Month: June 2018

DEWALT Announces Join the Salute Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

DEWALT announces its Join the Salute campaign, an initiative starting in 2018 to honor veterans and the charities who support them. Starting this month, DEWALT is hosting in-store challenges at retail locations around the country to raise awareness for the Join the Salute campaign in an effort to honor veterans and support partners, including Flags Of Valor™ and Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP). At these events, fans can participate in the challenges to win prizes including DEWALT tools, accessories, and two grand prize trips to the NASCAR Homestead Race on November…

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Seattle Goodwill and Seattle Humane partner to produce Purrfect Pairs

Stuart Mitchell

For “Adopt a Cat Month” in June, Seattle Goodwill and Seattle Humane have partnered for the first time to produce Purrfect Pairs, a Facebook Live event (a-la QVC), during which adoptable cats will “model” pieces from Seattle Goodwill’s online jewelry collection available for auction via eBay.  The campaign will aim to increase awareness of Seattle Goodwill’s online sales, particularly jewelry, and help adoptable cats find forever homes. The livestream will run from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM PST on Tuesday, June 19th. People who tune in can bid on the…

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UNICEF Canada and dozens of Canadian celebrities shine spotlight on challenges facing youth in Canada

Stuart Mitchell

A recent UNICEF report comparing the well-being of children in the richest countries around the world placed Canada an alarming 25th among the 41 countries measured. These rankings haven’t improved in more than a decade, which has UNICEF Canada partnering with top Canadian celebrities to do something about it. Today, UNICEF Canada launches a new ad campaign to highlight “One Youth” – a groundbreaking initiative with the mission to make Canada the best place in the world to grow up in by 2030. The campaign brings together dozens of Canadian…

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Walmart Reaches 5th Anniversary of Veterans Welcome Home Commitment With Announcement of More Than 200,000 Veteran Hires

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart has announced it has hired more than 200,000 veterans and promoted more than 28,000 to roles of greater responsibility since launching its Veterans Welcome Home Commitment five years ago. Recognizing the important skills and leadership abilities veterans possess, the commitment helps veterans find career opportunities at Walmart and aims to ease the sometimes difficult transition from active duty to civilian life. Walmart is now more than 80 percent of the way to reaching its goal of hiring 250,000 veterans by 2020. In May 2013, Walmart introduced the Veterans Welcome…

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Xbox Adaptive Controller welcomed by UK charities and gamers with disabilities

Stuart Mitchell

A new Xbox and Windows 10 controller that lets people with disabilities plug in the assistive aids they already own to play games has been welcomed by charities in the UK. The Xbox Adaptive Controller allows those with limited mobility to use their own buttons, joysticks and switches to mimic a standard controller, so they can play any videogame. This allows them to choose which assistive aid will make the character jump, run or shoot, for example, without relying on pressing specific buttons on the controller that came with the…

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