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Samaritans is proud to lead new suicide prevention consortium

Stuart Mitchell

The Department of Health and Social Care announced the members of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Alliance for 2021-24, including the new Suicide Prevention Consortium, led by Samaritans. The consortium, includes the Samaritans, National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA), Support After Suicide Partnership (SASP) and With You, aims to harness the collaborative efforts of its members to identify and prevent inequalities which lead to increased risk of suicide. The VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance is made up of 19 members from across the voluntary sector in…

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PepsiCo Launches $50 Million Juntos Crecemos Platform to Support Hispanic-Owned Businesses Across the U.S.

Stuart Mitchell

 PepsiCo, Inc. has announced Juntos Crecemos, (Together We Grow), a $50 million platform aimed at strengthening Hispanic-owned businesses, specifically restaurants, bodegas and carnicerías (meat markets), addressing foundational business challenges, and supporting business growth over the next five years. Juntos Crecemos is part of PepsiCo’s Racial Equality Journey Hispanic Initiative, a $172 million set of commitments launched in October of last year. According to a study by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Hispanic-owned businesses alone contribute over $800 billion in economic activity and play a central role in their communities.…

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After ‘code red’ warning, Ceres launches new effort to transform six of the highest emitting sectors

Stuart Mitchell

Ceres has launched a new initiative aimed at decarbonizing six of the highest-emitting sectors and advancing the global transition to a zero emissions future at the pace and scale necessary in order to prevent further catastrophic impacts from the climate crisis. Last month, the world’s leading scientists sounded the alarm that the crisis is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, a warning that underlines the urgency of this effort. The Ceres Ambition 2030 initiative focuses on the electric power, food, oil and gas, steel, banking and transportation sectors—which together are responsible for…

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ACLU, Be A Hero’s Ady Barkan Launch Ad Campaign Urging Arizonans To Tell Sen. Sinema ‘Home Care Can’t Wait’

Stuart Mitchell

Ady Barkan, health care advocate and Be A Hero co-founder, joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union on a powerful new television and digital ad campaign in Arizona. The campaign aims to pressure Congress to include the $400 billion investment in home and community-based services (HCBS) promised by President Biden in the budget reconciliation package. The ads feature the stories of Arizona residents who rely on home care to survive at home with their loved ones. They close with an urgent plea to call Sen. Sinema and tell her,…

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AdTheorent Partners with the Ad Council to Support the “Belonging Begins with Us” Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

AdTheorent, Inc., a programmatic digital advertising leader using advanced machine learning technology and solutions to deliver real-world value for advertisers and marketers, and the Ad Council, a national nonprofit that mobilizes the energy and talents of the communications industry to make a measurable impact on the most critical social issues of today, today announced campaign results from the “Belonging Begins with Us” digital advertising campaign. The goal of the campaign was to promote inclusive communities and spread the “Belonging Begins with Us” message. The Situation: “Belonging Begins with Us” is a national campaign dedicated to…

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