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An estimated 10.4 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021

Download photo, video and b-roll here - - As 2021 approaches, UNICEF is deeply concerned for the health and well-being of 10.4 million children projected to suffer from acute malnutrition next year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen. These are all countries or regions experiencing dire humanitarian crises while also grappling with intensifying food insecurity, a deadly pandemic and – with the exception of the Central...

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International charities giving vital support in 2020

Throughout 2020, there have been many incredible charities around the world that have carried out vital work to support those most in need. We've been inspired by their work and are proud to have played a small part in supporting their efforts. Donations to support critical medical care The Red Cross has supported people in times of crisis for 150 years, and 2020 was no exception. At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, we donated to the Red Cross to support the heroic effo...

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Vizzy teams up with musical artist Vitamin C on anthem ushering out 2020

When Vitamin C's seminal hit “Graduation (Friends Forever)” hit the airwaves in January 2000, it became something of an anthem for hordes of high school and college seniors heading into the new millennium. The song is a coming-of-age allegory about the transition into adulthood and the passage of time, a farewell to a life one leaves behind upon graduation. With many Americans seeking to bid adieu to 2020, Vizzy Hard Seltzer has teamed up with Vitamin C to reimagine and recreate her ka...

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Kaiser Permanente announces economic development grants

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii has awarded a total of $ 190,000 in grant funding to 2 Hawaii organizations. A statewide $ 95,000 grant was awarded to Hawaiian Community Assets for financial education, housing counseling, and match savings grants to Native Hawaiians and local families. Separately, an additional $ 95,000 was awarded to the Patsy T. Mink Center for Business and Leadership and Mana Up. “Financial empowerment and entrepreneurship are vital to the total health of Hawaii because they lea...

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Conversations With Colleagues: Dafina Dunmore, Fitch Ratings' Director of Financial Institutions, Shares Her Kwanzaa Traditions

Kwanzaa is a seven-day celebration founded and observed in the U.S. to honor African American culture. Observed Kwanzaa is a time for family and love. Every year, my family and I honor the principle of each day by lighting the corresponding candle on the kinara and discussing its meaning and how it resonates with us. We give thanks to our ancestors — those we know and those from afar — by calling out their names during libation — the pouring of water into a plant, representing life. The...

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Impossible Foods Donates Its Millionth Burger and Doubles Down on Social Good for 2021

- - • Leading environmental startup collaborated throughout the pandemic with social impact groups such as Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp, Feeding America, Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, Rethink Food and SodexoMAGIC - • Impossible Foods plans to expand its unique Social Good program in 2021 to address America's interlocking crises of food insecurity, racial justice and unequal access to nutritious food -- particularly to help youth from kindergarten through high s...

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Congress Passes Major Stimulus Package with Significant Provisions for Climate Change

Congress has passed the Coronavirus Relief and Omnibus Package that will provide economic support to Americans, and includes one of the most significant pieces of climate legislation that Congress has passed. The package includes provisions to phase-down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are super-pollutants used in refrigeration and air conditioning. HFCs can be thousands of times more potent per unit of mass than carbon dioxide in contributing to global warming. The bill will a...

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ONE reacts to news of Pfizer/BioNTech EMA vaccine approval: “the EU must not hoard vaccines at expense of poor”

The European Medicines Agency recommended a marketing authorisation for BioNTech and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Following this decision, the European Commission will grant an authorisation to deploy the vaccine in the EU within days making the first vaccinations possible before the end of the year. ONE welcomes the progress but also cautions that to end the virus globally is essential that European countries do not hoard the vaccine at the expense of poorer countries as this might prolong...

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Knight Foundation invests $ 2.2 million to help Miami artists innovate during COVID-19 and beyond

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced a $ 2.2 million investment to support nine Miami arts and culture organizations' quest to increase diversity and make advances in digital innovation. The grantees — Third Horizon, Miami City Ballet, Bookleggers Library, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Prizm Projects, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami Dade College Foundation, the Coral Gables Community Foundation and Nite Owl Theater — have demonstrated their commitment...

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NBA Foundation names Greg Taylor as Executive Director

The NBA Foundation Board of Directors announced that Greg Taylor has been selected as the organization's first Executive Director. Taylor, who is currently NBA Senior Vice President of Player Development, will assume his new role on Jan. 4, 2021 and lead the Foundation's mission to drive economic empowerment for Black communities through employment and career advancement. He will be responsible for the strategic development, creation and implementation of programs and partnerships that ad...

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Over 70,000 € in grants given in 2020 to combine sport and studies in the USA

Through the year 2020, despite the pandemics, the Rafa Nadal Foundation has stood firmly to continue helping young Spaniards to combine their university studies with training and sports competition at a high level. We have offered grants valued at 70,000 € through the program Study and Play, thanks to which 20 participants had the opportunity to enter an American University, where college athletics have an important position in society. We have granted around 100 youngsters since th...

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Carrier Transicold Donates Food Storage Container Cooled by NaturaLINE Unit to Help Willing Hearts Charity Food Program

To help meet increased demand for local food distribution in Singapore due to COVID-19, Carrier Transicold donated a 20-foot food storage container refrigerated by the company's NaturaLINE® unit to Willing Hearts, a charity that prepares and distributes meals to those in need. The NaturaLINE unit, which is the world's only natural refrigerant-based container refrigeration system, is built at Carrier Transicold's world-class manufacturing facility in Singapore. Carrier Transicold is a par...

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Families and Workers Fund Raises Nearly $ 30 Million for Workers Hardest Hit by COVID-19

The Families and Workers Fund, a collaborative philanthropic effort designed to support and empower workers, families, and communities devastated by the health and economic crisis caused by COVID-19, is proud to announce a significant increase in new funding and grantmaking partners to advance its mission. - - Launched in April amidst the first peak of the pandemic in the United States with an initial commitment of $ 7 million, the Families and Workers Fund now stands at nearly $ 30 million....

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Stein IAS Launches Christmas Children's Story To Support Mental Health Charities

50% of mental health disorders begin before the age of 14 and 75% before 24. And now, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken an unprecedented toll on families' mental health and well-being. As a result, in the belief that this year more than most, everyone could use some help navigating mental health – especially children - marketing agency, Stein IAS has partnered with two charitable causes this year - UK charity 42nd Street and US charity Child Mind Institute – to support young people and their...

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Excel at Being One of the Unsung Heroes Who Work with People in Crisis

Turnover rates for social services professionals are high, across the board. Out of true compassion and genuine interest, people choose a career of service because they truly want to help people in the community who are going through crises. Unfortunately, the physical and emotional demands of the job can soon relegate this passion to the back seat. Some might even think that these jobs pay well based on its demand, but in reality, many, if not most can hardly make ends meet with their cur...

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Diageo and WaterAid announce new five-year partnership to help transform lives with water, sanitation and hygiene

WaterAid and Diageo (producer of Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Guinness), are joining forces in a renewed £4 million, five-year partnership to help transform lives with clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene in communities across Diageo's global supply chains and beyond. The new commitment, which follows five years of partnership between the beverage giant and the international charity, is part of Diageo's 10-year action plan, Society 2030: Spirit of Progress, and aims to reach hun...

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Marriott International Provides Updates on Sustainability and Social Impact Progress

Marriott International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAR) (“Marriott”) released its 2020 Serve 360 Report presenting data from 2019, including progress toward the company's 2025 Sustainability and Social Impact Goals. The Report can be accessed here. In support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Marriott's sustainability and social impact platform, Serve 360: Doing Good in Every Direction, guides the company's commitment to make a positive and sustainable impact wherever it do...

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Selected for the highest rank, “A List”, by the CDP's climate change questionnaire for the second consecutive year

Nikon Corporation (Nikon) is pleased to announce that it has been selected for the highest rank “A List”*1 by the CDP's climate change questionnaire for the second consecutive year following last year, recognizing it as one of the highest performing companies in its efforts against climate change and its disclosure. CDP is a global non-profit that drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests. Voted number one cli...

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Epson Secures Place on Prestigious CDP A List for Tackling Climate Change and Protecting Water Security

Seiko Epson Corporation (TSE: 6724, "Epson") has been placed for the first time on the prestigious corporate sustainability A list by global environmental non-profit CDP for leadership in tackling climate change and protecting water security. CDP is an organization that answers the demands of worldwide institutional investors and major purchasers by researching and evaluating corporations' environmental disclosures, and its annual environmental disclosure and scoring process is widely rec...

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Amazon Donates $ 2M to Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Academy

Amazon will provide $ 2 million to support Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Academy for the next three years so it can continue to provide a free, online computer science curriculum for middle and high school students. The donation, announced during Computer Science Education Week, comes from Amazon as part of its Amazon Future Engineer program — a childhood-to-career computer science education program aimed at inspiring, educating and training students from underserved an...

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AT&T Provides $ 1 Million Contribution to Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG), Emergency Funds Directed to 14 States Amid COVID-19 Pandemic -

AT&T has provided a generous $ 1 million contribution to Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG). In the last four decades, JAG has helped over 1.4M vulnerable youth and young adults overcome significant economic, emotional, social, and academic challenges. Today, the same populations JAG was founded to support have been hit the earliest, hardest, and are most likely to be impacted the longest by the educational and economic impacts of the pandemic. This compounds the ongoing challenges of discr...

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Companies worth $ 15 trillion revealed on CDP 2020 'A List' of environmental leaders

- - • 313 companies named on CDP's prestigious 'A List' this year for environmental transparency and action, a 45% increase on 2019 - • Out of the 5,800+ companies scored by CDP on their climate change, forests and water security disclosures, just the top 5% made the A List - • A List companies are worth a combined $ 15 trillion in market cap - • AstraZeneca, Danone, Firmenich, HP Inc, KAO Corporation, Klabin S/A, Mars, Symrise AG and Mitsubishi Electric are among those recognize...

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The Air France Foundation has teamed up with the Léo Lagrange Federation

The Air France Foundation has teamed up with the Léo Lagrange Federation to support the new “Carbon Scol'ERE France” programme for positive environmental education The Air France Foundation and the Léo Lagrange Federation signed a partnership agreement demonstrating their complementary values and actions in supporting the development of the “Carbon Scol'ERE France” environmental education programme in the Paris region. This original eco-citizen project was launched by the Léo Lagra...

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The Roquette Foundation for Health grants its first Research Award

The Roquette Foundation for Health, under the aegis of La Fondation de France, has been supporting innovative or educational programs in the field of food and nutrition for the past three years. This year, the Foundation presented its first Research Award as well as a Jury's 'Coup de Coeur' Award, during a digital event. The 2020 Research Award has been given to Laurent Reber (PhD) for his work on food allergies The jury, gathering French experts from the medical and academic spheres,...

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Impossible Foods and Feeding America® Fight to End Hunger With “Buy Impossible Burger, Give Impossible Burger” Holiday Campaign

- - • Buy Impossible Burger, Give Impossible Burger” campaign launches today and runs throughout the month of December - • Starting on “Giving Tuesday,” Consumers can purchase any Impossible™ bundle on its direct-to-consumer site, and Impossible Foods will donate an equivalent amount of Impossible™ Burger to food banks across the Bay Area--up to 100,000 burger patties - • Since the start of the pandemic, Impossible Foods has provided relief to people facing hunger nationwide, a...

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General Mills debuts Sesame Street cereal, bringing ABCs and 123s to the breakfast bowl

Breakfast just got more fun, delicious, and educational with the launch of Sesame Street Cereal, made by General Mills. The new cereal, which will begin to appear on U.S. store shelves in January 2021, supports growing bodies with many essential nutrients and engages curious young minds with activities and stories. The cereal features two varieties: berry flavor with number-shaped pieces and cinnamon flavor with letter-shaped pieces, and the back of each box opens like a book, featuring du...

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Air France supports the association "PERSONN'AILES" in the fight against AIDS

December 1st, World AIDS Day, is an opportunity for Air France to remind everyone of its commitment by raising awareness via the actions of its LGBT association, PERSONN'AILES, and to once again support its initiatives. Every December 1st is marked by a red ribbon, the universal symbol of awareness and support for people living with HIV. Launched in 2017 by Air France, the company is once again organizing a Red Ribbon event this December. On the schedule this year: - - - • Air France st...

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NatWest Group to donate £350,000 to charities for #GivingTuesday

Giving Tuesday is an international social media campaign organised by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) in the UK. It happens on the Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday; this year it falls on Tuesday 1 December. The campaign encourages people to give their voice, time or money to charity. NatWest Group was the first UK bank to support Giving Tuesday in the UK. Last year #GivingTuesday was the top trending hash tag on UK Twitter on the day, with the hashtag reaching people more than 4...

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BMW Group Awards for Social Commitment presented

The BMW Group has once again recognised employees around the world for their outstanding social commitment this year. The BMW Group Awards for Social Commitment were presented to five employees, two of whom received special awards from the Vera and Volker Doppelfeld Foundation. Each award is endowed with 5,000 euros, which benefits the respective service projects directly. This year's award-winners come from India, Germany and South Africa. Owing to the special circumstances this year, fiv...

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On #GivingTuesday Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) Celebrates a 96% Graduation Rate Amid COVID-19 Pandemic -

This #GivingTuesday, Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) proudly announces that despite continued social and economic uncertainties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, JAG students achieved an impressive graduation rate of 96%, exceeding the national average for all seniors by 12%. - - The significant milestone is the latest example of the 40-year legacy of JAG graduates, who consistently achieve despite the multiple, significant challenges they face. Across 1,450 communities in 40 states, JAG pa...

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Hundreds of Ethiopian Separated Child Refugees arriving in Sudan at Risk of Exploitation and Abuse, Save the Children warns

Save the Children is deeply worried about lone child refugees arriving separated from their parents from Ethiopia into Sudan, as they are at risk of exploitation and abuse. Their number could be in the hundreds, the child rights organization warned today. To date, 139 children who were separated from their parents or caregivers have been registered at just one of several entry points along the border, Save the Children said, meaning the total number could be far higher. At least 43,00...

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Greenpeace statement on WWF independent review of human rights violations

Human rights violations and abuses are unacceptable under any circumstances. The Independent Panel report makes it clear that “WWF has not fulfilled its human rights commitments.” WWF needs to fully own their responsibility for abuses that are committed by rangers or 'ecoguards' working in the protected areas WWF manages or co-manages. In addition to following up on all the Review Panel's recommendations, Greenpeace expects WWF to offer a full apology to survivors, and ensure they rec...

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Celebrating the Season of Giving on Instagram

The holiday season will look different this year, from how we gather with friends and family, to ways we're giving back to our community. Beginning today through Giving Tuesday on December 1, we're featuring a shared “Giving Tuesday” story at the front of your Stories bar, encouraging people to support small businesses directly on Instagram and making it even easier to donate directly to a nonprofit within Feed. Highlighting Acts of Generosity Beginning today, we're amplifying acts...

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Honda Helps Protect Big Darby Nature Preserve with 90-acre Land Donation

Honda reaffirmed its longstanding partnership with The Nature Conservancy in Ohio to protect the environmentally fragile headwaters of the Big Darby Creek watershed by donating 90 acres of land. Nearly 30 years ago, Honda of America Mfg., Inc. and the Ohio chapter of The Nature Conservancy began a public and private sector partnership to preserve this watershed, which is one of the Midwest's most biologically diverse aquatic systems. "As citizens of this watershed, it's imperative we do...

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