Tag: Save The Children

Save the Children Becomes First Nonprofit to be Certified Gender Fair

Stuart Mitchell

Gender Fair®, the world’s first consumer rating system for gender equality, announced today that Save the Children is Gender Fair-certified, making the global humanitarian organization the first nonprofit and first non-governmental organization (NGO) to achieve this designation. Gender Fair’s certification is based on a proprietary methodology derived from the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles. Gender Fair reviews and measures a company’s gender metrics across four categories – leadership, employee policies, advertising and philanthropy/purpose – and then calculates a gender equity score. Though most consumers (84 percent) expect companies to support women’s…

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SC Johnson and Save the Children Join Forces to Equip a Generation With the Life Skills to Battle COVID-19 and Future Public Health Threats

Stuart Mitchell

With a goal of enabling this generation of children to better protect themselves and their communities, SC Johnson and Save the Children are partnering to educate and enable children worldwide to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. This new partnership will focus on helping children and their loved ones respond to this and future public health threats. SC Johnson is donating $1 million to help vulnerable and marginalized children around the world. This donation will support Save the Children programs that shine a light on the importance of personal hygiene and…

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Save the Children works with drama group to spread life-saving messages to halt spread of COVID-19

Stuart Mitchell

A fleet of vehicles equipped with loudspeakers and signboards have been on the move through North Darfur and Kordofan in Sudan, sharing messages about handwashing, social distancing and other ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Save the Children has recruited a local drama group to bring life and animation to the messages, which are also being played on local radios as well as fixed loudspeakers. In front of a hospital in Kordofan, the group demonstrated social distancing and distributed leaflets on COVID-19 prevention, while also broadcasting messages on loudspeakers.…

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The number of girls on the move at a record high – Pippi Longstocking supports vulnerable but courageous group

Stuart Mitchell

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the first published book about Pippi Longstocking. To commemorate this jubilee, The Astrid Lindgren Company and Save the Children are launching the global campaign “Pippi of Today”, a collaboration to create awareness and raise money for Save the Children’s work for girls on the move. Many companies from all around the world are joining in on the international campaign “Pippi of Today”, which takes place in the Nordics, USA, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands and Switzerland among other places. Through limited edition…

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Save the Children Adds More Cryptocurrency Capability

Stuart Mitchell

Global humanitarian organization Save the Children have announced the relaunch of its cryptocurrency fundraising capability, they restarted it right in time for #BitcoinTuesday, (Dec. 3), which offers a cryptocurrency twist on Giving Tuesday, a day held on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving that encourages philanthropy. As part of this initiative, Save the Children is now able to accept multiple cryptocurrencies in an automated way through its website (www.savethechildren.org/bitcoin) including Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum (ETH), Zcash (ZEC), Litecoin (LTC) and the Gemini Dollar (GUSD). Save the Children was the first…

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