The United Nations Foundation Celebrates Announcement of Two Finalist Nominations for PR News Non-Profit PR Awards

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) March 12, 2012

The award season continues, and not just in Hollywood. The United Nations Foundation will be recognized this week as a finalist for two PR News Non-profit PR Awards. The Public Affairs team is a finalist for Association/Nonprofit Team of the Year, and UN Foundation’s Out-of-Home advertisement campaign, in partnership with Posterscope USA, is a finalist in the Marketing Campaign category.

“Every day there are thousands of stories to tell about how people are connecting with the UN. We love telling that story,” said Aaron Sherinian, Vice President of Communications and Public Relations for the UN Foundation. “Using smart, savvy communications that leverage the power of traditional, online, social and mobile media, the team has connected millions of individuals around the world with the campaigns of the Foundation that help the UN take on the world toughest challenges.”

In May 2011, the UN Foundation partnered with Posterscope USA, the world’s leading Out-of-Home communications agency, and 18 of its media partners. The dynamic marketing campaign utilized displays around the country in malls, universities, taxis, rail stations and airports, some of which were coupled with mobile prompts, as well as in high-profile outdoor locations including digital billboards, static wallscapes and Times Square digital spectaculars. Media partners donated prime advertising space around the country providing an estimated one billion impressions in 2011. The marketing effort helped the UN Foundation reach Americans at all points throughout their day with the reminder that everyone has a role to play in solving global problems.

“We are proud to be a partner in the UN Foundation’s mission to both drive advocacy for the UN and action in the fight against the world’s most critical issues. Through the generosity of our media partners, our Hyperspace and strategic planning teams were able to work with the flexibility and dynamic nature of Digital Out-of-Home signage to ensure the multitude of UN Foundation messages were both relevant and engaging to the general public. This nationwide campaign truly showed the power of the UN Foundation’s messaging when positioned in the right places at the right time—enabling them to encourage both empathy and donations to the causes that are greatly impacting today’s societies. ” said Connie Garrido, CEO of Posterscope USA

The advertising campaign capitalized on the UN Foundation’s model of offering diverse calls to action and built support for seven Foundation-run action campaigns and programs – including Girl Up, Nothing But Nets, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, and the Better World Campaign – as well as for the Foundation at large.

Sherinian said, “By working with Posterscope USA we were able to craft a campaign that gave us the reach to truly engage Americans in important global issues. At the peak of the campaign, traffic to our marquis site increased by 30 percent year-over-year, thanks to the strategic placement of out-of-home advertising.”

The PR News Non-profit award winners will be announced on March 15, 2012 in Washington, DC. Information on the nominations is available at: http://www.prnewsonline.com/awards/nonprofit2012-finalists.html

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About the UN Foundation

The United Nations Foundation builds public/private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and broadens support for the United Nations through advocacy and public outreach. Through innovative campaigns and initiatives, the Foundation connects people, ideas, and resources to help the UN solve global problems. The Foundation was created in 1998 as a U.S. public charity by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner and now is supported by global corporations, foundations, governments, and individuals. For more information, visit http://www.unfoundation.org.

About Posterscope

Posterscope USA, part of the Posterscope Worldwide Network, has recently been named Out-of-Home Media Agency of the Year for the second year in a row by Media Magazine and is the leading Out-of-Home communications agency offering a powerful combination of strategic insight, planning, buying scale and measurement that helps brands extract maximum value from OOH in a world of increasingly connected consumers. For more information about Posterscope USA, visit http://www.posterscope.com.

Media Contact:

Amy DiElsi, Director for UN Foundation Communications

202-419-3230 | adielsi(at)unfoundation(dot)org

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MissionIR News – VistaGen Therapeutics Announces Strategic Agreement With Cato BioVentures and Cato Research to Increase Its Drug Rescue Opportunities

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 09, 2012

MissionIR would like to highlight VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: VSTA). VistaGen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company applying stem cell technology for drug rescue and cell therapy. Drug rescue combines human stem cell technology with modern medicinal chemistry to generate new chemical variants (“drug rescue variants”) of promising drug candidates that have been discontinued during preclinical development (“put on the shelf”) due to heart or liver safety concerns.

In the company’s news yesterday, VistaGen Therapeutics announced it has expanded its long-term relationship with Cato BioVentures and Cato Research to include right-of-first-offer for potential drug rescue candidates.

The companies will join forces to identify, evaluate, rescue and develop once-promising new, small-molecule drug candidates discontinued in late-stage preclinical development by pharmaceutical developers due to heart or liver toxicity, despite positive efficacy data demonstrating their potential therapeutic and commercial benefits.

Shawn Singh, VistaGen’s Chief Executive Officer, stated, “Over the past 25 years, Dr. Allen Cato and Lynda Sutton have established Cato Research as a highly successful CRO with unique and long-standing relationships within a broad and diverse network of pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies around the world. This new agreement is a logical extension of our long-term relationship with both Cato BioVentures and Cato Research. It tightly aligns our stem cell technology-based drug rescue interests with Cato’s CRO growth goals and venture investment objectives. We believe the market demand for effective late-stage preclinical candidates with safety data generated with human heart cells and/or liver cells is strong and increasing. This relationship is yet another key component in our drug rescue ecosystem.”

Going forward, when either Cato BioVentures or Cato Research first becomes aware of a new drug candidate meeting VistaGen’s drug rescue selection criteria, it will approach VistaGen with information about the candidate before any other organization. It is anticipated that the expanded relationship will provide VistaGen with potential drug rescue opportunities from within Cato’s broad CRO service and venture capital networks. If VistaGen rescues (generates a new chemical variant of) a drug rescue candidate presented by Cato Research or Cato BioVentures, VistaGen will discuss prospective CRO service opportunities for the new chemical entity with Cato Research before contacting any other CRO.

“By applying the power of human pluripotent stem cell technology, we believe VistaGen is transforming drug development. Its Human Clinical Trial in a Test Tube™ platform puts clinically relevant human heart and liver biology at the front end of the development process, long before human studies. We are pleased to join VistaGen’s efforts to identify and develop new drug candidates faster and less expensively through the use of its stem cell technology platform,” commented Allen Cato, M.D., Ph.D., co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cato Research.

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Big4.com Releases News Video on Key Developments of the Big Four Accounting Firms

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New York, NY (PRWEB) January 24, 2012

Big4.com, the premier social networking forum for professionals and alumni of Accenture, Andersen, BearingPoint, Capgemini, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC announced today the release of its weekly news video.

Each week Big4.com covers key news, events, happenings, opinions and blogs relating to all the Big Four accounting and consulting firms. [The video can be viewed on the Big4.com website and on Big4.com’s channel on Youtube.

This week Big4.com covers the following developments:

Deloitte: Vouchers Popular Among Consumers Looking to Dine Out

Nearly two-thirds of consumers from across the UK use a voucher for quick service and casual dining, while 48% will use a voucher in a bar or pub and 50% in a fine dining establishment. This according to findings from the latest Taste of the Nation survey conducted by Deloitte and BDRC Continental.

Among 18-34 year olds, the largest market for eating out, 67% use vouchers compared to 58% of 35-54 year olds and 51% of those over 55 years. Overall, the survey found over half of consumers or 59% have used a special offer voucher when eating out.

Ernst & Young: Moderate Growth Expected for Global Auto Industry in 2012

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Big4.com is the accounting, tax, consulting and IT professions’ premier resource, and has been exclusively focused on Big Four firm professionals and alumni for 10 years, providing high quality content, connectivity and commerce. The Big Four Job Board offers fresh job opportunities – clients include the world’s leading companies. Big Four News covers key news, developments, events, survey results, press releases and appointments. The Big Four Blog provides opinion and insight on recent and key developments, news, happenings, management changes, regulations, acquisitions and capital market activities. Big4 Video is a professionally produced news covering key global developments in this space.

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