Charity and activism

Anything to do with Charity and activism

B2ab4609b89b7e7c7408477bb01daf27 Jimmy @Jimmy - almost 2 years ago
Toast Ale Aims To Reduce Food Waste While Educating Consumers About The Global Problem
With nearly one-third of food being wasted, UK-based brewing company Toast Ale partners with 24 other breweries to create a series of beers brewed with surplus bread. Toast Ale hopes to use this series to educate people about food waste while spreading the ci…
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422f200971248def7ffc1673a54fa3cb Grayce @Grayce - over 4 years ago
Your Customer Wants to Be the Hero
Your Customer Wants to Be the HeroThe idea that millennials are killing brands has become a bit of a running joke on the internet. Headlines like, “How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise” and “Blame Millenials for the Vanishing Bar of Soap” make us laugh, but in many ways, the...continued
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3917a54ef2e71f0b2d57dd0d63e0f2fb Cameron @Cameron - over 4 years ago
Your Customer Wants To Be the Hero
Your Customer Wants to Be the HeroThe idea that millennials are killing brands has become a bit of a running joke on the internet. Headlines like, “How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise” and “Blame Millenials for the Vanishing Bar of Soap” make us laugh, but in many ways, the...continued
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61d3ff630fa6a556085f59f9ba20938e Assunta @Assunta - over 3 years ago
Formal insurance and religious offerings in Ghana
God insures those who pay: Formal insurance and religious offerings in GhanaEmmanuelle Auriol, Julie Lassébie, Amma Panin, Eva Raiber, Paul SeabrightThe Pentecostal church is one of the fastest-growing segments of Christianity, including in sub-Saharan Africa. The church ...continued
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151d593186e8e56663df3ed32962360f Dayton @Dayton - over 4 years ago
Crusading tech mogul Marc Benioff aims to prove CEOs can be activists too - The Mercury News
Crusading tech mogul Marc Benioff aims to prove CEOs can be activists tooBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE and BARBARA ORTUTAY | The Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO  — Salesforce founder Marc Benioff oversees a $130 billion software empire from a 62-story skyscraper that towers above ever...continued
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2f3192374c3e88221a336dc5d319c4a3 Zetta @Zetta - almost 5 years ago
Pride or protest? Disillusioned plan their own LGBTQ march
Pride or protest? Disillusioned plan their own LGBTQ marchNEW YORK (AP) — One of the biggest celebrations of LGBT pride in New York City history will culminate Sunday with not one, but two processions through Manhattan, after dissidents who believe the annual parade has b...continued
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56a34dc91390858efd1999c86a89c348 George @George - about 3 years ago
What To Look For In A Disability Organization
If we care about people with disabilities and disability issues, we should do better than just tossing pocket change in every fundraising bucket we see, or signing up for every walkathon a coworker’s kid puts in front of us. But how do we choose which disabil…
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34392094b518c79e322481ceb0004cbf Colin @Colin - 6 months ago
Bloomberg Dials Up War on Plastics...
Bloomberg Dials Up War on Plastics... (Third column, 4th story, link) Related stories:Biden takes executive action to launch Climate Corps...
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Cc9f6ece4882994c85a7dc0305a4b841 Marjory @Marjory - over 1 year ago
Political Hotshot Zev Shapiro Ran His First Campaign When He Was 11
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Handout This is an excerpt from the book, The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice, edited by Steve Fiffer and to be published by NewSouth Books this November. F…
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B9fae85d63d3cf084c4f15cdbd0ccaba Giles @Giles - over 3 years ago
Woke Capitalism Is Still Capitalism
Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers, exposed bullies—and, sometimes, ruined the lives of the innocent. Commentators warn of “mob justice,” while activists exult in their newfo...continued
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76cef6f73945104b91bf5d96ec4a3ce2 Rowan @Rowan - about 4 years ago
5WPR Reveals 2020 Consumer Culture Report
5WPR Reveals 2020 Consumer Culture ReportAgency discloses insights into the complexities of the modern consumer's motivations, influences and purchasing habits for the year aheadNEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- 5W Public Relations, one of the 15 largest independentl...continued
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A83b4d2292ad0135445fc0a7644d14c3 Joe @Joe - about 4 years ago
Beyoncé and JAY-Z Remain Seated During the National Anthem at Super Bowl 2020
Super Bowl 2020: Beyonce and JAY-Z Sit During AnthemColin Kaepernick may not have been one of the players on the field at Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday, but the protest movement he started nearly four years ago continued at Super Bowl LIV.When players and fans in the stands...continued
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34392094b518c79e322481ceb0004cbf Colin @Colin - over 1 year ago
Vogue editor Edward Enninful: ‘Impostor syndrome is what drives me’
Fashion has to be fun, says Edward Enninful, but it can also bring about change. He talks to Eva Wiseman about how being gay, Black and an immigrant guide his visionOne Wednesday morning in 2020 the editor-in-chief of British Vogue was on his way to work. It …
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96d2c0ccb7cce03f75db3297b9a8af04 Iva @Iva - over 3 years ago
Q&A: Annie Lennox On Recruiting Taylor Swift, Sting And More For Charity Auction To Help Women
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 09: Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics performs onstage during the The ... [+] Rainforest Fund 30th Anniversary Benefit Concert Presents 'We'll Be Together Again' at Beacon Theatre on December 09, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Kane/Getty...continued
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B2e1b8b378e5e7660ec2a2923ad69789 Marlon @Marlon - almost 4 years ago
The 22 Best Movies to Stream Online This Weekend—and How to Support Seattle Businesses in the Pro...
The 23 Best Movies to Stream Online This Weekend—and How to Support Seattle Businesses in the Process: April 10-12, 2020 Hand-Picked Cat Videos, Vitalina Varela, and More Movies to Watch from HomeTake a break from gazing longingly outside your window and turn your attenti...continued
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76cef6f73945104b91bf5d96ec4a3ce2 Rowan @Rowan - 3 months ago
Gen Z is forgoing donation sites—and using TikTok for charity instead
“What if I told you that you can play a 10-second game to help the people in Gaza?” Laila Ziada says in a November TikTok. “Every time someone plays this game and posts it, they are raising money for Gaza.”  Ziada is talking about Filter for Good, a TikTok …
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Bbe6309a1d067c75a83f525952377ae7 Rahsaan @Rahsaan - 8 months ago
‘There are more important things than profit’: Giles Bristow of Surfers Against Sewage on the sho...
Our seas and rivers have never been in a worse state after years of neglect by the water companies. Now, we routinely check the sewage app alongside the weather. Meet the new CEO of Surfers Against Sewage who plans to turn the tideLyme Regis on the south coas…
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A83b4d2292ad0135445fc0a7644d14c3 Joe @Joe - 6 months ago
The Battle Over “Cop City”
Since its approval by the Atlanta City Council in 2021, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center—more commonly referred to as Cop City—has been a flashpoint of controversy. The $90 million facility is set to be built within a large forest adjacent to predomi…
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1f7b605070774dac8bb3c859143de9d2 Jeffrey @Jeffrey - about 3 years ago
Community fridges are lifelines for the neighborhoods they serve
You might have noticed fridges popping up where you live. Here’s how they work.
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69ab36bf73ce82cc3579c8f2504f3bac Gregoria @Gregoria - about 3 years ago
The Doctor Who Wrote the Powerful, Manipulative Playbook for the Anti-Abortion Movement
The most enduring images of anti-abortion protestors in the ’90s depict murderers and zealots, the thousands of protesters who blockaded clinics in Kansas during Operation Rescue’s “Summer of Mercy” or the 31-year-old man who shot abortion provider Dr. David …
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7094e9deddcf03241ed9894017ba09bc Rose @Rose - almost 5 years ago
'Activism' gets Choosy
'Activism' gets ChoosyThere are few limits to the self-adulation of virtue signalers. In the June 07, 2019 posting from the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council, there is an article from its sister group in nearby Silicon Valley about its journey to the San Di...continued
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517b70d8d6fde87cc5b8e754959e4212 Ezequiel @Ezequiel - over 3 years ago
New Relic employees report unrest over work culture, CEO’s donations
One of Portland’s largest tech employers, software company New Relic, appears increasingly at odds with its own workers over its response to the resurgent civil rights movement.The conflict has been amplified by CEO Lew Cirne’s large donation to a private Christian school...continued
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76cef6f73945104b91bf5d96ec4a3ce2 Rowan @Rowan - almost 3 years ago
“I have always been obsessed with this idea of getting people to care”
Sara Yasin is the managing editor of BuzzFeed News. [The New Humanitarian (no longer an acronymed UN agency) wants to move humanitarian crisis journalism beyond its wonky, depressing roots]
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1a4d3a462311ba36d913731c2e16402c Pablo @Pablo - 3 months ago
The Year in Activism: Israel-Palestine Shatters Art World Consensus
The art world may never be the same.
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6ede9b368e706f8b5e5082140d4d45d9 Moises @Moises - 6 months ago
The bizarre new frontier for cell-cultivated meat: Lion burgers, tiger steaks, and mammoth meatballs
“Exotic” cultivated meats claim to be harmless, but they could threaten actual endangered animals.
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