Los Angeles, CA -- (SBWire) -- 03/18/2010 -- Healthy Child Healthy World, the nation's non-profit leader in children's environmental health, announces the addition of Danielle Friedland to their staff. Ms. Friedland will serve as the organization's Social Media and Community Relations Manager.
Her focus in this newly created position will be to increase awareness and expand the movement to protect children from harmful chemicals by utilizing social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Flickr. She will also help manage the forthcoming launch of volunteer parent advisory team who will help guide the organization as well as broadcast the message in their own online communities.
Ms. Friedland brings over 10 years of pioneering experience in new media to Healthy Child Healthy World, including her most recent position as founder and Editor-in-Chief of Celebrity Baby Blog, a website which began highlighting celebrity pregnancies and celebrity babies and later grew into a community for parenting tips, product guides, pertinent reviews, and more. The site was purchased by Time Inc. in 2008.
"We are thrilled to add Danielle to our team. Her professional experience and personal philosophy as a mother of two young children are ideally suited to enhancing and amplifying our mission to inspire a movement of parents. Additionally, her unique brand of online ethics, reputation and integrity make for the perfect partnership," says Healthy Child's CEO/Executive Director Christopher Gavigan.
For additional information, call 310.820.2030. Follow Healthy Child Healthy World on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/HealthyChild and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/healthy_child.
About Healthy Child Healthy World
Healthy Child Healthy World is a national, non-profit 501(c)3 organization that inspires parents to protect young children from harmful chemicals. The organization exists because more than 125 million Americans, predominately children, now face an historically unprecedented in chronic diseases and illnesses such as cancer, autism, asthma, allergies, birth defects, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and learning and developmental disabilities.
Credible scientific evidence increasingly points to environmental hazards and household chemicals as causing and contributing to many of these diseases. Healthy Child Healthy World aims to educate parents, support protective policies and engage communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish. Please visit Healthy Child (http://healthychild.org) for more info.
Source: Healthy Child Healthy World
Healthy Child Healthy World Names Danielle Friedland Social Media and Community Relations Manager