HAND Annual Luncheon

On June 1, the Michael Group staff headed down to Tyson's Corner for the 2009 HAND Annual Luncheon. The Michael Group unveiled its new marketing swag at this year's luncheon. New travel mugs, recycled grocery bags, screw drivers and pens were all in high demand. Thanks to Karen Bate of KB Concepts for getting these great gifts together.

For those of you who are not familiar with HAND they are a great organization connecting folks working in the Affordable Housing field. The Michael Group has been an active member of HAND for the past several years and was once again a table sponsor for this year's lunch. We really value the relationships we've made and strengthened as a result of our membership.

The HAND Luncheon is definitely a hot spot for networking! We were happy to make some new contacts and as always spend time catching up with our current partners (Michael Shacklette posing with Andrew Vincent of GBAHC)

During lunch, Nancy Rase, of Homes for America was named the new HAND board president. Congrats to Nancy. We know HAND will be in good hands with her as a board leader. The keynote speaker for the day was Carole Galante currently the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing Programs at HUD. After all of the remarks were made, the door prizes were given out. Congrats to staff members at Montgomery Housing Partnership and Volunteers of America for winning TMG's door prizes! Overall it was a great day.