PR Grants Available for Non-Profit Organizations

Released on: November 28, 2007, 12:56 pm

Press Release Author: William Comcowich

Industry: Non Profit

Press Release Summary: CyberAlert, Inc., the online media monitoring and measurement
service, today announced that the company will award a minimum of 12 public
relations grants to not-for-profit organizations. Each grant consists of one full
year of free news monitoring / press clipping services, ranging in value from $2,700
to $3,900. The aggregate value of the grants is expected to total at least $25,000.


Press Release Body: CyberAlert, Inc., the online media monitoring and measurement
service, today announced that the company will award a minimum of 12 public
relations grants to not-for-profit organizations. Each grant consists of one full
year of free news monitoring / press clipping services, ranging in value from $2,700
to $3,900. The aggregate value of the grants is expected to total at least $25,000.


All not-for-profit, educational and charitable organizations in the United States
and Canada are eligible to apply for the grants, except previous grant recipients.
CyberAlert is accepting grant applications until December 31 and will announce the
grant recipients in January. A simple and secure grant application is available
online at https://secure.cyberalert.com/grants.html.

Since starting the PR Grants program in 2004, CyberAlert has awarded a total of 74
grants with a retail value of more than $125,000.

In January 2007, CyberAlert awarded PR grants to 24 organizations in the U.S. and
Canada with a total value of $65,000. The award-winners included 100 Black Men of
America, Inc.; ALS Society of Canada; C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition; Center for
Constitutional Rights; Environmental Defence (Canada); Family Literacy Foundation;
Guttmacher Institute; Keep America Beautiful; Lance Armstrong Foundation; The
Medicare Rights Foundation; and National Philanthropic Trust.

The 16 CyberAlert PR Grant award-winners in 2006 included included the Alliance for
Consumer Education, Canada\'s National History Society, FishAmerica Foundation,
Global Fund for Women, JA Worldwide (Junior Achievement), Marine Biological
Laboratory at Woods Hole, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP),
National Rural Health Association (NRHA), Oklahoma City National Memorial,
Partnership Against Domestic Violence, and Relief International.

In 2005, CyberAlert awarded PR grants to 16 not-for-profit organizations including
the American Jewish World Service, Common Cause Education Fund, Islamic Society of
North America, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (Canada), National Alliance for the
Mentally Ill, and National Network to End Domestic Violence. In 2004, PR grant
winners included Alzheimer's Foundation of America, American Association of Poison
Control Centers, Earthwatch Institute, La Leche League, Lutheran World Relief, and
RespectED program of the Canadian Red Cross.

"The PR grant program is one way for CyberAlert to assist not-for-profit
organizations and to give back to the public relations profession that has helped
our business grow and expand successfully over the past seven years," stated William
J. Comcowich, CEO of CyberAlert.

Founded in 1999, CyberAlert (http://www.cyberalert.com/) is a worldwide press
clipping, media monitoring, broadcast monitoring and media measurement service. Its
CyberAlert® 4.0 worldwide news monitoring service monitors over 25,000 online news
sources each day in 25+ languages. The company's TV broadcast monitoring service
monitors the closed caption text of over 2,100 news programs on over 500 TV stations
in the Top 100 markets in the United States. To monitor consumer discussion (online
word-of-mouth), its NetPinionsTM service monitors over 100,000 Web message boards
and UseNet news groups for consumer insight about companies, products, key issues
and trends and its BlogSquirrelTM service monitors over 5 million blog postings each
day from a total of 25+ million blogs worldwide. CyberAlert EdCals is an editorial
calendars service covering over 3,000 publications with over 300,000 editorial
opportunities.

Additional information about CyberAlert services is available at
http://www.cyberalert.com


Web Site: http://www.cyberalert.com

Contact Details: William J. Comcowich
CyberAlert, Inc.,
Phone: 800-461-7353

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