Month: November 2019

Winners of the Waitrose & Partners Sustainability Awards announced

Stuart Mitchell

This month marked the 7th annual Waitrose & Partners Sustainability Awards, which this year saw 100 businesses enter the application process. The Sustainability awards celebrate businesses that work in collaboration with Waitrose across own brand and branded categories. Specifically, it honours those businesses that have found innovative solutions to combat some of the extreme environmental and social challenges of our time, including climate change, plastic pollution, modern slavery and inequality. Tor Harris, Head of CSR at Waitrose & Partners, comments: “We work with some truly remarkable businesses and these awards…

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It’s Not Too Late: A Message from The Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Ad Council to the 34 Million Adults Without a High School Diploma

Stuart Mitchell

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Ad Council have announced a new Finish Your Diploma campaign aimed at reminding the approximately 34 million U.S. adults without a high school diploma (roughly the equivalent of California’s population) that it is not too late to pursue their academic dreams. The Finish Your Diploma campaign highlights real stories of adults who completed their degree with the support of friends, family and local education centers. The campaign is a longstanding, successful collaboration between The Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Ad Council, which…

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Trolls Exploit Weaknesses Of Social Media Platforms To Spread Online Hate, New ADL Report Finds

Stuart Mitchell

Social media platform design enables online harassment, as trolls often carry out coordinated attacks on a target by leveraging key platform features, according to a new report released today by ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). Such features include the ability to be anonymous online, to create multiple accounts by one person, the fact that there is no limit to the number of messages one user can send to another, and the use of personal networks as weaponized audiences. Trolls do not, however, exclusively exploit the design of platforms to cause harm,…

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NFL Quarterback Philip Rivers and Wife, Tiffany, Launch ‘Change the Game™’ Diabetes Awareness Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

On World Diabetes Day, NFL Los Angeles Chargers Quarterback Philip Rivers and wife, Tiffany, announce the ‘Change the Game’™ campaign kicking off today with a commitment to raise funds and awareness for Type 1 Diabetes through the swimwear brand co-founded by Tiffany Rivers and partner Marissa DeLecce, Hermoza. Hermoza has teamed up with three of the top recognized charities – JDRF, Insulin for Life and Diabetes Research Connection (DRC) to raise funds through the ‘Change the Game™’ contest campaign. With the purchase of a custom-designed ‘Change the Game™’ campaign hat or t-shirt for $30…

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American Diabetes Association® and VSP® Vision Care Collaborate on Public Health Initiative to Save Sight in People with Diabetes

Stuart Mitchell

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) have announced a new collaboration with VSP® Vision Care, a VSP Global® company which serves nearly 90 million members as the largest and only national not-for-profit vision benefits provider, to focus on an often overlooked but costly and devastating complication of diabetes: eye disease. This initiative will focus on the crucial role annual comprehensive eye exams play in the early detection, intervention and prevention of eye disease and vision loss caused by diabetes. “Diabetic eye disease is one of the complications of diabetes, affecting a…

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