Wendy Franklin

PPAI announced Wendy Franklin, MAS, a promotional marketing consultant with Geiger and an avid volunteer for Promotional Products Association of the Midwest (PPAM), as the 2011 PPAI Regional Association Council (RAC) Volunteer of the Year.

Promotional Products Association of the Midwest (PPAM) held its First Annual President’s Charity Golf Tournament in July, raising $3,500 for the Kares 4 Kailie Foundation, a St. Louis-based organization that provides assistance to children and their families affected by cancer.  As part of her one-year tenure as PPAM president, Wendy Franklin of Franklin Promotional Group, St. Louis, chose to donate the funds to the charity because her 14-year-old friend, Chelsea Herbert, is battling leukemia, and the Kares 4 Kailie Foundation was established by the parents of Chelsea’s friend, Kailie Rhines, who passed away from cancer in 2004. “I couldn’t be more pleased