Updated 6/02/2025
Each year, the GRAMMY Museum – a sister company to the Grammy Awards – hosts the Jane Ortner Education Award Luncheon. This event honors performers who have demonstrated passion and dedication to education in the arts as well as K-12 academic teachers who use music in the classroom as an educational tool.
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Updated on 6/17/2025
Austin Film Society’s Texas Film Awards is the year’s biggest event for Texans in film. This prestigious event honors the stars of Texas, while raising money for the AFS artistic and educational charity programs. Society Awards is honored to help crafted this coveted custom award.
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Updated 6/26/2025
The Don Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year award stands as a prestigious recognition presented by the NFL Foundation to high school football coaches who embody integrity, leadership, and excellence; values long upheld by legendary coach Don Shula himself. Each year, this award celebrates the profound impact coaches make in shaping young athletes and fostering strong, resilient communities through football.
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Clark – Production Specialist
Tell us a bit about yourself- what got you into the award manufacturing business?
I was looking at my Facebook list, seeing what my buddies were posting, and Rick Long had posted that he had a job that he loved going to every single day. I would love to get up and go to work happy every day, who wouldn’t?! And that was where my life changed and I came here. So, I took the leap, and the rest is history!”
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You are the President of Society Awards, a company that you actually founded. Take us through your average work day.
This is not going to sound as exciting as it is. Just imagine that between the lines here, I’m meeting with interesting clients, we’re making the impossible happen repeatedly, we’re ideating and executing exhilarating marketing projects, we’re expanding business for ourselves and our clients – there’s constant growth. Most of what I do is make beautiful sculpture, and market beautiful luxury brands. And lots of tiny details in between that’s really the heart of “doing the impossible.” Dreaming it up is one field, then getting down to an almost military-like discipline in setting about to do everything necessary to successfully bring the awesome dreams to reality is another skill. I work hard to be on both sides of that bridge every day.
What did you study in college? What was your first job coming out of school?
My study in college was Economics, although I spent the majority of my four years managing a store on campus. It was a lot more fun. My first job was international expatriate compensation consulting (yawn.) I worked with multinational companies to come up with cost of living adjustments for employees who were working abroad to make sure that they could maintain the same standard of living as they would at home, adjusting for exchange rate changes, inflation rates, even lifestyle changes (for example, in Lagos Nigeria all expats have to hire a driver to safely get around.)
