Month: April 2018

Animal Welfare, Children’s Education, Hunger Are Top Three Causes Americans Care About in 2018

Stuart Mitchell

According to a new study, animal welfare is the most popular cause for Americans in 2018, followed by children’s education and hunger. Ketchum Purpose‘s Causes Americans Care About study, now in its third year, also shows that the overall cause landscape has become more fragmented, with support spread over a wider variety of causes in 2018 than in 2017 or 2016. The study’s findings include: Animal welfare is the No. 1 cause Americans are interested in supporting, selected by 41 percent of respondents. Animal welfare has been a perennial favorite,…

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This May, Angelina Spicer and TheBlueDotProject Are Asking Moms to #GetReal

Stuart Mitchell

TheBlueDotProject, host of the annual U.S. based maternal mental health social media awareness campaign and national awareness symbol, The Blue Dot, together with celebrity spokesperson Angelina Spicer is announcing its 2018 campaign theme, the 5-Day #RealMotherhood Challenge. The campaign will run from April 30th to May 4th. The #RealMotherhood campaign will feature daily memes about the realities and false expectations of motherhood. Mothers are invited to join the 5-Day Challenge and share daily real motherhood photos and messages to social media with the campaign hashtag, #RealMotherhood. “We want to challenge…

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My Favourite 10 Charity/Non-Profit/Ethical Campaigns of March 2018

Stuart Mitchell

These are my top 10 favourite Non-Profit, Ethical or Charity Campaigns of the previous Month. This Month – March 2018. There were some campaigns I really liked in March. As I have already done a top 10 International Women’s Day Top 10 I have tried to avoid using those ones. 10. With the horrible attack in Florida, it was great to see businesses coming together against guns. WeTransfer Launches Global Site Takeover Highlighting Effect of Gun Violence 9. A great campaign launched by the PFA dealing with dementia in former…

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New Wrangler® Report Reveals Environmental Benefits of Sustainable Farming Practices

Stuart Mitchell

As a leading manufacturer of the world’s denim, and in the spirit of Earth Day, Wrangler® jeans published a report today highlighting significant environmental impacts of sustainable cotton farming techniques. Wrangler evaluated 45 scientific reports to conclude the practices of conservation tillage, cover crops and crop rotation result in the removal of three times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere as conventional farming methods. “Wrangler believes that our supply chain does not begin with fabric or cotton. It begins with soil and the land itself,” said Roian…

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OsloMet and Makerere University partners with UNESCO in launching the Media Trends Report

Stuart Mitchell

The 2017/2018 UNESCO World Trends Report in Freedom of Expression and Media Development is a living proof that there is a lot that need to be done, to improve the state of freedom of expression globally. Speaking on journalist security and impunity at the launch of the report, which took place in Makerere University, Kampala, Prof.  Rune Ottosen a representative of the Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO and a lecturer at the Journalism and Media International Centre/Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (JMIC/OsloMet), raised the report’s concern of…

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