Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 in Blackheath, London, England, United Kingdom) is an English businessman and investor. He is best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which comprises more than 400 companies.
At the age of sixteen his first BUSINESS venture was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. In 1972, he opened a chain of recor ...
The revenue from this year's television campaign went to the Red Cross and people caught in war and conflict. To recruit 100,000 gay carriers, it was important to bring forth the stories of these people. Throughout this year's action film, collaboration with the television partners and Red Cross in several countries, we reached the goal. 100,000 Norwegians died again this year, and over 220 millio ...
Airbnb makes renting empty homes profitable. So toraise funds for the homeless, we used a lookalike site. Just a few letters made all the difference: Notfairbnb. It definitely put the situation in Brussels on the map. Th ...
In Europe, every two minutes a child is reported missing. Some remain missing for years. Child Focus, the Belgian Centre for Missing Children, never gives up hope. So, we had to create a reminder to make sure these children are never forgotten. The country created one million 2 euro coins with the face of a missing child: Liam Vanden Branden, who has been missing for 20 years. Each coin also ...
Every year, the Steve Waugh Foundation conducts ‘The Captain’s Ride’; a 6-day cycle through NSW that aims to raise much-needed funding for the 400,00 children suffering from Rare Diseases. The trouble was, the children couldn’t participate in the ride… Until now.The Riderless Bike is a fully autonomous children’s bicycle with an empty seat, fitted with GPS and a 360 camera, offering a first-person ...
Predict To Prevent – a predictive text function that recommends the right mix of words to someone who is hurting.
350 million people worldwide suffer from depression and communicating with people with depression can sometimes do more harm than good, despite their best intentions.
Texting is the main channel people use to communicate with one another, and for people ...
For our latest campaign for charity CALM: The Campaign Against Living Miserably, we partnered with renowned sculptor Mark Jenkins. Together, we created a striking visual installation in response to the shocking statistic that each week in the UK, 84 men tragically take their own lives. The work aims to initiate the much-needed conversation and action around male suicide prevention and be ...
Together with Enel Romania & The Ornithological Society of Romania, we created The Nest Address, a geolocation app that people can use to send GPS coordinates of any stork nest they see. It is the first mobile crowd-sourced initiative to keep storks safe. Anyone with a smartphone can now send nest locations, that will even receive physical addresses. The Nest Address is an easy- ...
El Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (ICRC) trabaja para concienciar sobre esta causa. La idea es muy clara: cada vez que se ataca un hospital, no solo se está acabando con la vida de cientos de médicos y personal sanitario, también con la vida de todas las personas que viven alrededor del hospital y que no pueden ser atendidas. (http://www.srarushmore.com)
When a rescue team opens the “Emergency Route” app and goes out, it immediately sends a message to the digital billboards that are 1 km ahead, asking drivers to leave the left lane free in advance (https://saopaulo.yr.com)
Nature Represented aims to create a national & international pro bono network of legal consultancy, as well as judicial support and collaboration in order to demand the compliance of Nature’s Rights in Ecuadorian territory. (http://naturerepresented.com)
A rape victim’s brutal nightmare doesn’t end after the rape. In the U.S., 9 out of 10 victims are forced to pay an average $1,000 in hospital bills after an attack. The National Organization of Victim Assistance (NOVA) created an online platform, RapeTax.com, that empowers victims to turn these bills into the story of their own rape – to shine a light on this injustice and show the steep cost they ...
In the North Pacific, an area of plastic trash the size of France has formed. Governments have simply ignored it so the Plastic Oceans Foundation and LadBible submitted an application to the UN to recognise The Trash Isles as an official country. If granted, this would compel other nations to clean it up. As a result, 200,000 people became citizens and the campaign reached half a billion people. ( ...
Wait a minute. Get me the bill with Evita’s face on it! It’s worth 27 pesos more than the other bill with a man’s face. Unfair? Of course. And here’s the real deal—From Buenos Aires, we have a case making gender inequality a tangible matter, not just a concept or a cause, but a true and hard reality to live by one bill at a time. Brilliant. (https://download.havas.com)
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Area 23’s “Post Into Letters” initiative, created in partnership with Change the Ref, transforms social media posts into handwritten letters to Congress, in order to make it easier for people to demand action on gun control in a uniquely powerful way. (https://postsintoletters.com)
You definitely don’t know them, you’ve never come across them in a documentary, have never drawn them in your holiday books, did not even know they exist, and probably find their names kind of funny. As reasonable as all of that is, what’s not is that they may soon cease to exist. It's been replaced, for the first time in 85 years, one of the most famous logos in the world to the benefit of the en ...
For World Elephant Day, whiteGREY Australia partnered with the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and ElephantVoices, for the first time allowing human words and emotions to be translated into elephant calls. ‘Hello in Elephant’ - a website using voice recognition technology, as well as input for text and emoji, to translate messages into the Elephant Language, so their voice can be shared ...
We created #RedefineWomen – a social movement that appealed to Google to update their definitions. Within a week, Google: define began to change their meanings to define words, not women. (http://hosthavas.com)
