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It’s Time To Support Truly Purpose-Driven Brands Who Exemplify True Leadership Amidst This Coronavirus Pandemic: Here’s A Starter List

April 18, 2020

The spread of COVID-19 continues to put pressure on businesses and brands from a wellbeing, economic and a values standpoint, prompting an unprecedented amount of scrutiny on how, how fast or even whether they respond. I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing some incredible leaders who chose to be the front lines of purpose-driven branding long before the pandemic through my Brand on Purpose podcast, exploring the successful coexistence and healthy tension between purpose and profit. These brands, always purpose driven, are now more focused than ever on bringing their corporate character forward.

Virus pandemic collides with Trump’s disdain for foreign aid

April 17, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s well-known disdain for foreign aid is colliding with the imperatives of fighting the coronavirus pandemic, as his administration boasts about America’s generosity for countries in dire need while still generating confusion and anger on the global stage.

Putting A Gender Lens On COVID-19: Thought Leaders Weigh In

April 17, 2020

Even though the COVID-19 pandemic is viewed primarily as a global health crisis, having claimed over 130,000 lives worldwide, we are only beginning to understand how this pandemic will deeply impact our nation economically, politically, culturally and socially—and how those far-ranging impacts are dependent on the multitude of identities, situations and communities that make up our country.

Coronavirus: the vulnerable regions that could trigger ‘rebound’ in the West

April 17, 2020

Poorer countries recovering from the coronavirus outbreak risk sparking a second global wave of infections if the West does not help the developing world, experts have warned

Humanitarian, Medical NGOs Shift Efforts to U.S.

April 16, 2020

Nongovernmental organizations that typically operate in countries battered by conflict or natural disaster are shifting their efforts to communities in the United States to help address and manage the coronavirus pandemic, the Associated Press reports.

An Expert Explains How The Coronavirus Could Devastate Refugee Camps

April 15, 2020

In 2004, Kristin Kim Bart was working on the border of Myanmar and Thailand, where the refugee population numbered into the hundreds of thousands. People needed food, shelter, a guarantee to safety, and — as she and her team were finding — resources for gender-based violence.

Parts of Latin America struggle with surging coronavirus cases

April 15, 2020

Latin America is struggling to stop the coronavirus from spreading, which some worry may launch repeated outbreaks that could reach the U.S. Brazil's president has been criticized for dismissing the threat, and has been accused of underreporting the country's over 25,000 confirmed cases. In Ecuador, caskets were left in the streets as the country struggled with its mounting cases. Manuel Bojorquez looks at how the pandemic is playing out in South America.

To improve disaster risk reduction, aid and tech experts look to women

April 15, 2020

LONDON — Women bear the brunt of the impact of natural disasters, an outcome most starkly illustrated by mortality rates. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami saw male survivors in Indonesia and Sri Lanka outnumber their female counterparts by up to 4 to 1. And when Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar in 2008, some villages had twice as many deaths among women compared with men.

5 Things We Can Do to Help Fight Coronavirus in the World’s Neediest Countries

April 10, 2020

In Santa Barbara, forklifts chug through the warehouse of Direct Relief, hustling pallets of much-needed medical supplies into waiting FedEx trucks. Normally those gloves, masks and medicines would go to desperately poor clinics in Haiti or Sudan, but now they’re racing off to Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California and the Robert Wood Johnson Hospitals in New Jersey.

Groups used to serving desperately poor nations now help US

April 10, 2020

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It’s Time To Support Truly Purpose-Driven Brands Who Exemplify True Leadership Amidst This Coronavirus Pandemic: Here’s A Starter List

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Virus pandemic collides with Trump’s disdain for foreign aid

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Putting A Gender Lens On COVID-19: Thought Leaders Weigh In

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Coronavirus: the vulnerable regions that could trigger ‘rebound’ in the West

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Humanitarian, Medical NGOs Shift Efforts to U.S.

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An Expert Explains How The Coronavirus Could Devastate Refugee Camps

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Parts of Latin America struggle with surging coronavirus cases

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To improve disaster risk reduction, aid and tech experts look to women

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5 Things We Can Do to Help Fight Coronavirus in the World’s Neediest Countries

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Groups used to serving desperately poor nations now help US

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It’s Time To Support Truly Purpose-Driven Brands Who Exemplify True Leadership Amidst This Coronavirus Pandemic: Here’s A Starter List

Virus pandemic collides with Trump’s disdain for foreign aid

Putting A Gender Lens On COVID-19: Thought Leaders Weigh In

Coronavirus: the vulnerable regions that could trigger ‘rebound’ in the West

Humanitarian, Medical NGOs Shift Efforts to U.S.

An Expert Explains How The Coronavirus Could Devastate Refugee Camps

Parts of Latin America struggle with surging coronavirus cases

To improve disaster risk reduction, aid and tech experts look to women

5 Things We Can Do to Help Fight Coronavirus in the World’s Neediest Countries

Groups used to serving desperately poor nations now help US

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