New Partnership to Enhance Nonprofit Organizations Written Communications

SmarterOrg and Communications Development Incorporated will work together to enhance nonprofit and philanthropic organizations writing skills with Communications Development's ClearWriter. ClearWriter is an online system of tools, training, and resources that improves business and professional writing.

Washington, DC -- SmarterOrg and Communications Development Incorporated will work together to enhance nonprofit and philanthropic organizations writing skills with Communications Development's ClearWriter. ClearWriter is an online system of tools, training, and resources that improves business and professional writing.

Powerful and persuasive written communications are essential to the nonprofit sectors everyday work, including grantwriting, advocacy, and public education," said Bill Tucker, CEO of SmarterOrg. ClearWriter is the best and most complete training resource to help nonprofits enhance their writing skills."

ClearWriter, the award-winning blended training solution for effective business and professional writing, includes online training, online writing tools, and online mentoring -- and can be supplemented with instructor-led workshops. ClearWriter helps improve the speed, ease, and quality of writing. It contains 25 courses in a library organized into four broad subject areas: editing your own writing, improving your sentence structure, building more powerful paragraphs, and writing more effective reports.

ClearWriter's suite of writing tools and resources reinforces the training and helps learners write better as they work. ClearEdits, for example, is a Microsoft® Word plug-in that applies powerful editing techniques, suggesting improvements in clarity and readability in a fraction of the time it takes to edit a document unassisted.

ClearWriter, which received Lguide's prestigious Editor's Choice Award in fall 2001, is available to individuals and organizations. Learn more at http://www.smarterorg.com/clearwriter.htm.

SmarterOrg is the first company to work exclusively with nonprofit, philanthropic, and public organizations to develop high-impact, cost-effective online learning programs. SmarterOrg offers an engaging, collaborative learning community and easy-to-use tools to manage and evaluate online learning initiatives. In addition, SmarterOrg provides research and consultation services to help organizations implement online learning programs and evaluate learning technology. To learn more about SmarterOrg, please visit http://www.smarterorg.com.

ClearWriter is offered by Communications Development, which has been helping clients such as the World Bank, United Nations, and Federal Reserve Board write better for more than 15 years. To learn more about ClearWriter, please visit http://www.clearwriter.com.