Year: 2020

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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Kellogg Grant Expands Illinois Conservation Program Supporting Farmers to Adapt to Climate Change, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Stuart Mitchell

As part of Kellogg’s Better Days commitment to support 1 million farmers by the end of 2030, the company is collaborating with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to expand the Saving Tomorrow’s Agriculture Resources (S.T.A.R.) initiative in Illinois. Thanks to a grant from Kellogg, 50 additional farmers managing more than 31,000 acres of Illinois farmland used S.T.A.R. to limit erosion, improve water quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions on their farm since 2019. TNC was instrumental in the program as they provided on the ground support to help farmers adopt climate-smart agriculture…

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