Month: March 2020

Power to Change Launches Environmental Theme for Community Business Weekend 2020

Stuart Mitchell

National ambassadors, a new podcast series, a dedicated PR campaign and consumer research will all play a part in the run-up to Power to Change’s annual celebration of community businesses, Community Business Weekend 2020. The annual open doors event, which will run from Thursday, May 14 to Sunday, May 17, will have an environmental theme for 2020. Community businesses, their customers, staff and volunteers will be able to share success stories and swap ideas on how to improve their local neighbourhood, on the small steps that can help to solve…

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Cannes Lions Confirms First Sessions For 2020 Festival

Stuart Mitchell

This year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity will feature sessions from some of the world’s fastest-growing brands, including Netflix, Amazon, Burger King and Microsoft. Along with creative legends that include David Droga and Rob Reilly, they will share how they have used creativity to unlock brand growth and marketing effectiveness. At last year’s Festival, Burger King won both the Titanium Grand Prix and the very first Creative Brand of the Year award. In their 2020 session, Fernando Machado, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Burger King, will call out to the…

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The Starbucks Foundation awards 2020 Origin Grants to empower women and girls

Stuart Mitchell

Women have the potential to empower and transform lives in coffee- and tea-growing communities. Since International Women’s Day 2018, The Starbucks Foundation has been working toward a goal to empower 250,000 women and girls in origin communities by 2025. This effort has already made a difference in the lives of more than 66,000 women through programs around women’s leadership, access to finance, and healthy homes in coffee- and tea-growing communities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Over the past year, The Starbucks Foundation has awarded additional Origin Grants to help…

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Show Gender Inequality the Red Card: the Global Launch of the “Equal Light Red Card” Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

“We aim to obtain a minimum of 1 million signatures demonstrating broader unacceptance of gender inequality globally by the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar”, partners across different sectors pledged at the “Equal Light Red Card” global campaign launched on March 6 at the United Nations New York Headquarters. UNESCO joined the African Renaissance and Diaspora Network (ARDN) and FIFA in launching the “Equal Light Red Card” global campaign, calling on all parties to show the red card to all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls. The…

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DOEN joins the Foundation’s Food initiative as Philanthropic Partner

Stuart Mitchell

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Food initiative is welcoming the DOEN Foundation as its newest Philanthropic Partner. Based in the Netherlands, DOEN will support the initiative in its mission to stimulate a global shift towards a regenerative food system based on the principles of a circular economy. Emma Chow, Ellen MacArthur Foundation Food initiative lead, said: “We are looking forward to working with DOEN to help drive innovations that can support the realisation of our vision of a circular economy for food a reality. By transforming the global food system we…

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