Kohl’s Department Stores has launched the ‘Love to Give, Happy to Save’ Facebook contest. The contest’s aim is to inspire people to share their stories of giving and let them decide how to allocate half a million dollars from Kohl’s to Feeding America, an organization dedicated to fighting hunger in America through a national network of food banks and Toys for Tots, a program through which new, unwrapped toys are collected and given as Christmas gifts to children in need.
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Greenpeace is known for taking bold and extravagant actions to protect environment and help jumpstart the conversation about ecological dangers, but this organization is not the only one to persuade people to take actions for the planet protection. Australian Red Cross has teamed up with Belgiovane Williams Mackay (BWM) Sydney and digital agency Pollen to launch a social campaign Target Nucler Weapons aiming primarily at younger generation—the aim of this initiative is to start conversation about the legitimacy of the use of nuclear weapon and get more supporters to raise awareness of the devastating consequences of this weapon of massive destruction and advocate for banning it.
A bunch of positive and negative things can happen within just one hour, one can get yet more in a single day—to say nothing about seven billion people living on the planet now. Vimeo, WWF, UN, Water.org, American Red Cross, The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and around 60 humanitarian organizations are supporting the One Day on Earth project, which is launched to showcase the life of people across the globe in 24 hours. Everyone is invited to contribute their voice to the project by sending in footage about how they and people around them live on 11.11.11. The registration is now running on the OneDayOnEarth.org website.
Clothing may be a way to make a bold fashion statement or express your inner world, but sometimes it turn to be a great thing that helps us support a social cause. Threadless, BBH New York and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF have teamed up to launch GOOD SHIRTS, a new collection of T-shirts created to contribute to support relief efforts in the Horn of Africa, the region that is now suffering greatly from famine and drought. All the proceeds from the sale of the range, what went on sale on October 25, will be donated to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and will be used to bring hope to the people of the deprived areas.