Non-profit, Social cause's tag archives

Buy a bottle of wine and donate clean water

Posted by Springwise in January 29th 2012

Some 42,000 people die each week for lack of clean water, and the majority of them are children under 5 years old. Aiming to help alleviate this problem, online wine vendor CellarThief don ...
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Tags: Food & Beverage, Non-profit, Social cause, Retail, wine

Giving portfolio for donors aiming to make a big impact

Posted by Springwise in January 22nd 2012

Earlier this month we wrote about Givv.org, a non-profit that allows donors to support all their favourite organisations from a single location and with a single monthly payment. Launched ...
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Tags: GBP, Non-profit, Social cause, profit

Tide helps disaster victims with free laundry services

Posted by Springwise in July 30th 2011

It seems fair to say that laundry is one of the great levelers in this life, which might explain why we've seen pop-up laundry services on so many occasions already. There are the brand but ...
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Tags: Marketing & Advertising, Non-profit, Social cause, USD

Charity shop invites young designers to upcycle donated clothing

Posted by Springwise in July 29th 2011

We've written about companies who engage in upcycling to create scarves, bags, teddy bears, and more. Similarly, our latest spotting breathes new life into cast-off clothing, but adds a ch ...
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Tags: Fashion & Beauty, Non-profit, Social cause, Salvation Army, sewing, Sydney

Open source phone service for off-grid areas

Posted by Springwise in July 8th 2011

Mobile phones are increasingly viewed as a critical means of improving life for those in the developing world, whether through employment, healthcare or social connections. Such opportuniti ...
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Tags: Africa, GSM, Haiti, Non-profit, Social cause, Telecom & Mobile

Made in South Africa, fair trade bracelets for Dutch soccer fans

Posted by Springwise in July 3rd 2011

Like any major sports event, the FIFA World Cup is a prime merchandising moment, with vast quantities of t-shirts, scarves and those infamous vuvuzelas hitting the stadiums of South Africa ...
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Tags: Africa, Fashion & Beauty, Non-profit, Social cause, South Africa, Style & Design, World Cup

Microloans for clean energy in the developing world

Posted by Springwise in July 3rd 2011

One-third of the world's population today has no access to any form of modern energy, relying instead on highly polluting fuels like wood and kerosene. Working on the premise that reliable ...
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Tags: Eco & Sustainability, Non-profit, Social cause, USD

Coffee roaster offers custom blends for continuous fundraising

Posted by Springwise in July 1st 2011

In most fundraising schemes, the group raising the money buys something to sell at a profit—wrapping paper, for example, or chocolate bars. California-based Newhall Coffee, however, now o ...
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Tags: chocolate, Food & Beverage, fundraising, Non-profit, Social cause, USD

Café creates NGO to ensure fair trade with coffee farmers

Posted by Springwise in June 30th 2011

Fair trade coffee is no longer uncommon; what's unusual about Canadian AGRO Café is that it went so far as to create its own NGO arm to make sure it serves only coffee that's ethically and ...
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Tags: Agro, coffee, Food & Beverage, NGO, Non-profit, Social cause

Business card promotes ‘buy one, give one’ generosity

Posted by Springwise in June 26th 2011

Regular Springwise readers may recall B1G1, the site that enables myriad “buy one, give one” efforts through what it calls a transaction-based giving engine. Just recently the Singapore ...
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Tags: Business, Non-profit, Social cause, own business, Regular Springwise, Singapore

Crowd clout for social and political change

Posted by Springwise in June 24th 2011

Crowd clout can be used by consumers to achieve goals as mundane as cheaper prices or as profound as social change. Aiming squarely at the latter end of the spectrum, Avaaz is a global onli ...
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Tags: Media & Publishing, Non-profit, Social cause

Recycled parking meters collect donations for Montréal’s homeless

Posted by Springwise in June 23rd 2011

If old candy machines can be used to enable guerrilla gardening, then why shouldn't old parking meters be used to help combat homelessness? Such, in fact, is exactly the premise behind the ...
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Tags: ATM, CDN, Government, Non-profit, Social cause

With every box of dog food, a meal for a homeless pet

Posted by Springwise in June 21st 2011

The “buy one, donate one” initiatives are coming fast and furious. Hard on the heels of our stories about two such efforts targeting children—namely, Happy Blankie and Whitten Grey's ...
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Tags: food, Happy Blankie, Marketing & Advertising, Non-profit, Social cause

‘Buy one, donate one’ effort lets kids direct the giving

Posted by Springwise in June 20th 2011

“Buy one, give one” initiatives are increasingly common forms of corporate generosity, but it wasn't until recently that we began seeing them involving children. Much the way Happy Blan ...
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Tags: Fashion & Beauty, Happy Blankie, Non-profit, Social cause, onesie, Related Buy

New fashion label only available to those who donate blood

Posted by Springwise in June 19th 2011

Fashionistas love exclusivity, but usually it's all about who you know, or how much you're willing to spend. Creating a twist on limited editions is The Red Rail, a new Dutch fashion label ...
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Tags: Fashion & Beauty, Non-profit, Social cause

Buy one, donate one plush animal blankie

Posted by Springwise in June 18th 2011

Stuffed animals and security blankets tend to be favourite sleeping companions among young children, but the Happy Blankie—one of the cutest innovations we've seen in some time—combines ...
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Tags: Happy Blankie, Non-profit, Social cause, onesie, Related Personalized, Style & Design, USD

RFID tags used to attach stories to charity shop’s donated wares

Posted by Springwise in June 16th 2011

Launched at this year's Future Everything digital arts festival in Manchester, RememberMe is a collaborative project between TOTeM (Tales of Things and Electronic Memory) and Oxfam which in ...
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Tags: Media & Publishing, Non-profit, Social cause, QR, Retail, RFID

Site helps businesses reward consumers for positive actions

Posted by Springwise in June 14th 2011

It's one thing to entreat consumers to change their behaviour for the better, but when corporate rewards are involved, the win-win turns into a win-win-win... or more. Much the way Plus 3 N ...
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Tags: Marketing & Advertising, Non-profit, Social cause, Related Site, USD

Drink maker features socially minded partners on its packages

Posted by Springwise in June 13th 2011

Businesses can give back to the world in many ways, from making one-off donations to innovating new, socially minded solutions of their own. Opting more toward the latter end of the scale, ...
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Tags: Food & Beverage, making, Non-profit, Social cause, product

Five business ideas focused on babies & new parents

Posted by Springwise in June 12th 2011

Starting a family is such a fundamental part of human life that it's no surprise that babies are an inspiring subject for enterprise and innovation. There's a new idea born every minute ;-) ...
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Tags: bouquets, enterprise, Lifestyle & Leisure, Non-profit, Social cause, Style & Design, Telecom & Mobile

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