Month: June 2020

Sparking the Next Generation of Young Scientists with Science at Home

Stuart Mitchell

With nearly 55 million students across the US still homebound due to COVID-19, STEM education has now moved from the classroom to the home. To facilitate science-based distance-learning, 3M is helping students and educators with the all-new Science at Home video series. Created in partnership with the Bakken Museum and Discovery Education, 3M Science at Home offers students ages 6-12 a series of fun and educational science experiments that can be easily completed at home using commonly found household items. These experiments, led by 3M scientists and special guests (like…

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Save the Children’s 100 Days of Reading Campaign Supports Summer Learning, Kids in Rural America in Wake of COVID-19 Closures

Stuart Mitchell

Save the Children is launching its second annual summer reading campaign in the United States – Read a Story, Change Their Story. With this spring’s unprecedented, nationwide school closures due to coronavirus concerns, summer 2020 will be the longest of children’s lives. The 100-day campaign aims to curb summer learning loss while providing support and resources for kids growing up in rural America. 100 Days of Reading encourages all children, parents, teachers, librarians, caregivers and adults to log their summer reading minutes at SavetheChildren.org/READ through September 8, which also marks…

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CAP – Showing some Pride in your marketing

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released an opinion piece, originally in the Guardian, called: Showing some Pride in your marketing. 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. It’s been 48 years since the first march through London streets and over that time the meaning of Pride has evolved making it as much a celebration as an important reminder that the fight for equality has not…

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Republic Services Announces National Nonprofit Partners for $3 Million Small Business Revitalization Effort

Stuart Mitchell

Republic Services, Inc. has announced that it will partner with three national nonprofit organizations on a $3 million effort to help revitalize locally owned small businesses across America that have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Republic Services Charitable Foundation is providing $1 million grants to longstanding partners Rebuilding Together, Habitat for Humanity International and NeighborWorks America as part of the Company’s $20 million Committed to Serve initiative. “Small businesses are the economic engines of our local communities, and they are the cornerstone of strong and vibrant neighborhoods,” said…

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World’s Largest Lesson Launches Free Learning Resource to Engage Young Children in Making the World a Better Place

Stuart Mitchell

The World’s Largest Lesson, in partnership with UNICEF and supported by Hasbro, has launched Explorers for the Global Goals, a set of free learning resources that give children aged 4-8 the opportunity to explore simple concepts around global issues and develop skills for life. Since 2015 The World’s Largest Lesson has been committed to introducing children and young people everywhere to the Global Goals, a historic 17-point plan agreed upon by world leaders of the United Nations to end poverty, tackle inequality and fight climate change. In 2019, The World’s…

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