Cause An Effect in Your Community
State Farm® Invites You to Submit a Cause to Bring $25,000 to Your Neighborhood
Springfield, Oregon, Feb. 29, 2012
- From February 29 through March 20, State Farm encourages everyone is to visit the Cause An Effect tab on the State Farm Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/#!/statefarm) and submit a Cause for a chance to help make their neighborhood safer, stronger, and better educated.
- Cause An Effect is a youth-led, crowd-sourced initiative that partners with local non-profit organizations to create solutions to community issues identified by local residents.
- 40 Causes will be selected by the State Farm Youth Advisory Board and they will award $25,000 to local non-profits to address the cause in their community.
- The goal of Cause An Effect is to encourage the public to identify core issues and State Farm to provide the resources for a local non-profit to creatively make a difference.
Media Exclusives:
- Interview with local agent about the program.
- Interview with local resident once a cause is submitted from the area.
- Interview with the Youth Advisory Board member from Portland who is on the national selection committee.
- Images of the Facebook landing site.
- Copy of the national and/or local press release.
Contact
Brad Hilliard,
Media Inquiries, (503) 428-4890
About State Farm®
State Farm and its affiliates are the largest provider of car insurance in the U.S. and is a leading insurer in Canada. In addition to providing auto insurance quotes, their 17,800 agents and more than 65,000 employees serve 81 million policies and accounts - more than 79 million auto, home, life and health policies in the United States and Canada, and nearly 2 million bank accounts. Commercial auto insurance, along with coverage for renters, business owners, boats and motorcycles, is also available. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the parent of the State Farm family of companies. State Farm is ranked No. 43 on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies. For more information, please visit http://www.statefarm.com or in Canada http://www.statefarm.ca.
