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| Crosby team members at the Anne Arundel County Food Bank |
Crosby Marketing Communications of Annapolis has granted $40,000 to the Anne Arundel County Food Bank and $10,000 to the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County Community Crisis Response Fund. The Anne Arundel County Food Bank grant will go to immediately purchase meals, baby food and daily necessities for residents who have lost their jobs or are experiencing financial hardship in the midst of the current crisis. The Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County will use Crosby’s grant to support its Community Crisis Response Fund, which provides funding to local nonprofits and faith-based organizations providing food security and basic human needs to vulnerable and underserved populations in Anne Arundel County.
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CommunicationsMatch has partnered with agency search firm RFP Associates to launch what it says is the public relations industry's first online RFP and RFQ agency selection tools and customizable templates. Agency Select allows organizations to issue an RFQ or RFP to any of the 6,000 agencies and professionals on the CommunicationsMatch platform. Following a search to identify and shortlist communications firms by such filters as industry and communications expertise, location, diversity, or professional designations and memberships, clients using the service can customize a template RFQ questionnaire as well as an RFP document including scope of work, budget, and timeline. Once agency responses are submitted, the client organization receives an alert and may compare downloadable agency responses side-by-side in the CommunicationsMatch dashboard.
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The TASC Group, which focuses on nonprofits, mission-driven companies and crisis communications work, has released a COVID-19 pandemic website. The site includes critical content such as client resources, communications best practices, thought leadership blogs and COVID-19 and client crisis case studies. It aims to support advocacy groups, nonprofits and mission-driven companies as they work to serve their constituents and mitigate the potential effects of the virus. The resources are available online at The TASC Group's website by visiting here.
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