January 20, 2025 • 31 mins
Discover the transformative power of collaboration as we chat with Drew from Winner's Award Group, a dynamic voice in the world of promotional and awards innovation. Drew shares how his company evolved from its golf-centric roots to become a key partner for nonprofits such as Four Kids and Children's Harbor, blending business with philanthropy. Learn how strategic alliances, like those formed through the Man Up Golf Tournament, breathe life into community values and amplify the reach of charitable organizations.
Explore the uplifting stories behind nonprofit initiatives that change lives, such as the camp created by General Schwartzkopf and Paul Newman for children with illnesses. These heartwarming programs offer more than themed weeks; they provide mental health support and unforgettable experiences, like receiving handcrafted bears, which leave lasting impressions. Understand the challenges nonprofits face, from resource scarcity to visibility issues, and the innovative business-like strategies they can adopt to forge partnerships with for-profit entities for greater impact.
Join us as we delve into the art of networking through podcasting, with insights inspired by golf coach Sean Kicker. Discover how blending golf knowledge with networking know-how opens new avenues for connection and opportunity. Our conversation doesn't stop there—we also dive into a diverse range of topics with Vince Bell in Podcast Twins, from scientific debates to conspiracy theories. Witness the career-enhancing potential of charitable work, especially for young people, and hear personal anecdotes on using sports coaching as a bridge to community service and lifelong relationships.
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Chris Baker (00:03):
Welcome to Visual Eyes, the podcast where
collaboration fuels change.
I'm your host, chris Baker, andeach week we'll explore
incredible connections betweennonprofits, businesses and the
community.
This is a space where wehighlight inspiring partnerships
, uncover strategies forcreating meaningful impact and
share stories that show howworking together can make all
(00:24):
the difference.
Whether you're a nonprofitleader, a business owner or
someone just passionate aboutbuilding connections, this
podcast is for you.
So welcome back to anotherepisode of , where we work on
collaborations with nonprofits.
So we're bringing on for-profitbusinesses and other nonprofits
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that collaborate withnonprofits.
We want to help them succeed.
We want to help them grow.
So that's our whole missionhere at Visual Eyes.
Today, I have Drew from winningawards.
Drew DiAlberto (00:59):
Winner's awards Winner's awards.
Chris Baker (01:01):
Yeah, all right, tell me a little bit more.
Drew DiAlberto (01:03):
Well, as far as the business, goes Winner's.
Award Group's been around forabout 45 years.
It started in the golf world,so promotional items, awards,
basically anything you could puta logo on at a private country
club that was their niche, andabout 21 years ago the current
owners bought it from them andthen they grew the corporate
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side.
So now, instead of 70 or 80% ofbusiness being in golf, it's now
golf, it's now tennis and otherracket sports.
And then you know professionalservices, construction, we do a
lot of trade show and event workand then, of course, we have
the nonprofits.
Chris Baker (01:43):
So we, you know, not that we have not enough to
do.
Drew DiAlberto (01:47):
We shoot a couple of podcasts out of the
showroom and just had an eventthe other day for event planners
, with another guest of yourscoming up, rachel Sherman from
TSS photography.
She and I hosted an event inour showroom and fed everybody
and showcased some of thesources that we have for
different events.
We do work with a lot ofnon-profits, which is why you
(02:10):
and I originally got introduced.
Chris Baker (02:14):
It was a sad moment that I had to miss that event
that you guys had.
Drew DiAlberto (02:19):
The pulled pork sandwiches were excellent.
I made them myself, so I'mbiased.
Chris Baker (02:24):
Both of my kids requested those for their
birthday again this year, so Iknow I'm doing okay, okay yeah
well, next time we meet,hopefully you might have a
little extra and I can give thata shot.
We can do that.
Drew DiAlberto (02:36):
My back deck is open.
We got some cigars and somescotch and some tequila out
there to sip on and we'll takecare of you, chris excellent,
excellent.
Chris Baker (02:45):
So, like like I just mentioned about the show,
it's really about givingnon-profits the next leg up, the
next step that can really helpthem along their journey, and I
really want to make sure thatthere's a connection with the
for-profits that are out thereor another non nonprofit that
could benefit or help them orbenefit from them.
(03:06):
So, part of that collaboration,what are the?
What are some of the nonprofitsthat you've had the pleasure of
working with and connectingwith?
Drew DiAlberto (03:16):
Yeah, I mean we just we just started working
with four kids, which is afoster care charity here in Fort
Lauderdale, actually down thestreet from you, that, uh, you
know they, they, um, are lookingto do some really nice favors
for one of their events inFebruary called Galentines.
So we're working with them,we're actually sending them some
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samples of different thingsthat they can do and they've got
a couple of cool ideas.
But I can't let the cat out ofthe bag quite yet.
Uh, we just did the Children'sHarbor and man Up golf
tournaments.
Children's Harbor is anotherfoster care facility and we
actually did 85% of the swag.
We did the awards, we did theirT-shirts that they gave out, we
(04:00):
did their quarter zipsembroidered, and then we also
did and this is the first timewe've ever done this but not
only did we give 10% of theirbill back to them as a thank you
for partnering with us, but wealso did that for anything that
some sponsors that also addedsomething really nice to the
swag bag and then we donated 10%of their bills also back to
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Children's Harbor.
That's fantastic.
And then same thing with theman Up Golf Tournament.
They're bringing men back tochurch and kind of teaching them
to be the head of theirhousehold and take care of their
family, and you know, with thekind of underlying thing, with
all the fighting that goes on onTV.
how about in real life?
We kind of take care of our ownbusiness and that'll take care
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of some of the bigger problems?
So, and and you know what itwas they.
They fund an annual men'sconference with this golf
tournament, so they bring uh, Ithink it was like 300 people.
They have some guest speakersand I would describe it as a.
you know, leave the religiouspart of it out for a second, I
would describe it and this is myfriend Lawrence's description
(05:18):
that I've stolen or borrowed, Iguess, as it's like a full day
and a half of motivationalhalftime speeches, okay, which
it's pretty cool.
I brought my dad and he got ahuge value out of it.
He loved it.
Oh good, but yeah.
So those are just a few of them.
I could keep going, but I couldlist charities that we work
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with.
The way that I actually woundup with Winner's Award Group was
I had just started the On Parpodcast and we talk about golf
and business and networking onmy podcast and I came up with
the idea and then,serendipitously, I met Lou
Chiera, the president ofWinner's Award Group and one of
(06:00):
the founders of Knicks Camp.
Chris Baker (06:02):
Oh yep.
Drew DiAlberto (06:03):
And he was at this event that a golf
networking event, and he didn'treally talk about winners award
group much.
He talked about the upcominggala and golf tournament and I
said hey look, why don't we do alive one with your board
members?
I'm not Joe Rogan by anystretch, but you know we'll get
80 or 90 or a hundred of yourtarget audience that might
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participate in your gala or yourgolf tournament, and he was
like I love it, let's do it andyou know four, four lunches
later it turned into let's startworking together.
Chris Baker (06:37):
So that's amazing, you know it's.
Drew DiAlberto (06:38):
it's one of those things where I really do
believe that the more you, moregood you put out there, put out
there, the more good happens toyou.
And whether that's yourreligion or your spirituality or
whatever it is, I think to acertain extent we all believe in
the go-giver mentality, whichis like give as much as you can
and, yes, it's going to comeback, but that's not why you're
(07:00):
doing it Exactly, yeah, exactly.
Chris Baker (07:03):
So what motivates you and the company to really
work with nonprofits?
Drew DiAlberto (07:09):
Yeah, it's a great question, Chris.
So Nick and Lou lost theirfather about 34 years ago to
cancer and he was thecommissioner of Parks and
Recreation up in White Plains,new York, their hometown, and
Recreation up in White Plains,new York, their hometown.
So they were trying to kind ofget a street named after him or
something to raise awareness andthat was a lot of red tape
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involved.
So he met the woman from Lou,met the woman from the American
Cancer Society at the time and Idon't know what her position or
role was, but you, she said,come to this lunch.
She came to the lunch and theytalked about.
One of the things they talkedabout was sending kids with
cancer to camp boggy creek up ineustis, florida, by orlando and
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it.
This place is like the nicestsummer camp you've ever seen.
Their floors in their cabinslook like the floor in my
showroom in coconut creek.
I mean, it's that nice.
Seaworld donated a handicapaccessible pool.
The orlando magic built abasketball court.
Uh, general schwartzkopf andpaul newman started this camp
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and I guess every week they havea different theme, like one
week they'll have kids with ms,one week they'll have kids with
the cancer, which is nick's camp, which is the camp that we fund
uh through through the chiarafamily foundation.
And then you know they'll haveuh, you know, pick a disease the
next week and unfortunatelythere's plenty of childhood
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diseases to choose from.
So you know, mental health forthese kids and their families as
they're going through, whateverkind of cancer they're going
through, is just as important astheir physical health or
anything going on with them.
So, yeah, I mean, there's crazygood stories you know about,
like the kids take their bearsthat are knitted and sewn for
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them by volunteers home and theyhave a positive memory of the
camp and the friends they madeand the experience they had.
So I thought it was really cool, which is why I said, hey,
let's do our first live podcastat your charity event, because
why the heck not?
Yeah, no, yeah.
That that's the reason that Louand Nick want to partner with
(09:26):
all these other charities isbecause they know they didn't
raise $275,000 their first year,right?
No, charity, most charities donot.
No, but it takes time.
Yeah, 30 or 40 differentnonprofits as either clients or
we support them, or both,because a lot of times you know
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they'll come to us for theirpickleball tournament and we
wind up participating in thetournament or sponsoring or you
know.
Chris Baker (09:55):
You just wish you could do more, because now that
you're in that world, there's somany different great nonprofits
, especially down here in SouthFlorida, which I'm sure keeps
your show going yeah, well, Imean, we're just restarting and
back up but at the same time butyeah, that's one of the reasons
that we're trying to help,because there's so many
non-profits out here that don'thave the visibility.
(10:17):
Yeah, they don't know where toturn and so hopefully we can
point them in a direction likehey, this is a resource.
These are collaboration partnersthat are out here in the
for-profit businesses that arewilling to support and help you
in any way possible.
And then having thatconversation.
Like, let's open these doorsand get more people talking and
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seeing how that they can buildtheir business, strengthen it
and then just keep them goingBecause the work that they're
doing in the community is sovaluable.
Yeah, like there's not enoughresources in the government and
out here, just generally there.
That's why non-profits start,because they have to fill the
void.
Yeah, that there's a need.
Drew DiAlberto (10:59):
Yeah, I mean every, every nonprofit story
that I've heard comes down to wesaw this problem.
But I mean that's howfor-profit companies start, too
right.
I mean we saw this problem andwe decided that we could build a
better mousetrap or fix theproblem or, you know, explain
something to people if theirmarketing's good enough.
(11:19):
I guess that they didn'tunderstand they needed until,
you know, the pet rock camealong and went on.
TV or whatever but yeah, I meanthat's yeah, businesses are made
out of necessity and nonprofitsare not an exception to that.
Chris Baker (11:34):
They're not, and a lot of the nonprofits, the
people that they support, arethe ones that actually can't
afford the for-profit businesses, um, and so I think that's one
of the you know the differences,or you know they're put in a
situation that just it's notexpected.
Drew DiAlberto (11:51):
they don't know, they don't expect to be there,
but they have, and you stillhave to run them like they're a
business right, that is 100unless you've got all super
delicate dedicated volunteersthat are giving their time and
expertise and energy and money,you're going to have to pay
somebody.
No matter how passionate theyare, they still have to pay
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their bills.
Exactly so you still have tolook at the top line, the bottom
line and all the other linesand we're an expense light item
in our business right, you knowhopefully the the return on
investment for the stuff that wehave is you know, people want
to come back just because theygot a great signature gift or
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you know something they coulduse that they use all the time,
like a sherpa blanket orsomething oh you know it's.
It's one of those things whereyou know what's your goal with
what you're trying to do here.
Are you just trying to?
you know it's, it's one of thosethings where you know what's
your goal with what you'retrying to do here.
Are you just trying to, youknow, give away a pen so you
have something to give away, ordo you want something that's not
going to get stuck in theominous pen drawer?
Or between the couch cushionsor the seat cushions in the car.
Chris Baker (12:57):
I remember just a couple of weeks ago when I
walked into your showroom yeah,that you guys have there I was
blown away like there was justso many things.
I'm like I would never throwthat away.
I would have that on my desk, Iwould have this here, this
would be on my wall.
Yeah, like there was just somany unique, different ways that
you could do a plaque or atrophy or something that's
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valuable to give to a client asa thank you gift.
There's just so many amazingthings that you have and go
there if you have.
No, yeah, thank you.
Thank you for the plug.
Drew DiAlberto (13:29):
I appreciate that.
No, it is, and I told youbefore we met it's a must see.
You got to see the place and youcould go to winners award
groupcom and look at it, butit's not the same and I know you
did that because you're ayou're a tech guy, so I know you
looked at the website beforeyou came, and I'm sure mo did
too.
But yeah it's, you got to comesee it, which is why we'll do an
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event there every three to sixmonths and, you know, invite
some of our clients and referralpartners and it's a fun.
I mean, we have clients thatcome in and order for all of
their events for the entire yearand we only see them once a
year, but they come in justbecause they want to still see
us and hang out about around abunch of cool awards, like you
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said um and it's a great back.
It's a great backdrop for thepodcast too.
I mean it doesn't hurt doesn'thurt that the room is pretty
much soundproof and uh, and youknow, we got a bunch of cool
stuff to look at, like you said.
Chris Baker (14:25):
So one of the other questions I have what are some
of the key lessons from yourcompany that you have learned,
that you've fostered tosuccessfully partnership with
nonprofits?
Drew DiAlberto (14:38):
Give me that one more time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one moretime.
Chris Baker (14:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's so.
What are the lessons that yourcompany has learned and fostered
to make partnerships successfulwith non-profits?
I think?
Drew DiAlberto (14:50):
that probably one of the biggest lessons is
that you know, just becauseyou're a non-profit doesn't mean
you're not going to getsolicited by every potential
support company, just likeyou're a for-profit business.
Okay, and one of the thingslike we have that partnership
program where we donate 10 ofwhatever their bill is back to
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the non-profit, because we wantto show that we want to partner
with you.
We're not just looking tocollect a check and then, you
know, see a next event.
Hopefully it's more of a heylook, let us bring some value,
let us give you some cool ideasthat might actually give meaning
to whatever you're giving awayor or selling in your corporate
store.
Right now we're doing a coupleof breweries.
(15:33):
We're actually creating all themerch for their customs, for
their, for their, for theircustomers, for their stores for
their for their brewery, wherethey get the little gift shop
there.
So whether it be that.
But the other important thingis you have to share an interest
, the people that are sitting onboards that I've been involved
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with different nonprofits.
Some of them just are there forthe title and the name and they
can market it on their websitethat they're a board member of a
charity, but I found that a lotof them don't do a darn thing
to help the non-profit.
They'll give you their opinionand you know at every meeting
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and and, but I mean you look atthem and go like, what are you
actually doing to help thischarity?
Chris Baker (16:22):
Right so.
Drew DiAlberto (16:23):
I think that's got to be one of the biggest,
and I've never worked for anonprofit full time before just
volunteered and now I'm on theboard of Nick's Camp officially,
like a couple weeks ago.
Chris Baker (16:35):
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Drew DiAlberto (16:36):
So you know I've been an ambassador.
You know I do the 100 holechallenge for for first tee
where I'm the commissioner, andwe get like 30 people to play a
hundred holes of golf in one dayand use it for a fundraiser.
So you know I've done that type, those types of things.
But this will be my first boardseat, so actually.
Chris Baker (16:54):
That's actually a good segue.
Like I know, you guys talkabout nicks and now you're going
on the board.
What pushed you to help be onthe board?
Because that's actually youknow well so.
Drew DiAlberto (17:08):
So when lou made the announcement, and I hadn't
met lou before this day, butwhen he made the announcement
that he's got this gala and thisgolf tournament and they do it
at broken sound country clubwhere they hold the champions
league of the pga, they thetimber tech champion.
I mean, this is places yeah, youknow six stars if it gets one
kind of place okay and you knowit's a two-day event and it
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raises three hundred thousanddollars and they they wrote a
check for over two hundred andfifty thousand dollars last year
and built a ball fieldscoreboard for Nick's field of
fun, which will forever be therenow.
So there's now a scoreboard andlike a ball field that they
didn't have before because ofpart of that check.
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And that's for all of the kidsthat go there to enjoy not just
cancer week.
But when, nick, when Lou got upand said, you know, hey, we
start, and of course you knowcancer's touched everybody,
right, I mean I've had familymembers and friends with breast
cancer and testicular cancer andprostate cancer and all
different types of things.
So, yeah, I mean it touches aheart string, if you will, you
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know, lung cancer and differentthings like that.
So when I walked up to him Iwas like, hey, partially
self-serving, we want more earson our podcast, but let's do it
by helping your charity.
And then I got involved overthe last year, year and a half,
since I'm working with theseguys now full-time, it just
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became like why would I not wantto be on this board, kind of
thing.
That's amazing, that's amazing.
Chris Baker (18:43):
That's amazing.
So tell us a little bit moreabout NICS.
Drew DiAlberto (18:47):
Yeah, so in addition to sending 150 kids to
summer camp for this week ofCancer Week to Camp Boggy Creek,
we also are able to doscholarships for the kids that
go into remission or recoverfrom cancer and then when they
go to college or grad school.
These guys have actually beendoing this so long that some of
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the kids that they helped whenthey were campers are now
oncologists or social workershelping little kids with the
same cancer that they had whenthey were little kids.
Chris Baker (19:21):
So it's all come back full circle.
Drew DiAlberto (19:24):
Yeah, 31 years now.
I think this is the year 31 forfor Nick's camp.
We also get a grant from theFlorida Panthers to teach kids
with cancer how to ice skate.
And then a partnership with Imentioned the first T of Broward
where we can bring them in andteach them golf as well.
It's like a shortened programbecause they're going through
chemotherapy a lot of times orother treatments, so it's not a
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nine-week program like thenormal program.
It might be like a six-weekprogram or something like that.
So as it's grown it's not justsending them to camp anymore.
It's now the kids that went tothe camp are making a difference
for kids that are dealing withthe same thing.
they did so it was I mean, itwas one of those no brainer
(20:08):
situations where it's likethere's no downside to helping
these guys with this.
So, and you know, they want,they want more grants, they want
more corporate sponsors.
So I'll be talking to you,chris, because now you got all
those resources for us.
Chris Baker (20:21):
That.
That's where I'm hoping to gowith all of this.
Drew DiAlberto (20:23):
Yeah.
Chris Baker (20:24):
So what is your long-term vision of how your
company is gonna collaboratewith more nonprofits?
Drew DiAlberto (20:33):
well, I think what we're going to add this
year and I think I shared thiswith you already is I'm starting
my own separate nonprofit yeah,you did mention that, so yeah,
so in january, uh, there's goingto be a couple of things.
One thing is one thing thatwe'll do and it'll be up it'll
be a non-profit to help othernon-profits, kind of like your
show.
So the idea is, when we do the100-hole challenge, it may not
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just be for First Tee anymore.
Maybe you can come in fromChildren's Harbor or 4Kids or
man.
Up or any one of these otherGirl Power, rocks or any of
these other nonprofits.
And of course we'll start withour clients and friends first
and say, hey, look, you knowwhat we're going to do it as a
real contest, charity versuscharity.
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So you send, you know, pick acharity, chris, pick a charity,
mo, pick a charity, you know,rachel.
And then you play your hundredholes and 90% of the money you
raise goes to the charity ofyour choice and the other 10% is
to the main fund.
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And the other thing is, fromthese events, a lot of these
nonprofits will have leftovermerchandise, where you know,
let's say, they had 120 golfersfor a golf event and only 96
showed up.
So now they've got, you know,34 custom speakers with a
picture of the golf course and aman Up logo, for example, in
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the middle of it, and peoplehave these on their golf bag and
they're like, where did you getthis?
And they want to buy it.
And in order to keep thecharities raising the money from
the products they've alreadygot sitting in a storage
facility, most likely, or one ofthe board members garage, we
actually have a platform beingset up right now where they can
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put those products on the site.
And again, 90% of the money youknow, 90% of the money is going
to go back to the charity andthe other 10% will go to the
general fund.
So it's going to kind of, youknow, add to the hundred hole
challenge, which I've alreadybeen kind of doing for five
years.
And then also, uh, you know,fixes a problem that some of our
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non, like you said, fix aproblem right, they've got these
really nice, you know,signature gifts that are just,
you know, a speaker, a hat, at-shirt, a quarter zip, all of
these really nice things, andit's like, well, you're gonna
have board members that wantthem, you're gonna have
ambassadors that want themcorrect you're gonna have people
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that like golf but didn't playin that particular tournament
because they were traveling, orthey, they really wanted to be
at your gala but they couldn'tmake it to the gala because they
you know, their, their wife wassick and they were in the
hospital that day.
So the idea is, why would youwant your stuff to just sit
there when it's got value andlet us just do it for you?
(23:24):
Because they don't want to payanother person on full-time
staff to do?
Chris Baker (23:29):
you know no to do.
That I mean, and that comesdown to your bottom line.
You got to make sure thatthat's something you can afford,
and most nonprofits are not atthat space.
Drew DiAlberto (23:38):
So 2025 is the year we ramp it up with those
two extra things.
Chris Baker (23:43):
That's amazing.
I think that's going to be veryvaluable for a lot of
nonprofits.
We're going to have some funwith it too.
Drew DiAlberto (23:48):
Because we're already packing and shipping
stuff back there every dayanyway.
So what's an extra 30 speakersor 20 hats or whatever?
It is so and and again, likeyou said, we're helping the
non-profits that we're alreadyfriends with them.
We're already doing, you know,we're already going to their
events, we're already sponsoringtheir charities in some way or
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whatever we can do.
So having them on the podcastand let them, you know, bring
awareness to their events, andit's not just golf tournaments
anymore.
We'll, you know we'll talk aboutother stuff too, but yeah
originally because golf is partof the part of the shtick so
we're talking about your podcast.
Chris Baker (24:28):
Tell me more.
What is your podcast?
Drew DiAlberto (24:29):
so the on par podcast?
Uh, I was.
I was shooting some videos tohelp the the fundraisers for the
100-hole challenge, and SeanKicker, my golf coach, my friend
, the director well, now formerdirector of First Tee of Broward
says man, drew, you're doinggreat at these videos, you
should have a podcast.
(24:50):
And I'm like, yeah, okay, Ishould have a podcast.
And he goes.
No, he goes.
Really Like I think have apodcast, he goes.
No, he goes.
Really I think people willlisten he goes.
We could even make it like I'mthe golf knowledge and you're
the guy asking the questions.
Then we can talk about what'sgoing on in the world of golf
and all this other.
I said well, the only otherthing I can talk about is how
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good it is for networking.
He goes oh, we can add that Nowit's like we should have a
podcast.
So you know, that's kind ofevolved.
Uh, sean's actually justrecently taken a new uh change
in his career, so he's going tobe a guest on the podcast when
he can.
Okay uh, but I'm going to keepit going.
We usually have guests on thereto talk about golf and business
(25:31):
and networking and if there's acharity golf event coming up,
we want to promote it on the onpar podcast and we won't charge
you for that privilege so, uh,it actually led.
I had vince bell, who wasrunning the pompano capas golf
tournament with some other, uh,pompano capas members, and, uh,
(25:53):
he and the president of thechapter came in for a podcast
and vince and I just clickedamazingly.
So now we started a secondpodcast called podcast twins yes
, I have heard of that, andpodcast twins, uh, is much more
broad.
We will talk about anything.
I think you know the second orthird episode, vince asked me if
(26:17):
I got my COVID jabs and that,you know, went down a rabbit
hole conversation.
And then another one.
You know I had heard Vincemention that he didn't think the
moon landing was real.
So I think we were on a golfcourse when he said that and I
was like let's talk about that.
So I don't know, maybe nextwe'll talk about god or who
(26:38):
knows what other wildly let'ssay can be deemed as
controversial topic we'll comeup with next fair we we have an
episode coming out, and maybeit'll already be out by the time
this this episode launches.
Uh, but he came to my house andmade a studio in my kitchen and
we cooked deep dish pizzatogether.
That's not a joke, that's areal episode coming up on
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podcast twins.
Chris Baker (27:03):
That's awesome yeah um, so a couple.
I got a couple more questions,yeah please and the first one
actually is right before we wrapup what is one piece of advice
or inspiration that you canleave to our audience today?
Drew DiAlberto (27:20):
You know I would say that especially for the
younger audience.
I used to be in headhunting andrecruiting for quite a number
of years and you know I noticedthat the younger the candidate,
the less nonprofit work theywere involved in in general, and
I think that the best possibleway for you to network your way
(27:45):
into the right job is workingwith nonprofits.
Chris Baker (27:49):
Ooh, that's a good piece of advice, Because you're
gonna, you know let's say you'repassionate about saving stray
dogs.
Drew DiAlberto (27:56):
If you get involved in a saving stray dogs
charity, you're going to meetother people that are really
passionate about saving straydogs and you're going to get to
like them faster and they'lllike you faster and they'll want
to help you.
And when you need your firstjob or your second job because
your first job sucks, then youcan ask your network.
(28:18):
And I really believe that thebest way to build a network of
like-minded people if you're notplaying golf with them is get
involved in a nonprofit you careabout.
And I mean look, these kidsneed service hours to graduate
from high school.
Anyway, you might as well go dosomething you enjoy right, you
(28:39):
gotta pick something that'sactually I like.
I love basketball.
When I was a kid, that's all Iplayed, and when I realized I
was too short, too slow and notbig enough to play in college, I
I started coaching youthbasketball.
I coached seven and eightyearolds when I was in high
school and that's how I got myservice hours and I thought it
(29:01):
was a blast and I made friendswith some of the parents and it
was a great opportunity and Ithink one of them actually
introduced me to somebody thatwas going to give me a job
opportunity at a certain point.
So don't apply to 100,000 jobsa day.
Go do some good work.
And it's like they tell you godo something you love and the
(29:24):
money will come which we'll seeif that's true or not.
But it's one of those thingswhere it's like go do stuff with
people that you think you'regoing to be around, because
they're going to think the sameway you do and like the same
things you do, and and then youknow, build the relationships it
opens up doors.
Chris Baker (29:45):
All right, so one of the last, uh, so thank you so
much for coming on the show.
Thank you so one last questionhow do they contact you if they
want to work with Winners Award?
Drew DiAlberto (29:58):
Yeah, if you want to do something with
Winners Award Group, or NixCampfor that matter?
Winners Award Group, we'reright in Coconut Creek.
You can go towinnersawardgroupcom.
The phone number, my email, issimple.
It's drew atwinnersawardgroupcom so I'm easy
to track down.
I'm also the only Andrew D dalberto on the earth so if you
(30:20):
want to google me, you'llprobably learn more than you
want to, but you know I can'thide if it's if my name's on
there.
I'm the only one.
What's the phone number thatthey could reach you at?
Uh 754-207-2906 for call ortext.
Chris Baker (30:35):
Perfect.
Yeah, Well, again, thank you somuch for coming on the show.
and we're here to help, youknow, make a difference in the
nonprofit community.
One collaboration at a time.
Drew DiAlberto (30:46):
I appreciate it.
Thank you, Chris.
Thank you.
Chris Baker (30:53):
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So that's our whole missionhere at Visual Eyes.
Today, I have Drew from winningawards.
Drew DiAlberto (00:59):
Winner's awards Winner's awards.
Chris Baker (01:01):
Yeah, all right, tell me a little bit more.
Drew DiAlberto (01:03):
Well, as far as the business, goes Winner's.
Award Group's been around forabout 45 years.
It started in the golf world,so promotional items, awards,
basically anything you could puta logo on at a private country
club that was their niche, andabout 21 years ago the current
owners bought it from them andthen they grew the corporate
(01:27):
side.
So now, instead of 70 or 80% ofbusiness being in golf, it's now
golf, it's now tennis and otherracket sports.
And then you know professionalservices, construction, we do a
lot of trade show and event workand then, of course, we have
the nonprofits.
Chris Baker (01:43):
So we, you know, not that we have not enough to
do.
Drew DiAlberto (01:47):
We shoot a couple of podcasts out of the
showroom and just had an eventthe other day for event planners
, with another guest of yourscoming up, rachel Sherman from
TSS photography.
She and I hosted an event inour showroom and fed everybody
and showcased some of thesources that we have for
different events.
We do work with a lot ofnon-profits, which is why you
(02:10):
and I originally got introduced.
Chris Baker (02:14):
It was a sad moment that I had to miss that event
that you guys had.
Drew DiAlberto (02:19):
The pulled pork sandwiches were excellent.
I made them myself, so I'mbiased.
Chris Baker (02:24):
Both of my kids requested those for their
birthday again this year, so Iknow I'm doing okay, okay yeah
well, next time we meet,hopefully you might have a
little extra and I can give thata shot.
We can do that.
Drew DiAlberto (02:36):
My back deck is open.
We got some cigars and somescotch and some tequila out
there to sip on and we'll takecare of you, chris excellent,
excellent.
Chris Baker (02:45):
So, like like I just mentioned about the show,
it's really about givingnon-profits the next leg up, the
next step that can really helpthem along their journey, and I
really want to make sure thatthere's a connection with the
for-profits that are out thereor another non nonprofit that
could benefit or help them orbenefit from them.
(03:06):
So, part of that collaboration,what are the?
What are some of the nonprofitsthat you've had the pleasure of
working with and connectingwith?
Drew DiAlberto (03:16):
Yeah, I mean we just we just started working
with four kids, which is afoster care charity here in Fort
Lauderdale, actually down thestreet from you, that, uh, you
know they, they, um, are lookingto do some really nice favors
for one of their events inFebruary called Galentines.
So we're working with them,we're actually sending them some
(03:36):
samples of different thingsthat they can do and they've got
a couple of cool ideas.
But I can't let the cat out ofthe bag quite yet.
Uh, we just did the Children'sHarbor and man Up golf
tournaments.
Children's Harbor is anotherfoster care facility and we
actually did 85% of the swag.
We did the awards, we did theirT-shirts that they gave out, we
(04:00):
did their quarter zipsembroidered, and then we also
did and this is the first timewe've ever done this but not
only did we give 10% of theirbill back to them as a thank you
for partnering with us, but wealso did that for anything that
some sponsors that also addedsomething really nice to the
swag bag and then we donated 10%of their bills also back to
(04:32):
Children's Harbor.
That's fantastic.
And then same thing with theman Up Golf Tournament.
They're bringing men back tochurch and kind of teaching them
to be the head of theirhousehold and take care of their
family, and you know, with thekind of underlying thing, with
all the fighting that goes on onTV.
how about in real life?
We kind of take care of our ownbusiness and that'll take care
(04:55):
of some of the bigger problems?
So, and and you know what itwas they.
They fund an annual men'sconference with this golf
tournament, so they bring uh, Ithink it was like 300 people.
They have some guest speakersand I would describe it as a.
you know, leave the religiouspart of it out for a second, I
would describe it and this is myfriend Lawrence's description
(05:18):
that I've stolen or borrowed, Iguess, as it's like a full day
and a half of motivationalhalftime speeches, okay, which
it's pretty cool.
I brought my dad and he got ahuge value out of it.
He loved it.
Oh good, but yeah.
So those are just a few of them.
I could keep going, but I couldlist charities that we work
(05:39):
with.
The way that I actually woundup with Winner's Award Group was
I had just started the On Parpodcast and we talk about golf
and business and networking onmy podcast and I came up with
the idea and then,serendipitously, I met Lou
Chiera, the president ofWinner's Award Group and one of
(06:00):
the founders of Knicks Camp.
Chris Baker (06:02):
Oh yep.
Drew DiAlberto (06:03):
And he was at this event that a golf
networking event, and he didn'treally talk about winners award
group much.
He talked about the upcominggala and golf tournament and I
said hey look, why don't we do alive one with your board
members?
I'm not Joe Rogan by anystretch, but you know we'll get
80 or 90 or a hundred of yourtarget audience that might
(06:26):
participate in your gala or yourgolf tournament, and he was
like I love it, let's do it andyou know four, four lunches
later it turned into let's startworking together.
Chris Baker (06:37):
So that's amazing, you know it's.
Drew DiAlberto (06:38):
it's one of those things where I really do
believe that the more you, moregood you put out there, put out
there, the more good happens toyou.
And whether that's yourreligion or your spirituality or
whatever it is, I think to acertain extent we all believe in
the go-giver mentality, whichis like give as much as you can
and, yes, it's going to comeback, but that's not why you're
(07:00):
doing it Exactly, yeah, exactly.
Chris Baker (07:03):
So what motivates you and the company to really
work with nonprofits?
Drew DiAlberto (07:09):
Yeah, it's a great question, Chris.
So Nick and Lou lost theirfather about 34 years ago to
cancer and he was thecommissioner of Parks and
Recreation up in White Plains,new York, their hometown, and
Recreation up in White Plains,new York, their hometown.
So they were trying to kind ofget a street named after him or
something to raise awareness andthat was a lot of red tape
(07:32):
involved.
So he met the woman from Lou,met the woman from the American
Cancer Society at the time and Idon't know what her position or
role was, but you, she said,come to this lunch.
She came to the lunch and theytalked about.
One of the things they talkedabout was sending kids with
cancer to camp boggy creek up ineustis, florida, by orlando and
(07:55):
it.
This place is like the nicestsummer camp you've ever seen.
Their floors in their cabinslook like the floor in my
showroom in coconut creek.
I mean, it's that nice.
Seaworld donated a handicapaccessible pool.
The orlando magic built abasketball court.
Uh, general schwartzkopf andpaul newman started this camp
(08:18):
and I guess every week they havea different theme, like one
week they'll have kids with ms,one week they'll have kids with
the cancer, which is nick's camp, which is the camp that we fund
uh through through the chiarafamily foundation.
And then you know they'll haveuh, you know, pick a disease the
next week and unfortunatelythere's plenty of childhood
(08:39):
diseases to choose from.
So you know, mental health forthese kids and their families as
they're going through, whateverkind of cancer they're going
through, is just as important astheir physical health or
anything going on with them.
So, yeah, I mean, there's crazygood stories you know about,
like the kids take their bearsthat are knitted and sewn for
(09:02):
them by volunteers home and theyhave a positive memory of the
camp and the friends they madeand the experience they had.
So I thought it was really cool, which is why I said, hey,
let's do our first live podcastat your charity event, because
why the heck not?
Yeah, no, yeah.
That that's the reason that Louand Nick want to partner with
(09:26):
all these other charities isbecause they know they didn't
raise $275,000 their first year,right?
No, charity, most charities donot.
No, but it takes time.
Yeah, 30 or 40 differentnonprofits as either clients or
we support them, or both,because a lot of times you know
(09:48):
they'll come to us for theirpickleball tournament and we
wind up participating in thetournament or sponsoring or you
know.
Chris Baker (09:55):
You just wish you could do more, because now that
you're in that world, there's somany different great nonprofits
, especially down here in SouthFlorida, which I'm sure keeps
your show going yeah, well, Imean, we're just restarting and
back up but at the same time butyeah, that's one of the reasons
that we're trying to help,because there's so many
non-profits out here that don'thave the visibility.
(10:17):
Yeah, they don't know where toturn and so hopefully we can
point them in a direction likehey, this is a resource.
These are collaboration partnersthat are out here in the
for-profit businesses that arewilling to support and help you
in any way possible.
And then having thatconversation.
Like, let's open these doorsand get more people talking and
(10:38):
seeing how that they can buildtheir business, strengthen it
and then just keep them goingBecause the work that they're
doing in the community is sovaluable.
Yeah, like there's not enoughresources in the government and
out here, just generally there.
That's why non-profits start,because they have to fill the
void.
Yeah, that there's a need.
Drew DiAlberto (10:59):
Yeah, I mean every, every nonprofit story
that I've heard comes down to wesaw this problem.
But I mean that's howfor-profit companies start, too
right.
I mean we saw this problem andwe decided that we could build a
better mousetrap or fix theproblem or, you know, explain
something to people if theirmarketing's good enough.
(11:19):
I guess that they didn'tunderstand they needed until,
you know, the pet rock camealong and went on.
TV or whatever but yeah, I meanthat's yeah, businesses are made
out of necessity and nonprofitsare not an exception to that.
Chris Baker (11:34):
They're not, and a lot of the nonprofits, the
people that they support, arethe ones that actually can't
afford the for-profit businesses, um, and so I think that's one
of the you know the differences,or you know they're put in a
situation that just it's notexpected.
Drew DiAlberto (11:51):
they don't know, they don't expect to be there,
but they have, and you stillhave to run them like they're a
business right, that is 100unless you've got all super
delicate dedicated volunteersthat are giving their time and
expertise and energy and money,you're going to have to pay
somebody.
No matter how passionate theyare, they still have to pay
(12:12):
their bills.
Exactly so you still have tolook at the top line, the bottom
line and all the other linesand we're an expense light item
in our business right, you knowhopefully the the return on
investment for the stuff that wehave is you know, people want
to come back just because theygot a great signature gift or
(12:33):
you know something they coulduse that they use all the time,
like a sherpa blanket orsomething oh you know it's.
It's one of those things whereyou know what's your goal with
what you're trying to do here.
Are you just trying to?
you know it's, it's one of thosethings where you know what's
your goal with what you'retrying to do here.
Are you just trying to, youknow, give away a pen so you
have something to give away, ordo you want something that's not
going to get stuck in theominous pen drawer?
Or between the couch cushionsor the seat cushions in the car.
Chris Baker (12:57):
I remember just a couple of weeks ago when I
walked into your showroom yeah,that you guys have there I was
blown away like there was justso many things.
I'm like I would never throwthat away.
I would have that on my desk, Iwould have this here, this
would be on my wall.
Yeah, like there was just somany unique, different ways that
you could do a plaque or atrophy or something that's
(13:20):
valuable to give to a client asa thank you gift.
There's just so many amazingthings that you have and go
there if you have.
No, yeah, thank you.
Thank you for the plug.
Drew DiAlberto (13:29):
I appreciate that.
No, it is, and I told youbefore we met it's a must see.
You got to see the place and youcould go to winners award
groupcom and look at it, butit's not the same and I know you
did that because you're ayou're a tech guy, so I know you
looked at the website beforeyou came, and I'm sure mo did
too.
But yeah it's, you got to comesee it, which is why we'll do an
(13:51):
event there every three to sixmonths and, you know, invite
some of our clients and referralpartners and it's a fun.
I mean, we have clients thatcome in and order for all of
their events for the entire yearand we only see them once a
year, but they come in justbecause they want to still see
us and hang out about around abunch of cool awards, like you
(14:11):
said um and it's a great back.
It's a great backdrop for thepodcast too.
I mean it doesn't hurt doesn'thurt that the room is pretty
much soundproof and uh, and youknow, we got a bunch of cool
stuff to look at, like you said.
Chris Baker (14:25):
So one of the other questions I have what are some
of the key lessons from yourcompany that you have learned,
that you've fostered tosuccessfully partnership with
nonprofits?
Drew DiAlberto (14:38):
Give me that one more time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one moretime.
Chris Baker (14:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's so.
What are the lessons that yourcompany has learned and fostered
to make partnerships successfulwith non-profits?
I think?
Drew DiAlberto (14:50):
that probably one of the biggest lessons is
that you know, just becauseyou're a non-profit doesn't mean
you're not going to getsolicited by every potential
support company, just likeyou're a for-profit business.
Okay, and one of the thingslike we have that partnership
program where we donate 10 ofwhatever their bill is back to
(15:10):
the non-profit, because we wantto show that we want to partner
with you.
We're not just looking tocollect a check and then, you
know, see a next event.
Hopefully it's more of a heylook, let us bring some value,
let us give you some cool ideasthat might actually give meaning
to whatever you're giving awayor or selling in your corporate
store.
Right now we're doing a coupleof breweries.
(15:33):
We're actually creating all themerch for their customs, for
their, for their, for theircustomers, for their stores for
their for their brewery, wherethey get the little gift shop
there.
So whether it be that.
But the other important thingis you have to share an interest
, the people that are sitting onboards that I've been involved
(15:56):
with different nonprofits.
Some of them just are there forthe title and the name and they
can market it on their websitethat they're a board member of a
charity, but I found that a lotof them don't do a darn thing
to help the non-profit.
They'll give you their opinionand you know at every meeting
(16:17):
and and, but I mean you look atthem and go like, what are you
actually doing to help thischarity?
Chris Baker (16:22):
Right so.
Drew DiAlberto (16:23):
I think that's got to be one of the biggest,
and I've never worked for anonprofit full time before just
volunteered and now I'm on theboard of Nick's Camp officially,
like a couple weeks ago.
Chris Baker (16:35):
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Drew DiAlberto (16:36):
So you know I've been an ambassador.
You know I do the 100 holechallenge for for first tee
where I'm the commissioner, andwe get like 30 people to play a
hundred holes of golf in one dayand use it for a fundraiser.
So you know I've done that type, those types of things.
But this will be my first boardseat, so actually.
Chris Baker (16:54):
That's actually a good segue.
Like I know, you guys talkabout nicks and now you're going
on the board.
What pushed you to help be onthe board?
Because that's actually youknow well so.
Drew DiAlberto (17:08):
So when lou made the announcement, and I hadn't
met lou before this day, butwhen he made the announcement
that he's got this gala and thisgolf tournament and they do it
at broken sound country clubwhere they hold the champions
league of the pga, they thetimber tech champion.
I mean, this is places yeah, youknow six stars if it gets one
kind of place okay and you knowit's a two-day event and it
(17:31):
raises three hundred thousanddollars and they they wrote a
check for over two hundred andfifty thousand dollars last year
and built a ball fieldscoreboard for Nick's field of
fun, which will forever be therenow.
So there's now a scoreboard andlike a ball field that they
didn't have before because ofpart of that check.
(17:53):
And that's for all of the kidsthat go there to enjoy not just
cancer week.
But when, nick, when Lou got upand said, you know, hey, we
start, and of course you knowcancer's touched everybody,
right, I mean I've had familymembers and friends with breast
cancer and testicular cancer andprostate cancer and all
different types of things.
So, yeah, I mean it touches aheart string, if you will, you
(18:16):
know, lung cancer and differentthings like that.
So when I walked up to him Iwas like, hey, partially
self-serving, we want more earson our podcast, but let's do it
by helping your charity.
And then I got involved overthe last year, year and a half,
since I'm working with theseguys now full-time, it just
(18:37):
became like why would I not wantto be on this board, kind of
thing.
That's amazing, that's amazing.
Chris Baker (18:43):
That's amazing.
So tell us a little bit moreabout NICS.
Drew DiAlberto (18:47):
Yeah, so in addition to sending 150 kids to
summer camp for this week ofCancer Week to Camp Boggy Creek,
we also are able to doscholarships for the kids that
go into remission or recoverfrom cancer and then when they
go to college or grad school.
These guys have actually beendoing this so long that some of
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the kids that they helped whenthey were campers are now
oncologists or social workershelping little kids with the
same cancer that they had whenthey were little kids.
Chris Baker (19:21):
So it's all come back full circle.
Drew DiAlberto (19:24):
Yeah, 31 years now.
I think this is the year 31 forfor Nick's camp.
We also get a grant from theFlorida Panthers to teach kids
with cancer how to ice skate.
And then a partnership with Imentioned the first T of Broward
where we can bring them in andteach them golf as well.
It's like a shortened programbecause they're going through
chemotherapy a lot of times orother treatments, so it's not a
(19:48):
nine-week program like thenormal program.
It might be like a six-weekprogram or something like that.
So as it's grown it's not justsending them to camp anymore.
It's now the kids that went tothe camp are making a difference
for kids that are dealing withthe same thing.
they did so it was I mean, itwas one of those no brainer
(20:08):
situations where it's likethere's no downside to helping
these guys with this.
So, and you know, they want,they want more grants, they want
more corporate sponsors.
So I'll be talking to you,chris, because now you got all
those resources for us.
Chris Baker (20:21):
That.
That's where I'm hoping to gowith all of this.
Drew DiAlberto (20:23):
Yeah.
Chris Baker (20:24):
So what is your long-term vision of how your
company is gonna collaboratewith more nonprofits?
Drew DiAlberto (20:33):
well, I think what we're going to add this
year and I think I shared thiswith you already is I'm starting
my own separate nonprofit yeah,you did mention that, so yeah,
so in january, uh, there's goingto be a couple of things.
One thing is one thing thatwe'll do and it'll be up it'll
be a non-profit to help othernon-profits, kind of like your
show.
So the idea is, when we do the100-hole challenge, it may not
(20:57):
just be for First Tee anymore.
Maybe you can come in fromChildren's Harbor or 4Kids or
man.
Up or any one of these otherGirl Power, rocks or any of
these other nonprofits.
And of course we'll start withour clients and friends first
and say, hey, look, you knowwhat we're going to do it as a
real contest, charity versuscharity.
(21:18):
So you send, you know, pick acharity, chris, pick a charity,
mo, pick a charity, you know,rachel.
And then you play your hundredholes and 90% of the money you
raise goes to the charity ofyour choice and the other 10% is
to the main fund.
(21:38):
And the other thing is, fromthese events, a lot of these
nonprofits will have leftovermerchandise, where you know,
let's say, they had 120 golfersfor a golf event and only 96
showed up.
So now they've got, you know,34 custom speakers with a
picture of the golf course and aman Up logo, for example, in
(22:00):
the middle of it, and peoplehave these on their golf bag and
they're like, where did you getthis?
And they want to buy it.
And in order to keep thecharities raising the money from
the products they've alreadygot sitting in a storage
facility, most likely, or one ofthe board members garage, we
actually have a platform beingset up right now where they can
(22:23):
put those products on the site.
And again, 90% of the money youknow, 90% of the money is going
to go back to the charity andthe other 10% will go to the
general fund.
So it's going to kind of, youknow, add to the hundred hole
challenge, which I've alreadybeen kind of doing for five
years.
And then also, uh, you know,fixes a problem that some of our
(22:43):
non, like you said, fix aproblem right, they've got these
really nice, you know,signature gifts that are just,
you know, a speaker, a hat, at-shirt, a quarter zip, all of
these really nice things, andit's like, well, you're gonna
have board members that wantthem, you're gonna have
ambassadors that want themcorrect you're gonna have people
(23:03):
that like golf but didn't playin that particular tournament
because they were traveling, orthey, they really wanted to be
at your gala but they couldn'tmake it to the gala because they
you know, their, their wife wassick and they were in the
hospital that day.
So the idea is, why would youwant your stuff to just sit
there when it's got value andlet us just do it for you?
(23:24):
Because they don't want to payanother person on full-time
staff to do?
Chris Baker (23:29):
you know no to do.
That I mean, and that comesdown to your bottom line.
You got to make sure thatthat's something you can afford,
and most nonprofits are not atthat space.
Drew DiAlberto (23:38):
So 2025 is the year we ramp it up with those
two extra things.
Chris Baker (23:43):
That's amazing.
I think that's going to be veryvaluable for a lot of
nonprofits.
We're going to have some funwith it too.
Drew DiAlberto (23:48):
Because we're already packing and shipping
stuff back there every dayanyway.
So what's an extra 30 speakersor 20 hats or whatever?
It is so and and again, likeyou said, we're helping the
non-profits that we're alreadyfriends with them.
We're already doing, you know,we're already going to their
events, we're already sponsoringtheir charities in some way or
(24:09):
whatever we can do.
So having them on the podcastand let them, you know, bring
awareness to their events, andit's not just golf tournaments
anymore.
We'll, you know we'll talk aboutother stuff too, but yeah
originally because golf is partof the part of the shtick so
we're talking about your podcast.
Chris Baker (24:28):
Tell me more.
What is your podcast?
Drew DiAlberto (24:29):
so the on par podcast?
Uh, I was.
I was shooting some videos tohelp the the fundraisers for the
100-hole challenge, and SeanKicker, my golf coach, my friend
, the director well, now formerdirector of First Tee of Broward
says man, drew, you're doinggreat at these videos, you
should have a podcast.
(24:50):
And I'm like, yeah, okay, Ishould have a podcast.
And he goes.
No, he goes.
Really Like I think have apodcast, he goes.
No, he goes.
Really I think people willlisten he goes.
We could even make it like I'mthe golf knowledge and you're
the guy asking the questions.
Then we can talk about what'sgoing on in the world of golf
and all this other.
I said well, the only otherthing I can talk about is how
(25:11):
good it is for networking.
He goes oh, we can add that Nowit's like we should have a
podcast.
So you know, that's kind ofevolved.
Uh, sean's actually justrecently taken a new uh change
in his career, so he's going tobe a guest on the podcast when
he can.
Okay uh, but I'm going to keepit going.
We usually have guests on thereto talk about golf and business
(25:31):
and networking and if there's acharity golf event coming up,
we want to promote it on the onpar podcast and we won't charge
you for that privilege so, uh,it actually led.
I had vince bell, who wasrunning the pompano capas golf
tournament with some other, uh,pompano capas members, and, uh,
(25:53):
he and the president of thechapter came in for a podcast
and vince and I just clickedamazingly.
So now we started a secondpodcast called podcast twins yes
, I have heard of that, andpodcast twins, uh, is much more
broad.
We will talk about anything.
I think you know the second orthird episode, vince asked me if
(26:17):
I got my COVID jabs and that,you know, went down a rabbit
hole conversation.
And then another one.
You know I had heard Vincemention that he didn't think the
moon landing was real.
So I think we were on a golfcourse when he said that and I
was like let's talk about that.
So I don't know, maybe nextwe'll talk about god or who
(26:38):
knows what other wildly let'ssay can be deemed as
controversial topic we'll comeup with next fair we we have an
episode coming out, and maybeit'll already be out by the time
this this episode launches.
Uh, but he came to my house andmade a studio in my kitchen and
we cooked deep dish pizzatogether.
That's not a joke, that's areal episode coming up on
(27:02):
podcast twins.
Chris Baker (27:03):
That's awesome yeah um, so a couple.
I got a couple more questions,yeah please and the first one
actually is right before we wrapup what is one piece of advice
or inspiration that you canleave to our audience today?
Drew DiAlberto (27:20):
You know I would say that especially for the
younger audience.
I used to be in headhunting andrecruiting for quite a number
of years and you know I noticedthat the younger the candidate,
the less nonprofit work theywere involved in in general, and
I think that the best possibleway for you to network your way
(27:45):
into the right job is workingwith nonprofits.
Chris Baker (27:49):
Ooh, that's a good piece of advice, Because you're
gonna, you know let's say you'repassionate about saving stray
dogs.
Drew DiAlberto (27:56):
If you get involved in a saving stray dogs
charity, you're going to meetother people that are really
passionate about saving straydogs and you're going to get to
like them faster and they'lllike you faster and they'll want
to help you.
And when you need your firstjob or your second job because
your first job sucks, then youcan ask your network.
(28:18):
And I really believe that thebest way to build a network of
like-minded people if you're notplaying golf with them is get
involved in a nonprofit you careabout.
And I mean look, these kidsneed service hours to graduate
from high school.
Anyway, you might as well go dosomething you enjoy right, you
(28:39):
gotta pick something that'sactually I like.
I love basketball.
When I was a kid, that's all Iplayed, and when I realized I
was too short, too slow and notbig enough to play in college, I
I started coaching youthbasketball.
I coached seven and eightyearolds when I was in high
school and that's how I got myservice hours and I thought it
(29:01):
was a blast and I made friendswith some of the parents and it
was a great opportunity and Ithink one of them actually
introduced me to somebody thatwas going to give me a job
opportunity at a certain point.
So don't apply to 100,000 jobsa day.
Go do some good work.
And it's like they tell you godo something you love and the
(29:24):
money will come which we'll seeif that's true or not.
But it's one of those thingswhere it's like go do stuff with
people that you think you'regoing to be around, because
they're going to think the sameway you do and like the same
things you do, and and then youknow, build the relationships it
opens up doors.
Chris Baker (29:45):
All right, so one of the last, uh, so thank you so
much for coming on the show.
Thank you so one last questionhow do they contact you if they
want to work with Winners Award?
Drew DiAlberto (29:58):
Yeah, if you want to do something with
Winners Award Group, or NixCampfor that matter?
Winners Award Group, we'reright in Coconut Creek.
You can go towinnersawardgroupcom.
The phone number, my email, issimple.
It's drew atwinnersawardgroupcom so I'm easy
to track down.
I'm also the only Andrew D dalberto on the earth so if you
(30:20):
want to google me, you'llprobably learn more than you
want to, but you know I can'thide if it's if my name's on
there.
I'm the only one.
What's the phone number thatthey could reach you at?
Uh 754-207-2906 for call ortext.
Chris Baker (30:35):
Perfect.
Yeah, Well, again, thank you somuch for coming on the show.
and we're here to help, youknow, make a difference in the
nonprofit community.
One collaboration at a time.
Drew DiAlberto (30:46):
I appreciate it.
Thank you, Chris.
Thank you.
Chris Baker (30:53):
All right.
Thank you for joining me onthis episode of Visual Eyes.
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you foster stronger connectionsand meaningful change.
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