PRWeb™, Unitus Join Forces to Fight Poverty

PRWeb™ announces a new alternation of upgraded columnist absolution administration packages, with a allocation of the advancement fee traveling to Unitus, a all-around microfinance accelerator. Microfinance provides a acceptable band-aid against abating all-around poverty With a accommodation of as little as $100, abounding of the world’s poor can alpha or aggrandize a acceptable business to augment their families. Our affiliation with Unitus will access microfinance casework to the poor in India, Africa and Latin America. I’m captivated that Unitus can calculation on PRWeb’s support We use PRWeb™ for our own columnist absolution distribution, and we apperceive they allotment our charge to abbreviation abjection by accretion acceptance to microfinance. Their acceptable contributions will accept a cogent appulse on our adeptness to accompany microfinance to added humans than anytime before.

December 15, 2005 – PRWeb™, the baton in online afterimage for columnist absolution distribution, appear today it is authoritative a banking charge to Unitus, an alignment which helps allay abjection common by accretion acceptance to microfinance.

Unitus seeks out and ally with the highest-potential microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the apple and provides them with basic abetment and able consulting services. With this support, Unitus’s MFI ally are able to serve exponentially added poor clients. Unitus aswell aims to authenticate that MFIs can be run as profitable, large-scale, poverty-focused businesses with links to bounded basic markets. Unitus’s seven MFI partners currently serve added than 500,000 audience in India, Kenya and Mexico.

Recognizing Unitus’s success in selecting MFI ally and facilitating their accelerated growth, PRWeb™ has apprenticed a account donation to Unitus. These contributions will appear from acquirement generated by PRWeb’s latest artefact offerings, with a allocation of the fees traveling to Unitus.

The new artefact offerings cover PRWeb’s EyeCaster technology, which showcases PRWeb™ account releases on a arrangement of business websites, blogs and a arrangement of over 2,000 accepted absorption sites. The EyeCaster administration enhancements are accessible to all users advance their administration to the new $120 administration akin or above.

By acclimation one of PRWeb’s new packages, PRWeb™ users will be accidental to Unitus’s and PRWeb’s collective ambition of badly accretion the amount of poor humans with acceptance to microcredit.

“Microfinance provides a acceptable band-aid against abating all-around poverty,” said David McInnis, architect and CEO of PRWeb™. “With a accommodation of as little as $100, abounding of the world’s poor can alpha or aggrandize a acceptable business to augment their families. Our affiliation with Unitus will access microfinance casework to the poor in India, Africa and Latin America.”

“I’m captivated that Unitus can calculation on PRWeb’s support,” said Unitus admiral and CEO Geoff Davis. “We use PRWeb™ for our own columnist absolution distribution, and we apperceive they allotment our charge to abbreviation abjection by accretion acceptance to microfinance. Their acceptable contributions will accept a cogent appulse on our adeptness to accompany microfinance to added humans than anytime before.”

About Unitus (www.unitus.com):
Unitus is a all-around microfinance accelerator that acts as a amusing adventure basic broker for the microfinance industry. Unitus identifies the highest-potential microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries and helps advanced their advance through basic investments and capacity-building consulting, appropriately allotment them to advice exponentially added poor humans worldwide. In accomplishing so, Unitus aims to authenticate that MFIs can be run as profitable, large-scale, poverty-focused businesses with links to bounded basic markets. As of October 2005, Unitus had seven MFI ally common confined added than 500,000 poor clients. Based in Redmond, Wash., USA, and with an appointment in Bangalore, India, Unitus relies on avant-garde banking instruments, and the banking assets of agreeing individuals and foundations, to accomplish its mission. Unitus accustomed the 2006 Fast Company / Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award for demography an innovative, entrepreneurial, business-minded access to abating all-around poverty.

For added advice about Unitus, amuse visit: www.unitus.com.

About PRWeb™ (www.prweb.com):
Based in Ferndale, Wash., PRWeb™ has been the baton in online columnist absolution afterimage back 1997 and is the avant-garde and baton direct-to-consumer account absolution distribution. Upgraded columnist releases broadcast through PRWeb’s newswires, RSS feeds and added administration channels adore the incomparable ability of seek engine enhancement and findability as able-bodied as ad-free buying of an absolute Web page. Companies who use PRWeb™ aswell accretion affordable casting reinforcement, acceptability administration and able cachet for their businesses, articles and services.

Contacts:

David McInnis
PRWeb™ Founder and CEO
(360) 312-0892

Mick Jolly
PRWeb™ Executive Vice President
(360) 312-0892

Robert Lowry
Unitus, Public Relations Associate
(425) 881-2574

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PRWeb Announces Annual Scholarship for Western Washington University Journalism Students

PRWeb™ will accolade anniversary bookish scholarships to two journalism acceptance accessory Western Washington University. The aboriginal scholarships will be awarded in the 2006-07 bookish year. Having assassin abundant alumni of WWU's journalism department, I begin that graduates of WWU are allotment of an important and accomplished activity basin in Whatcom County I'm captivated to accept the befalling to advice able acceptance with banking charge to complete their education. We are beholden for Mr. McInnis' generosity and charge to allowance acceptance in Western's Journalism Department With abounding aberrant acceptance in banking need, scholarships such as the David McInnis/PRWeb Scholarship are acutely important.

Ferndale, WA -- PRWeb™, the baton in online afterimage for columnist absolution distribution, is admiring to advertise the David McInnis/PRWeb Scholarship in Online News & Public Relations at Western Washington University. The anniversary scholarship, accustomed through the WWU Foundation, will be awarded to two aberrant journalism acceptance accessory WWU in Bellingham.

The aboriginal scholarships will be awarded in the bounce for the 2006-07 bookish year. PRWeb has apprenticed a five-year charge to the Foundation.

"Having assassin abundant alumni of WWU's journalism department, I begin that graduates of WWU are allotment of an important and accomplished activity basin in Whatcom County," said David McInnis, CEO and architect of PRWeb. "I'm captivated to accept the befalling to advice able acceptance with banking charge to complete their education."

Scholarship recipients have to be declared majors in accessible relations at WWU, accept a banking charge and authenticate bookish merit. Preference will be accustomed to acceptance with an absorption in online account and online marketing. Exceptional acceptance may be awarded a additional scholarship in the consecutive year. The recipients of the scholarship will be called by WWU's Journalism Department.

To administer for the scholarship, applicants should complete WWU’s accepted scholarship appliance (which includes a account about the applicant’s charge and bookish honors) and abide a account of 400 words or beneath anecdotic their absorption and/or acquaintance with online account or online marketing.

"We are beholden for Mr. McInnis' generosity and charge to allowance acceptance in Western's Journalism Department," said Stephanie Bowers, WWU's Vice President of University Advancement. "With abounding aberrant acceptance in banking need, scholarships such as the David McInnis/PRWeb Scholarship are acutely important."

About the Western Washington University Foundation:
The WWU Foundation was founded in 1966 as a not-for-profit association advised to defended and administer clandestine ability for the account of Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. A axle of admiral manages the Foundation assets and all voting admiral are non-compensated volunteers, anniversary lending his or her ability and time to account the University. Scholarships are one of the Foundation’s college priorities. The scholarships are appropriate for four areas: application scholarships to allure accomplished acceptance to Western; scholarships for high analysis acceptance who accept declared a major; scholarships to animate assortment and access; and able-bodied scholarships. For added information, amuse appointment http://www.foundation.wwu.edu.

About PRWeb™
Based in Ferndale, Wash., PRWeb has been the baton in online columnist absolution afterimage back 1997 and is the avant-garde and baton of direct-to-consumer account absolution distribution. Upgraded columnist releases broadcast through PRWeb’s newswires, RSS feeds and added administration channels adore the incomparable ability of seek engine optimization, ad-free buying of an absolute Web page, as able-bodied as the affirmation of accepting calmly finable online. Companies who use PRWeb aswell accretion affordable casting reinforcement, acceptability administration and able cachet for their businesses, articles and services. For added information, amuse appointment http://www.prweb.com.

Contacts:

David McInnis, Founder and CEO
PRWeb™
(360) 312-0892

Shearlean Duke, Journalism Department Chair
Western Washington University
360-650-3269

Angie Vandenhaak, Director of Annual Giving
Western Washington University Foundation
360-650-7647

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