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£475K for Refill Infrastructure projects announced in second round of UK Circular Plastics Flagship Projects grants

Stuart Mitchell

WRAP has announced Round 2 of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) competition to find innovative solutions to plastic waste. £475,000 will be awarded in Refill Infrastructure grants of between £50,000 – £150,000 for projects that trial new ways to implement refill infrastructure within an existing or new supply chain. Successful projects in Round 2 will have strong commercial potential to reduce the use of single use primary plastic packaging. Assessors are looking for inventive proposals that will challenge the status quo and change the way retailers and their suppliers…

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The Coca-Cola Foundation, Keep America Beautiful Announce Public Space Recycling Bin Grant Recipients

Stuart Mitchell

National nonprofit Keep America Beautiful® and The Coca-Cola Foundation has announced the recipients of their 2019 Coca-Cola Public Spaces Recycling Bin Grant Program in a combined effort to improve recycling collection in more public space locations throughout the country. The 2019 program is distributing public space recycling bins to 31 organizations, including Keep America Beautiful community-based affiliates as well as government agencies, colleges and universities, and Native American tribal locations in 19 states. For the past 13 years, The Coca-Cola Foundation has supported the program, which has donated recycling bins…

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Duke Energy Invests Over $3.6 Million to Build Diverse Workforce of the Future

Stuart Mitchell

Duke Energy has announced it is awarding over $3.6 million in grants to support 54 innovative workforce development programs across the communities served by the company. “Our goal is to build a diverse workforce equipped to help the energy industry transform the grid and innovate to meet customers’ needs,” said Cari Boyce, president of the Duke Energy Foundation. “The energy sector generates an abundance of well-paid, dynamic jobs, and we want to ensure nontraditional students have access to these opportunities.” The 2019 Powerful Communities grants, from the Duke Energy Foundation with…

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The PepsiCo Foundation Announces Grants to Charities in New Bern, North Carolina, the “Birthplace” of Pepsi-Cola

Stuart Mitchell

The PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, and Minges Bottling Group, Inc., announced two grants that will support charities based in New Bern, N.C. – the birthplace of Pepsi-Cola. The Foundation will give $25,000 donations to both the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina‘s 2018 Stop Summer Hunger Program and the Craven County Disaster Recovery Alliance to help support the communities affected by the recent storms. The funding is being announced in conjunction with PepsiCo’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders, taking place today in New…

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Maria Shriver’s Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement Awards Seven Grants To Accelerate Gender-Based Research In Alzheimer’s Disease

Stuart Mitchell

The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement™ (WAM) is proud to announce today that it has awarded seven research grants to leading scientific institutions actively seeking to understand why Alzheimer’s disease disproportionately affects more women than men. This year’s grants bring WAM’s research funding total to $1.5 million in just three years since the program began. In addition to expanding studies already underway, this year’s grants will also fund promising and innovative new science at several of the nation’s leading research institutions. The 2018 WAM grant recipients include: Center for Innovation in Brain…

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