International nonprofit the Crop Trust is seeking proposals in its search for a PR partner that can provide a range of communications activities.

Crop Trust

The Bonn, Germany-based biodiversity activist organization, which was founded in 2004 through a partnership between the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and global research-for-development group Bioversity International, works to preserve the world’s agricultural crop diversity as a means of protecting global food security. Since its establishment, the Crop Trust has funded food conservation efforts in more than 80 countries.

Crop Trust is looking for a PR partner that can perform media outreach to secure positive coverage as well as targeted op-eds in high-level news outlets, develop a response plan for various hypothetical crisis scenarios, perform measuring and monitoring work, and attend a workshop at the Crop Trust’s Bonn headquarters to familiarize the chosen PR partner with the work, determine a timetable and develop initial messages.

The planned contract will run from April 10 until June 10, 2020, with the option of an additional one-year renewal. Crop Trust has set a maximum budget for the work at $60,000.

Proposals should be sent to [email protected] no later than 11:59 p.m. (Central European Time) on March 18. Any questions regarding this RFP should be sent by March 6 to [email protected].

Download the RFP (PDF).

Crop Trust is also separately seeking an agency that can provide graphic design, social media outreach and global media relations services for its Food Forever initiative, an awareness campaign that calls on the global community to conserve crop and livestock diversity.

Deadline to submit proposal for that work is 11:59 p.m. (CET) on March 16. Those proposals should also be sent to [email protected].

View tender supplementary details for the Food Forever initiative work, including documents, here (link).