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The PR campaign around the WhoDeyRevolution.com billboards and team boycott has caught like wildfire. The story has been covered on ESPN News, Sports Illustrated, the LA Times, New York Times, Deadspin, ESPN.com, SI.com, Yahoo!, ProFootballTalk, Big Lead, With Leather, Hugging Harold Reynolds, FanIQ, Cincinnati Enquirer, 700 Level, AOL Fanhouse, the AP and the blogs for 1530AM-HOMER hosts Lance McAlister, Mo Egger and C. Trent Rosencrans. WDR members have done interviews with 5 radio show hosts in Cincinnati, one in Lexington and one in Philly. Feature stories about the effort were aired on WLWT (NBC) and WCPO (ABC) in Cincinnati.

Click here for a full report and for clips of the segments.

As my friends and family know, I have long been a diehard, suffering Cincinnati Bengals fan for years. In the last 18 seasons, the Bengals have made the playoffs once. Not coincidentally, Mike Brown has been the owner and GM for the same stretch. Earlier this year, I started the blog WhoDeyRevolution to organize Bengals fans to call for change with the Bengals management and player personnel decisions.

Well, the Bengals are once again horrible, starting 1-8. So we decided to up the stakes to bring local and national pressure on the Bengals to hire football minds to make football decisions. Today, 4 billboards will be going up around Cincinnati asking the team to hire a General Manager. Check it out here.

We are asking that Bengals fans donate $18 to keep the billboard up through the regular season and post-season, or $1 for each year of Mike Brown’s rule of the Bengals. To promote the site and get national and local attention, I will be on 1530AM and 700WLW in Cincinnati.

This campaign utilizes the grassroots organizing and PR skills High 5 Consulting offers its clients, using the right messenger, the right message and the right medium. Bengals fans joining together to demand change is the only way we fans will see any changes.

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-National Interest Security Co. LLC, acquired federal IT services firm Multi-Threaded Inc, a firm based in Herndon that supports the intelligence and defense community through systems engineering and software development for secured data management.

-Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the CIA National Clandestine Service, has joined NISC as a Senior Vice President.

On Monday, October 27th from 6:30 -8:00pm at the Francis Stevens Education Campus (2425 N Street, NW), DC School Reform Now is hosting a panel discussion with the At-Large Candidates for DC City Council on education and school reform issues. Co-Hosts include the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region, FOCUS DC, DC Parents for School Choice, DC Children First, DC Education Compact, and the DC Parent Information Resource Center. Leah Fabel, education writer for the Washington Post, will be the moderator.

Check out the flyer for the event here.

High 5 Consulting’s Alex Lawson has just been named by Greater DC Cares to its 2008 Class of Change – Honoring New Leaders in Philanthropy! Alex will be honored at an event on October 22nd in DC for his work confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in DC.

You can read more about Greater DC Cares here and about Alex’s fellow award recipients here.

It is exciting to see Alex’s hard work and dedication around his work on DC’s HIV/AIDS epidemic being recognized. To support Greater DC Cares and to purchase tickets to the reception on October 22nd at The Park on Fourteenth click here.

Congrats Alex!

The Vote 18: Road Trip USA! keep rolling along, teaching the importance of voting in high schools and registering kids. High 5 has been successful securing some great media along the way. Check out the coverage here, here, here, here, and here.

The tour continues in NYC, Seattle, Cleveland, New Orleans and DC over the next few weeks.

High 5 is honored to have been selected by the Global Language Network to work with them on foundation and corporate fundraising, business development and growth strategies.

The Global Language Network (GLN) 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that works on college campuses across the country leading language study and cross-cultural communication.

The Global Language Network’s approach to language learning sets it apart from most other programs for a number of reasons. First, GLN focuses on the practical uses of language while eliminating the stress of scores and grades that can often create barriers to language acquisition. Most importantly, GLN specifically focuses on building confidence in a language instead of seeking fluency. It is this approach that encourages our students to become comfortable in using a language regardless of their supposed “level of fluency.”

Second, GLN’s direct teaching approach immerses students in the language and culture, allowing them to adapt to a new “comfort zone” and become confident in the language without the need to go to a foreign country.

Third, the unique GLN model creates free access to language and culture for communities. This opportunity provides individuals with an added incentive to explore the world beyond their horizons.

Language is an essential tool for bringing individuals together. Therefore, learning a language, even to a small extent, produces boundless opportunities for individuals in their business, educational, and personal endeavors.

High 5 is looking forward to working with the GLN team as it expands to more and more colleges.

The Vote 18 Road Trip stopped at Sandia Preparatory Academy yesterday, and the local ABC and NBC cameras were there too. Check out the great coverage here and here.

In 2009, the National Mint will be releasing a one-of-a-kind commemorative coin featuring the likeness of Louis Braille to recognize the 200th birthday of the creator of the Braille code. It will be the first coin in the world to include readable Braille.

The National Federation of the Blind will use the proceeds from the coin’s minting to support awareness of Braille Literacy. Today in America only 10 percent of blind children are learning to read Braille in school. This continues despite the fact that studies have shown that 80 percent of all employed blind people read and write Braille fluently. These studies reinforce what the NFB has been advocating for years: Braille literacy is the key to employment and full participation in society.

Read more about the campaign here.

The Vote 18 Road Trip’s stop in Arizona continues to generate positive coverage, this time from the Arizona Republic, the largest paper in the state. Check out the story here.

Next week the tour makes stops in Albuquerque, El Paso and Austin.