Visual Timeline and PR Case Study: Roger Darnell


In-depth PR case study materials follow. Last Updated 2 January 2025

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Take your best shot on 3 Dec., Giving Tuesday

Great things are shaping up, thanks to you and everyone else making plans to participate in the annual #GivingTuesday festivities. This movement began in 2012 as an organized effort dedicated to giving back. As a result, on Tuesday, 3 Dec., charities, families, businesses, community centers, students, and others all around the world will come together to celebrate generosity and to give.

Participation is simple.

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Ready to Gobble Gobble Give?

Each year, people all across America gather-up on Thanksgiving morning for a few hours to feed the homeless. Some of these efforts are organized by Gobble Gobble Give, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity where your vital donations are 100 percent tax-deductible. For their upcoming gatherings in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, NYC, Orange County, and San Diego, participants will bring their own dishes and prepare meals using all the food that comes in (and care packages, too). Then, everyone will hit the streets together to give it all away to homeless men, women, and children.

If you are available to get involved with the Gobble Gobble Give festivities this Thanksgiving, participation only takes a few hours, and it very well might change someone’s life, including yours.

Gobble Gobble Give started with one person in 1998,

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World Water Day: Be the change


On World Water Day, we all are being challenged to change the ways we use, consume, and manage water. The international event dates back to 1992 when the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development made a recommendation.

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International Women’s Day 2024


International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. For 2024, organizers are seizing the occasion to activate us all around the critical idea of inspiring inclusion.

Celebrate women’s achievement. Raise awareness about discrimination. Take action to drive gender parity. IWD belongs to everyone, everywhere. Inclusion means all IWD action is valid.

Today, I invite you to visit this site – https://www.internationalwomensday.com – where you can better understand how, together, we can forge women’s equality.

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Design Competitions from Fast Company, Core77, Creativepool, and Communication Arts

Several very prestigious design awards programs are currently open for entries – I thought you would appreciate the heads-up and some brief details, which I am presenting in order of the currently published submission deadlines. Best of luck, friends!

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MLK Day of Service 2024

The MLK Day of Service is an opportunity for Americans to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s legacy through service and volunteerism.

Dr. King once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’”

Each year, Americans across the country answer that question by coming together on the King Holiday to serve their neighbors and communities. To learn more, please visit https://www.nationalservice.gov/mlkday.

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Josh Swade and Friends, Thanks for the Inspiring Ricky Powell Documentary


YouTube commenter “Heckler 220” mentions thinking about this documentary every day since seeing it: I can relate completely. Everyone who grew up in my generation was saturated with exposure to the Beastie Boys, Run DMC, and all the stars deemed famous by the non-stop pop-culture shock-and-awe of our era. Imagine hanging out behind the scenes with one of the wildest party people given total free range among the glitterati, who had the tenacity, gumption, and skill to capture them all through his camera lens.

That is the scene writer-director Josh Swade and his collaborators plunge us straight into, turning deep admiration and their all-seeing camera toward the world famous Ricky Powell, who lived that feverish dream until leaving us a year ago today at the age of 59. On film,

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