Case Study 1665: How a Low-Cost Effort Performs a Valuable Public Service and Earns Goodwill for an industry

Name/Title

Case Study 1665: How a Low-Cost Effort Performs a Valuable Public Service and Earns Goodwill for an industry

Description

Details "Home Safe Home," a child-safety prevention folder created and distributed by the Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) to educate parents and caregivers on preventing household accidents involving one-to-six-year-olds.

Context

Captures a late-1970s industry public relations effort to proactively address childhood safety concerns tied to consumer cleaning products. Demonstrates how a low-cost, well-targeted public service campaign can simultaneously fulfill genuine community benefit and build industry goodwill through strategic mass distribution and multi-audience outreach.

Category

Public Relations

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Meg Lamme

Notes

Date Acquired: 3/8/21

Publication Details

Publication Type

Newsletter

Editor

Denny Griswold

Publisher

PR News

Place Published

City

New York City

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Location

* Untyped Location

22

Web Links and URLs

PDF

General Notes

Note

Piece missing. From a collection of memorabilia saved by publicist Terry Mayer, who had a close relationship with Denny Griswold.

Create Date

April 5, 2021

Update Date

August 24, 2026