July marks Frank Ovaitt's third year as president and CEO of the Institute for Public Relations (IPR), an independent foundation dedicated to "the science beneath the art of PR" that celebrated its golden anniversary last year. Under Ovaitt's leadership, revenues have swelled ($840,000 in 2006), and the institute is expanding its horizons.
"[IPR] is about building research-based knowledge and mainstreaming that into the profession," Ovaitt says. "Some years, the institute was almost dormant from lack of resources. Funding gives us the ...