2011 PR Grants Available for Not-for-Profit Organizations

STRATFORD, CT.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CyberAlert, Inc., the worldwide media monitoring service, will award a minimum of 15 public relations grants to not-for-profit organizations for 2010. Each PR grant award consists of one full year of free news monitoring / press clipping services or social media monitoring service, ranging in value from $3,000 to $4,500.

From 2004 to 2010, CyberAlert awarded 144 media monitoring grants to not-for-profit organizations, including 20 grants in 2010, with an aggregate value of over $300,000. Among the grant recipients for 2010 were American Association on Health and Disability, Coaching Association of Canada, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Mercy Ships, National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial, National Wildlife Federation, Redlight Children’s Campaign, Vascular Disease Foundation and Young Americans.

In past years, the PR grants were restricted to organizations in the United States and Canada. This year all not-for-profit organizations worldwide are eligible to apply for a grant, except for previous grant recipients.

CyberAlert is accepting grant applications until December 31 and will announce the grant recipients in January. More information and a simple and secure grant application is available online at https://secure.cyberalert.com/grantsX.html.

About CyberAlert:

Founded in 1999, CyberAlert (http://www.cyberalert.com) is a worldwide news monitoring, broadcast monitoring, social media monitoring and media measurement service. Its CyberAlert® 4.0 worldwide online news monitoring service monitors 50,000+ online news sources each day in 75+ languages in 189 countries. The company's TV broadcast monitoring service monitors the closed caption text of over 2,100 news programs on over 600 TV stations in the Top 100 markets in the United States. For social media monitoring (online word-of-mouth), ts NetPinions™ service monitors over 100,000 Web message boards and UseNet news groups for consumer insight about companies, products, key issues and trends. Its BlogSquirrel™ service monitors over 5 million blog postings each day from a total of 50+ million blogs worldwide. CyberAlert VDO™ each day monitors online video clips on 200+ video sharing and social media websites like YouTube. CyberAlert also monitors all Twitter tweets. CyberAlert offers a no-risk 14-day free media monitoring trial of all its services.