2010 Florida Communities of Excellence Sponsors

We encourage your support of our sponsors and invite you to learn more about their dedication to serving the residents of Florida condominiums and homeowners associations. The sponsors actively participated in the Florida Communities of Excellence Conference & Awards Ceremony at the Fairwinds Alumni Center of the University of Central Florida Main Campus in Orlando.

Platinum Sponsors

Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., is a Fortune 500 energy company with more than 21,000 megawatts of generation capacity and $9 billion in annual revenues. Progress Energy includes two major electric utilities that serve approximately 3.1 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida. The company has earned the Edison Electric Institute's Edison Award, the industry's highest honor, in recognition of its operational excellence, and was the first utility to receive the prestigious J.D. Power and Associates Founder's Award for customer service. The company is pursuing a balanced strategy for a secure energy future, which includes aggressive energy-efficiency programs, investments in renewable energy technologies and a state-of-the-art electricity system. Progress Energy celebrated a century of service in 2008.

Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) is one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 23.8 million cable customers, 15.7 million high-speed Internet customers, and 7.4 million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.

Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten sports networks operated by Comcast Sports Group and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet businesses, including Comcast.net ( www.comcast.net ). Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.

Founded in 1990, The Continental Group is the largest manager of multi-family rental communities and condominium and homeowner associations in the state, and one of South Florida's leading private sector employers. The Continental Group manages and maintains more than 1,500 condominium and homeowner associations in Florida, representing over 300,000 residential units. Headquartered in Hollywood, Florida, the company has regional offices in Kendall, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Jacksonville and Destin.

As one of the first management companies to specialize in common interest communities, Associa is America 's leading community association management and developer services company. With more than 100 offices across the nation and growing, Associa is the largest company in the U.S. devoted exclusively to the management of community associations, representing thousands of communities coast to coast. Associa's clients receive personal service from the local management staff while taking advantage of the strengths and resources of a national company. Associa's client programs such as insurance, websites and other communication channels help increase efficiencies and reduce association expenses.

Gold Sponsors

GEM Chrysler Group Global Electric Motorcars is the market leader in battery-electric vehicle transportation and is committed to providing fun, efficient and affordable transportation solutions. With six models and a variety of options, customers around the world are discovering how driving a battery-electric vehicle can impact their lives. GEM vehicles are sophisticated, yet practical and they can be used for numerous applications-both work-related and recreational- including running errands, commuting to work or school, visiting family and friends, hauling equipment, transporting people, grounds maintenance, patrolling parking lots, or for business services. Experience a 2010 GEM vehicle and discover the power of electric driving.

Condo Conduit is a full-featured, user-friendly Web site and Internet communications service created for the Community Association market to promote and improve communications in residential communities. CondoConduit Web sites are professionally designed and customized for each community, offering both public and password-protected secure private access areas, with features that include “Latest Changes” Page, Discussion Area, Resident Email Directory, Association Meeting Announcements & Events Calendar, Documents Repository, Repair Requests, Survey Voting Module and much more. CondoConduit was developed by Ideate, LLC, a provider of computer data services for the Building, Facilities and Architectural industries for more than a decade.

Association Financial Services L.C. (AFS) specializes in providing financial services for condominium and homeowner associations throughout Florida, resulting in more effective property management, more efficient budgeting, reduced costs to the good paying owners, better financial management controls, better Board/Owner/Manager relations and improved owner satisfaction. AFS's suite of services includes: private money capital improvement loans, interest free revolving lines of credit, accounts receivable factoring, attorney cost deposit advances, other specialty loans, accounts receivable servicing and collections, financial management and bookkeeping services.

Silver Sponsors

Aquatic Systems is Florida's premier lake and wetland management company, restoring and maintaining the health and beauty of thousands of private, commercial and public lakes, waterways, wetlands and preserves since 1977. With nine field offices throughout the state, staff biologists to create and review lake management plans and state certified technicians licensed to work in aquatics, natural areas, wetlands and right-of-way environments, the company provides services that include algae and aquatic weed control, mosquito and midge fly control, permitting and compliance plans, water quality testing, fish stocking, wetland and preserve management, and diffused air aeration systems.

AmeriFlood is the nation's foremost expert on flood insurance for Homeowners, Condo Owners, Commercial Real Estate Owners, Property Managers, Condominium Associations, and City & County Governments. The Florida-based company is a licensed agency selling FEMA-backed NFIP (National Flood Insurance Program) flood insurance and employs advanced technology and a business plan built around the Florida state insurance rebate statute (statute 626.572) to offer customers a 12% rebate on flood insurance costs. This rebate can be applied year after year after year resulting in significant savings.

Superior Bank provides a complete range of banking and financial management services, including automated payment processing for collection of maintenance fees, to condominium and homeowners associations in Florida and other parts of the Southeast, Currently serving more than 900 associations, the company maintains dedicated customer services teams with community association expertise. Superior Bank is the principal subsidiary of Superior Bancorp (Nasdaq NMS: SUPR), one of the most dynamic financial holding companies in the country. The bank operates a total of 72 banking offices from Huntsville, Alabama to Tampa, Florida. Forty-four branches are located throughout the state of Alabama and 28 branches are located in Florida's Panhandle and the West Coast of Florida.

With skilled technicians located throughout Florida, Service America has been protecting communities from the high costs of unexpected repair bills since 1973. A full service provider of residential and commercial air conditioning and plumbing repair and replacement services, Service America is the largest provider of home service contracts in Florida handling all air conditioning, plumbing, major appliance and electrical needs for over 60,000 residential & commercial customers. Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Service America also offers air duct & dryer vent cleaning, carpet & tile cleaning, upholstery cleaning, air conditioner tune ups, and attic insulation services.

TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, is one of the 15 largest commercial banks in the United States with $142 billion in assets, and provides Customers with a full range of financial products and services at more than 1,000 convenient locations from Maine to Floridc. TD Bank offers a broad array of retail, small business and commercial banking products and services to more than 6.5 million Customers in Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Virginia.