rochester, NY International Presiding Bishop Paul S. Morton, Sr. back in 1992 this Fellowship continues to grow in prestige and influence. Among the Fellowship's major initiatives since 1994 include church planting in Africa and India, the dispensation of multiple $5,000 grants to struggling churches and the development of the Full Gospel Baptist Sunday School Curriculum. Attendance: 9,000 Last/Current Convention: Atlanta Convention Dates: June 27-29, 2012 Venue: Georgia World Congress Center Host Hotel: Hyatt Regency Atlanta Room nights: Not Reported Estimated Economic Impact: $5.7 million Headquarters: 1691 Phoenix Blvd, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 0349 International Presiding Bishop Paul S. Morton Phone: (770) 907-9877 Next Convention: Louisville Dates: July 3-5, 2013 Venue: Kentucky International Convention Center Website: fullgospelbaptist.org 7. NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS – ANNUAL CONVENTION 9. NATIONAL BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION (NBMBAA) – ANNUAL CONFERENCE NSBE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the academic and professional success of African-American engineering and technical students and professionals. NSBE is the largest student-managed society with over 20,000 members in 400 chapters nationwide and overseas. NSBE offers its member's leadership training, professional and academic development, mentoring opportunities, community service outreach programs and scholarships. The NBMBAA vision is to be an organization that leads in the creation of economic and intellectual wealth for Blacks. Their mission as a professional membership organization of Black graduates with MBAs, advanced degrees, and entrepreneurs, is to increase the number as well as the diversity of successful Blacks in the business community. Established in 1970, the NBMBAA is dedicated to the development of partnerships that result in the creation of intellectual and economic wealth in the black community. Attendance: 9,525 Last/Current Convention Location: Pittsburgh Convention Dates: March 28 – April 1, 2012 Venue: David L. Lawrence Convention Center Hotels: Westin and numerous other properties Room Nights: 14,270 Direct Spending: $13.6 million Headquarters: 205 Dangerfield Road, Alexandria, VA 22314 National Chairperson: Calvin Allen Young III Phone: (703) 549-2207 Membership: 20,000 Next Convention: Indianapolis Dates: March 27 – 31, 2013 Conference Planning Committee Chair: Whitney Gaskins Email: meeting@nsbe.org Website: nsbe.org Attendance: 8,870 Last/Current Convention Location: Indianapolis Convention Dates: September 25-29, 2012 Venue: Indiana Convention Center Hotels: 13 area hotels Room Nights: 10,438 Estimated Economic Impact: $2.6 million Headquarters: 180 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60601 Phone: (312) 236-2622 Chairman: William (Bill) Wells, Jr. Membership: 8,000 (representing 95,000 MBA's) Next Convention: Houston Convention Dates: September 10-14, 2013 Website: nbmbaa.org 10. NAACP – ANNUAL CONVENTION 8. FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH FELLOWSHIPS ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Over 25,000 people attended the first Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship at the Louisiana Superdome in 1994. From the vision the Holy Spirit first impressed upon Founder and 36 The most visible of all Black organizations, is the NAACP. From its humble beginnings in a New York City apartment in 1909, the nation's oldest civil rights organization has long stood for social justice and fought to insure that AfricanAmerican voices would be heard. The mission of the NAACP B M & T ••• January/February 2013 ••• www.blackmeetingsandtourism.com