Month: September 2020

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Award $10,000 to 2020 Stronger Than Hate Challenge Winners

Stuart Mitchell

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation), and Discovery Education announced today the winners of the 2020 Stronger Than Hate Challenge. The Challenge and the 2020 winners exemplify the power of youth voices to connect communities and the role of social and emotional learning in empowering students to overcome hate. The Stronger Than Hate Challenge encourages students ages 13+ in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada to work individually or in groups of 2-4 to submit multimedia projects demonstrating the power of…

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Walmart and Schneider Electric Announce Groundbreaking Collaboration to Help Suppliers Access Renewable Energy

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart Inc. and Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced a new collaboration that will provide increased access to renewable energy for Walmart’s U.S.-based suppliers, enabling them to lead on climate action. The groundbreaking initiative, called the Gigaton PPA (GPPA) Program, is designed to educate Walmart suppliers about renewable energy purchases and accelerate renewable energy adoption by participating suppliers through aggregate power purchase agreements (PPA). The program directly supports Walmart’s Project Gigaton, which aims to avoid one gigaton (one billion metric tons)…

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Anheuser-Busch Providing Hand Sanitizer in Support of 2020 Elections

Stuart Mitchell

In support of its ‘Brew Democracy’ initiative designed to increase participation in the political process and bring the nation’s political leaders together, Anheuser-Busch is producing and donating more than eight million ounces of hand sanitizer to  polling locations across the United States for this November’s General Election.     In coordination with the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Anheuser-Busch will distribute the hand sanitizer to state election offices that have requested it to help ensure the…

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Achates Philanthropy Prize 2020 Reimagined In Response To The Covid-19 Pandemic

Stuart Mitchell

The Achates Philanthropy Prize, the national campaign to promote support of the arts, returns for its fifth year in 2020, reimagined in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating impact on the creative sector. Launched in 2016 to raise awareness of the arts as charitable organisations that play an important role in society, the Achates Philanthropy Prize promotes the democratisation of arts organisations and arts philanthropy. In previous years, the Prize has asked cultural organisations across all art forms to nominate an individual, group, trust or company that has…

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Clear Channel partners with Outvertising and One Minute Briefs to help drive inclusive creativity

Stuart Mitchell

Clear Channel joined forces with Outvertising, a not-for-profit, voluntary LGBTQ+ advertising advocacy group, to display artworks designed by the One Minute Briefs community, based on a brief set out earlier this year. The brief was to create posters that encourage the creative industry to be more inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community. Running across our Billboard Live, Malls Live, and LGBTQ+ Socialite network nationwide, the thought-provoking creatives aim to generate a rallying call to the advertising industry and highlight the need and benefits of creating more LGBTQ+ inclusive advertising for both…

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