10 Local Non-Profits Selected to Compete for $10,000 Cash and Pro Bono Service; BrownFlynn's 'Circle of 10' Rewards Creativity in Attracting the Next Generation of Supporters.HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ohio Highland Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio in the United States. Highland Heights is a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Highland Heights was originally part of Mayfield Township. The population was 8,082 at the 2000 census. -- Ten non-profit organizations were selected as BrownFlynn's Circle of 10 based on the ingenious ways they will use to attract the next generation of supporters and will compete for community contributions. The finalists rose to the top of 63 proposals that represented diversity in their ideas and their missions. The organizations were chosen by an independent review panel. Over the next seven months, they will compete for community support by collecting the most pledges through www.brownflynn.com and meeting other contest criteria. The winner will receive a $10,000 donation and $10,000 in pro bono Short for pro bono publico [Latin, For the public good]. The designation given to the free legal work done by an attorney for indigent clients and religious, charitable, and other nonprofit entities. service from BrownFlynn, the Highland Heights-based community relationship management firm. The nine runners up receive $2,000 in professional graphic design services from SCK SCK Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie (Belgium) SCK Serial Clan Killers (gaming clan) SCK Sport Club Kriens (Switzerland) SCK Street Combat Karate (Germany) . All 10 finalists receive a two-minute professional video from Glazen Creative Studios. The 10 finalists are: --Artists Archives of the Western Reserve --Consortium of African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. Organizations --Cleveland Bridge Builders --Cleveland Public Art --Entrepreneurs for Sustainability --The Littlest Heroes --Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Multimedia over Coax MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas MOCA Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) ) --Nature Center at Shaker Lakes --ParkWorks --Shoes and Clothes for Kids "Our panel selected these organizations based on the creative ways they're working to build relationships with the next generation of supporters," said Barbara Brown Barbara Brown may be one of several people:
BrownFlynn launched the contest in January to celebrate the firm's 10-year anniversary. The firm and its community partners in Circle of 10 -- Corporate College, SCK, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland.com, and Glazen Creative Studios - will help promote Circle of 10 finalists and leverage the contest to generate financial support. The Cleveland Foundation Established in 1914, the Cleveland Foundation was the world's first community foundation. In 2007 it ranks as America's third-largest community foundation, with assets in excess of $1.9 billion and annual grants surpassing $85 million. is also a community partner. To view the finalists' profiles and to cast a vote by online donation, please visit www.brownflynn.com through October. |
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