Month: August 2019

Food Lion Feeds Announces Bold New Plans to Fight Hunger

Stuart Mitchell

To end hunger for 1 in 8 neighbors and 1 in 6 food-insecure children, Food Lion has announced its bold new plans for its hunger-relief initiative, Food Lion Feeds. To fight hunger in its operating area, Food Lion Feeds will expand its long-term partnership with Feeding America®, create new partnerships to address hunger, and is committing to donate 1 billion more meals* by the end of 2025 to its neighbors in need. Food Lion Feeds reached its previous goal of donating 500 million meals in May, nearly 18 months early.…

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YouGiveGoods Supports Save the Children’s Humanitarian Efforts at Southern U.S. Border

Stuart Mitchell

YouGiveGoods, the ecommerce charitable giving platform, is pleased to partner with Save the Children to engage sponsors and the public in raising supplies needed to bring comfort and care to children at transit shelters at the southern U.S. border. Save the Children has stepped in to provide humanitarian care and support to children and families after they’ve been released from government facilities. These are children and families who have crossed the U.S. border seeking asylum from violence and extreme poverty – a harrowing journey that can take months. Save the…

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National Geographic, in Partnership With P&G, Explores a Global Movement, a Multiplatform Docuseries Driven by Activists, Game Changers, and Policymakers

Stuart Mitchell

National Geographic announced that ACTIVATE: THE GLOBAL CITIZEN MOVEMENT, the six-part documentary series from National Geographic and Procter & Gamble, co-produced by Global Citizen and RadicalMedia, will premiere Sept. 5 at 9/8c in the U.S. and will air globally on National Geographic in 172 countries and 43 languages. ACTIVATE is a multiplatform storytelling partnership and six-part documentary series — bolstered by custom content distributed across National Geographic’s unrivaled social, digital, linear and print channels. It will raise awareness about extreme poverty, inequality and sustainability issues to mobilize Global Citizens to drive meaningful and lasting change on the Global Citizen…

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CAP – Keeping your emojions in check – using emojis in ads

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Keeping your emojions in check – using emojis in ads. 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. For most of you reading this, we suspect that at one point or another you’ve received a message or seen a post online that was filled with cartoons, gesticulations and possibly an illustrated vegetable. Perhaps it made you laugh…

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Virgin Media commits to only using 100% renewable electricity and joins RE100 initiative

Stuart Mitchell

Virgin Media has signed up to The Climate Group’s RE100 initiative, joining a group of leading businesses committed to increasing the generation and consumption of renewable electricity across the UK and around the world. Virgin Media’s 2018 Sustainability Report, published today, reveals that in 2018 it sourced 100% of its contracted electricity, used across its UK and Ireland operations, from renewable sources. Now, by joining RE100, Virgin Media is making a long term commitment to supporting the UK’s drive to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. This commitment further supports…

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