Tag: Save The Children

Pocket-sized Innovation, Giant Impact: New App and Online System Launches in South Sudan to Support Most Vulnerable Children

Stuart Mitchell

A new online database and application designed to better protect children in emergencies is today being launched in Juba by UNICEF, Save the Children and a network of child protection organizations. Developed globally but customized for South Sudan, the app contains a database of child protection cases, which frontline case workers can update and monitor in real time, removing the need for paper-based work while in the field. This innovation will drastically reduce administration time, giving case managers more time to dedicate to supporting vulnerable children. The application has the…

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Save the Children Announces $1.5 Million Grant from GSK to Enhance Disaster Relief

Stuart Mitchell

Save the Children is pleased to announce that global healthcare company GSK will donate $1.5 million over three years to help enhance the global nonprofit’s ability to respond to disasters in the United States. The donation is aimed at maximizing the impact of Save the Children’s critical work, including helping to mobilize rapid responses to help children affected by natural disasters, strengthen the capacity of staff and volunteers and increase its efficiency through data system improvements. The announcement comes in the lead up to June 1, the official start of…

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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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Join Save the Children For 100 Days of Reading!

Stuart Mitchell

Save the Children is launching its inaugural summer reading campaign in the United States – Read a Story, Change Their Story – in celebration of the global nonprofit’s 100th anniversary. The 100-day campaign, which will conclude on September 8, World Literacy Day, encourages all children, parents, teachers, librarians, caregivers and adults to log their summer reading minutes at SavetheChildren.org/READ. Participants can positively impact the lives of children growing up in rural America who do not have adequate access to early education or children’s books, while also promoting literacy in all…

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Save the Children Launches US wide Search to Honor Changemakers for Children

Stuart Mitchell

In celebration of Save the Children’s 100th year of changing children’s lives, the global nonprofit is honoring changemakers for children – individuals who have raised their voices and used their influence to drive change for the world’s most marginalized and deprived children in the United States and around the world. A changemaker for children can be anyone who is helping ensure every last child has the opportunity to grow up healthy, educated and safe and believes in a child’s right to a future. Now through June 15, the public is…

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