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Employees representing the Lenovo Foundation – the philanthropic arm of Lenovo – were selected to participate in Wine To Water service trips in Nepal, the Amazon, and Dominican Republic.
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In celebration of International Women’s Day, global education organization Room to Read today announced She Creates Change, the first nonprofit-led animation and live action film project to promote gender equality through the stories of young women around the world. The multi-media initiative — which in addition to a six-episode film series also includes books and audio stories — boldly aims to reach all 432 million adolescent girls (ages 12-18) in the world with content and educational curricul
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Grant to Fund Nutrition Services for Underserved Communities in Chad
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Wine To Water seeks volunteers for service trips to Nepal and Dominican Republic
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“I am thrilled and honored to be board chair of this extraordinary organization, which has
transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in one of the world’s neediest
regions." - Jon Krakauer, American Himalayan Foundation
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AAF donates USD 250,000 to support climate-smart, sustainable feed management and animal husbandry systems among smallholder farmers in Nepal.
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Connecting Employees With NGOs for Impactful 3-Month Assignments 2014 cohort Nepal" in the corner" typeof="foaf:Image" />Thu, 09/08/2022 - 09:45 Subheader Our Merck Richard T. Clark Fellowship for Global Health program helps NGOs address some of the world’s most pressing health challenges Type of Content Blog Layout Standard Format Body Each year, approximately 30 employees from around the world are selected to participate in our Fellowship program, a three-month, corporate pro bono program t
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Armory Square Ventures, a technology venture capital firm operating across New York State, announced its launch today of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation. The new annual prize awards a talented literary translator with book publication. The winning manuscript, selected by a jury of peers, will be a translation of a literary work from one South Asian language into English. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire
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– Funding Will Reach Under-Resourced Communities Most Impacted by the HIV Epidemic and COVID-19 Pandemic –
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Amazon deployed relief supplies from its Disaster Relief Hub, an emergency supply facility near Atlanta where Amazon pre-positioned over 500,000 relief items and logistical support
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Room to Read mobilizes capital and resources in response to education crisis as latest wave of COVID-19 keeps kids from learning.
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The two organizations were honored for using data to combat poverty in Nepal
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Facedrive Inc. (“Facedrive”) (TSXV: FD), a Canadian “people-and-planet-first” tech business ecosystem, is pleased to announce that HiQ, a recently social app developed by HiRide Share Ltd. (“HiRide”), Facedrive’s wholly owned subsidiary achieved over 250,000 user downloads within 2 weeks of launch. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200714005346/en/ HiQ (the “App”) is a socialization and gaming mobile application that enco
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Eleven years ago, I received a phone call that changed my life. A childhood friend called asking if I would like to join her newly formed nonprofit as they traveled to Nepal on their first medical mission to perform total joint reconstruction...
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Kalpavriksha is one of the newest social enterprise partners in our Asia/Pacific portfolio. Kalpavriksha belongs to Pollinate Group and its sister organization, Asha Kiran, operates in India.
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The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation today announced plans to donate much-needed medical supplies to 10 more countries in Asia.
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Representing a Diverse Group of Men and Women from Advertising, Banking, Communications, Education, Media, Nonprofit, Sports, Technology and US Armed Forces
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This blog spotlights stories from Whole Planet Foundation partners in Vietnam, however these winners are recognized alongside Ms. Elisabeth Kaisamy from SPBD Fiji and Ms. Mimkosha Kumari Shahi from NULBSL in Nepal who are also grand prize winners.
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Led by the Zayed Sustainability Prize
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Advancing global progress towards the UN SDGs, a range of technologies and solutions will be deployed to empower vulnerable communities in 20 countries, by the end of 2020
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Aiming to widen the global reach and accessibility of impactful sustainability solutions and innovations, the collaborative initiative builds on the UAE’s leading global role in humanitarianism and sustainability, and champions the values of inclusiveness and compassion outlined in the UAE’s Year of Tolerance
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Solutions and technologies being donated, were developed by Zayed Sustainability Prize winners and finalists across its Health, Food, Energy and Water categories
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This is Bank of America’s first locally denominated loan for commercial and industrial solar financing in India as part of its global Environmental Business Initiative, which will help expand Fourth Partner’s distributed solar impact
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Grants to help strengthen health systems and reduce health disparities in underserved communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America
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Takeda’s founding mission to serve patients, wherever they are, drives its increased commitments to disease prevention, capacity building, and access to healthcare in developing and emerging countries, in partnership with the global community.
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Through its annual Global CSR Program, approximately 20,000 employees worldwide cast their votes, selecting City Cancer Challenge, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), SeriousFun Children’s Network, UNICEF, and the UN Foundation as 2019 partners.
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With these programs, Takeda's contributions through its unique Global CSR Program total 10.5 billion yen for a total of 14 programs since its 2016 launch.
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10 programs selected to help support healthcare capacity building in
resource-constrained countries
More than $1 million in total provided to expand essential cancer
care services
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One million children under 5 years of age in Nepal (or 36 percent of the population) suffer chronic malnutrition and 10 percent suffer from acute malnutrition. The difficulty in acquiring protein is a contributing factor to the nutrition gap in the south Asian country. In an effort to help combat those issues in Nepal, as well as Honduras and Ethiopia, Tyson Foods, Inc. announced today a series of grants to OneEgg, a non-profit organization that delivers eggs to children in need.
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In an effort to combat chronic malnutrition in Nepal, Tyson Foods is partnering with OneEgg and Shreenagar Agro to supply eggs to children in Nepal.\r\rMoushumi Shrestha, who owns Shreenagar Agro with her husband Satish, have been providing eggs to children in Nepal since the 2015 earthquake. Currently they are reaching 700 children a week and hope to provide eggs to 7,000 children over the next two years.
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Along with several other members on the Tyson Foods Corporate Communications team, I traveled to Nepal to meet Moushumi Shrestha – agricultural entrepreneur and, together with Tyson Foods, co-sponsor of a brand new ONEEGG project in Nepal.\r\rIn Nepal, I was reminded that feeding the world isn’t a job for just one company in just one country. It’s a humongous task. And let’s face: development is messy. But when you see the work Moushumi and OneEgg are doing, and when you see companies like Tyson
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Partnership With VisionSpring Set To Reach Goal And Serve As Call To
Action To Other Retail Brands
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The new global impact initiative includes 25 projects spanning 15
countries and extends the company’s Blueprint for a Better World platform
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More than 1 Million Fans Join the Energy Conversation to Create a
More Sustainable Future
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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that it has validated Nepal as the sixth country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem. Pfizer is excited to join the global trachoma community in celebrating this important milestone, which brings us one step closer to eliminating the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness once and for all.
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West Elm is encouraging shoppers this holiday season to consider the power of their purchases by participating in Giving Tuesday, a movement that celebrates giving back. On November 28, West Elm will donate 100 percent of its profits* on select holiday gifts, decor, tabletop and accessories designed in collaboration with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, and Nepal Earthquake Relief. Each
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Building and infrastructure improvements have impacted the lives of
nearly 2,000 students to date
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By the time Bechtel’s Alba Potline 6 Aluminum project in Bahrain reaches peak construction in mid-2018, there could be more than 10,000 skilled craft workers on site. Like most construction projects in the Middle East, Alba will rely to a large extent on the commitment and dedication of expatriate workers, from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, and other countries.
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Xylem donates $1 million in financial and volunteer aid to hurricane relief in the US & Caribbean, and financial aid to relief efforts in South Asia.
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Xylem announced plans to expand its support to $1 million in contributions and volunteer time to the recovery and rebuild efforts underway in response to some of the most devastating weather events on record: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and the severe flooding in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The Company’s actions include monetary contributions from the Company and its corporate citizenship initiative Xylem Watermark, employee plus matching gift donations and an expansion of its ongoing employee v
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Aug 29, 2017 2:40 PM ET - There was a time, not long ago, when countries like Nepal could only turn to South America for maize. Shipping containers filled with this crop would leave the port city of Sao Paulo and begin the over 9,000-mile journey to central Asia. As one...
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Namaste! My name is Claudia Reid and this summer I was given the life-changing opportunity to travel to Nepal with National Geographic Student Expeditions. I spent 18 days in this beautiful country learning the history of Kathmandu, serving in a children’s home in the Talamarang village and seeing firsthand the damages from the 2015 earthquake. I even had the chance to ride an elephant through the jungle in Chitwan! Through it all, I was given an incredible new perspective on a country 8,000 mile
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Jun 2, 2015 9:00 AM ET - This post was written by guest blogger Wesley King, a business systems analyst at Cisco The World is Flat, not a FlatscreenI can’t deny it any...
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