The US State Dept. reached out to third party organizations like NGOs and think tanks month to boost public engagement and burnish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 2014 summit as the alliance faces a hefty slate of issues this week in Wales.
The State Dept., acting for the US Mission to NATO, was offering federal grants of up to $45K for groups to hold conferences, public debates, competitions and other events centered to highlight the importance of NATO and discuss the outcomes of the Sept. 4-5 event.
CNN noted the NATO Summit is being billed as the “most important gathering of NATO leaders in more than a decade.”
“Additional goals include combating misinformation and delivering clear messages about the important of the NATO Alliance and its mission to a broad audience including the general public, youth and future leaders, the security and defense community, policy makers and opinion shapers,” reads an RFP circulated last month.
The Russia-Ukraine standoff, ISIS and Afghanistan are likely to dominate the Alliance’s summit this week.
The New Yorker's Robin Wright today wrote of the summit: "It may be the most important such meeting since the organization—the world’s mightiest military alliance—was created, in 1949. And it may determine what the United States does next on a trifecta of particularly troubling crises."
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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