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Laudes Foundation appoints Richard Boyd to built environment programme

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Laudes Foundation appoints Naureen Chowdhury to lead its Labour Rights Programme

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Laudes Foundation and IDH partner to develop a landscapes programme in Brazil’s Caatinga biome

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Philanthropy takes action to promote labour rights in Brazil

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RFP - Mapping and implementing accountability tactics for transforming the built environment in Europe

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Laudes Foundation appoints Nando van Kleeff to key financial market transformation role

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How construction avoids climate catastrophe – Building to COP27 and beyond…

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Financing a net zero built environment

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Laudes Foundation Finance Dialogue: Multilaterals and the climate change challenge

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Unlocking investment to innovate and commercialise transformative climate solutions

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Reimagining the system for a built environment transition

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Closing the transparency gap in global fashion

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Jill Beraud Named Chair of the Fashion for Good BV Board

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Oxfam and Laudes Foundation launch initiative to promote inclusive social protection for apparel employees in Cambodia

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Built by Nature Announces Amanda Sturgeon as Inaugural CEO

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Laudes, IDH and WWF collaborative brings brands, governments, farmers and civil society together to promote regenerative agriculture and sustainable sourcing

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Laudes Foundation launches platform to facilitate greater transparency in fashion

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Accelerating our progress towards a Just Transition

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New partnership conducts research on the social impacts of the EU legislative proposals in the ‘Fit for 55’ package

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Independent Evaluation of the Initiative ‘Delivering an advocacy agenda for a circular EU economy’

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Painting a multicoloured economic future

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Collaborating to deliver a new economic system in Europe

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Lessons from piloting circular business models in the fashion sector

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Biomimicry Institute Partnership Awarded Multi-Million Dollar Grant to Pilot Decomposition of Textile Waste

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Developmental Evaluation of Laudes Foundation’s Strategy

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All hands on deck: Philanthropy's extraordinary moment

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Major new network and grant-making fund, ‘Built by Nature’, launches ahead of COP26 to accelerate mass timber construction as critical climate solution

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Is it time to change the narrative on climate change?

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Request for Proposal: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Learning Partnership Consultancy

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Request for Proposal: Fit for 55 Package Social Impact Review

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Request for Proposal: Consultancy to develop a partner learning approach

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Request for Proposal: Conducting evidence synthesis for organisational learning

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Request for Proposal: Real-time learning loop of ‘Mexico Iniciativa Arropa’

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Request for Proposal: Facilitating a community of practice among partners working to decarbonise finance and investment in the built environment

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Food Waste Could Change the Future of Fashion, According to a New Report

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Do you think one day everyone will wear clothes made from waste?

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Promoting gender equity and the need to #ActForEqual

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Request for Proposal: New Economic Thinking Landscape Review

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Workers in the data narrative: A missing protagonist

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Rethinking Value in Financial Markets with David Blood

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What gets measured gets done – why it’s time to align on embodied carbon metrics

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Terms of Reference for setting up a Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation System - B Team

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Request for Proposal: Mapping and analysis of labour rights and environmental protection provisions in trade agreements

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In conversation with...Open Apparel Registry

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EIT Climate-KIC and partners collaborate with Laudes Foundation to advance Madrid and Milan sustainable urban approach across Europe

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Laudes Foundation is seeking an evaluation team to evaluate the strategy of Open Apparel Registry

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Laudes Foundation funds research into timber to help build a more sustainable future

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Mapping the global economic system: on a journey towards a more climate-positive and inclusive economy

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Doughnut Economics: Rethinking the economic model

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Celebrating Those Who #ChooseToChallenge Our Global Economic System

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Making climate action in the built environment socially equitable: a joint endeavour

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Laudes Foundation is seeking an evaluation team for a final evaluation of "Make Fashion Circular"

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Green Finance Institute & Laudes Foundation partner to decarbonise the built environment

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Request for Proposals Systems Baseline Report for Laudes Foundation’s Theory of Change

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Request for proposals for a real-time assessment of the BuildingLife regional initiative

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In conversation with...Nicole Rycroft

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One year of impact: marking Laudes Foundation’s anniversary and outlining our strategy

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Request for propoals for an independent evaluation of P4NE

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Organisational effectiveness: lessons learned from C&A Foundation

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WorldGBC launches #BuildingLife project to deliver EU Green Deal

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Bangladesh and transparency: challenging the status quo

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New partnerships to build an inclusive and carbon-positive economy

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Request for proposals for field scoping of gender and social equity in the built environment

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Laudes Foundation, IDH and WWF India come together to power a regenerative production landscape

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Our journey towards equitable evaluations

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Cotton 2040 accelerates the movement towards aligned impact measurement and reporting

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The Response and Vision Fund announces new initiatives to transform the global economic system

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Fashion for Good and Laudes Foundation embark on a new frontier in chemical recycling

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Laudes Foundation makes first grants towards more inclusive economic policies

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Partners tap into free expertise during Covid recovery

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Environmental transformation blocked without transparency and incentives says study from UC Berkeley

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Working together to progress corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence

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Sowing seeds for an organic cotton future

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Responding to COVID-19

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ASA looks at the path of recovery through resilience

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Funders join forces to advance a global economy that works for people and the planet.

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Resolve, Return, Reimagine: how Laudes Foundation is responding to COVID-19

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2019 Annual Report brings C&A Foundation chapter to a close

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It Starts with Trust: C&A Foundation’s Response to our Partner Survey

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Laudes Foundation seeks an Evaluation Team for an independent review of the ZDHC Foundation

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Child rights in a crisis: a forgotten casualty?

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Laudes Foundation statement on Gender, Equity and Inclusion

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Does buying pre-loved clothing mean buying less new?

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Hope in times of crisis

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Transparency’s transformative act: the power of data

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Emergency COVID-19 plan to ease pressure on partners

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Call for Proposals on the viability of agricultural waste & residue as textile fibre feedstock

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It’s Not “Just a Virus”

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Term of Reference for Market Research & Analysis

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Community groups win a platform for change in Tamil Nadu

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In Solidarity with Women for a Future of Fair Work for All

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Planet Tracker partners with Laudes Foundation to launch Textiles Tracker

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Laudes Foundation launches to accelerate the transition to a just and regenerative economy

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Spotlight on Maharashtra to emerge as an organic cotton hotspot

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In solidarity we can end gender-based violence at work

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Constitutional Labour Reform in Mexico: and now what?

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Women Funded 2019 brings together women from around the world to share their experiences

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A new dawn in the fight against gender-based violence at work?

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Gender, Equity and Inclusion: The C&A Foundation Journey

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Better Buying Index Report 2019

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Not so fast — fashion: can circular business models slow it down?

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Creating a socially fair circular economy in the apparel industry

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Understanding the impact of circular business models on people

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Transparency: not just a motto, but definitive action for transforming the world

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Is Child Labor Out of Fashion? - Meet Arshi’s family and find out

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New boost for the fashion industry as it prepares for a turbulent decade

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Backward-thinking technology

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Bold policies needed to mainstream sustainable fashion

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Before blockchain, get the right address: open data mapping & unique IDs to jumpstart collaboration

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The Open Apparel Registry launches free, open source, global map of apparel facilities

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Making Fashion a Force for Good

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Improving Farmer Livelihood, One Drip at a Time