Published: February 01, 2011
20 Not-for-Profit Organizations to Receive Free Media Monitoring Service from CyberAlert
STRATFORD, Conn. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - CyberAlert, Inc., the worldwide online news monitoring, press clipping,
broadcast monitoring and social media monitoring service, today
announced the award of 20 public relations (PR) grants for 2011 to
not-for-profit organizations in the United States Canada and Japan.
Each grant is for one free year of CyberAlert 5.0 Online News Monitoring
Service. Award winners may also opt to receive CyberAlert's TV news
monitoring service or social media monitoring services including blog
monitoring, message board monitoring, online video monitoring and
Twitter monitoring.
In announcing the award recipients, William J. Comcowich, president and
CEO of CyberAlert stated: "We're very pleased that CyberAlert can
effectively help these not-for-profit organizations monitor their public
relations successes as they carry on their vital services."
The total retail value of this year's grants exceeds $75,000. Since
starting the PR Grants program in 2004, CyberAlert has awarded a total
of 160 media monitoring grants to not-for-profit organizations with a
retail value of more than $450,000.
The 2011 award recipients are located in nine different states --
California (4), Georgia (2), Michigan, North Carolina, New York,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas (2), Virginia, the District of
Columbia (2) -- and two Canadian provinces, Ontario and British Columbia
(2). The recipients are mainly smaller not-for-profit organizations in
health, education and civil rights.
The following organizations are CyberAlert's 2011 Public Relations grant
recipients:
Adelante U.S. Education Leadership Fund
San Antonio, TX
www.adelantefund.org
Black Business & Professional Association
Ontario, Canada
www.bbpa.org
BrainTrust Canada
British Columbia
www.braintrustcanada.com
Children's Brain Foundation
California
www.childburn.org
CORE Performance Company
Georgia
www.COREdance.org
Girls on the Run International
North Carolina
www.girlsontherun.org
InterAction
Washington, DC
www.interaction.org
JCC Maccabi Games
Kaiserman JCC
Pennsylvania
http://www.phillyjcc.com/
The LAGRANT Foundation
California
www.lagrant.com
MedShare
Georgia
www.medshare.org
National Center for Manufacturing
Michigan
www.ncms.org
National Research Center for Women and Families
Washington,
DC
www.center4research.org
One by One
South Carolina
www.onebyonesafehaven.org
PEACE OUTside Campus
New York
www.PeaceOutsideCampus.org
Society for Public Health Education
Washington, D.C.
www.sophe.org
Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE)
California
www.seeintl.org
Texas Organ Sharing Alliance
Texas
www.txorgansharing.org
United Nations University
Japan
www.unu.edu
Verified Voting Foundation
California
www.verifiedvoting.org
Youth Impact Program
Virginia
www.youthimpactprogram.org
Additional information about the grant recipient organizations is
available at http://www.cyberalert.com/2011_PR_Grants.html.
In announcing the twenty grant recipients for 2011, Mr. Comcowich
affirmed the company's continued support of the PR grants program. "The
PR Grants program is our way of giving back to the PR community that has
helped us become a leading worldwide media monitoring company. We intend
to continue the grants program for many years to come," he said.
Over 150 not-for-profit organizations applied to CyberAlert this year
for the PR grants.
A list of previous
PR Grant Recipients is available on the CyberAlert Website. Grant
applications are accepted throughout the year and reviewed at the
end of the year.
About CyberAlert:
Founded in 1999, CyberAlert (http://www.cyberalert.com/)
is a worldwide news monitoring, press clipping, broadcast monitoring,
social media monitoring and media measurement service. Its CyberAlert
5.0 worldwide news
monitoring service monitors and delivers news clips from over 55,000
online news sources each day in 250+ languages in 191 countries. The
company's TV
broadcast news monitoring service monitors the closed caption text
of over 2,100 news programs on over 600 TV stations in the Top 100
markets in the United States. The company's social media monitoring
service its NetPinions service monitors over 100,000 Web message boards
and UseNet news groups for consumer insight about companies, products,
key issues and trends and its BlogSquirrel blog
monitoring service monitors over 7 million blog postings each day
from a total of 75+ million blogs worldwide. The CyberAlert
VDO online video monitoring service monitors 200+ video sharing
sites and the company also monitors Twitter. Additional information
about CyberAlert services is available at http://www.cyberalert.com
CyberAlert
William J. Comcowich, 203-375-7200
President and CEO
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