"Half the Sky" Campaign Profiled in PRWeek

December 22, 2009

Fenton was honored to join forces with the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn on the release of their book, "Half the Sky Movement: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide."

From the beginning, Kristof and WuDunn knew they wanted the book to be an active catalyst for change. The PRWeek story below describes the communications campaign that made it happen.

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Ecuador's Foreign Minister Fander Falconi with Fenton's Felipe Benitez at the Copenhagen climate conference

December 18, 2009

Ecuador is a significant presence in December's Copenhagen climate talks, part of a rain forest coalition that is seeking support from the Developed World to curtail cutting in the forests and preserve them as carbon-capturing assets.

Senior Account Executive Felipe Benitez from Fenton's Washington office is in Copenhagen assisting the foreign ministry of Ecuador in promoting its unique rain forest preservation plan for the Yasuni region along the Amazon River. The forest has nearly 1 billion barrels of exploitable petroleum beneath its surface, but Ecuador is promoting a plan to create an international trust that would underwrite keeping the petroleum in the ground and, instead, exploit the forest for eco-tourism.

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Fenton accepting applications for $10,000 Social Media Grant from Washington, DC area non-profits

December 4, 2009

Social media tools like Twitter and Facebook present exciting new opportunities for nonprofits to do online outreach, but many organizations lack the resources to explore them - especially right now.

Fenton is offering a $10,000 Social Media Grant to nonprofits in the Washington, DC area. This is the perfect opportunity for organizations if they're ready to jump into the social media waters but are unsure about how, or if they're not sure if their current social media strategy is working.

The selected grant recipient will receive up to $10,000 worth of social media analysis, monitoring and strategy services from Fenton Communications. Work will be completed in the winter of 2010. 



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