Category: the Bridge
Bridging the gap between race, gender, philosophies… leading to understanding!
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Jimmy Garoppolo Continues to Show Support for Skilled Tradespeople, Serving as Master of Ceremonies for Inaugural International Signing Day
Klein Tools and Home Builders Institute partner for celebration across North America of the next generation of skilled trade workers LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. /PRNewswire/ — With a longstanding commitment to encouraging the next generation of trade professionals, Klein Tools, the 165-year-old leader in hand tools, today announced the first global celebration of future trades men and women. Working in partnership…
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National Public Housing Museum Taps the Power of Storytelling with New Hire
Oral historian Liú Chen will bring vanguard storytelling strategies to NPHM and expand its oral history corps and landmark audio archive CHICAGO /PRNewswire/ — Storytelling, one of the most powerful ways to educate and inspire others, is essential to the National Public Housing Museum’s mission as the nation’s first cultural institution dedicated to interpreting and contextualizing the public housing experience…
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Daughters for Earth Launches to Raise $100 million for Women-Led Efforts to Protect and Restore the Earth
New campaign mobilizes women around the world to engage on climate action LOS ANGELES /PRNewswire/ — Daughters for Earth, a new campaign to mobilize women around the world to engage in climate action, launched today at SXSW. The initiative is co-founded by female leaders in women’s rights, climate and philanthropic sectors who recognized that women-led efforts to protect…
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IN RESPONSE TO THE BROOKLYN SUBWAY SHOOTING, ARTIST CHARLIE HEWITT SHARES A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO NYC STRAPHANGERS WITH “HOPEFUL” BILLBOARDS
Hopeful, a public digital art project, was already installed at six Bronx subway locations…and then last week’s tragic shootings happened in Brooklyn – today, two more Hopeful billboards are being lit at Sunset Park subway stations in honor of the victims and the community BROOKLYN,N.Y. /PRNewswire/ — Artist Charlie Hewitt, originally created an art project, “Hopeful,” to inspire optimism for Americans coping with…
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CAMP BETTY: HOW FIRST LADY BETTY FORD AND THE BETTY FORD CENTER TRANSFORMED ADDICTION RECOVERY
Book Authored by Founding Director of The Betty Ford Center, John Schwarzlose, to be Released in June 2022 by 4th Dimension Publishing, LLC LOS ANGELES /PRNewswire/ — Camp Betty is a historical memoir told by John Schwarzlose, the first and only CEO of The Betty Ford Center, who shared in the groundbreaking to the worldwide credibility of the gold standard in substance use…
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Realtor.com® Drives to “Close the Gap” of Homeownership in America
Realtor.com® is donating the first $100,000 to the Homeownership Council of America’s new Equity DPA Fund and matching donations of those who respond to its Closing the Gap Challenge SANTA CLARA, Calif. /PRNewswire/ — In April, we celebrate National Fair Housing Month, but data shows the realities of inequality and a history of discriminatory policies are still blocking homeownership…
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Boeing Celebrates 1 Million DreamLearners Participants
NORTH CHARLESTON —The Boeing Company is excited to announce that the company’s DreamLearners program has reached more than 1 million participants since the program began in 2012. Elected officials, representatives from Boeing and the Charleston County School District (CCSD) celebrated the milestone at North Charleston Elementary School Wednesday, where they were joined by dozens of students who…
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AMERICAN EGG BOARD UNVEILS 45TH ANNUAL FIRST LADY’S COMMEMORATIVE EGG
America’s Egg Farmers Honor Dr. Jill Biden’s Commitment to Ensuring Education for All at White House Easter Egg Roll and Donate Over 100,000 Eggs to Annual Event and Local Foodbank WASHINGTON /PRNewswire/ — The American Egg Board (AEB), on behalf of America’s egg farmers, has unveiled the 2022 First Lady’s Commemorative Egg, a symbolic gift for Dr. Jill…
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Ida Byrd-Hill Launches Front-Liner Campaign, “Train to Be a Tech Superhero Like Miranda”
Corporations, dismissing the value of Front-Liners, have caused The Great Resignation – a demonstration of Front-Liner Power. DETROIT /PRNewswire/ — Front-Liners, mainly Black and low-income, have discovered they have options – gig work, unionization or better paying careers. Many front-liners are making more money as gig workers than their regular jobs. A Lyft driver earned $57,000 in 2021, $30,000 more than her…
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THE SKIN OF COLOR SOCIETY (SOCS) SUCCESSFULLY HELD ITS 18TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM FEATURING LATEST RESEARCH & INSIGHTS FROM LEADING EXPERTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS ON KEY ISSUES IN SKIN OF COLOR DERMATOLOGY
High-interest presentations covered AI in Dermatology, Dermoscopy in Scarring Alopecia, Physician Leadership in Advancing Equity, Aesthetics in Skin of Color, Keloids, Pigmentary Disorders, Diagnostic Bias and other topics relevant to patients of color CHICAGO /PRNewswire/ — The Skin of Color Society, (SOCS), the world’s leading professional organization dedicated to advancing skin of color dermatology through research, education, mentorship…