Tag: centenary

Save the Children Launches New Centennial Initiatives in Collaboration with Global Corporate Partners

Stuart Mitchell

Save the Children have announced new details around its 100th anniversary, inclusive of new private sector partnerships in cause marketing, consumer promotions and co-created products to increase awareness, drive engagement and raise funds for the organization’s work to support the most marginalized and deprived children in the United States and around the world.  During its Centennial year, Save the Children is cultivating unique collaborations and developing strategic partnerships with corporations that share its vision of investing in childhood to address the complex global development challenges facing children, their families and…

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Save the Children Celebrates 100 Years of Progress for Children

Stuart Mitchell

Save the Children, the first global movement for children, is commemorating its 100th anniversary over the course of 2019. The organization’s mission continues to be doing whatever it takes for the most vulnerable children in the United States and around the world.   A century ago a young English woman, Eglantyne Jebb, launched a pioneering campaign to save suffering children across war-torn Europe. She was visionary in her belief that children have individual rights and dedicated her life to holding the world accountable to ensuring children’s rights are realized. In…

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National charity celebrates 100 years of support for rural communities across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

On 17 January 1919, Sir Horace Plunkett signed an indenture which became the original trust deed for the Plunkett Foundation. Sir Horace believed strongly in the power of co-operation to achieve sustainable local development and the purpose of the Foundation was to promote the model of community ownership as a solution to rural problems. The fact that 100 years later communities throughout the UK and beyond are increasingly using this community business model as a means of safeguarding or reintroducing local services and assets is testament to the vision of…

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