Two Alabama Teens Receive National Recognition for Helping Create & Pass Alabama’s First-Ever Period Poverty Law

Brooke and Breanna Bennett, Co-Founders of Women in Training, Inc. (WIT), were recognized on March 28 for their tremendous advocacy work – helping to create and pass Alabama’s “period poverty” law in April 2022, which allocates $200,000 to the Alabama Department of Education to provide grants for menstrual products to students in Title I schools. Engage – a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting women’s economic security through bipartisan and commonsense solutions – honored Brooke and Breanna with the first-ever Engage Woman Award for Non-Profit Leadership – making them the youngest…

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Coca-Cola Helps Fuel Atlanta Startup Ecosystem with Investment in Engage Collaborative Innovation and Corporate Venture Platform

The Coca-Cola Company is joining Engage—a collaborative innovation and corporate venture program comprised of Fortune 500 corporations, enterprise startups and research universities—to pursue a shared mission to elevate Atlanta and the Southeast as a leading technology and innovation hub. The investment fund in support of the Engage program, managed by Tech Square Ventures, is backed by 14 Atlanta-based corporations representing 13 unique industries, including Delta Air Lines, Invesco, Cox Enterprises, The Home Depot, UPS and Chick-fil-A. Early-stage, B2B enterprise tech startups are selected for the bi-annual 10-week Engage Program in…

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CIPR launches ‘Engage’ – a new PR podcast series. Episode 1: Doing Diversity Differently

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has launched a new podcast series – ‘Engage’ – with an episode on diversity in the public relations profession. The new series is by PR practitioners, for PR practitioners and will dig deep into the challenges and opportunities facing the PR and comms profession. Each quarter it will bring a range of perspectives to the discussions from across the industry, offering insight and analysis – whatever stage you are in your PR and comms career. Doing Diversity Differently The first episode of ‘Engage’ explores the struggle the PR profession…

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