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CHICAGO (September 27, 2011) – Prevent Child Abuse America and MainStreetChamber™, a
national membership organization for small business owners that provides
networking opportunities to help advance growth and profitability, announced
the formation of a new partnership today.
Recognizing Prevent Child Abuse
America’s emphasis on community development and the critical role small businesses
often play in communities nationwide, this is a natural and strategic fit for
both organizations to positively impact cities and towns across
the country.
“We all have a role to play when it
comes to ensuring the healthy development of our nation’s children,
particularly the business community as future employers of today’s youth,” said
Prevent Child Abuse America President and CEO, James M. Hmurovich. “Small businesses offer a great opportunity
to promote and help employees achieve healthy work-family balance. Recognizing that more than half of our
nation’s employment opportunities are made possible by small businesses, our
partnership with MainStreetChamber is good for the economy, good for children
and ultimately good for our nation.”
At the onset, the partnership will focus
on generating awareness of and funding for Prevent Child Abuse America through MainStreetChambers’
donation of a portion of proceeds from the sale of its VIP cards to members,
providing discounts to thousands of businesses nationwide, and other
fundraising efforts.
In addition, the organizations will
work together to avail MainStreetChamber members of the opportunity to
participate in the National Movement for America’s Children, a pledge, listening tour and crowd-sourcing
initiative, launched by Prevent Child Abuse America and 13 other organizations,
designed to develop a national strategy for the healthy growth and development
of every child. As the
partnership grows, the organizations will look to align their respective
chapters to implement local-level activities as well.
"Prevent Child Abuse America is
committed to promoting legislation, policies and programs that help to prevent
child abuse and neglect. We support
healthy childhood development and the strengthening of families," said Mr.
Larry Kozin, Founder of MainStreetChamber.
“MainStreetChamber has a crusade to carry this message to our members
that will help in any way they can."
ABOUT PREVENT CHILD
ABUSE AMERICA
Prevent
Child Abuse America, founded in 1972, works to ensure the healthy development
of children nationwide while recognizing that child development is a building
block for community development and economic development. We believe that
communities across the country are doing innovative things with great results
to prevent abuse and neglect from ever occurring, and what we need to do as a
nation is commit to bringing this kind of ingenuity to communities everywhere.
Based in Chicago, Prevent Child Abuse America has chapters in 48 states and nearly
400 Healthy Families America sites in 34 states, Washington, D.C. and Canada. For more information, please visit preventchildabuse.org
and healthyfamiliesamerica.org.
ABOUT MAINSTREET CHAMBER
MainStreetChamber™
is a rapidly expanding, National Membership Organization dedicated to
helping small business grow and become more profitable. As a preferred small
business networking organization, they are focused on small business
professionals, creating fresh opportunities to connect with other entrepreneurs
and to make important business contacts at local, state and national levels.
For more information or to join, please visit MainStreetChamber.org
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