Riggs Partners Chooses Organizations to Receive CreateAthon® Services

SPARTANBURG, SC – August 31, 2009 – Four Upstate and three Midlands South Carolina nonprofit organizations will be the beneficiaries of free marketing and creative services provided by Riggs Partners in its 12th annual CreateAthon®. The 24-hour work-around-the-clock effort will begin Thursday, September 17th.

Organizations selected as CreateAthon clients this year include: Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg, Heartworm Project/PAALS, Spartanburg Area Conservancy, The Humanities Council, The Palmetto Opera,The Preservation Trust of Spartanburg, and The Spartanburg Soup Kitchen.

It’s always a difficult task to select only a few nonprofits from the vast pool of applications, said Cathy Monetti, Riggs partner and co-founder of CreateAthon. This year was especially difficult, in that nonprofits have been affected so dramatically by the economy. It’s our hope through CreateAthon to help offset some of this economic pressure for nonprofits by donating marketing and public relations services.

Nonprofits located in the Lowcountry will be served by CreateAthon partner Trio Solutions based in Mt. Pleasant.

Riggs Partners expanded its local CreateAthon event into a national program in 2002. Since that time, more than 70 agencies in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico have participated, helping more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations by delivering 2,248 projects valued in excess of $10 million. The work of CreateAthon is more important than ever, said Teresa Coles, Riggs partner and co-founder of CreateAthon. We hope more agencies across the country will join us in this effort.

For more information on the program, please visit the web site at www.createathon.org.