Day: 15 May 2023

Goodnites® Announces National Campaign and Partnership with the Autism Society of America to Raise Awareness and Provide Solutions for Bedwetting Needs of Families with Neurodivergent Children

Stuart Mitchell

Goodnites, the #1 bedwetting underwear1 brand, announced a new partnership with the Autism Society of America, America’s largest and oldest grassroots Autism organization, to educate, support, and provide solutions for families of children with Autism who are in need of a longer-term bedwetting solution. Since inventing the absorbent bedwetting underwear category in 1994, Goodnites has been committed to empowering users to have a dry night’s sleep and wake up awesome! Its bedwetting underwear is designed to provide children ages 3 to 17 a dry night’s sleep with 35% fewer leaks2. While…

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First world record for 2024 TCS London Marathon Ballot

Stuart Mitchell

For the first time in history, more than half a million people have applied for a marathon as 578,374 hopefuls from the UK and across the globe enter the ballot for the 2024 TCS London Marathon, setting a new world record. The previous world record total of 457,861 applications was set pre-pandemic in 2019 by applicants for the 2020 London Marathon. The total number of UK applications for 2024 was 457,105, of which 242,119 were applications from men (52.9% of the total), 212,179 from women (46.4% of the total) and…

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Legacy giving up 43% in the past decade

Stuart Mitchell

Remember a Charity’s latest consumer benchmarking study, carried out by independent research firm OKO, shows that legacy giving has risen by 43% over the past decade, with 20% of UK charity supporters aged 40+ now saying they have left a charitable gift in their Will, compared with 14% in 2013. The study* surveys more than 2,000 charity donors aged 40+ to track legacy giving attitudes and behaviour year-on-year, and found that one in five supporters said they had already included a charity in their Will (20%), with just over one…

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During a Record-Setting Year of Anti-LGBTQ+ Attacks, 300+ Major U.S. Companies Voice Opposition to Anti-Equality Legislation

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, announced that more than 300 major U.S. companies have spoken out against attacks on the LGBTQ+ community by signing on to HRC’s business statement on anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. The list of signatories, which has grown by 50% since the beginning of 2022, presents a unified message that anti-equality legislation is also anti-business, underscoring that assaults on LGBTQ+ rights contradict U.S. public opinion and decades of progress in the workforce. The business letter was…

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Community Fridges to go beyond food redistribution with funding boost

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub is broadening the impact of the Community Fridge Network, through food hub funding which will help local residents to learn new food and growing skills and connect with their neighbours. Last year, with support from the Rothschild Foundation, Hubbub piloted food hubs at 14 community fridges. Participants reported adopting a more varied diet, discovering new recipes and feeling more connected to their local community. Following the pilot, 50 more community fridges were awarded food hub funding with support from Co-op and the Starbucks Foundation. Starbucks has committed…

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