Junior Achievement Launches “Inspiring Tomorrows™” Awareness Campaign

Junior Achievement (JA) is launching a new awareness campaign aimed at connecting volunteers from the community with young people as mentors and role models. The campaign, titled “Inspiring Tomorrows™, will highlight the transformative impact a caring adult can have on a young person, not only by providing support, but by inspiring and preparing young people with essential life skills. “Our research shows that one-in-five young people who go through the Junior Achievement program end up working in the same career field as the JA volunteer they had in our program,”…

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The Women’s Sports Foundation Ushers in New Decade Raising the Stakes in Gender Equity

With the start of a new decade, 2020, and the golden anniversary of Title IX on the near horizon, 2022, the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) is staking a bold stand to gain true, lasting equity for girls and women in sports and beyond. Today the Foundation released its new national research report – Chasing Equity: The Triumphs, Challenges and Opportunities in Sports for Girls and Women – a comprehensive analysis of the current landscape and all its challenges, barriers, progress and opportunities, accompanied by a robust aggregate of calls to…

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Feld Entertainment® Expands Partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® Across Multiple Feld Motor Sports Tours for 2020

Feld Entertainment®, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® are expanding their partnership to continue to support the St. Jude mission: Finding cures. Saving children.®   Over the past three seasons, Supercross has raised more than $300,000 for St. Jude through various activations including the This Shirt Saves Lives campaign. New this season, Monster Jam will join the movement and help push fundraising to a new level. Each of the seven domestic Monster Jam tours will have a driver-athlete as a dedicated St. Jude ambassador to help raise awareness. Feld Entertainment hosts 17…

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Epoch Wins The 2020 Creative Shootout

Epoch emerged triumphant at Picturehouse Central in London tonight, fending off competition from seven other leading UK marketing agencies in the dramatic Live Final of The Creative Shootout 2020. The Creative Shootout, now in its fifth year, is the UK’s leading real time and ‘live’ awards for the marketing industry, staged for a different charity each year. This year was held for homelessness charity, Crisis.  The eight finalist marketing agencies, from all disciplines, were chosen by a high-profile judging panel in late 2019 (following an entry process) and took to…

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Seize the Awkward Partners with Award-Winning Guild Wars 2 Game to Start Conversations About Mental Health During Friend/Ships Month

In honor of Friend/Ships Month (February), the Ad Council’s national Seize the Awkward suicide prevention campaign, in partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and The Jed Foundation (JED), is launching an exclusive video game partnership with Guild Wars 2, the widely popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). The gaming partnership is the Ad Council’s first-ever integration within a game. During the entirety of February, Guild Wars 2’s 11 million players will receive a free Seize the Awkward t-shirt for their in-game character via the game’s gem…

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