Neotrope Announces Non-Profit PR Grant Program Recipients for 2009
Posted on: Monday, 15 December 2008, 06:35 CST
"We're honored to be able to provide these services to smaller
non-profits, many of whom have been hampered in their normal fund-raising
efforts by the economic downturn," said Neotrope CEO and co-founder,
Simmons continued, "We have always taken corporate social responsibility very seriously. We learned long ago that it was better to donate our expertise than simply write checks, as this provides more real support for the non-profit orgs in promoting their positive works."
There were 546 "qualified" applicants this year, nearly double prior
years, but only ten were chosen for this Grant program. The deadline to apply
was extended from
The 2009 Neotrope Non-Profit PR Grant Program Recipients are (in order chosen):
1) Children Awaiting Parents, Inc., New York, http://www.ChildrenAwaitingParents.org 2) Starlight Children's Foundation, California, http://www.starlight.org 3) Project SEED, Inc., California, http://www.projectseed.org 4) Girls Write Now, Inc., New York, http://www.girlswritenow.org 5) Paws of Life Foundation, Iowa, http://www.pawsoflife.org 6) Newhouse, Missouri, http://www.newhouseshelter.org 7) World Savvy Inc., California, http://www.worldsavvy.org 8) Special Equestrians, Pennsylvania, http://www.specialequestrians.org 9) Barnabas International, Inc., Florida, http://www.biijax.org 10) Museum of Photographic Arts, California, http://www.mopa.org The winner of the OLPC drawing: Middle College High School National Consortium, Inc. (http://www.mcnc.us).About Neotrope(R)
Since 1983, Neotrope (http://www.neotrope.com) has been helping
small-to-medium businesses and entertainment companies establish their brand
and grow revenue. The Neotrope marketing team includes
About Send2Press Newswire
Send2Press(R) offers best-in-class affordable Direct-to-Editors(TM) news distribution and alternative placement of news content to improve its "persistence" versus the traditional one-shot approach. In addition to sending news directly to working journalists, print and broadcast media, Send2Press (http://www.send2press.com) places news into social networks and deep into search engines using proprietary ContextEngine(R) press release optimization technology developed in 1997.
Nov. 7, 2008 grant announcement: http://pdf.send2press.com/news_2008-11-1107-002.pdf Oct. 1, 2008 grant announcement: http://pdf.send2press.com/news_2008-10-1001-001.pdf Jan. 2005 grant announcement: http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2005-01-0128-002.shtmlSOURCE Neotrope
Source: PR Newswire
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