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Ep191: This Austin Startup Helps Homeless with "Socks for Souls"

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Ryan Harmon, CEO & Co-founder of Press Cleaners. Press is a weekly, subscription-based dry cleaning and laundry delivery service in Texas that is helping the homeless and growing its business with its Socks for Souls program.

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Ep190: This Mattress Company Lets You Give Back While You Sleep

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to David Wolfe, Co-Founder and CEO of Leesa Sleep, a certified B-Corp that donates one mattress to a shelter for every 10 it sells. To date, they've donated 9,000 mattresses and are proudly pioneering a way for people to give back while they sleep!

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Ep189: Dunkin' Rebrands Foundation to Bring More "Joy In Childhood"

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Christine Riley Miller, Senior Director of Corporate Social Responsibility & Corporate Foundation for Dunkin' Brands, about the company's new, re-branded foundation, the Joy in Childhood Foundation. The goal of the foundation is right in the name: to provide the simple joys of childhood to sick and hungry kids.

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Ep188: New Ad Campaign Shows Mortal Combat Sick Kids Wage Against Illness, Disease

Today on CauseTalk Radio Megan and I talk to Lori Davison, Vice President of Brand Strategy & Communications, at SickKids Foundation about the foundation's new brand platform.

Titled SickKids VS The Greatest Challenges in Child Health, the platform shows the strength, the fierceness, the fight that’s very real at SickKids and shares it with those who have never stepped foot into the hospital. This isn't your typical hospital ad campaign!

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Ep187: Evite, Pledgeling Team Up to Turn Birthday Parties Into Fundraisers for Charity

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to James Citron, CEO, of Pledgeling and Victor Cho, CEO of Evite about Evite Donations, which has raised over one million dollars in donations for 20,000 thousand nonprofit organizations across the United States.

Evite Donations is a free tool that turns every Evite event into an opportunity to give back. Hosts can select their favorite nonprofit from the 10,000+ members of the Pledgeling network, or recommend a new nonprofit. Guests donate without leaving Evite.com, and Evite never charges a fee to make donations. The backend integration for donation processing is powered by Pledgeling, which includes instant tax receipts to donors for their donations.

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Ep185: The Story Behind Big Lots' $50 Million Gift to Nationwide Children's Hospital

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Jeremy Ball, who leads the Big Lots Foundation and is director of philanthropy and events for the parent company Big Lots, about the retailers impressive cause marketing efforts on behalf of Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Last fall, Big Lots mobilized its nearly 1,500 stores and raised $2.2 million! But this was just the tip of the iceberg.

In August, the Foundation announced a $50 million transformational gift to Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Big Lots will support Nationwide Children’s new behavioral health expansion, including the construction of a treatment and research center on the hospital's main campus.

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Ep184: How This Pet Hospital Chain Used POS to Raise $2.5 Million for Charity

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Kim Van Syoc, Executive Director at the Banfield Foundation. about the organization's successes and challenges in the first year of operation.

The Banfield Foundation was founded in 2015 by Banfield Pet Hospital (BPH), which operates more than 950 pet clinics, mostly located in PetSmart stores across the country.

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Ep183: Uber Makes Donating Clothes to Goodwill Easy

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Ryan Kuhn, Senior Director of Marketing for Goodwill Industries International, about a national collection drive they launched with the help of Uber.

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Ep182: Starbucks Launches New Cause Content Platform Upstanders

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Russell Sparkman, CEO of FusionSpark Media, about Upstanders, a new purpose-focused web series from Starbucks. The goal of the initiative is to tell real stories of humanity as a reminder that ordinary citizens can create extraordinary impact by refusing to be bystanders

Russ is the perfect person to speak to on this content initiative! He and his firm are leaders in purpose-focused non-fiction storytelling.

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Ep181: Omni Hotels Books Meals for Needy with "Say Goodnight to Hunger"

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Peter Strebel, Chief Marketing Officer at Omni Hotels & Resorts, about Say Goodnight to Hunger (#SayGoodnightToHunger). This action-triggered donation program feeds a family of four dinner for an entire week whenever guests book a stay directly at OmniHotels.com.

Since the programs launched in June, Omni Hotels has donated 3 million meals. Donations support Feeding America and local food banks in the 42 communities where Omni's 60 hotels are located.

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Ep180: How Pencils of Promise Does the Most Good by Focusing on Impact

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Leslie Engle Young, Director of Impact at Pencils of Promise (PoP), about how the how organization has become a top philanthropic brand by smashing its goal of increasing access to quality education for children in the developing world.

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Ep179: How Arby's Maverick Spirit is Building a PurposeFULL Business

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Chris Fuller, Executive Director at the Arby's Foundation, about the chain's first PurposeFULL report highlighting progress across its corporate social responsibility (CSR) platform.

With 3,300 locations around the world, Arby's is the second largest quick-service chain in the world!

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Ep177: Tech Company Partners with Oxfam for 'See a Demo, Get a Goat'

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Lisa Lewis, Director of Marketing at Formation Data Systems (FDS), a startup storage company, about an interesting cause marketing partnership with Oxfam involving giving goats to families in need!

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Ep176: Personal Branding for Causepreneurs with Katrina McGhee

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Katrina McGhee, a nonprofit leader and entrepreneur who has more than 25 years of experience in progressive leadership roles, including chief marketing officer for Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

On the show, Megan, Katrina and I discuss personal branding for causepreneurs. We cover...

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Ep175: How This Texas DQ Franchisee is Fighting Childhood Hunger

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan Strand and I talk to Bill Spae, CEO of Vasari LLC, a Dairy Queen franchisee with 76+ locations in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Vasari is the second largest franchisee in the DQ system!

Vasari leads several cause marketing programs, including a fundraiser for Share Our Strength that has raised $335,000 since 2014.

On the show, Megan, Bill and I discuss...

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