Daily Archives: December 15, 2011

News for December 15th, 2011.

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Joe Mantegna PSA Helps Children with Autism of Military Families Tweet2Give Campaign for Act-Today

New Ebook for Children that Illustrates Values Essential for Success in Life

Joe Mantegna PSA Helps Children with Autism of Military Families Tweet2Give Campaign for Act-Today

December 15, 2011 Filled under releases, United States
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Celebrities from Television, Movies, Music, and Sports are asking followers to join “Naughty or Nice Teams” of Tweet2Give’s Holiday Event to raise money for Act Today! for Military Families.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) - Dec 14, 2011 - Act-Today! for Military Families brings a Holiday Tweet2Give fundraiser to followers of their celebrity supporters, military personnel, and schools. In keeping with a Holiday theme two teams, Team Naughty and Team Nice, are competing to see which team can raise the most money in donations by December 30th. Celebrities and followers are asked to join a team by donating or adding a donation link to their Tweets or Facebook page.  http://bit.ly/s3rnQJ

Act Today! for Military Families (http://acttodayformilitaryfamilies.org) is bringing support and treatment to children with Autism of military families. According to recent figures from The Department of Defense, “1 in every 88 military child has autism. Autism is more prevalent than juvenile diabetes, pediatric cancer and childhood AIDS.  Military families who have children with autism are fighting 2 battles — one for their country, and the one for care and treatment for their children.”

ACT Today! (Autism Care and Treatment Today!) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing funding to families that cannot afford or access the treatments their children with autism need. For more information about ACT Today!,
visit: www.act-today.org.

The Tweet2Give.com platform uses Twitter’s and Facebook’s ability to reach large groups of loyal celebrity fans and provides followers with a secure and direct donation process. It provides non-profit organizations the perfect program to reach new donors using the technology that they are most comfortable with. “People who follow celebrities on Twitter and Facebook are considered to be their loyalist fans, and many are willing to support their favorite celebrity’s donation requests. The popularity of Twitter and Facebook with all age groups has resulted in generating larger donations than many non-profits anticipated,” according to C.E.O. Warren Prescott.

About Text Donating: Text Donating, Inc. (http://textdonating.com) provides a comprehensive and technically advanced mobile marketing platform. Text Donating, Inc. is headquartered in Bloomingdale, IL, a Chicago suburb. The company serves non-profit organizations and the mobile texting market. They offer non-profit organizations turn-key donation solutions utilizing new media platforms and give donors the flexibility to immediately make a credit card or check donation through a secure gateway on the Internet or their mobile phone. This process offers the organization a number of benefits compared to the standard “cell provider” based payment. Text Donating, Inc.,its staff, and partners have been pioneers, and international leaders in raising donations for non-profit organizations through mobile giving programs.

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Text Donating, Inc provides fund raising for Not for Profit Organizations through texting, Twitter, and Facebook.

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New Ebook for Children that Illustrates Values Essential for Success in Life

December 15, 2011 Filled under releases, United States
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Forever Young Media of Naperville IL. introduces a new eBook for children ages 6 and up. A comical adventure that illustrates over 30 critical lessons that set the stage for success in later life. Now on Apple, Nook, Kindle and Sony Reader tablets.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) - Dec 14, 2011 -
MEDIA CONTACT:   Wayne Anderson, CEO, Forever Young Media, Inc.
        phone: (630) 618-8378      e-mail:imgcft@mc.net

“PAULA’S PERILOUS ADVENTURE”
is released in time for the holidays

Choose a Children’s E-book That Lead to Success in Life!

Parents may choose an e-book that illustrates life values this season. Children ages 6 and up may enjoy the new e-book “Paula’s Perilous Adventure” by Wayne Anderson, via Apple, Kindle, Nook or Sony Reader.

Along with offering an engaging story, “Paula’s Perilous Adventure” emphasizes value-based decision making, for example the importance of caring for others, teamwork, facing problems and using creativity to solve them. The story also emphasizes the dangers of meeting strangers over the Internet. The e-book includes a syllabus that lists important lessons emphasized in the story, for parents and teachers reference.

The story: features adventure and value-based guidance
Paula is a young koala bear from Australia who begins to correspond online with a Chicago area pre-teen named Calvin. Both are unhappy, and share fantasies of escaping. They agree to meet each other on a Pacific island.

Meanwhile deep in the universe, Captain Opto and his two sons travel via spacecraft towards Earth. Captain desires to mentor to folks in need. In his research, he finds Paula and Calvin, two strangers who plan to meet.

Captain decides to land the spaceship on the island Paula and Calvin plan to meet. He morphs into human form, and lets his sons return to outer space while he mentors the young adventurers. In the story he warns them that trust is earned, and the dangers of meeting a stranger online. He guides them in facing challenges like surviving on an island, dangerous weather, and later in dealing with intruding pirates who threaten their existence.

Eventually, Captain learns a lesson along with his students, that even with their adventures and successes, they miss their homes and families. They all agree it is time to find a way off the island so they may each return home.

The author: inspired by classic animation, modern technology and classic values
Wayne Anderson is the CEO of Forever Young Media Inc. that features video and animation products of a positive nature. He felt inspired to create “Paula’s Perilous Adventure” after seeking a DVD gift for his six year-old granddaughter. Mr. Anderson took time to review videos he considered. “I saw mayhem, madness and meaningless cartoons, void of any content that would lead to good things.” he said. Some videos included unnecessary violence. “I asked, ‘where is the product that teaches a child to lead a positive, successful life?’”

The children’s DVD industry seemed remiss of such values based products. Mr. Anderson drew from his own life experiences to create “Paula’s Perilous Adventure” and bridge to children around his granddaughter’s age. Mr. Anderson also felt inspired to caution children of modern day risks, like connecting with strangers on the Internet.

Mr. Anderson is a Vietnam veteran and former sales executive. He started Forever Young Media because he loved  working with computer animation. He felt inspired by greats like Walt Disney, and proceeded to pursue his dream of creating positive value based products.

The e-book:
“Paula’s Perilous Adventure” e-book may be accessed via Apple, Kindle, Nook or Sony Reader, and is available for a special holiday price of $4.99. For more information, visit PaulasAdventure.com.

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Forever Young Media, Inc. of Naperville, IL. produces multi-media products designed to be inspirational and of a positive nature . Many of the eBooks and software applications were produced for tablets and smart phones. Special website available for school districts, and home schooling through PCs and laptops.

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