Month: June 2019

Save the Children Launches New Centennial Initiatives in Collaboration with Global Corporate Partners

Stuart Mitchell

Save the Children have announced new details around its 100th anniversary, inclusive of new private sector partnerships in cause marketing, consumer promotions and co-created products to increase awareness, drive engagement and raise funds for the organization’s work to support the most marginalized and deprived children in the United States and around the world.  During its Centennial year, Save the Children is cultivating unique collaborations and developing strategic partnerships with corporations that share its vision of investing in childhood to address the complex global development challenges facing children, their families and…

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Global Compact Network Canada Launches the First Edition of SDGs Emerging Practice Guide

Stuart Mitchell

The Canadian network of the United Nations Global Compact, Global Compact Network Canada (GCNC), in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, has collected 40 entries from companies and nonprofits in Canada for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Emerging Practice Guide. The guide is published today and includes examples of initiatives from the following companies and organizations intended to advance action towards each of the 17 SDGs. Download the guide. “The private sector is the fuel that accelerates sustainable development at the local level. However, many businesses are unsure of where to…

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Unilever’s purpose-led brands outperform

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever has announced that its purpose-led, Sustainable Living Brands are growing 69% faster than the rest of the business and delivering 75% of the company’s growth.   The figures, which were revealed by Unilever CEO Alan Jope at the Deutsche Bank Global Consumer Conference in Paris, demonstrate that: In 2018, Unilever’s Sustainable Living Brands grew 69% faster than the rest of the business, compared to 46% in 2017; Unilever now has 28 Sustainable Living Brands – the four new entrants are Close Up (toothpaste), Wheel (laundry), Calve and Bango (dressings);…

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Wall’s ice cream to empower young people in Madagascar and the UK for a brighter future

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever UK and Ireland’s leading ice cream brand, Wall’s, has partnered with ‘Save the Children’, ‘Symrise’ and ‘ME to WE’ for consumers to see the real change Wall’s is making amongst young people in vanilla farming communities and at home. Wall’s ice cream has announced the launch of Vanilla for Change – a campaign to reinforce its support for global vanilla farmers and young people in farming communities in Madagascar, as well as its support of young changemakers across the UK through the power of education. Wall’s has been working…

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BBC Bitesize launches campaign to support more than three quarters of a million kids preparing to start secondary school

Stuart Mitchell

BBC Bitesize, working with the charity YoungMinds, is announcing its new campaign Starting Secondary School. The campaign is aimed at 10 to 12 year olds, parents and teachers and designed to help support the critical step of beginning secondary school. Packed with videos, interactive games, and tips and advice, Starting Secondary School will help children across the UK during their last term in primary school and through their critical first weeks at secondary school. In September 2019, 752,528 children will move up to secondary school across the UK. Moving from…

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