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2009 PR Grants Available for Not-for-Profit Organizations

Stratford, CT. — 09/23/2008 — For the sixth consecutive year, CyberAlert, Inc. (www.cyberalert.com) the online media monitoring service, will award a minimum of 15 public relations grants to not-for-profit organizations. Each grant consists of one full year of free news monitoring / press clipping services, ranging in value from $2,700 to $3,900.

In the previous five years, CyberAlert has awarded 102 grants to not-for-profit organizations, including a most-ever 29 grants in 2008, with a aggregated value of over $275,000. The list of 2008 grant recipients includes Action Against Hunger, America's Second Harvest, Campaign Finance Network, Canadian Breast Cancer Network, Gilda's Club Worldwide, Jour de la Terre (Earth Day) Quebec, NAACP, National Coalition Against Censorship, Special Olympics, and United Nations Association of the U.S.A.

All not-for-profit, educational and charitable organizations in the United States and Canada are eligible to apply for the grants, except 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.

Contact:
Kristin O'Connor
800-461-7353



About CyberAlert:

Founded in 1999, CyberAlert (http://www.cyberalert.com) is a worldwide press clipping, media monitoring, broadcast monitoring and media measurement service. Its CyberAlert® 4.0 worldwide news monitoring service monitors over 25,000 online news sources each day in 25+ languages. The company's TV broadcast monitoring service monitors the closed caption text of over 2,100 news programs on over 500 TV stations in the Top 100 markets in the United States. To monitor consumer discussion (online word-of-mouth), its NetPinions™ service monitors over 100,000 Web message boards and UseNet news groups for consumer insight about companies, products, key issues and trends and its BlogSquirrel™ service monitors over 5 million blog postings each day from a total of 25+ million blogs worldwide. CyberAlert VDO™ each day monitors online video clips for your key words on 200+ video sharing, social media and news websites like YouTube. Additional information about CyberAlert services is available at http://www.cyberalert.com

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