Day: 2 January 2019

United Way and Nest’s Power Project to Provide Energy Assistance With ‘Keep Your Neighbors Warm’ Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

United Way Worldwide announced today that it is partnering with Nest, a leading manufacturer of smart home products—including thermostats—for “Keep your Neighbors Warm,” a campaign that supports United Way’s efforts to provide energy assistance through the critical 2-1-1 service in communities nationwide. “Keep Your Neighbors Warm” is part of Nest’s Power Project, a platform backed by Google’s sustainability initiatives that is aimed at helping low to moderate income customers dealing with high-energy costs. Those who wish to donate should visit Nest.com/powerproject, or text WARMTH to 40403. Energy assistance ranks as…

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British Youth Council Call for UK Young Ambassadors Launched

Stuart Mitchell

The British Youth Council has launched a new call for young people to put themselves forward to be the next cohort of UK Young Ambassadors for the European Structured Dialogue.  Through this programme young people from across the four nations of the UK can represent the views of their peers to UK and European youth policy makers.  UK Young Ambassadors will be in post for 18 months to follow the next cycle of the process, undertaking consultations with young people across the UK and feeding into European policy conferences. “I’ve…

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Code.org and Amazon Kick Off Hour of Code: Dance Party to Introduce One Million Girls to Coding

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon and Code.org today introduced Hour of Code: Dance Party – an online gamified tutorial that aims to teach basic coding skills to more than one million young girls during the first week of December and will continue to reach millions more kids throughout 2019. To help raise awareness of the value of coding at schools around the world, over 1,000 Amazon employees are volunteering at hundreds of Hour of Code events, from San Luis Obispo, California, to Edisto Island, South Carolina, to Tokyo, Japan, and Gdansk, Poland. Code.org’s new…

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