SCI Retains Howard Communications Inc. as Public Relations Firm to Promote SCI Annual Hunters’ Convention
Safari Club International 06.12.13
Safari Club International (SCI) will once again work with Howard Communications Inc. to promote the 2014 SCI Annual Hunters’ Convention with the top industry leaders in outdoor media. The annual SCI Hunters’ Convention is the primary fundraising event for the only sportsmen’s organization dedicated to protecting the freedom to hunt through advocacy and grassroots effort.
“SCI is pleased to be working with Howard Communications Inc. again this year to promote our Annual Hunters’ Convention,” said Phil DeLone, the CEO of SCI. “They helped us deliver a strong message about our advocacy for all hunters to outdoor publications, radio, TV and web-based news services for the 2013 SCI Hunters’ Convention. We look forward to expanding the reach of our message and to encouraging more hunters to attend the 2014 Convention February 5-8, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Hotel Convention Center.”
“We are very excited to have the opportunity to continue to work with SCI,” said Howard Communications President, Kevin Howard. “Our focus will be to spread the message even further about the Annual Hunters’ Convention and the advocacy it funds with all outdoor media who will help spread the word to thousands of hunters. The event is something every hunter should attend. Every dollar raised at the SCI Annual Hunters’ Convention supports the mission of conservation and protection of the freedom to hunt.”
“Over the coming months leading up to the 2014 SCI Hunters’ Convention we will be distributing information on the exhibitors, activities, speakers and seminars that will be taking place during the Convention. Hunters need to hold the February 5-8, 2014 dates open so they can attend next year’s extravaganza,” said Howard.
Protecting hunters’ rights and promoting wildlife conservation, SCI’s two areas of focus, historically has been the interest of hundreds of individuals long before SCI was established. But how did SCI as an organization begin?
Forty years ago, there were many safari clubs across the country made up of local, unaffiliated groups of hunters. One such was Safari Club of Los Angeles, which was formed in April 1971 by forty-seven individuals. In early 1972, an out-of-towner from a similar club in Chicago attended one of the monthly Wednesday night meetings, and it was decided that the L.A. club should attempt to combine with the one in Chicago to make it an affiliated chapter. The founder of Safari Club of Los Angeles, C.J. McElroy, went to the Windy City and instituted the new chapter.
Eleven months after the formation of Safari Club of Los Angeles, on March 9, 1972, the name was changed officially to Safari Club International. SCI continued to reach out to other independent safari clubs throughout the United States in an effort to combine them into a single overall organization.
Today, interest in SCI’s two primary missions has grown a worldwide network. Subsequent involvement and promotion of these missions is rooted in each of our 55,000 members, supported through each of our 190 membership chapters found across the globe, and put into action by government representatives and personnel both nationally and internationally.
In this way, we can encourage an appreciation for nature and wildlife so that conservation efforts remain strong, while also fighting to protect our rich hunting heritage. Big changes can be achieved through the endeavors of many who are united in a mission – the mission of Safari Club International.
