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November 2, 2006
Contact: Jeffrey Ong
ABC15 Marketing Coordinator
Ph: 602-685-3033
jong@abc15.com
Donation Used To Support Community Education Program
(Phoenix) ABC15 and the Scripps Howard Foundation are honored to present Chicanos Por La Causa with $25,000 to support the Westside Workforce Development Program established by Chicanos Por La Causa.
Janice Todd, ABC15 Vice President and General Manager recently presented the check to representatives from Chicanos Por La Causa including Pete C. Garcia, President and CEO for Chicanos Por La Causa Inc; and Edmundo Hidalgo, Chief Operating Officer for Chicanos Por La Causa Inc.
With the support from ABC15 and the Scripps Howard Foundation, the Workforce Development Program will be able to purchase software licenses for GED preparation classes. The Westside Workforce Development Program works to help low income citizens become self-sufficient by increasing their literacy and education skills to receive their GED.
“This donation is a direct result of the ABC15 Parity Project Town Hall Meeting. We have been able to meet and interact with so many members of the Hispanic Community since we started this project. We are very pleased that the Scripps Howard Foundation helps us contribute to our local community and such a great cause,” Todd said.
ABC15 is committed to quality journalism and reporting and is the most recognized station in the Phoenix market for anchoring, investigative news, and for three years in a row, overall station excellence. ABC15 News at 4pm, 5pm, 6pm and 10pm is anchored by Katie Raml and Jonathan Elias.
** Pictured in attached photo from left to right**
Stephen Soto, ABC15 Employee; Joe Hengemuehler, ABC15 News Director;
Pete C. Garcia, President and CEO for Chicanos Por La Causa Inc; Janice Todd, ABC15 Vice President and General Manager; Edmundo Hidalgo, Chief Operating Officer for Chicanos Por La Causa Inc.
The E. W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) is a diverse and growing media enterprise with interests in national cable networks, newspaper publishing, broadcast television stations, electronic commerce, interactive media, and licensing and syndication. The company’s portfolio of media properties includes: Scripps Networks, with such brands as HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living, Great American Country and HGTVPro; daily and community newspapers in 18 markets and the Washington-based Scripps Media Center, home to the Scripps Howard News Service; 10 broadcast TV stations, including six ABC-affiliated stations, three NBC affiliates and one independent; leading online search and comparison shopping services, Shopzilla and uSwitch; and United Media, a leading worldwide licensing and syndication company that is the home of PEANUTS, DILBERT and approximately 150 other features and comics.
KNXV ABC15 is a partner of the NAHJ's Parity Project which works with English-language media companies serving large Latino populations to increase their Latino newsroom representation and to improve news coverage of the Latino community.
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