Month: April 2020

Intel Commits $50 Million with Pandemic Response Technology Initiative to Combat Coronavirus

Stuart Mitchell

Intel is pledging an additional $50 million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat the coronavirus through accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care, speeding scientific research and ensuring access to online learning for students. Included in Intel’s effort is an additional innovation fund for requests where access to Intel expertise and resources can have immediate impact. This is in addition to prior announcements of $10 million in donations that are supporting local communities during this critical time. The world faces an enormous challenge in fighting…

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Regional Plastics Pact for Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Island Nations

Stuart Mitchell

The Plastics Pact network will expand to include Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Island nations. The ANZPAC Plastics Pact was announced by The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) at the Federal Government’s National Plastics Summit in Canberra, Australia on 2nd March. A first in the Pacific region, the ANZPAC Plastics Pact will work with businesses, governments, and NGOs from across the plastics value chain towards a circular economy for plastic, in which it never becomes waste or pollution. APCO will lead the development of the ANZPAC Plastics Pact towards…

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Save the Children Becomes First Nonprofit to be Certified Gender Fair

Stuart Mitchell

Gender Fair®, the world’s first consumer rating system for gender equality, announced today that Save the Children is Gender Fair-certified, making the global humanitarian organization the first nonprofit and first non-governmental organization (NGO) to achieve this designation. Gender Fair’s certification is based on a proprietary methodology derived from the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles. Gender Fair reviews and measures a company’s gender metrics across four categories – leadership, employee policies, advertising and philanthropy/purpose – and then calculates a gender equity score. Though most consumers (84 percent) expect companies to support women’s…

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UNICEF and UNFPA renew multi-country initiative to protect millions of girls from child marriage

Stuart Mitchell

A multi-country initiative to end child marriage and help protect the rights of millions of girls worldwide will be renewed for an additional four years, UNICEF and UNFPA announced. By 2023, the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage will reach over 14 million adolescent girls across 12 countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia  with direct services. The programme – which first launched in 2016 – also involves families, educators, health providers, governments, and religious and traditional leaders as part of the global effort to end child…

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SC Johnson and Save the Children Join Forces to Equip a Generation With the Life Skills to Battle COVID-19 and Future Public Health Threats

Stuart Mitchell

With a goal of enabling this generation of children to better protect themselves and their communities, SC Johnson and Save the Children are partnering to educate and enable children worldwide to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. This new partnership will focus on helping children and their loved ones respond to this and future public health threats. SC Johnson is donating $1 million to help vulnerable and marginalized children around the world. This donation will support Save the Children programs that shine a light on the importance of personal hygiene and…

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