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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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  • "I am convinced that through the telling of stories, we discover what connects us." —Melinda Gates

  • "Our young people are the future. We must provide for them. We must give them the positive leadership they are asking for." —Grace Murray Hopper

  • "The number of people dying from AIDS has gone down by more than 20% in the last five years, to fewer than 2 million annually. Given the lives that at stake, I'm impatient enough that I'm willing to be viewed as a troublemaker by those happy with the status quo." —Bill Gates

  • "I have an optimistic view of human nature. For the most part, I believe people are good, that we want to help our neighbors. I believe people want to be good citizens. When they see a problem, they want to fix it." —William H. Gates, Sr.

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

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