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If you have questions, please call NMA staff at (937) 294-0421.
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Shorey Silent Auction
The Shorey Silent Auction is held in conjunction with the Annual Conference and is designed to raise funds for the NMA Leadership Speech Contest. This will be the 38th year for Speech Contest and the 25th year for the Auction. Since its inception, the NMA Leadership Speech Contest has awarded over $500,000 in scholarship funds!
You can support the Silent Auction and Speech contest in two ways. First, donate an item to be auctioned off during the auction. Items can shipped directly to the conference hotel. Please allow 5-7 days of shipping time.
The Second way you can support the Silent Auction and Speech Contest is to bid early and bid often! Final bids are due by 12 noon on Saturday, October 3!
Conference Charity
Every year the NMA Annual Conference strives to leave a positive footprint in the community that hosts the conference by donating to a local charity. The 2026 charity is the Veteran’s Guest House in Reno!
In 1993, Veteran Dick Rhyno was volunteering at the VA when he discovered a woman from Bishop, CA sleeping in her car with her two small children. Her husband was in the ICU at the VA, and they couldn’t afford the cost of a motel room. Moved by this experience, Dick and fellow veteran Chuck Fulkerson rallied the Reno community to ensure no veteran or their family would ever again be left without a safe, warm, and clean place to stay. From this shared commitment, the credo “never again on our watch” was born, and so was Veterans Guest House.
The Veterans Guest House provides veterans and their families temporary overnight accommodations while receiving medical treatment in the Reno/Sparks area. This includes any hospital or medical facility in the area, long-term care facility, or dental facility.