Neotrope, a 33-year-old brand marketing, PR, and content development firm has launched its 2017 annual Non-Profit PR Grants program for U.S.-based 501(c)(3) charities.
The average value of each grant is $2,400 and will be offered to 10 U.S.-based non-profit organizations "doing good" on a local or national level for 2017.
"We've been helping worthy causes in one form or another for over 30 years," says Christopher Laird Simmons, Neotrope CEO. "When my late father and I first launched the PR Grants in 2000 we felt it more useful to help out an organization with our services and expertise, overwriting a tiny check that wouldn't pay for a week of electricity. We are very proud to have helped so many worthy causes raise awareness with this program."
2016 recipients were: The Center for American Military Music Opportunities (DC../Va.), C Diff Foundation (Florida), Geek Club Books (Calif.), Meals On Wheels West (Calif.), Move for Hunger (N.J.), Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center (Calif.), and Sunshine Foundation (Penn.).
In 2013, the program was re-named the J.L. Simmons Non-Profit PR Grant after company co-founder Dr. J.L. Simmons, Ph.D., who passed away in 2003.
There is no fee to apply, and applications are being accepted now through March 15, 2017, at https://prgrants.com/.
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