Day: 4 September 2020

CAPRI SUN Donates 5 Million Pouches of CAPRI SUN Filtered Water to School Districts as Schools Turn Off Water Fountains

Stuart Mitchell

While every schools’ plan to return looks different this year, kids know that recess will be on recess, masks won’t just be for Halloween and that water fountains will be off limits. CAPRI SUN knows this is a hard time for kids, so to help students have a safe and fun way to get water this school year, the brand is swapping its juice for filtered water. CAPRI SUN is donating 5 million filtered water pouches to schools in the Chicagoland area and Granite City, where its factory is located.…

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Mielle Organics Launches #MoreThanAStrand Campaign to Provide Educational, Entrepreneurial, Economic Empowerment and Business Investment for Women of Color Around the Globe

Stuart Mitchell

At the forefront of today’s natural hair care movement, Chicago-based all-natural skin and hair brand Mielle Organics is pleased to announce the expansion of their global philanthropic footprint with the #MoreThanAStrand campaign to empower women and young girls around the globe with education, entrepreneurship opportunities, and economic prosperity. With the COVID-19 global pandemic affecting many businesses across the world, Mielle Organics is taking action to support recovery efforts with the launch of the #MoreThanAStrand campaign with an up to $1 Million fund to invest in communities in North America, the…

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Easterseals Disability Film Challenge: Home Edition Winners Announced at a Star-Studded Awards Ceremony

Stuart Mitchell

Recently a virtual “orange” carpet was rolled out by Sony Pictures for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge: Home Edition Awards Ceremony. The annual Film Challenge empowers filmmakers, with or without disabilities, to tell unique a stories, providing opportunities for inclusion and representation for the world’s largest minority group. In response to the pandemic, filmmakers were challenged to make a documentary short, all from the safety of their homes. Challenge participants had five days to craft their film, with the flexibility to incorporate previously shot footage in order to tell the…

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International Paper and The Nature Conservancy Expand Work to Scale Natural Climate Solutions in North America

Stuart Mitchell

The Nature Conservancy and International Paper Company, one of the world’s largest packaging, pulp and paper companies, recently completed the first of a two-phase effort to develop a suite of state-of-the-art forestry practices that others can use to create long-term solutions to global climate challenges. With initial work completed in Indonesia and Gabon, the partners are scaling up these efforts to inform responsible forestry, carbon sequestration and biodiversity monitoring in the Central Appalachian region of the U.S. and in Mexico. This work reaches beyond International Paper’s traditional supply chain in…

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Duke Energy Progress Extends Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion to Financial Sector

Stuart Mitchell

Duke Energy Progress, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, has successfully closed a $700 million debt offering with the help of seven diverse and minority-owned financial firms. This transaction, which involved African American-, disabled-veteran-, Hispanic- and women-owned brokerage firms as co-underwriters to sell the notes, marks the fourth significant transaction since 2016 by a Duke Energy franchise that engaged diversity-owned financial institutions as it raises low-cost capital for investments in cleaner, smarter energy infrastructure. Duke Energy Ohio, Duke Energy Florida and Piedmont Natural Gas have also completed similar transactions. “As we…

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