Hallmark Channel and Comcast, Minneapolis Make $8,000 Donation to AchieveMpls to Support Back-to-School Programs

Hallmark Channel and Comcast, Minneapolis Make $8,000 Donation to AchieveMpls to Support Back-to-School Programs

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hallmark Channel and Comcast, Minneapolis are pleased to announce that they have partnered to award a local educational grant in the amount of $8,000 to AchieveMpls located in Minneapolis, MN.

Earlier this year, Hallmark Channel announced its first-ever back-to-school local ad sales promotion to award $8,000 grants to participating distributors and their advertising partners. Each grant is customizable and can be used toward educational experiences, including scholarships, donations or internal incentives. Funding is decided locally by the participating affiliate and/or advertiser.

AchieveMpls will use the grant to hold a free community forum for parents, educators, and community members featuring the renowned author and leading national expert on single sex public education, Dr. Leonard Sax.

AchieveMpls is the local education foundation that supports the Minneapolis Public Schools. In just five years of existence, AchieveMpls has established and maintains a reputation for strong fiscal management, effective partnership development and innovative, results-oriented programming. AchieveMpls' mission is to galvanize community resources to help all Minneapolis Public School students succeed in school and become productive members of society. For more information, visit www.achievempls.org.

Hallmark Channel, owned and operated by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., is a 24-hour basic cable network that provides a diverse slate of high-quality entertainment programming to a national audience of 85 million subscribers. The top tier program service is distributed through more than 5,450 cable systems and communities as well as direct-to-home satellite services across the country. Hallmark Channel consistently ranks among the top 10 ad-supported cable networks in Prime Time and Total Day household ratings and is the nation's leading network in providing quality family programming. Crown Media also operates a second 24-hour linear channel which plays the greatest family movies of all time, Hallmark Movie Channel, and launched Hallmark Movie Channel HD in April, 2008. Hallmark Movie Channel is available in over nine million U.S. homes. For more information, please visit www.hallmarkchannelpress.com.

Contacts:
Erin Larson, AchieveMpls
612-455-1564

Jaime Saberito, Hallmark Channel
212-445-6644

Source: AchieveMpls

CONTACT: Erin Larson of AchieveMpls, +1-612-455-1564; or Jaime Saberito
of Hallmark Channel, +1-212-445-6644

Web Site: http://www.achievempls.org/
http://www.hallmarkchannelpress.com/

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