Day: 9 June 2024

New education partnerships for CISL announced

Stuart Mitchell

CISL is delighted to announce two exciting new partnerships with organisations delivering sector-leading sustainability education.   For over three decades, CISL has drawn upon leading academics, practitioners and innovators to help inform business strategy and inspire action through education. Through these partnerships we aim to continue inspiring global action towards sustainability leadership, drawing on innovative, engaging, and accessible new developments in the education landscape.   WeESG WeESG provide leading training and advisory services for sustainable finance. WeESG’s mission is to empower the global finance sector to successfully embrace sustainable finance.…

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Media Smart & Advertising Association Publish Political Advertising Guide

Stuart Mitchell

Media Smart, the advertising and media industry’s education programme, has partnered with the Advertising Association, the UK advertising industry trade body, to publish ‘What’s the deal with political advertising?’. The new 10-point guide aims to help people, especially young people preparing to vote for the first time, understand ads they may see ahead of this year’s local, mayoral, and general elections. It comes as data from UK advertising thinktank, Credos, shows 44% of people are concerned about political advertising, with people significantly less likely to trust political advertising (29%) than…

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Coalition Of Local And International Groups Launch Fundraising Campaign To Protect ‘Yosemite Of South America’ Forever

Stuart Mitchell

Led by Chilean NGO Puelo Patagonia, the campaign Conserva Puchegüín is working urgently to raise $78 million to purchase and protect 325,000 acres in Chilean Patagonia.   The campaign has two years to raise the money needed to protect the Cochamó Valley, also known as the “Yosemite of South America” by rock climbers around the globe. The area features thousand-meter granite walls, glacier-crowned peaks, rivers, plunging waterfalls and massive groves of alerce trees, plus endangered and endemic species, and many small communities with traditional ways of life. Puelo Patagonia and The Nature…

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OAAA Reveals Winners Of 82nd Annual OBIE Awards, Dunkin’ Named As Newest Obie Hall Of Fame Inductee

Stuart Mitchell

The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), the leading trade group representing the entire out of home (OOH) advertising industry, today announced the winners of the 82nd annual OBIE Awards. For the past eight decades, the prestigious OBIE Awards have been synonymous with creative excellence, shining a light on the most creative and innovative work across the out of home space and signaling the future for the industry. The OBIE Awards were co-hosted by OAAA’s EVP of Strategy & Growth Jeff Jan and Digital Prophet & Industry Luminary…

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The University of Florida Takes Top Honors in PRSSA’s Annual Bateman Case Study Competition

Stuart Mitchell

PRSSA announced recently that The University of Florida  was named the winner of the 2024 Bateman Case Study Competition. Earning second place was Montclair State University, with third place going to Brigham Young University. The finalists were among 45 entries from colleges and universities across the nation. PRSSA teamed up with Culturs, the global multicultural magazine, for the annual event that originated in 1973. Students were tasked with creating awareness of the publication on college campuses and its mission to enhance community and foster human connection of culturally fluid communities…

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