Who is..

Summit Productions is a professional fund raising company based in Goldsboro, North Carolina with over 15 years in the family portrait fund raising business.

The history of Summit Productions and the company's growth within the industry has been phenomenal.

Summit Productions was formed in 1984 by Gene and Denise Wiseman as a way to provide local fire department and rescue squads with an honest and personal way to raise extra operating funds without creating extra work or confusion for the organizations.

The Wiseman's had worked for other companies doing similar projects for almost 10 years and felt that there had to be another way to provide this service to organizations so that the focus of the fund raising project would be the organizations and providing customers with a quality service. Summit Productions has experienced overwhelming growth since it was founded by sticking to a basic creed that has become their daily mission statement:

"To continuously strive to provide an excellent service to
non-profit organizations through hard work, professional
attitude, and outstanding customer service."

Summit Productions started out with 3 employees, an attic for an office, a handful of contracts, and a mountain of dreams and goals.

The original fund raising projects only included fire departments and rescue squads in North Carolina and offered a $10.00 coupon that entitled the customer to receive an 8X10 print of their family for the contribution they gave their district department or squad.

Times changed - as well as fire department's and rescue squad's needs for extra funds - so Summit created new fund raising projects to accommodate this while still maintaining their goals of quality service and products and their dreams of continued growth.

In the late 1980's, Summit Productions extended it's helping hand into Maryland and surrounding states and started offering new services and better project plans for their sponsors. Some new services included a $25.00 and a $35.00 certificate with an increased free portrait size. Summit was able to offer these better services while never lowering the sponsor's profit or the quality of their product. This was a great accomplishment within the fund raising industry.

At the beginning of 1990, Summit Productions became completely computerized. This was a major accomplishment. Customer service was dramatically improved, as well as the overall daily operations and accounting process. The computerization of the corporate office also made the fund raising experience much easier for their sponsors as well. It allowed Summit to provide sponsors a standard accounting method for the settlement process and created a way to database information for the sponsors so that they could be provided information such as contributor's names, addresses, phone numbers, certificate numbers, and contribution amounts.

As the years have quickly passed to bring Summit Productions into the new millennium, new sponsor contracts have increased over 400%, employees have gone from 3 to over 40 professionally trained sales people in several states, and customer satisfaction has gone through the roof!

Recently, Summit entered the Adult and Kiddie Glamour program into their ever-growing portfolio. This has been a wonderful program with amazing fund raising potential for sponsors.

Summit Productions is the oldest photography fund raising organization within the state to become licensed and bonded to do this type of business. It is currently a North Carolina state law for fund raising businesses to be licensed and bonded. All licensed and bonded fund raising companies in the state of North Carolina will appear on the state's "Annual Detailed Summary of Professional Solicitor's Activities - Final Accounting Report" .¹ Non-profit organizations are required to report income received, how it was received, and where it was received from.

Summit Productions has been recognized by several organizations over the years for their relentless efforts in providing non-profit organizations with new and exciting ways to create capital through portrait fund raising. Some of these include:

· Clayton Area Rescue

· Crime Stoppers

· Wayne County Chamber of Commerce

· The United States Chamber of Commerce

· and numerous sponsors

If you have been considering a way to raise extra funds and want a company that you can trust to work inside your district lines, give Summit Productions a try! We will be glad to send you information or come to one of your next meetings to explain everything in detail for your membership.

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