Month: January 2019

NSC Receives Grant from McElhattan Foundation to Speed Adoption of Technologies to Make Workplaces Safer

Stuart Mitchell

The National Safety Council has received a $500,000 grant from the Pittsburgh-based McElhattan Foundation to launch the Work to Zero initiative, which will help educate employers about new technological safety advancements that promise to reduce and ultimately eliminate preventable deaths in the workplace. NSC also will develop tools and resources for employers who want to integrate potentially life-saving technology, including comprehensive reports and a training program. The grant is the largest single-payment grant in the history of the McElhattan Foundation, established last year by Kent McElhattan, co-founder and chairman at…

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Help Musicians UK marks the 1st anniversary of Music Minds Matter via #MMM1YearOn

Stuart Mitchell

Help Musicians UK (HMUK) has marked the one year anniversary of Music Minds Matter, its around the clock listening ear service and support line dedicated to everyone who works in the music industry with a dedicated hashtag #MMM1YearOn. With thanks to its friends, partners, collaborators and supporters across the industry such as the BPI, MVT (Music Venue Trust), Musicians Union, Getahead Festival/AEI, PRS Members Fund, BAPAM (British Association of Performing Arts Medicine), ABO (Association of British Orchestras) and artists such as Nina Nesbitt, Adam Ficek (Babyshambles) and more, HMUK will…

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New Coalition Set to Tackle a Major Engineering Challenge: The Profession’s Lack of Women

Stuart Mitchell

A group of Manitoba’s major engineering employers have joined together in an effort to solve a massive engineering challenge: The lack of female representation in their profession. The Manitoba 2030 Coalition launched this month with representatives present from several of the province’s most prominent engineering employers, including the Province of Manitoba, Boeing, Manitoba Hydro, Hatch, AECOM, StandardAero and the University of Manitoba. The group will develop policies and share tactics aimed at furthering Engineers Canada’s new “30 by 30” initiative, which is working to ensure that women comprise at least…

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Amsterdam’s N=5 works with young talent on new campaign for World AIDS Day 2018

Stuart Mitchell

Most people have stopped worrying about AIDS.  Admittedly, there are enough other things to worry about in 2018… But the fact is that most people think the epidemic is over. But this assumption is wrong. In 2017 alone, 1.8 million new HIV infections were recorded. And almost one million people lost their lives. Each and every day, people are losing their loved-ones. Which makes AIDS a threat to love. To coincide with World AIDS Day on December 1 2018, the Dutch Aids Foundation (Aidsfonds) worked with Amsterdam independent creative agency…

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The Ad Council’s 65th Annual Public Service Award Dinner Honors IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty, Celebrates the Power of Communications for Social Change

Stuart Mitchell

The Ad Council, America’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to using communications to drive social change, held its 65th Annual Public Service Award Dinner honoring Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM. Trevor Noah, host of Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “The Daily Show,” along with correspondents Desi Lydic and Michael Kosta, emceed the event, which featured a live performance from Shine MSD Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students from Parkland, Florida, and Applause, a performing arts program in New York City. The event was held at the New York Hilton…

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