Merry Mingle 2025
8th Annual Holiday Party with Heart!
Join AAF-Akron, BBB Akron, Canton Creative Meetup and the National Sales & Marketing Executives (NSME) for our annual holiday charity networking event to benefit Paws & Prayers Pet Rescue – a foster-based dog and cat rescue group in Northeast Ohio. You’ll get to meet a few of their “clients” at the event!
Founded in 2001, Paws and Prayers blossomed from the notion that all cast-off animals deserve only the best lives as loved, indoor pets. With a higher power’s guiding hand and unending prayers, the rescuers that formed Paws and Prayers sought to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home forgotten, neglected, or otherwise left-behind pets. One of the first of its kind, Paws and Prayers rescuers formed a foster-based rescue system in which every saved pet was cared for in the loving homes of the organization’s volunteers until the perfect adoptive home is found.
5:30pm
Presentation by Paws & Prayers
Tickets (100% of all tickets sales benefit the charity)
Professionals: $20
Students: $10
You do not need to be a member of any of the hosting organizations to attend.
Food and drink on your own.
Special thanks to our venue partner
***Members, attend and receive 10 points. Earn your way to a free individual membership and more through our Applause Awards program!
About our Co-Hosts
BBB Akron
BBB’s mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. They do this by:
Setting standards for marketplace trust
Encouraging and supporting best practices by engaging with and educating consumers and businesses
Celebrating marketplace role models
Calling out and addressing substandard marketplace behavior
Creating a community of trustworthy businesses
Canton Creative Meetup
Canton Creative Meetup is a vibrant community where creatives of all kinds come together to connect, collaborate, and create with purpose. Their events are designed to spark inspiration, encourage idea-sharing, and transform individual passions into meaningful, collective projects. They are dedicated to uplifting every creative voice and strengthening the Canton community through the power of creativity.
NSME
National Sales & Marketing Executives (NSME) provides high-caliber educational and valuable networking opportunities for sales and marketing leaders in the greater Akron/Canton region. NSME members are known for identifying and mastering emerging trends and exemplify thought-leadership in their industries.
