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Atlanta non-profit headlined on Times Square

By Steve Visser
July 7, 2011

An Atlanta-based non-profit is to being featured on Times Square in New York.Reuters and NASDAQ digital signs will feature Wilkins Parkinson’s Foundation until July 25.

Thomson Reuters selected the foundation to feature on the billboards to raise public awareness about Parkinson's disease and the search for  cure.

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