Day: 9 May 2019

Ad Council Announces New Members of Board of Directors

Stuart Mitchell

The Ad Council, America’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to using communications to drive social change, elected new members to its Board of Directors at its Spring meeting yesterday. The Board is chaired by Linda Boff, Chief Marketing Officer of GE. New members of the Ad Council Board of Directors include: Sabah Ashraf, CEO, North America, Superunion Tina Edmundson, Global Brand Officer & Luxury Portfolio Leader, Marriott International Tim Ellis, EVP & Chief Marketing Officer, NFL Konrad Feldman, Co-founder & CEO, Quantcast Rita Ferro, President, Disney Advertising Sales Constance Cannon Frazier,…

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German organ donors encouraged to respond to shortage of hearts with Mediaplus Group campaign for Über Leben Foundation

Stuart Mitchell

In Germany, a country with an extreme shortage of organ donors, if only you could order a life-saving organ online. After all you can buy almost everything else online, often with a next-day delivery. However, many seriously ill people wait many years for a donor heart, often dying before receiving one. So Mediaplus Group and Plan.Net Group collaborated on ‘HUMAN Heart. Out of stock’ – a campaign for the Über Leben Foundation designed to illustrate how many lives could be saved if more people signed up as a donor or…

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NBC and Telemundo Owned Stations and Michelson Found Animals Kick Off The “Fund The Shelters Challenge”

Stuart Mitchell

Michelson Found Animals Foundation, a non-profit committed to saving pets and enriching lives, and NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations (NBC and Telemundo stations), today announced the launch of the Fund The Shelters Challenge online competition. The program offers the public an opportunity to donate to participating animal welfare organizations dedicated to keeping pets out of shelters. Hundreds of organizations from across the country are registered to compete for grant money to fund life-saving programs for pets in their communities.  The Fund the Shelters Challenge borrows from the successful model of the…

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Celebrities back Call for Code 2019 Global Challenge to Support the Health and Well-Being of People and Communities affected by Natural Disasters

Stuart Mitchell

Call for Code 2019, created by leading philanthropic producer David Clark, CEO of David Clark Cause and Founding Partner IBM, is the largest engagement of developers in history. Call for Code was created in 2018 to challenge the 23 million developers around the world to help solve social challenges with sustainable software solutions. This year’s Call for Code 2019 Global Challenge focuses on supporting the health and well-being of people and communities affected by natural disasters. To show support for Call for Code and its charitable partners, celebrities, athletes and…

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World Bank and UNICEF partner to promote education, skills and training for young people

Stuart Mitchell

The World Bank and UNICEF announced a new commitment to promote education, skills and training for young people in developing countries with the goal of boosting their employment prospects. The partnership will align $1 billion in World Bank investments with Generation Unlimited, a new global initiative, currently hosted by UNICEF. The investments are also an important component of the World Bank Group’s Human Capital Project, which ismobilizing countries to deliver more effective investments in people – especially young people – as a key pathway to jobs in today’s changing world…

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