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Bloomberg
Today, few city dwellers around the world consider air pollution a laughing matter, and they are rightly demanding that their governments take action to reduce it. The UK, where nitrogen oxide and soot-like particulate matter have reached emergency…
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Amway
Join Amway this Wednesday, May 10, on Facebook LIVE from Vancouver B.C. @ 10:45am EST to see the innovative new way the Nutrilite Power of 5 Campaign is addressing the critical issue of global childhood malnutrition.
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Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
The Hemmelgarn family has adopted two sibling groups (five children!) from foster care. They finalized the adoption of their youngest son on April 27. We love when siblings find their forever home together.
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Major League Baseball Players Trust
Ian Kinsler #GoingToBat for those in need in local communities
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Whole Foods Market Foundation
In April 2017, Whole Planet Foundation signed a contract with a new microfinance partner in greater Accra called ID Ghana. To gain insight into the bustling Makola market in Accra, it may be helpful to read this 2015 article in the New Yorker…
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Atlas Copco
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Aflac Incorporated
Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Buffy Swinehart, Senior Manager, Cause Marketing for Aflac, on the company's Duckprints campaign to fight childhood cancer.
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Consumers Energy
Muskegon is taking the first bite out of its plans for a food hub that uses rail, highways and the Muskegon Lake deep water port. The Muskegon Food Hub pilot was launched on Tuesday, May 2.
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Duke Energy Corporation
Duke Energy is partnering with DonorsChoose.org to help teachers in Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina and South Carolina fund projects that support literacy programs and foster a growing interest in science and technology fields.
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Volkswagen Group
The mint-green sedan was the first thing you noticed inside the inpatient therapy gym at the Siskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation. Parked facing a window, with its engine compartment chopped off, the 1978 Pontiac with matching-green vinyl…
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Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
Did you know there are more than 425,000 children in foster care right now? And that more than 130,000 of them are in need of loving, adoptive homes?
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Bread Financial
Alliance Data announced a $500,000 corporate challenge grant for a new higher-education campus for My Possibilities, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Rebuilding Together
Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) is introducing the Wells Fargo Works for Small Business®: Neighborhood Renovation Program Contest, designed to help improve eligible small businesses in designated neighborhoods in five cities – Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles…
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Blackbaud Corporate Solutions
In this episode of the Champions for Social Good Podcast, Jamie Serino speaks with Dr. John Feather, Chief Executive Officer of Grantmakers in Aging.
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General Mills
The grant from General Mills will support the World Food Programme (WFP)’s work with local partners in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, where a large proportion of youth exhibit symptoms from malnourishment, including anemia, wasting and stunting…
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Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
In December 2016, as we gathered with family at a local restaurant to celebrate one of our son’s birthday, I realized something: exactly a year prior we had attended IMPACT training across the street. IMPACT is a program developed by the Georgia…
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De Beers Group
De Beers has joined forces with one of its major contractors to help combat hunger in one of the host communities near its Venetia mine in South Africa.
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Whole Foods Market Foundation
Weleda, Europe’s leading skincare brand and Whole Foods Market, America’s healthiest store, have aligned their values to offer a travel kit of skin and body care products worth $25 for only $5. All proceeds from the sale of the kits will benefit…
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AEG
AEG’s National Hockey League (NHL) team, the Los Angeles Kings, announced a $150,000 donation toward the completion of the highly anticipated El Segundo Aquatic Center in El Segundo, Calif. The Aquatics Center, which aims to put swim safety and swim…
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AEG
AEG’s LA Galaxy Foundation has announced a new, five-year partnership with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) that will see $500,000 donated to the Sports Medicine Program in the Children’s Orthopaedic Center. Along with the new partnership, LA…
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Major League Baseball Players Trust
Through the Wild Horse Foundation, Puig has sought to help families in need through acts of kindness like distributing supplies, particularly in the Dominican Republic. Last year, Puig also took 50 kids to watch a playoff baseball game in Santo…
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Habitat for Humanity
Heisman Trophy winners Marcus Allen, Tony Dorsett, George Rogers, Charlie Ward and Danny Wuerffel joined Habitat for Humanity and Nissan to build a real “Heisman House” alongside future Atlanta Habitat homeowner Ms. Shannon.
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FSG
Foundations have often relied on government as an ally to scale up and sustain the programs they pilot. But what happens when government does not respect hard facts, scientific proof, or democratic principles? Or when the vision of a just and…
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Whole Foods Market Foundation
Many social enterprises focus on innovation of high-quality products designed to reach low-income customers. By the numbers, this bottom of the pyramid strategy to reach impact and market at scale seems to make sense – analysis of World Bank data…
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Northern Trust
Tribeca Flashpoint College students supported fund raising efforts of four charitable organizations in Band Together: Spring 2017’s Production-In-Action on April 26th 2017. Sarah's Circle, supported by "The Exceptions" (Northern Trust…
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