The AdColor Industry Coalition Awards.

The Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), the American Advertising Federation (AAF), The ADVERTISING Club of New York (AD CLUB NY), and Arnold Worldwide announced that they have joined forces to form The AdColor Industry Coalition. ADCOLOR is a first of its kind cross-industry collaboration on the issue of diversity. The Coalition hopes to combine the energies of the marketing, media and advertising communities to stimulate ideas, discussion and solutions to advance diversity goals.

The Coalition’s first effort will be The AdColor Awards, a program that will honor outstanding diverse professionals at the junior, mid and senior levels in each segment of the advertising, marketing and media industries. The awards show will take place at the ANA Multicultural Marketing Conference on November 4, 2007 in Miami, Florida. Interested applicants or those who want to nominate candidates can download nomination forms at http://www.adcolor.org>. The deadline for nominations is August 1, 2007.

“We are thrilled to host The AdColor Awards,” said founding Coalition member Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the ANA. “We look forward to celebrating the accomplishments of Rising Stars, Innovators, Change Agents and Legends, as well as learning from their experiences so that we can replicate their path to success for future generations.”