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Wanted: Creative Superheroes to "Do Good"

June 17, 2013 / Tom Scott

Today, in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, we are launching the Cannes Chimera Initiative, to help change the global conversation about tough development problems.

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Aid Is Working. Tell the World.

October 18, 2012 / Tom Scott

We put a call out to the world asking for creative ideas to help change the narrative of global development, and to highlight stories of success: Aid is Working: Tell the World.

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President Clinton to Creative Community: Help Tell The Story of Aid

June 21, 2012 / Tom Scott

Can the advertising community help build a better world? According to former President Bill Clinton, the answer is a resounding yes. At a packed session today before thousands of attendees at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity (the world’s biggest festival for creative professionals), the president called on the industry to use its collective knowledge to work on issues that can make a difference.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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