Day: 13 April 2019

Toyota’s support of family literacy in America reaches $50 million

Stuart Mitchell

To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), Toyota is donating $1 million to help break generational cycles of poverty through family literacy in the nation’s capital and northern Alabama. This new donation brings Toyota’s total contribution over its 28-year partnership with NCFL to $50 million. To date, 420 Toyota Family Learning Centers have impacted more than 4.5 million parents and children across the U.S. “Education is key to a successful career,” said Toyota Motor North America CEO Jim Lentz. “I have seen the…

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John Lewis Partnership pledges net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Stuart Mitchell

The John Lewis Partnership has announced it will reduce its operational greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 at the latest, without purchasing offsets, in line with the pathway set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to limit global warming to 1.5C. The Partnership will initially focus on making significant emissions reductions in the vital period of the next ten years to decarbonise its operations as much as possible as quickly as possible. By 2028, it will remove a third of carbon from its operations through a…

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Five exceptional women scientists receive the L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science awards

Stuart Mitchell

Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, and Jean Paul Agon, President and CEO of L’Oréal and President of the L’Oréal Foundation, presented the L’Oréal-UNESCO Prize for Women and Science to five women scientists at a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. Fifteen promising young researchers, representing the future of science, were also honored as ” International Rising Talents”. “Throughout history and to this day, science is one of the many areas where women are largely forgotten” said UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay. “This contributes to perpetuate inequalities between women and…

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European Women Alliance launches #DoneOnPeriod

Stuart Mitchell

In Romania, as in other Latin cultures, a woman on period is often perceived as not capable to do things right and suffering of a temporary loss of physical and mental ability. The assumption “Are you on period or what?” is something that every woman has heard at least once in her life. It can be intended as joke but it is, in substance, an insult. The truth is that women achieve small and big results every day, even when they are in those days. How to fight this subtle yet…

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GambleAware Launches Safer Gambling Campaign, “Bet Regret”

Stuart Mitchell

GambleAware, the independent charity tasked with reducing gambling harms in Great Britain, has launched ‘Bet Regret’, designed by M&C Saatchi, it is a safer gambling campaign designed to raise awareness of impulsive betting in order to encourage moderation and reduce gambling-related harm. The ‘Bet Regret’ campaign is one of a number of commitments to come out of the Government’s Gambling Review to ensure that the sector is socially responsible and doing all it should to protect consumers and communities. Bet Regret describes the universal feeling of remorse sports bettors often…

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