April Crews

The ALS Association has awarded $225,000 in scholarships to 45 inaugural recipients of the Jane Calmes ALS Scholarship Fund. The Fund provides financial support to students impacted by ALS.

The first cohort of Fund scholars will receive $2,500 each semester for a total of $5,000 per year in support of post-high school education. Awards are renewable for up to three years or until a bachelor’s degree is earned or graduation is achieved.

Mark Calmes, vice-chair of The ALS Association National B...

I drafted all content for this mail piece which described the agenda and character of Michelle Darbro, state representative candidate for Illinois District 20, within the Chicago suburbs. Darbro won her primary bid on March 17, 2020.

The "About" page of the business website June 13 Designs, a small business in the Washington, DC suburbs.

Kelly Crews is a self taught artist and designer who has been making jewelry for 15 years. She began her career as an artist while she was pregnant with her third child.

Creativity always came naturally to Kelly; at age nine, she began drawing ball gowns, and as a teenager, she dreamed of becoming a fashion designer and worked as an assistant at fashion shows.

She put her dreams aside to raise her three children while working as an administrative and legal assistant, ...

When the Biology Honors class kicked off a special course to learn more about neurological diseases, they turned it into a unified effort to educate their community and raise over $3,000 for ALS research.

The ALS Association spoke to some of the folks behind the project.

National PTA celebrated Founders Day on February 17th, 2019. My scheduled post garnered reach of 21,000 and engagement of over 1,000 teachers, parents & other education advocates. LIKES: 161 | SHARES: 225

REACH: 21,795 | ENGAGEMENTS: 1,564

I wrote this blog post with research from several sources - press release, website information and video footage from the ALS advocacy conference.

The article discusses ALS Association chapter advocates' efforts during the 2019 August Congressional recess, to setup in-district meetings with members of Congress who have not already cosponsored the ALS Disability Insurance Access Act and urging them to support this bill. The ALS Disability Insurance Access Act aims to eliminate a five-month waiting period for Social Security Disability Insurance.

I drafted the ALS Association Annual Report for Fiscal Year ending in January 2018. The report highlights corporate sponsorships, organizational leadership, and provides a FY18 Financial Summary, research activities, care services to ALS patients, fundraising and advocacy activities including the Ice Bucket Challenge and Walk to End ALS campaigns - mission-related fundraising activities that raise funds to advance treatments and help serve those with ALS, a chronic, fatal, neurological disease.

“Holidays can be difficult for a family living with ALS,” Jen Levasseur said. “Our first Christmas after diagnosis, you know, we were left wondering is this going to be our last Christmas? Will he be here next year? If he’s here next year, what is that going to look like?”

I line-edited grammar, spelling and word order for this legislative brochure distributed by the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). Given to PTA members and advocates that attended the 2019 National PTA Legislative Conference, the brochure contains effective parent and family stakeholder engagement provisions in education and youth-related reauthorization bills. These priorities were presented to legislators at the PTA sponsored conference.

Monthly newsletter of bookbuzz4kidz (now calicokidz.com) from April 2017 detailing books to read to celeberate Autism Awareness Month as well as news and information of upcoming literacy and book events including National Library Week and Earth Day

Created all content for this article targeting military families. Researched free activities as well as amusement parks, museums and other establishments that offer discounts to military personnel.

After participating in a tweet chat, sponsored by Experian, tweets on behalf of my client Consumer Federation of America were featured in Experian's slideshare document.

Resource email created for partner nonprofit organizations serving military families. This resource packet contains a sample article, suggestions for social media content, and tools and resources designed to ​help partner orgs communicate with the their audience, as well as the public and other organizations on​ ​the importance of credit history and credit score knowledge.

TOP Step Consulting, a provider of Professional Services software solutions, named as one of Inc. 5000’s Fastest Growing Private Companies. This is the company’s second year to receive the honor.

April Crews' comments regarding a WMATA metro rail emergency responder drill for the DC Metropolitan Area.