Deliberately late pizza deliveries raise awareness of world hunger and money for charity
We’ve already seen food outlets in the US doing their bit to tackle global hunger with the Halfsies initiative, which donates to charity when customers order half-sized meals. Now a risky advertising campaign cooked up by agency ONIRIA/TBWA has seen two pizzerias in Paraguay provide a deliberately slow service to raise awareness of hunger. READ MORE…
Peer-to-peer ‘laundromat’ helps neighbors share their washing machines
It was only a few weeks ago that we wrote about Share Some Sugar and its service designed to help neighbors share rarely used items, and here we are again with another related spotting. Hailing this time from France, La Machine du Voisin is a new site that aims to connect owners of washing machines with those who need one. READ MORE…
Where Are They Now? with Art Sumo
Founded on the ethos that artists from the developing world deserve a wider audience for their work, Art Sumo set out to provide a platform for artworks that were in danger of escaping unnoticed on the world stage. One year and one month on from when it was founded, we’re taking a look back on the progress Art Sumo has made over the past year.
When Springwise first covered the initiative back in May 2011, founder Naysawn Naderi had grand ambitions for the three-month old project. Now with thousands of customers spread across the world, artists hailing from Africa, Indonesia, Brazil and the Philippines, and orders coming in from Dubai, Australia and Singapore, it seems that their premise of art without borders is becoming a reality. This global perspective is helped by the three person Art Sumo team, who are spread out across Vietnam, the US and Chile. READ MORE…
Prague café hosts art therapy sessions and uses products created
Helping a recovering addict may be good cause in itself, but recently we came across an eatery that is not only helping addicts to recover, but also putting the work they produce in the process to good use. Cafe Therapy in the Czech Republic is offering art sessions as a way for addicts to deal with their dependencies, while using the crockery they create to serve food. READ MORE…
Charity volunteers rewarded with discounts at local businesses
Virtue may be its own reward, but there’s nothing like tangible goods to make the payback feel a little more real. Much the way French CitéGreen rewards participants for their eco-friendly behavior, so Indianapolis-based Cause.it enables charity volunteers to be recognized with discounts at local businesses. READ MORE…
Academy teaches students how to build bikes, with each first creation sent to Africa
It wasn’t long ago that we were writing about Zambikes, a social enterprise helping Zambians learn how to create bikes. Now we’ve come across another startup with a focus on bicycles that’s also hoping to do some good in the developing world. The Bicycle Academy aims to teach bike building skills in the UK, with each apprentice’s first creation sent to Africa. READ MORE…
With each pizza delivered in Spain, books for the Colombian needy
Much the way the ColaLife project has worked to piggy-back on Coca-Cola’s formidable distribution networks to get medicine dispersed where it’s most needed, so the Books for Colombia effort aimed to capitalize on the pizza deliveries in Spain to get books to the Colombian needy. READ MORE…
“Buy one, donate one” promotional videos
We’ve seen “buy one, donate one” initiatives enable consumers to give everything from baby blankets to condoms to those in need through their purchase decisions. Now in Belgium, online video production company Timbooktwo have given the concept a B2B twist, producing a free video for a charitable organization each time they make one for a tourism company. READ MORE…
T-shirt brand supports entrepreneurs in developing countries
A few months ago we spotted adventure travel company OneSeed Expeditions, who support local female entrepreneurs in South East Asia by giving 10 percent of revenue to microfinance partners. On a similar mission, Florida-based t-shirt brand Naked Hippie invest all their profit in microloans to help grow small businesses in developing countries. READ MORE…
With every half-sized restaurant meal, a donation to fight hunger
Pay-what-you-can pricing is one way for a restaurant to help fight hunger during tough economic times, but recently we came across a different approach that aims to combat obesity and waste as well. It’s called Halfsies, and it’s essentially a program that’s designed to help consumers eat less at restaurants while helping to feed the hungry and minimize the amount of food that gets thrown out. READ MORE…
