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ACORE Sets Investment Goal of $1 Trillion by 2030 for U.S. Renewables

Stuart Mitchell

The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), a national business group made up of companies that finance, develop, manufacture and use all forms of renewable energy, announced the launch of a new campaign that aims to reach $1 trillion in new U.S. private sector investment in renewable energy and enabling grid technologies by 2030. Through $1T 2030: The American Renewable Investment Goal, the country’s major providers of capital for energy infrastructure projects have now come together in a coordinated effort to accelerate the investment and deployment of renewable power as…

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Global Force for Good, Women Igniting Change®, Fights for Women’s Rights Around the World

Stuart Mitchell

Women Igniting Change®, a global organization that supports initiatives to improve the lives of women and girls around the world, is attracting national attention. Founder and CEO Robbin Jorgensen will deliver the keynote speech at the 170th Anniversary of the First Women’s Rights Convention. The annual celebration of the Seneca Falls Convention is held at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York. Past keynote speakers have included Elizabeth Nyamayaro, global head of the HeForShe movement and senior advisor to under-secretary-general/executive director for UN Women, as well…

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Barnardo’s calls for more help to get vulnerable young people leaving care into education, employment and training

Stuart Mitchell

Barnardo’s is calling for local authorities to find better ways to help vulnerable young people who have left care to secure an education, employment or training. As local authorities are starting work on publishing their new local offer of services for care leavers, Barnardo’s is calling on them to carefully consider what can be done to help them. Barnardo’s believes local authorities should commission improved quality services as part of their local offer for care leavers. This would include: advice on employment, training and skills a range of suitable accommodation…

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Put children at centre of government’s bid to tackle domestic abuse, urges Barnardo’s

Stuart Mitchell

The government is failing to see the full picture of the effects of domestic abuse on children, including its significant impact on children’s mental health, Barnardo’s has warned. In its response to the consultation on the Domestic Abuse and Violence Bill, the leading children’s charity says children affected by domestic violence and abuse need specialist services to help them deal with trauma and have the chance to lead healthy and happy lives. Research by Barnardo’s, which runs 14 specialist domestic abuse services, shows that children in families where there is…

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Nation’s favourite authors reveal the books that changed their lives

Stuart Mitchell

Dolly Alderton, Tracy Chevalier, Philippa Gregory, Paula Hawkins, Nick Hornby, David Nicholls, and Tara Westover are some of the nation’s best-selling authors who today reveal the books that changed their lives. All are donating books to Oxfam to boost sales in Oxfam shops and raise money for the charity’s life-changing work fighting poverty to beat it, for good. They are joined by more of the biggest names in the book world including Margaret Atwood, Germaine Greer, Mark Haddon, Victoria Hislop, DJ Greg James, Judith Kerr, Marina Lewycka, Jojo Moyes, Lisa…

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