Charity Bashed

Sharon Geltner’s career has spanned social climbing to social media. Geltner has cadged free handbags from Ferragamo on Worth Avenue to offer as door prizes to the Ladies who Lunch, to drum up attendance and encourage bigger donations. She has raised money for worthy causes from venues such as The Breakers and the Four Seasons in Palm Beach to the Polo Club of Boca Raton, Florida. Her nonprofit clients have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC.com and one was named a Top 10 CNN Hero; honored by President Obama at the White House and by Oprah Winfrey in front of 13,000 guests at a stadium in Miami. The same client later received a free, ＄9 million Super Bowl ad, from Microsoft. Geltner has also won awards for her pro bono work on behalf of creating a barrier-free park for those with disabilities as well as a national journalism appreciation campaign, ＂Net Needs News Day.＂ A former news reporter from Washington, D.C., Chicago and south Florida, Geltner has been on assignment in Cairo, Singapore and Lapland and covered Israel during wartime. The Small Business Administration, Public Relations Society of America, and Society of Professional Journalists have honored her SEO, public relations and news reporting accomplishments. She has a Masters Degree in digital media, teaches Internet Marketing at area colleges and is president of Froogle PR, a multimedia agency.