Month: October 2018

Infor and #YesWeCode Announce GenOne Initiative

Stuart Mitchell

Infor, a leading provider of industry-specific cloud applications, and #YesWeCode today announced the launch of GenOne, an Infor and #YesWeCode initiative to increase diversity of the tech workforce in one generation. This initiative, which is in coordination with the Infor Education Alliance Program, was unveilved from the main stage of Inforum, Infor’s annual customer conference, and will continue to expand throughout 2019. This groundbreaking partnership between #YesWeCode and Infor is being catalyzed by the leadership of Infor CEO Charles Phillips and Social Entrepreneur and Host of The Van Jones show…

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Enough is Enough Voter Project Launches Into Action to Take On Alleged Sexual Abusers Running for Office

Stuart Mitchell

Enough is Enough Voter Project is a new political action committee that launches today, working in collaboration with Women’s March Sister Network, with the goal of making violence against women a voting issue. The Enough is Enough Voter Project will focus on candidates in this year’s election who have failed to stand with women on the issue of sexual harassment and  sexual violence. The Project is being led by the team that successfully recalled Judge Aaron Persky, who sentenced Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to just 6 months in county jail for sexually assaulting…

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State Street Global Advisors Reports Fearless Girl’s Impact: More than 300 Companies Have Added Female Directors

Stuart Mitchell

State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation, today announced its latest impact figures for the Fearless Girl campaign, demonstrating continued progress for the firm’s gender diversity asset stewardship programs in the US, UK, Australia, Japan Canada and continental Europe. Since the introduction of Fearless Girl in 2017, more than 300 companies identified by State Street Global Advisors responded to the firm’s call by adding a female director and another 28 have committed to do so. In the United States alone the campaign continues to build…

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The United Nations World Food Programme Launches “Feed Our Future” A Global Cinema Advertising Campaign Dedicated to Ending Hunger

Stuart Mitchell

A powerful new global cinema advertising campaign featuring leading names from the film, advertising and humanitarian worlds, and aimed at stirring global cinema audiences into action to tackle global hunger, launched in theaters across the world and on Facebook and Instagram today, to coincide with the start of the annual United Nations General Assembly session in New York. SAWA, the Global Cinema Advertising Association, in association with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide, created the “Feed Our Future” campaign to highlight…

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Pepsico and The Pepsico Foundation Have Invested a Total of USD 7 Million Dollars in Access to Nutrition Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo Latin America, focused on improving access to nutrition, education and empowering communities announced current progress in the region. First, PepsiCo Latin America is announcing its “Nutrition for the Future” platform in which it has invested USD $7 million in the last 5 years, to support nutrition programs across the sector. Second and related, the PepsiCo Foundation has invested USD $500,000 in a grant to The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) to support the program by expanding access to nutritious food and delivering 6.75 million nutritious servings throughout the region. Both…

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