Cool Effect to Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Closin

ADVISORY, Dec. 22, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:  Cool Effect, a San Francisco Bay Area 501(c)(3) nonprofit that allows individuals to create a tangible impact on climate change through a digital crowdfunding platform, providing consistent funding to the highest-quality carbon reducing projects around the world, will visit the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. The visit aims to raise the awareness for the “ Save Our Snowmen ” campaign to fight global warming.

In honor of the occasion, Marisa de Belloy, COO , will ring the Closing Bell. 

Where: Nasdaq MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43 ^rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When: Friday, December 23, 2016 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET 

Cool Effect Contact: Joey Hodges (415) 400-4214 CoolEffect@demonstratepr.com

Nasdaq MarketSite: Emily Pan (646) 441-5120 emily.pan@nasdaq.com

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Webcast: A live stream of the Nasdaq Closing Bell will be available at: https://new.livestream.com/nasdaq/live or http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx

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About Cool Effect Cool Effect is a San Francisco Bay Area 501(c)(3) nonprofit that allows individuals to create a tangible impact on climate change through a digital platform, providing consistent funding to the highest-quality carbon reducing projects around the world.

Cool Effect was founded on the passionate belief that individual support of projects will create a cumulative effect that will reduce and prevent carbon pollution. Like the Butterfly Effect, The Ripple Effect, and others, a single action can have global impact. The organization’s mission is to ignite planet sized change. To learn more, please visit  cooleffect.org  or follow Cool Effect on  Facebook , Instagram and  Twitter .

About Nasdaq Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ ) is a leading provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services across six continents. Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers to plan, optimize and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating today's global capital markets. As the creator of the world's first electronic stock market, its technology powers more than 70 marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Nasdaq is home to more than 3,700 listed companies with a market value of $10.0 trillion and approximately 18,000 corporate clients. To learn more, visit: nasdaq.com/ambition or business.nasdaq.com  

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