1985: Organizers Band Together
The National Association of Professional Organizers is founded in Los Angeles by Beverly Clower, Stephanie Culp, Ann Gambrell, Maxine Ordesky and Jeanie Shorr.
Get Organized Week, a clever NAPO marketing vehicle, launches in October 2003. In 2005 the commerical observance moves to January to become the even more brilliant and brazen Get Organized Month.
NAPO's successful ploy spurs lazy journalists to give NAPO members many opportunities to be quoted in scores of how-to-get-organized articles nationwide. By 2007 a happy NAPO has nearly 4,000 members, several satisfied sponsors and millions of potential customers still wrestling with too much stuff.
