CeaseFire PA Continues to Grow, Hiring New Executive Director to Help Direct Statewide Campaign for Stronger Handgun Laws.PHILADELPHIA -- CeaseFire PA, a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. dedicated to preventing gun violence, announced the hiring of a new executive director with extensive campaign experience to direct a growing statewide coalition that supports stronger handgun laws for Pennsylvania. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Phil Goldsmith, President of CeaseFire PA, the organization is hiring Joe Grace, an attorney, former journalist and communications professional, to serve as the organization's fulltime executive director. He will assume his position on January 14, 2008. "We're hiring Joe Grace because it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for CeaseFire PA to take its growing coalition in support of stronger handgun laws to the next level," Goldsmith said. "As CeaseFire PA takes its campaign to communities across Pennsylvania, it needs an experienced campaign strategist strat·e·gist n. One who is skilled in strategy. Noun 1. strategist - an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) strategian market strategist - someone skilled in planning marketing campaigns who understands what it takes to achieve results. Joe is that person and we're pleased to welcome him aboard." Joe succeeds Diane Edbril, who has served as part-time executive director. "Diane has done a wonderful job. But our growth requires a full-time individual at the helm. I am delighted she will continue on a part-time basis to work with Joe as we further our mission to make communities safer," Goldsmith said. Grace served for the last two and 1/2 years as communications director for Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street. In that role he interacted with mayors from across Pennsylvania on the issue of growing violence caused by illegal handguns, and with the national coalition of mayors focused on reducing gun violence headed by New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Mayor Michael Bloomberg Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. and Boston Mayor Tom Menino. Prior to his work in Philadelphia, Grace served as campaign manager for a number of winning political campaigns, including several nationally targeted races for U.S. congressional seats. He served as a deputy campaign manager in the successful Rendell for Governor campaign in 2002. Grace, an attorney and former prosecutor, was also an award-winning journalist whose work was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. . "I'm honored to join an organization like CeaseFire PA and I support its mission to prevent handgun violence in Pennsylvania," Grace said. "We need stricter handgun laws to protect our police officers who put themselves in harm's way harm's way n. A risky position; danger: a place for the children that is out of harm's way; ships that sail into harm's way. to protect us, and to protect the public as well. This campaign is winnable. As Governor Rendell recently said, we need our legislators to stand up and support our police and the public on this issue - not the special interests." |
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