Save the Children & Concordia Convene Leaders Alongside UN General Assembly 
Concordia is the largest nonpartisan forum taking place alongside the United Nations General Assembly. 

At the summit held last week, our CEO Carolyn Miles ( pictured above ) delivered Centennial remarks before being joined on stage by Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

The two discussed what children need to recover from conflict and how we get there, with an emphasis on education and mental health support. 
Save the Children and Concordia also convened
14 senior-level business, foundation and government leaders to examine the importance of public and private-sector partnerships, as well as the need for greater investments and advocacy to help children in crisis.
Photo by Andrew Toth/Getty Images for Save The Children
Robert Iger Honored at
Save the Children’s “Centennial Celebration: Once In A Lifetime”
The West Coast event , held Wednesday night at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, was hosted by Save the Children trustee and actor Jennifer Garner and honored The Walt Disney Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert A. Iger with the Centennial Award, which was presented by Oprah Winfrey.

James Taylor (left) performed hit songs “You’ve Got a Friend” and “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)”, and ‘Shower the People” accompanied by the Amani Children’s Choir from Uganda and the Mid Cities Youth Choir.
Save the Children's “The Centennial Gala: Changing the World for Children”

The Centennial Gala, held on September 12 in New York, was a night to remember! Co-hosted by NBC’s Hoda Kotb and Willie Geist, the evening honored award-winning singer Camila Cabello and fashion designer and American icon Tommy Hilfiger for their dedication to bettering the lives of children. The event raised over $3 million for Save the Children!

Additionally, presenting sponsor Johnson & Johnson announced a pledge of $5 million to support our humanitarian assistance, disaster relief and resilience efforts. We're thankful to our partners BlackRock,
T.J. Maxx, and PVH Corp . for sponsoring the event and celebrating this special evening with us.
Save the Children Trustee and actor Jennifer Garner lit up New York’s iconic Empire State Building in red to mark Save the Children’s 100 years of giving children a brighter future.

Photo Credits: Save the Children/Getty
Save the Children is challenging our supporters to join a 5K walk across the Brooklyn Bridge on October 12 to raise funds and awareness for our girls’ education, health and protection programs in honor of International Day of the Girl. The event is sponsored by Hello Bello, MPOWERD, Polar Beverages and Sunrays Citrus . We challenge your NYC-area employees to register a team to help give girls the futures they deserve.
Calling Skilled Volunteers!

We’re looking for a marketing guru who can help us to develop a promotional plan for a blockchain project that’s empowering cocoa-farming communities in Indonesia. This short-term, remote volunteer position would help us create compelling marketing materials to showcase this innovative project. 

Interested? Contact Josh Springer , Director of Skills- Based Volunteers, to learn more or discuss other opportunities.
Bank of America Private Bank employees in East Hartford, Connecticut and New York collected supplies and packed kits with items like plush toys, blankets, snacks, notebooks and crayons to provide comfort and entertainment to children at our U.S. border programs in New Mexico. The children were overjoyed!




Accenture and Save the Children share a vision for creating a more prosperous and secure future for young people. Together, we have equipped nearly 90,000 youth with the skills to get a job or build a business. Over the next three years, we plan to equip more than 80,000 additional youth with these skills.



As part of its  RISE initiative ,  Discovery  has made a four-year commitment to
Save the Children in support of a variety of programs that will impact 10 million people globally. The initiative will drive viewer awareness and donor engagement through local PSAs, take-action websites and social media, in addition to engaging thousands of Discovery employees.
National Geographic, Procter & Gamble and Global Citizen are partnering to raise awareness about extreme poverty, inequality and sustainability through a six-part documentary series. Each episode features celebrities spotlighting the unique stories of global citizens working to enact real change and create a better future. Save the Children will be featured in four of the six episodes. Watch here !
Read a Story, Change Their Story – 100 Days of Reading began on June 1 and encouraged all children, parents, teachers, librarians, caregivers and other adults to log their summer reading minutes. More than 170 million minutes were logged (!) – the equivalent of more than 118,000 days of reading – resulting in significant support of our work to improve literacy and change young lives across rural America. Learn more and contact us if you're interested in our 2020 Read a Story, Change a Story campaign.
On Friday, October 11, Save the Children will convene corporate leaders, experts from the field and youth from our programs in Monterrey, Mexico, to discuss how to strengthen the skills, abilities and knowledge of youth to find and maintain quality jobs. The forum will also address gender equality in the workplace and, through a panel discussion featuring Accenture and Tec de Monterrey , will explore how innovative solutions and technology can empower youth. We invite your local team to join us! Please RSVP here.
Save the Children has made a strategic investment to drive transformative change by incorporating innovation into our everyday work. As part of this ambition, we are utilizing technology to improve the efficiency, scale and impact of our humanitarian and development work. Here are two tools we’re piloting to improve the humanitarian sector through innovations that we aim to enhance and scale with the support of partners. 
The Migration and Displacement Initiative (MDI), supported by Boston Consulting Group’s advanced analytics team, is a prototype model that predicts the duration and scale of a forced displacement crisis.
Responding Quicker is a first responder app that will automate the notification of surge staff about an emergency, confirm their availability, obtain approval from their line manager, and aggregate the most appropriate staff to deploy within a matter of hours rather than days.
October 1-4 : Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit, D.C.
October 11: Save the Children's Youth Employability Forum, Monterrey, Mexico
November 12-14: BSR Conference, San Jose, CA
November 13-14 : U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Corporate Citizenship Conference, D.C.
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