Day: 22 February 2019

Stand Together Commits $30 Million In January To Organizations Helping People Out Of Poverty In America

Stuart Mitchell

Stand Together, a national venture philanthropy group and social change organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty, today reported a total of $30.6 million in investments throughout the month of January, during National Poverty Awareness Month. Through its series of community-based portfolio investments, Stand Together committed a total of $20.6 million to 28 organizations throughout the country, enabling some of Stand Together’s most effective partner organizations to expand their work empowering beneficiaries to build successful, self-sufficient lives free of persistent poverty. In addition, Stand Together launched its Giving Together Initiative, announcing…

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CNFA-Implemented Cocoa Initiative to Collaborate With Blommer Chocolate Co. in Côte d’Ivoire

Stuart Mitchell

Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA), an international agricultural development organization, announced that Blommer Chocolate Co. and the Maximizing Opportunities in Cocoa Activity (MOCA) project, implemented by CNFA, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Jan. 7 aimed at improving the cocoa value chain in Côte d’Ivoire. MOCA, funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food for Progress program, provides capacity-building, training and other support services to Côte d’Ivoire cocoa producers, cooperatives and exporters in order to boost stakeholder productivity and efficiency, improve farm incomes, and increase the supply of high-quality cacao…

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The Advertising Association launches Export Month

Stuart Mitchell

This March, the Advertising Association – alongside partners from its Promote UK group, including the Department for International Trade (DIT) and the IPA – is coordinating the biggest effort yet to showcase UK advertising services to international audiences. Dubbed Export Month, it will feature a wide programme of activity with the aim of promoting the UK’s advertising services to key markets around the world. Landmark moments already planned for the month-long celebration include: The first annual UK Ad Exports Report – With research from the advertising industry’s think tank Credos,…

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Justice4Grenfell takes a stand at London Fashion Week

Stuart Mitchell

20 months on from the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed 72 lives, 72 people, comprised of activists, bereaved families, members of the community and high profile supporters of the cause, united at the start of London Fashion Week, to represent those who lost their lives in the disaster. Wearing a protest t-shirt, the 72 ‘models’, including musician Emeli Sande, models Adwoa Aboah and Clara Paget, activists Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein and DJ Becky Tong, lined up on the catwalk of LFW at 180 The Strand calling for justice as…

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Green Mountain Energy and The Hill Announce Sustainability Partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Green Mountain Energy today announced it has entered into a sustainability partnership with The Hill, a unique, eco-friendly shopping and dining destination in the heart of Dallas. The organizations have teamed up to explore and implement sustainability upgrades for the property and power common areas of the development with 100 percent renewable energy. This agreement represents the first Sustainability Partnership between Green Mountain and a mixed-use project in Dallas. “The Hill is a shining example of the power of sustainability and the benefits it can yield to a shared community,”…

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