14 Dec 2006
| by Marc Longpre
WASHINGTON: Malaria No More (MNM) - a newly formed network of NGOs, foundations, corporations, and faith-based groups - was scheduled to announce a public-private partnership to support a comprehensive approach to end the disease at this week's White House Summit on Malaria.
07 Dec 2006
| by Marc Longpre
NEW YORK: Planned Parenthood launched a new national campaign this Wednesday by handing out free emergency contraception at sites across the country, hoping to increase awareness that the Plan B pill is now more readily available as a backup method of contraception.
07 Dec 2006
| by Hamilton Nolan
When was the last time you got excited about a boring old free giveaway program?
06 Dec 2006
| by Celeste Altus
Baby boomer stories typically discuss the same things: Social Security, the graying of the population, golf, or medical problems.
05 Dec 2006
| by Ted McKenna
WASHINGTON: Recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, founder of the "microcredit" movement, has signed Global Communicators to be his worldwide media relations adviser.
04 Dec 2006
| by Celeste Altus
Waltham, MA: Humanitarian education project One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has selected W2 Group to serve as the media relations and social-media marketing agency for its much-heralded "$100 laptop."
21 Nov 2006
| by Ted McKenna
To raise money and awareness for the 125-year-old American Red Cross, the organization is selling new T-shirts at the Red Cross Store at www.redcross.org.
21 Nov 2006
| by Tanya Lewis
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants (operating Checkers and Rally's) last spring activated a relationship with America Supports You (ASY), a US Department of Defense program that recognizes support for US troops at home and abroad, by partnering with ASY nonprofit member Operation Gratitude (OG) on its existing...
14 Nov 2006
| by Marc Longpre
MINNEAPOLIS: The American Humane Association has retained Carmichael Lynch Spong as its AOR.
14 Nov 2006
| by Celeste Altus
In April 2005, Sens. Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced S. 852, the "Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2005," to Congress, trying to sell it as the solution to the national asbestos litigation crisis.