Day: 19 March 2019

New hate map helps users explore landscape of hate

Stuart Mitchell

The Southern Poverty Law Center has introduced an updated, interactive hate map equipped with new features to help people better understand the hate groups operating in their state and across the country. The new hate map allows users to view more details, including which states have the most hate groups per capita and how the number of hate groups has changed over time at the state and national levels. Users can also filter the map to show only a particular sector of the radical right, such as white nationalist groups.…

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Girl Scouts Teams Up with American City Business Journals to Support Mentorship for Girls

Stuart Mitchell

Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), the world’s largest leadership development program for girls, today announces a partnership with American City Business Journals (ACBJ), the country’s largest publisher of local business news. The partnership underscores GSUSA’s enduring commitment to mentorship and career development for Girl Scouts nationwide. The partnership culminates with ACBJ’s annual Bizwomen Mentoring Monday event—which brings together businesswomen from a range of fields who are eager to learn from and support one another—held today in 43 markets across the country in conjunction with participating Girl Scout councils. At…

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P&G Sets New Goal to Deliver 25 Billion Liters of Clean Drinking Water to Families in Need Worldwide

Stuart Mitchell

This World Water Day, Procter & Gamble (P&G) is celebrating the achievement of its 2020 goal of delivering 15 billion liters of clean drinking water through its non-profit Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program. P&G is now accelerating its efforts to help provide clean drinking water to even more people by delivering 25 billion liters – more than 100 billion glasses of water – worldwide by 2025. Since the program launched in 2004, P&G has worked closely with a network of more than 150 partners to raise awareness of the…

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ASA/CAP – Brexit – avoiding potential scams

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Brexit – avoiding potential scams. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. We know there are many questions and uncertainties surrounding Brexit and what it will mean for consumers and business. As we wait to see what happens, we’re reminding consumers and businesses who have concerns about advertising related issues that nothing has changed. The advertising…

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Tackling loneliness with social prescribing – a British Red Cross and Co-op success story

Stuart Mitchell

Ahead of the first ever Social Prescribing Day on March 14, the British Red Cross and Co-op partnership highlighted how social prescribing can transform the lives of the lonely and socially isolated. There is growing interest in social prescribing – services which refer people to non-clinical support within communities and the voluntary sector – as a means of improving health outcomes and reducing demand for health services. But the British Red Cross and Co-op believe it can also be used to address loneliness. The organisations published a Shared Learning Report…

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