Charleston, SC - Portlight Strategies, Inc., - a national grassroots non-profit
organization - announced today that Weather Underground, Inc., will again be
National Sponsor of the Third Annual Portlight Relief Walk series of
national awareness and fundraising events.
www.wunderground.com
is the nations' first online weather service with millions of loyal visitors
each day.
Hundreds of members of the Weather Underground blog community teamed with
Portlight Strategies, Inc., throughout the Fall of 2008 to provide much need
relief services and supplies to victims of Hurricane Ike along the Texas coast.
These relief efforts focused on helping people with disabilities, as well as
people in small towns and rural areas often marginalized by the larger
institutional relief infrastructure.
Portlight Strategies, Inc., has committed to building on the stunning success
of this collaborative, grassroots initiative.
In order to expand our community of supporters - and to create a financial
reserve to enable strategic, proactive response in the future - Portlight is
organizing walk-a-thon style events across the US...as well as several
Carribean locations. Organizing committees have already begun meeting to plan
these events in their hometowns and communities. Honor Walks will be held
by individuals and groups throughout 2010. "Weather Underground stepping up to
be our National Sponsor for the third straight year is a huge honor" said Paul
Timmons, Jr. - Portlight Strategies, Inc., Board Chair. "Our Ike efforts were
born of hundreds of weather lovers coming together on the www.wunderground.com
site. It's a perfect fit that Weather Underground will sponsor our first
national event."
"Weather Underground is proud to have facilitated Portlight's initial success"
said Toby Skinner, of Weather Underground, Inc. "And we are pleased to be the
National Sponsor of Portlight's First Annual National Relief Walk event.
"The Weather Underground community was the Genesis of our post Ike success," said
Timmons, "By agreeing to be National Sponsor of our First Annual National
Relief Walk event, Weather Underground, Inc., becomes equally integral to our
future ability to serve. We are grateful for their support and confidence."
For more information on Portlight Strategies, Inc., including the story of our
Ike relief efforts and information on our Relief Walk, please visit: www.portlight.org or our
Featured Blog at: www.wunderground.com
