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Five key takeaways from the GCA Accenture Trend Report
With over 20,000 entries received in the past five years, we can get unique insights in how innovators from over 200 countries and territories across the world, think and foresee…
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Reaching commercialisation is key to create impact
Through Global Change Award we support innovation to move from early stage ideas to market readiness. We are backing game changers in their early days, getting them ready to commercialize…
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Five years of change
Global Change Award was initiated in 2015 by the non-profit H&M Foundation. In five years, it has turned into a global ecosystem of change driving the fashion industry towards a…
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Covid donation to World Health Organisation is put to use
In just over five weeks since it was launched, the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund has raised almost $200 million to support the World Health Organization’s global response efforts to the…
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600,000 people reached through programs for Education, Water and Equality
For the past three years, H&M Foundation and our partners UNICEF, WaterAid and CARE have reached and exceeded our goals within our global programs. Thousands of women have received support…
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Innovations that will transform the fashion industry awarded €1 million
From lab-grown cotton and creating fabrics from protein DNA, to tracking sustainable fibres by using blockchain technology, wastewater separation and converting carbon dioxide into sustainable polyester. These are the five…
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Making silk-like fabric from old oranges
Orange Fiber won the first Global Change Award winner in 2016 with their innovation of creating textiles out of by-products from citrus juice production. Since then, the have made collections…
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H&M Foundation donates hotel rooms to health care personnel
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and a cancelled Global Change Award ceremony, the H&M Foundation was left with hotel rooms in Stockholm, Sweden that could not be used. The…
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H&M Foundation supports GodHjälp in Sweden
In these times many vulnerable people are isolated without the possibility to go out to buy groceries and medicines. H&M Foundation has made a donation to GoodCause Foundation, who is…