Month: September 2022

Haven First charity joins forces with One YMCA to provide more services and support for local people experiencing homelessness

Stuart Mitchell

One YMCA, a local YMCA serving Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Buckinghamshire, has announced a merger with Stevenage-based Housing Association Haven First in order to improve services and assistance for local people experiencing homelessness. Haven First will become a subsidiary of the One YMCA Group on August 1st of this year, with a full merger with YMCA planned for April 1st of next year. Haven First’s £2 million turnover is invested in 50 employees and volunteers who help vulnerable homeless people across 93 housing units in Stevenage and North Hertfordshire. Haven First…

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QVC Joins Forces With Prominent Home Brands to Support Feeding America Through the Second Annual Living For Giving Shopping Event

Stuart Mitchell

QVC, a world leader in video commerce (“vCommerce”) across linear TV, ecommerce sites, digital streaming and social platforms, and the Housewares Charity Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the home and housewares industry, have joined forces once again to present Living for Giving, a cross-platform shopping event to support Feeding America®. Following a successful campaign in 2021, the second annual Living for Giving features national name brand houseware products at discounted prices* and directs 70%** of the purchase price to benefit Feeding America’s efforts to fight hunger through a network of food…

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ABC Fine Wine & Spirits partners with National Pediatric Cancer Foundation to raise funds for childhood cancer research

Stuart Mitchell

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits (ABC), Florida’s largest family-owned and operated wine and spirits retailer, is once again partnering with National Pediatric Cancer Foundation (NPCF) and Constellation Brands to raise vital funds for childhood cancer research. ABC guests can donate at store registers or contribute by purchasing select wines from July 31 to Oct. 1, 2022. The campaign is part of National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September. “ABC and our team members throughout the state are proud to support charities that champion children and families,” said CEO Charles Bailes…

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Macy’s And Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) Raise Over $1.52 Million In July Campaign Supporting Children’s Literacy

Stuart Mitchell

In support of providing books and reading resources to children living in our nation’s most under-resourced communities, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and Macy’s announced that over $1.5 million was raised last month as part of Macy’s Mission Every One social purpose initiative, which included an in-store round-up and online donation campaign to support student literacy across the country. Funds raised during the campaign will support RIF’s Race, Equity and Inclusion work providing diverse books and reading resources to underserved communities in an effort to help close the literacy gap, while also supporting RIF’s…

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Frixion Launches The “Frixion For Good” Campaign Supporting Girls Who Code

Stuart Mitchell

This back-to-school season, Pilot Corporation of America (Pilot Pen) and its line of erasable FriXion pens – the first and only pens to earn STEM Authenticated™ status from STEM.org – is excited to announce its “FriXion for Good” campaign. The campaign is inspired by the science that powers thermo-sensitive, erasable FriXion, and is designed to benefit STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) students and supports STEM education. From August 3 through November 8, 2022, Pilot will donate 25 percent of the profits (up to $50,000) from every purchase of the…

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