At Discovery, we like to give back. And giving back is even more meaningful when you can leverage your personal passions and professional skills, as Discovery Communications employees have the last four years through Discovery Impact: Creating Change. Creating Change is Discovery’s annual creative marathon that pairs talented Discovery teams with nonprofit partners in our community that can benefit from our expertise — through topic-focused workshops covering branding, social media…
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We Discovered Our Impact!
On Friday, more than 4,000 Discovery employees around the world left their offices to make a difference in their communities during Discovery Communications’ fifth annual Discover Your Impact Day. From sandwich making to pond cleaning and furniture painting, Discovery’s Impact Day teams conquered their projects, while also learning more about their communities and how they can continue giving back year-round. You can get a sense of the day through the…
Discovery to Celebrate Fifth Annual ‘Discover Your Impact Day’
As a Discovery employee, one of my favorite days of the year is “Discover Your Impact Day,” an annual company-wide event that sends global employees into their communities to make a difference. Tomorrow, 4,000 employees in more than 50 offices and nearly 35 countries will be participating in over 200 projects throughout the world. Channeling their own personal passions and skills, employees will work on a variety of projects including…
Craving a Cure: TLC’s Cake Boss Joins (RED) National Campaign
Cake Boss Buddy Valastro’s recipe for success just got even sweeter. For the first ten days of June, TLC and America’s favorite baker joined forces to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS with (RED)’s national campaign: Eat. (RED) Drink. (RED) SAVE LIVES. Throughout the campaign, the Cake Boss Café sold 1,800 (RED) Velvet cupcakes to benefit (RED). Additionally, TLCStore.com offered a Cake Boss (RED) Package (which sold out on the first…
Discovery Hosts US2020 Representatives for “Day at Discovery” Conference
On Tuesday, Discovery Communications was named exclusive media partner for US2020, a new organization developed from a White House call to generate large-scale innovative solutions to our STEM education challenge, with a focus on increasing access to STEM careers for girls, underrepresented minorities, and low-income children. As part of this commitment, Discovery yesterday hosted about 25 representatives from the US2020’s City Competition for a day-long conference focused on building successful…
‘Say Yes to the Prom’ Blows into the Windy City for Final Stop in National Tour
Yesterday, Discovery rounded out its 2014 Say Yes to the Prom tour with a stop Chicago, in partnership with OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, Harpo Studios and Comcast. Thirty high school girls, from Julian High School in Washington Heights and Curie Metropolitan High School in Archer Heights, began the special day at Harpo Studios with a special kickoff message from Monte Durham, fashion director and star of TLC’s Say Yes to the…
Discovery and Mediacom Bring ‘Say Yes to the Prom’ to Des Moines
Yesterday, Discovery worked alongside affiliate partner Mediacom to bring its “Say Yes to the Prom” initiative to a deserving group of high school girls in Des Moines, Iowa. The event, the second of three to occur this year as part of the program’s national expansion, brought 30 girls from Roosevelt High School to La’ James International College for a full day of mentoring, prom dress shopping and makeovers. The event…
500 Days to a World of Difference
Today’s guest post on Discovery Blog is from Salma Bahramy, Communications Specialist for Discovery Learning Alliance. “We are here to help ensure that every child enjoys his or her right to education – and I am pleased to stand with all of you in working towards that goal,” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at a summit last week that convened global policy leaders, campaigners, NGOs and youth activists in…
Discovery ‘Lights It Up Blue’ to Raise Awareness for Autism
Today marks World Autism Awareness Day, and Discovery Communications is helping to shed light on autism by participating in Autism Speaks’ signature “Light It Up Blue” campaign. Joining hundreds of companies around the world to draw attention to this important cause, Discovery is turning its global headquarters building blue tonight, running 15-second public service announcements across domestic networks and their websites, promoting the initiative on social media platforms, and handing out…
Local High School Girls ‘Say Yes to the Prom’ at Discovery Event
Yesterday, at One Discovery Place, we all saw a little magic happen at the third annual “Say Yes to the Dress,” a corporate initiative promoting confidence and a positive self-image for deserving high school girls In the morning, forty local high school girls arrived and were paired with Discovery employees to lead them through a day of mentoring, prom dress shopping and makeovers. Monte Durham, fashion director and star of TLC’s…