Month: March 2021

Walmart, Sam’s Club and the Walmart Foundation Announce Winter Weather Response Efforts to Help Those Affected by Recent Storms

Stuart Mitchell

With the catastrophic storms, power outages and water shortages affecting Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi, Walmart, Sam’s Club and the Walmart Foundation are committing up to $1 million in cash and in-kind product donations to help with response efforts. As part of the commitment, funds will support Feeding Texas’ emergency response efforts in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, the Rio Grande Valley and other areas across the state impacted by winter weather. Food banks in these areas are working hard to set up critical distribution locations to connect those in…

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Asda donates over half a million meals from its depots

Stuart Mitchell

In partnership with food redistribution charity The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT) Asda has donated nearly half a million meals to support those in need. Supporting those most in need across the region, Asda has donated surplus food equating to 534,848 meals, which have been distributed to thousands of families. In April 2020, TBBT experienced a 460% increase in need year-on-year due to the Coronavirus pandemic and, in the following months to December, membership grew by 50% from 8,000 to 12,000 members with the charity providing 3.2m meals, which have…

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CAP – The (mis)use of social media beauty filters when advertising cosmetic products

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: The (mis)use of social media beauty filters when advertising cosmetic products. 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. Beauty filters are designed to enhance a person’s appearance and are included as in-app features on social media, including on Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat. They are becoming increasingly popular and are often applied when sharing selfies to social…

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Sierra Nevada Partners With American Recycling to Create Nation’s Largest Brewery Recycling Cooperative

Stuart Mitchell

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and American Recycling of Western North Carolina (WNC) have announced the formation of the Western North Carolina Brewery Recycling Cooperative and the upcoming opening of a new recycling drop-off site near Asheville. The cooperative and the new drop-off site, which is set to open in the coming months, will create infrastructure for the area’s 80+ breweries to recycle common industry wastes currently going to landfill. “The cooperative is an effort to pool resources and leverage our shared economy of size to make a real difference in…

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ServiceNow Launches $100 Million Fund to Build Equitable Opportunities for Black Communities

Stuart Mitchell

ServiceNow, the leading digital workflow company that makes work, work better for people, today announced the creation of the ServiceNow Racial Equity Fund. This $100 million investment fund is designed to drive more sustainable wealth creation by funding homeownership, entrepreneurship, and neighborhood revitalization within Black communities in 10 regions across the United States. Managed by RBC Global Asset Management’s impact investing team on behalf of ServiceNow, the fund aims to strengthen under-resourced communities by overcoming systemic barriers that lead to inequitable access to capital. “ServiceNow’s purpose is to make the…

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