Musician David Hinds is the founder and front-man for Steel Pulse, the world’s leading reggae band. In 1978, race relations in Britain were in crisis. The National Front was gathering power and immigrants…
Category: Brand Activism
According to We Are Social‘s Mobbie Nazir all brands should have anti-hate policies visible on all their channels. Here’s her insight: Almost all brands choose to silence hate on social media by…
Airbnb has announced that it will no longer feature homes rented out in the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. According to Reuters, the decision by Airbnb was made the day…
Blake Mycoskie, the founder of Toms, the shoe company with the famous one-for-one program, announced a $5 million donation campaign to end gun violence. Here’s Mycoskie making an emotional statement…
“Being a responsible company means paying your taxes in proportion to your success and supporting your state and federal governments, which in turn contribute to the health and well-being of…
Eight-out-of-10 corporate leaders believe companies now have an obligation to speak out on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, according to new research on brand advocacy conducted by GlobeScan and…
Our job as citizens is to tell them what to do. Watch: see also >> David Attenborough and others on climate change: ‘The world will be transformed’
The Trump administration is considering restricting the definition of gender to be based on a person’s genitalia at birth. This has led to fifty six companies uniting to sign a letter condemning the…
Marketing today means brands must stand for something– even if it means sacrificing a segment of their customers in order to be cool with the segment they are consciously targeting.…
“…when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls” – Plato’s Republic, Book VIII A recent online survey asks…
What happens when employees decide their company should not pursue a customer or a project? Do they have the right to be conscientious objectors? At Google, that’s exactly what happened. This…
The Reputation Institute publishes an annual study of corporate reputation in America, and now, in 2018, the US RepTrak 100 reveals an average three-point decline in company reputation. This is the…
On Valentine’s Day 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School lost 17 students to a mass shooting. The students stood up in revolt against our politicians – asking them to do…
A Call to Action Larry Fink’s recent letter to CEOs is titled “A Sense of Purpose,” and in it he makes the case for the CEO leadership for societal good.…
Where are we going? When it comes to Brand America, the United States stands at an inflection point. It can be argued that what makes America great is our values.…