After a yearlong process, Elevanta LLC, a full-service association management company based in Kennesaw, Georgia, has earned accreditation from the Association Management Company Institute (AMCI).
Elevanta is a dynamic professional services firm founded in 2016 offering a wide range of services to business associations, including executive leadership, administrative support, financial management, convention services and legislative advocacy. Elevanta also offers insurance services, including a proprietary health insurance program with a full suite of both major medical, voluntary benefits and administration services, and access to competitive property and casualty insurance solutions and retirement plan programs.
Accreditation from the AMCI has been a long-term goal for Elevanta and signifies that the company offers a suite of the highest level of services to associations, covering areas including leadership, governance, finance, legislative, communications, event organization and production, and administrative functions.
“This achievement is reflective of the types of services that we are able to provide our association clients and their members,” said CEO Christy Williams. “We’ve built a team of talented and dedicated professionals able to guide our association clients from starting a new association to building budgets, generating non-dues revenue and organizing conventions to providing regular communications and business and educational content that helps them grow and accomplish their goals.”
Elevanta was spun off from the National Franchisee Association (NFA), the independent association of owners of BURGER KING franchises. It continues to manage the NFA and has grown to manage several other associations, including those for owners of Buffalo Wild Wings and QDOBA Mexican Eats restaurants and Supercuts hair salons. Elevanta also manages the Salon Owners Franchisee Association, comprising owners of Cost Cutters, SmartStyle and other hair salon brands, and the Studio Salon Franchisee Association for owners of Sola Salon franchisees. Further demonstrating its commitment to association management, Elevanta’s leadership team organized and now manages the Coalition of Franchisee Associations, an association comprising 20 independent franchisee associations.
“We help each of these associations achieve specific objectives and collective goals that benefit their members,” Williams said. “The services and insurance products we provide allow the small-business owners from across the country that make up each association to operate their businesses more efficiently and profitably.”
The AMCI is the nonprofit trade organization focused on advancing professionalism and high industry standards for association management companies (AMCs) like Elevanta. AMCI champions accreditation to promote industry best practices and creates educational networking opportunities for AMCs to engage and learn from each other. It represents over 180 association management companies that collectively provide full-service management to over 1,800 associations.
“AMCI accreditation symbolizes that Elevanta offers its clients services and management on par with any association management company in the industry,” Williams said.
Accreditation from AMCI is earned by meeting a series of stringent standards for the services AMCs provide to clients and the relationships they have with them. The standards govern the expectations and procedures that companies like Elevanta have in place for the services they provide. “This seal of approval means that we exercise the highest level of professionalism and offer the very best in client services to the associations we work with,” Williams said. “It means that we do everything possible to ensure that our clients get the benefit of the best practices available in each area of service that we provide.”
To learn more about Elevanta LLC and the full suite of association management services and insurance solutions it offers, visit www.elevanta.com. More information about the AMCI can be found at www.amcinstitute.org.
