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Neotrope Announces Non-Profit PR Grant Program Recipients for 2009

Posted on: Monday, 15 December 2008, 06:35 CST

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Neotrope(R), a brand identity, PR, and marketing firm established Jan. of 1983, announced today the 2009 Non-Profit PR Grant winners: those non-profit organizations chosen to receive $25,000 in free public relations and newswire services. Neotrope previously donated $25K worth of services in 2000, and $22K in 2005. This year, services are being donated to worthy smaller non-profit and charitable organizations to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

"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, Christopher Simmons. "We hope to help them continue to 'do good' in 2009 by raising their awareness with media and the public."

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 November 12 to December 7. All qualified applicant organizations were also entered into a drawing to win a One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) notebook.

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 Christopher Laird Simmons, who is an award-winning designer, photographer, musician and digital artist. Other team members include accredited public relations professionals, working journalists and broadcast veterans. Simmons is a member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), Graphic Artists Guild, and ASCAP. Simmons has been widely interviewed by publications as diverse as Entrepreneur, Chicago Post Tribune, PCWorld, and TrendWatch.

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.shtml

SOURCE Neotrope


Source: PR Newswire

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