Crowell & Moring Hosts Developing Minds' First MindShare Event for Nonprofits

Washington, D.C. – May 22, 2008: Crowell & Moring LLP's New York office proudly hosted Developing Minds' first MindShare event - a roundtable discussion where representatives of participating non-profit organizations can meet and brainstorm innovative ways to address challenges common to each of their organizations. The first MindShare event focused on ways to increase volunteer participation and was a great success. Meetings are scheduled to take place on a regular basis relating to such topics as volunteer retention, volunteer training, staff professional development, staff retention, fund raising evaluations, and marketing. Participants from the first event included representatives from non-profit organizations including the Institute of International Education, Street Project, iMentor, Junior Achievements of New York, Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter, and City Year.

Developing Minds, which was launched in 2002 to promote volunteerism by connecting volunteers and nonprofit organizations using a time-based auction model, masterminded the concept for this event, hoping it would assist the non-profit community and serve as an outreach program to ignite positive change. To learn more about Developing Minds, please visit their website at www.developingminds.org.

Crowell & Moring LLP is an international law firm with more than 400 lawyers practicing in litigation, antitrust, government contracts, health care, corporate, intellectual property and a variety of other practice areas. More than two-thirds of the firm's attorneys regularly litigate disputes on behalf of domestic and international corporations, start-up businesses, and individuals. Crowell & Moring's extensive client work ranges from advising on one of the world's largest telecommunications mergers to representing governments and corporations on international arbitration matters. Based in Washington, D.C., the firm also has offices in California, New York, London, and Brussels.