Dec 15, 2011 0

Hospital Boosts Breastfeeding Efforts After BEZ Story

Holy Cross Hospital on Chicago’s Southwest Side decided to step up its breastfeeding efforts after hearing a story on WBEZ about the hospital’s newborn breastfeeding rate being the lowest in the Chicago area. That story and subsequent policy change resulted from a pitch made by HealthConnect One’s RoiAnn Phillips to WBEZ Reporter Chip Mitchell at the Workshop’s Professional Media Relations workshop in early 2011.

“The WBEZ stories wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t taken Professional Media Relations,” said Phillips. “Without the class, I wouldn’t have understood how to frame a pitch and I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to be in the room with reporters.” Read the rest of this entry »



RSS Nonprofit Communicator

  • Nonprofit blogs to watch: breathe. push. grow. May 15, 2012
    HealthConnect One, a nonprofit focused on community-based support for pregnancy and parenting, launched their brand new blog this week “breathe. push. grow.” The goal of the blog is to start a dialogue around the growing model of peer-to-peer support for new families during pregnancy, birth and early parenting. Led by the organization’s Communications Manage […]

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  • What about the neighborhoods? May 16, 2012
    The Grassroots Collaborative is offering visiting journalists bus tours of working-class neighborhoods struggling with violence, foreclosures, and clinic closings. […]

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  • El dia de nuestras madres في اليوم من أمهاتنا The Day of Our Mothers May 13, 2012
    Sun’s up, blue skies. Running out to pick up flowers on Mother’s Day and what else? But then I’m snagged by Frances’ essay that I start and can’t s stop (read the prior post from her here) http://chicagoistheworld.org/2012/05/when-mother%E2%80%99s-day-goes-awry/ It’s about being a mother on mother’s day and the day’s meaning for a mother. And that […]

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