Category: News

Nutri-Grain® and Kroger Join No Kid Hungry to Help End Summer Hunger for Ohio Kids and Families

Stuart Mitchell

All kids deserve a great summer, but for millions of children who rely on school meals, summer can be the hungriest time of year. That’s why Nutri-Grain® is teaming up with Kroger to donate $50,000 to No Kid Hungry to make summer a time for all kids in Ohio to grow, learn and thrive. No Kid Hungry works with organizations, schools and community groups across the state including the Children’s Hunger Alliance and Ohio School-Based Health Alliance. When the last bell rings at the end of the school year, millions…

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Ceres supports bipartisan FOREST Act to build more responsible agricultural supply chains in the U.S. and around the world

Stuart Mitchell

On last months International Day of Forests, Ceres announced its support for the FOREST Act, bipartisan federal legislation that would leverage U.S. trade policy to protect global biodiversity and the climate by restricting the importation of foreign products from land that has been illegally deforested overseas.  “Illegal deforestation puts the global economy and climate at risk,” said Zach Friedman, director of federal policy at Ceres. “American trade policy should support the nation’s efforts to build an abundant, clean economy across all sectors, including by leveraging U.S. leadership on environmental stewardship,…

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£1.7 million for the world’s first vaccine to prevent lung cancer

Stuart Mitchell

Researchers at the University of Oxford, the Francis Crick Institute and University College London have been granted £1.7 million of funding from Cancer Research UK and the CRIS Cancer Foundation to develop a lung cancer vaccine.  The team are seeking to create ‘LungVax’, the world’s first vaccine to prevent lung cancer in people with a high risk of the disease.   From COVID-19 breakthrough to lung cancer vaccine The LungVax vaccine will use technology similar to the highly successful Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.   In the same way traditional vaccines use part…

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Apple’s Restore Fund cultivates new roots in the Atlantic Forest

Stuart Mitchell

In South America’s Atlantic Forest, many suggest that life depends on a mother: the superior matriarch who provides for all. This is true for its plants and animals, and even the trees that tower above, reaching skyward to the sun while providing shade for the life that resides in their underbrush. It is estimated there are 5,000 tree species in existence in the Atlantic Forest today. Of those species, two-thirds are threatened with extinction after centuries of exploitative, extractive practices. Restoring the rainforest — a potential 100 million-acre restoration area…

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CIPR launches new #StateofPR survey to capture views and experiences of profession

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has launched its new sector survey, aimed at understanding the working lives and views of public relations professionals. After a one-year hiatus, the ‘State of the Profession 2024’ survey returns to capture PR practitioners’ thoughts on the health of the industry. The survey explores PR’s skills landscape, its commitment to professional development, views on the reputation of PR, and how the profession is adapting to the rapid proliferation of AI tools. The insight gathered supports the CIPR to guide its policy agenda, benchmark…

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