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Gift for Life, the gift and home industries’ longest-running, volunteer-led national charitable organization, today announced new leadership of its Board of Directors with Sarah Mount of ANDMORE and Emalee Hoffman of CMA Gifts transitioning to Chair and First Vice Chair respectively and Amy Loewenberg of NY NOW at Emerald X elected to Second Vice Chair. Ari Lowenstein, GFL’s chair since 2022, steps into the role of Immediate Past Chair.

Gift for Life, the gift and home industries’ longest-running national charitable organization, today announced that ANDMORE’s Dorothy Belshaw will be honored with its 2024 Gift for Life Industry Achievement Award on June 19, 2024, in Dallas, TX. Gift for Life’s Industry Achievement Award, presented at Gifts & Decorative Accessories’ Retailer Excellence Awards (REA) since 2009, recognizes overall excellence and contribution to the gift and home industry – whether as a thought leader, standard-bearer or overall industry influencer.

Elevated qualities, elegant designs and express deliveries define the new generation of The LUXE Collection by artisanal soft flooring industry authority KALEEN. A 50+-year industry leader of handcrafted area rugs – with expertise in hand-tufted, hand-woven and hand-loomed varieties, family-run KALEEN is coming to the Spring 2024 edition of High Point Market with two new promotions exclusively for its upstairs retail and designer partners:

Zollanvari International returns to Münchner Stoff Frühling from March 7 – 10, 2024. The company will be located as last year @ Teppicharchitektur Saemmer, Unsöldstrasse 9/11, 80538 Munich. This showroom-based event for interior decorators and designers and furniture and furnishings stores gathers together the industry's elite with some 50 exhibitors/venues and over 90 international and national brands being represented. 

Gift for Life’s Home vs. Hunger team announced that its popular “Party with a Purpose” fundraising event returns to the Spring High Point Market on Sunday, April 14, 2024, from 5:30pm – 8:00pm, at the Eichholtz Showroom, 129 South Hamilton Street. 

A $20.00 minimum donation is suggested, and all proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen’s (WCK) crisis-related hunger relief efforts. 

Las Vegas Design Center (LVDC) launches its 2024 event schedule with one February event: Market After Market on February 29 and two March events: a First Friday educational session, March 7, and a Student Career Day, Friday, March 22.