Produce Marketing Association offers new online produce retail certificate
January 18 , 2021
Through its non-profit educational foundation, Center for Growing Talent (CGT), the Delaware-based Produce Marketing Association (PMA) is expanding its portfolio of online courses offered to industry members.
These courses are available on FreshEd Academy, an online platform with on-demand, classes created to provide industry-specific instruction and training.
Initial courses, released in 2019, were certificate programs focused on produce safety. Now PMA and CGT have announced that FreshEd Academy will also offer a new certificate course in produce at retail.
The new course to be offered is The Essentials of Produce at Retail. With respect to its release, CGT Executive Director, Doug Bohr said “Professional training is important to member companies and industry professionals alike, driving company performance and professional development. It has never been more important to
BETHANY Bethany College has hired Liz Short as the college’s director of philanthropic gifts.
Short comes to Bethany from the Center for Growing Talent in Newark, Del., where she served as fundraising manager.
“I’m thrilled to have Liz join our team,” said Lori Weaver, vice president of institutional advancement. “She brings passion and drive for enhancing the student experience and excitement to engage with our alumni. I encourage our alumni to reach out and welcome Liz to Bethany.”
Short has spent her career either working with college students or working to support them in advancement roles, working as a discovery officer in the office of advancement at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J.; assistant director of regional alumni programs at the University of Delaware; and as residence hall coordinator and hall director at University of Delaware and Georgia Southern University.