PR agency helps promote new Spring Program biodiversity initiative
WordWrite Communications, one of Pittsburgh’s fastest-growing public relations agencies, has added The Sprout Fund as a client.
The Sprout Fund is a non-profit organization supporting innovative ideas and grassroots community projects that catalyze change in Pittsburgh. WordWrite is helping Sprout promote its newest grant-making initiative, The Spring Program. Spring is designed to encourage and support community-based initiatives that preserve and enhance our region’s biodiversity.
WordWrite has beenworking with Sprout to create awareness of Spring through media relations outreach as well as through social media channels.
“Sprout is excited to partner with WordWrite Communications to promote the launch of The Spring Program,” said Dustin Stiver, civic engagement programs manager at The Sprout Fund. “Their experience and expertise make them well-suited to help us publicize Spring and ensure that a region-wide audience is made aware of this timely opportunity.”
The Spring Program, underwritten by the Pittsburgh Foundation, will provide grants of up to $20,000 for biodiversity-related projects in Allegheny County, Westmoreland County, and the surrounding communities of Southwestern Pennsylvania. The program was created to complement Pittsburgh’s status as the North American Host City for the United Nations World Environment Day and the International Year of Biodiversity.
“The Sprout Fund is a great organization and the biodiversity focus of the Spring Program builds naturally on the emerging environmental sensibilities of the Pittsburgh region,” said Paul Furiga, president and CEO of WordWrite Communications. “We’re honored to help The Sprout Fund get the word out on this great program.”
About The Sprout Fund
The Sprout Fund is a non-profit organization supporting innovative ideas and grassroots community projects that catalyze change in Pittsburgh. Through its programs and activities, Sprout enriches the Pittsburgh region’s vitality by engaging citizens, amplifying voices, supporting creativity and innovation, and cultivating connected communities. Its strong working relationships with community organizations and regional stakeholders make The Sprout Fund one of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s leading agencies on civic engagement, talent attraction and retention, public art, and catalytic small-scale funding. For more information about Sprout and Spring, visit www.sproutfund.org/spring.
About WordWrite Communications, LLC
WordWrite Communications, LLC helps its clients share their great, untold stories with everyone who needs to see, hear and experience them. WordWrite specializes in crisis, employee, executive and media communications with particular expertise in health care, manufacturing and technology. WordWrite clients range from small start-ups to Fortune 1000 global firms. WordWrite clients share a fundamental belief in the value of two-way communications and authentic stories told by fluent storytellers. Among WordWrite’s clients are: KIT Solutions, Koppers Inc., MEDRAD, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., The Pittsburgh Business Group on Health and Redstone Highlands. For more information on WordWrite, visit http://www.wordwritepr.com, http://www.facebook.com/wordwritepr, or http://twitter.com/wordwritepr.
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