Day: 30 July 2018

Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama Launches Vaccination Campaign and Calls to “Strengthen Your Defense”

Stuart Mitchell

Colombian soccer legend El Pibe Valderrama, known as one of the best Colombian and South American soccer players of all time, joins forces with ADRA, a global humanitarian organization, through a public awareness campaign to raise awareness about the importance of vaccines to fight diseases. Each year vaccines save approximately two to three million lives from diseases such as measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Currently, more children are being vaccinated worldwide than ever before. Even so, there are millions of children…

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Hack For Good with Studio Republic; local tech agencies get together to create something in one day to benefit homelessness services!

Stuart Mitchell

Ethical digital agency, Studio Republic will be running a hack day on Friday the 10th of August. The idea of a hack day is to bring together creative people, developers, designers, any kind of makers, to block out a day of time and make something from scratch, just for fun, no strings attached. Hack for Good will gather local design and technology agencies to make something worthwhile in one day. Studio Republic are putting their own spin on the hack by introducing a theme for the day. Over the past…

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EY and SheWorks! join forces to attract more women to the workforce by offering flexible job opportunities worldwide

Stuart Mitchell

EY have announced a new collaboration with SheWorks!, the cloud-based technology platform that provides women access to remote and flexible job opportunities around the world. This commitment, officially announced at the Labor Inclusion session during the Women20 (W20) Argentina meeting in New York City in June, will support and accelerate the SheWorks! platform in order to maximize employment opportunities for women through the gig economy. The initiative has the ambitious objective of leveraging this technology to create 100,000 job opportunities for women by 2020. Julie Teigland, EY Regional Managing Partner—Germany,…

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PR Internships Awards 2018 winners announced

Stuart Mitchell

The PRCA and PRWeek have announced the winners of the annual PR Internships Awards, an awards programme aimed at celebrating the best in internships and interns. The annual PR Internships Awards took place on Wednesday, 18th July, and saw winners in two categories. The winner of the Best Internship Programme category was Freshwater. There was also a Highly Commended trophy in this category, which was handed to the Government Communication Service. The Best Intern category was won by Selina Khan, who interned at the Government Communication Service. There was also…

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Special Olympics and Coca-Cola celebrate 50 years of partnership

Stuart Mitchell

London’s Piccadilly Circus has played host to the iconic Coca-Cola sign since 1955. Its latest display celebrates Coca-Cola’s 50-year relationship with Special Olympics. On 20 July 2018, major landmarks, stadiums and iconic buildings around the world were lit up a global display of unity, as part of the global Special Olympics 50th Anniversary celebrations. One of these landmarks was the Piccadilly Sign in Central London, familiar home to the iconic Coca-Cola logo. The Special Olympics 50th anniversary video that was displayed on the Piccadilly sign #LightUpForInclusion This worldwide act of unity represents…

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