WHO WE ARE

Raise Your Glass Promotions is a boutique event management and production company that specializes in conceptualizing social networking and professional development event series. Our mission is to CONNECT people, DEVELOP partnerships and CELEBRATE the accomplishments of our successful executives, entrepreneurs and servant leaders. Our success relies upon the success of our partners.

Over the last seven years, we have built a brand that is focused on intentional networking that creates opportunities for collaboration, empowerment and community outreach. We strive to create impactful events that grow each year and include diversity celebrations. We have no desire to create cookie cutter, single use events. Our continued goal is to build a sustainable, profitable business model through strategic alignments that drive results for the company, as well as our sponsors, clients and partners.

As our vision states, we aim to CONNECT with more people, partners, organizations and groups, DEVELOP new strategic business relationships to strengthen community brands and CELEBRATE diversity and the accomplishments of our leading African American community, civic and government leaders, entrepreneurs and corporate executives.

Our marquee events are the UNITY Networking Mixer, which began in February of 2014, and our DECADES House Party, which began in December of 2013 and is a themed event for 30+ professionals to unwind; it’s “nostalgia for the old school urban music lover”. Additional events have included a monthly jazz series and cultural heritage musical celebrations (Black History Month, Caribbean American History Month and National Hispanic Heritage Month).

WHAT WE DO

We are a purpose driven business with a model that allows us to elevate our brand while simultaneously elevating others because we believe our success is directly tied to the success of our partners. Along with our event sponsors, we create a culture of collaboration and unity and promote synergy between non-profit professional associations, community organizations, civic organizations and small business owners.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENUER

We invest our time, resources and money to promote and support local non-profit organizations. At each networking event, we highlight non-profits organizations and provide them with a platform to share their mission and program in order to gain new donors and volunteers.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

We host fundraisers and service activities to raise awareness of social issues, sponsor collection drives and raise money for our partner organizations. Additionally, our UNITY Partners consists of local chapters of national professional associations to assist them with identifying new sponsors and partners.

COLLABORATIVE ECONOMICS

We utilize a targeted community collaborative platform of “UNITY Partners” comprised of non-profit civic and professional organizations and community groups to market the event to their members. We also strive to create multi-generational relationships between millennials and our more seasoned professionals because we understand the power of leveraging these two groups.

B2B

We host a small business showcase that creates opportunity for connectivity – entrepreneurs promote their products and services and authors promote their new books.

EVENT CONCEPTUALIZATION & EXECUTION

Our events are not designed to be attended by the masses. We focus our efforts on having the highest quality of attendees in order to facilitate productive and impactful networking and development.

CHIEF CONNECTOR

Gislene “Gigi” Moorman is the Chief Connector of Raise Your Glass Enterprises which includes Raise Your Glass Promotions and the upcoming brand launch of iConnect Orlando. A well-respected 8 year old boutique event management company, Raise Your Glass Promotions, specializes in creating unique and engaging social networking, professional development and themed musical events.

Gigi Moorman is a social entrepreneur with over 13 years of building business around strengthening the community. She is the co-founder of Space To Grow, that supports programs that assist women and children in Orlando through the annual Baskets of Love and DVAM events. During the month of February, Gigi and her teams deliver over 300 “baskets” filled with toiletries to residents living in transitional housing facilities. During the month of October, the Space To Grow team leads a self defense class for women at the Orlando Union Rescue Mission to help women learn tools to lessen the chances of being attacked.

A natural servant leader, Gigi proudly serves on the board of the The Greatest Investment (TGI) Girls’ Empowerment Program, the Dr. P. Phillips YMCA, Hannibal Square Community Land Trust, and was appointed to the Metroplan Community Advisory Committee. She is also an ambassador for Guys With Ties Philanthropy. Her community service has been recognized by Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings whose office selected her as the 2019 Citizen of the Year. Additionally, she was awarded the 2017 Women on the Rise and as a 2017 Distinguished Citizen by the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at their annual conclave. Gigi has also received recognition from the City of Orlando with a proclamation officially announcing April 2nd as “Gigi Moorman Day”.

Gigi’s passion for connecting people spilled over to the real estate industry and she is a top producing REALTOR currently working with Robert Slack LLC. She enjoys helping buyers, sellers and investors to navigate the real estate process. She is an Accredited Buyers Representative, a certified Pricing Strategy Analyst and has been honored as a Good Neighbor award recipient by the Orlando Regional Realtors Association.

Gigi is a self-proclaimed Pollyanna who always finds the best in every situation. With all of the hats she wears, the greatest one of all is that of Mom to her 22 year old college senior, Jayson and her 20 year old college freshman, Taylor. We are a proud Titan family, as both children graduated from Olympia High School, as well as Chain of Lakes Middle School and Palm Lake Elementary (all Orange County Public Schools).

OFFICIAL CHARITY PARTNERS

Space To Grow was created in 2015 when four girlfriends made the decision that their lives were so blessed that they need to give back to the community and help others.

The mission of Space to Grow Charities is to engage the community to support programs that benefit children and families by assisting Non Profit Organizations (NPOs) in Central Florida through Giving Events. Giving Events are individually designed to 1) meet critical operational and program shortages of NPOs and 2) create unique volunteer opportunities to engage the community. Giving Events© have three components – fundraising, collection drives and volunteerism.

We strive to assist NPOs to build stronger families through community service projects that empower, enrich and educate both the clients and the donors. Our goal is to create innovative projects that leverage the power of partnerships to address the barriers that stand in the way of self-sufficiency, self-love and self-confidence. Our partners include individuals, groups, non-profit organizations, corporations and foundations.

What do you get when you surround 30 at-risk teenage girls with amazing role models, caring supporters and fearless leaders for four weeks?

The next generation of amazing role models, caring supporters and fearless leaders.

The Greatest Investment (“TGI”) camp was created to empower the next generation of female leaders by challenging female professionals, business owners, community leaders and volunteers to take an active role in shaping the life of a future female leader.

Until TGI, there were no summer camps in Orlando that focused on developing strong, confident and fierce female leaders. In these tough economic times when community programs are being cut and parents do not have the funds to send their kids to summer camps, TGI sees Orlando’s kids, especially vulnerable teenage girls, being left unsupervised to learn essential life lessons from negative reality tv shows or misguided friends. TGI has filled this void by stepping up to create an educational, enriching and fun summer for 30 Orlando girls.

The mission of the camp is to inspire a conversion of heart and purposeful action by directing teenage girls to a better future by exposure to positive new areas and new possibilities.

This is why TGI is so essential! The volunteers at the camp are dedicated to spending the time, sharing lessons and expanding the experiences of the teenage girls in the camp to properly equip them for the challenges that they will face in their daily lives. The Greatest Investment is a free four-week camp tailored to 11-year old to 18-year old at-risk girls, predominantly from the Parramore and Pine Hills areas of Orlando. The camp focuses on positively shaping the girls’ self-esteem and character, developing their interpersonal skills, exposing them to life skills such as financial literacy, goal-setting, health and nutrition, career building and community development. The camp teaches the girls to expand their interests and share their talents by shadowing business and community leaders. The camp provides a nurturing environment for the girls to learn more about who they are, how to deal with the challenges that they may be facing at home, at school and in their communities, and creating the foundation and values to withstand the many temptations that they face as teenage girls. The camp includes individual and group counseling sessions, peer discussions about hot topics, guest speakers, interactive activities and exciting field trips.