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ATLANTA, GA — The Captain Planet Foundation recently announced the launch of the 2026 Green Heart STEM Challenge, welcoming its largest cohort to date with nearly 5,000 students, 132 educators, and 71 schools across 11 states participating. 

The Green Heart STEM Challenge is delivered through a hybrid model, with in-person programming in metro Atlanta, Houston, and Miami, alongside virtual participation that enables schools in additional states to engage fully. This structure supports deep, place-based learning in core communities while expanding national access.

Designed for students in grades 6–9, the Challenge blends STEM learning with real-world problem solving, guiding students to identify environmental challenges in their communities and develop practical, implementable solutions. It follows a rotating, four-year cycle focused on EARTH, WIND, FIRE, and WATER, ensuring students explore a broad range of environmental systems and solutions over time.

The 2026 Challenge features EARTH, with students exploring issues such as soil health, tree canopy, composting, and food waste. Educators onboard students to the Challenge platform, where teams form, research, and begin building solutions rooted in local needs.

“What sets this Challenge apart is that students are mentored and funded to implement their winning ideas,!” said Leesa Carter-Jones, President and CEO of Captain Planet Foundation. “They’re not just learning about environmental challenges, they’re designing solutions and being held accountable for real outcomes.”

Since its launch, the Challenge has shown growing, measurable impact. In recent cycles, hundreds of student teams have progressed from ideas to formal project plans, with an increasing percentage advancing to implementation. Past winners have secured additional funding, expanded beyond their schools, and built long-term community partnerships, including teams in Atlanta and Houston continuing work well beyond the Challenge timeline. Across cohorts, student-led projects have tackled composting and food waste, erosion control and reforestation, water quality, repair-and-reuse systems, and circularity efforts reducing fast fashion and single-use waste.

The Challenge is supported by Accenture, Amazon, Delta Air Lines, Georgia Natural Gas, Green Mountain Energy, and Susan J. Klein, among others. Accenture employees also serve as volunteer mentors and project managers, helping student teams refine ideas, develop budgets, and prepare for implementation through the Challenge’s Idea Incubator.

Entering its fourth year, the Green Heart STEM Challenge continues to show what’s possible when students are trusted with real responsibility, and supported to turn ideas into action.

About Captain Planet Foundation
Captain Planet Foundation is an award-winning U.S.-based nonprofit that empowers young people to be problem-solvers for the planet. Over the past 35 years, more than 1.7 million children have directly participated in CPF programs, supporting more than 3,700 projects and impacting 11.4 million young people worldwide. Founded in 1991 by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle, CPF advances environmental education through programs including Project Learning Garden, Planeteer Alliance, and the Green Heart STEM Challenge. Learn more at www.captainplanetfoundation.org.

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It is understood that New York, as the world’s trade capital, has gathered thousands of chambers of commerce around the world to exchange activities here, and the US-China Entrepreneurs Association is one of them with a long history and considerable scale. Founded in 2005, the Association is a non-profit organization composed of elite entrepreneurs from the U.S. and China. Over the past 17 years, the Chamber has been committed to promoting U.S.-China trade and investment, business services, strengthening communication between enterprises of the two countries, enhancing awareness and friendship between entrepreneurs, integration, and in-depth cooperation based on mutual trust.

The  US China CEO Society’s founder, Mr. Sun Wentie or Robert Sun, received his bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University in China in 1977. After working in China for seven years, he came to study at the University of California, Riverside, where he received his MBA in 1986. Since 1989, Mr. Sun established five companies engaged in the supply of medical and dental manufacturing, international trade, distribution, and manufacturing of medical devices, hygiene, personal care, and sealing tapes. He has also been engaged in investment projects, combining the best of leading technology in the United States with the vast market and capital in China, establishing successful medical device joint ventures. He has also led a US team to China to establish a cardiovascular hospital project.

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of large Chinese companies entering the U.S. market and doing business in the United States. In order to provide effective assistance to corporations  in both countries, the US-China CEO Society has organized impactful gatherings at higher and mainstream levels, such as the four successful Oscar China Nights in Hollywood, the world’s film capital, the opening ceremony of several large Chinese New Year celebrations at the world-famous South Coast Plaza the CEO Society had held in conjunction with the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles, the organization has also hosted high-level Chinese delegations and forums at the Nixon Presidential Foundation Museum, and has partnered with Morgan Stanley & Co. to hold financial seminars for U.S.-China CEO member companies. The associations’ activities have provided an effective platform for interaction between CEOs of mainstream U.S. and Chinese companies in various industries.

Mr. Robert Sun Wentie, President of American-Chinese CEO Soceity or commonly known as ACCS

Wall Street is the world’s financial center. After several years of preparation and selection of right candidates, development, ACCS finally decides to establish it chapter in New York, hoping to open the financial channels between China and the United States, combine the needs of member companies, connect more companies to go public, and provide resources and platforms for various corporate members to participate in effective services. Up to date, ACCS has established 32 chapters in China, 15 chapters in the US, and liaison offices in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Central and South America, Oceania, and Southeast Asia.

Members include: Bank of America, American Airlines, Air China, New York Life, South Coast Mall, Wells Fargo, Ima Urban Planning & Design, KPMG, Delta Air Lines, MSK, PCG, DYF Entertainment Group, California MXQ Life Water, California High Speed Rail Group, United Properties, Newport Beach Luxury Real Estate, Cathay Bank, Pactrans Air & Sea Logistics, TransUnion Group, Manjing Vacations, Jia Cai Accounting Firm, Qi Boxiong Law Firm, Le Méridien Hotel, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Huawei, China Mobile, Bank of China, Shanghai Greenland Group, China Unicom, Shanghai Chunqiu Travel & Tourism Co. China Unicom, Shanghai Spring Travel, Hong Kong Everbright Industrial Group, Shanghai Office in the U.S., Jiangsu Department of Commerce Office in the U.S., and thousands of other companies.

New York Chapter of ACCS will be co-led by two presidents, Jesse Weiner, who is a “China expert”, and Dr. Jeannie Jinsneng Yi, who is an “American expert”. Having traveled and worked between China and the U.S. for many years, they will lead the NYC Chapter of ACCS bridging the friendship and cooperation between China and the U.S. to enhance communication and understanding in post-pandemic era.

Introduction of the two ACCS Co-Presidents

Jesse Weiner

Managing Partner, Entertainment & Media, YK Law

Mr Jesse Weiner is the managing partner of YK Law, the larget lawy firm spreding its buisness in 5 continents. His primary practice areas include entertainment (music, film and television, arts) and blockchain. He has facilitated and helped establish mega international joint ventures and strategic partnerships, including the $1.5 billion slate financing deal between Hunan Radio and Television Media Co. and Lionsgate, and has represented financial institutions, investors, production companies, distributors, content creators, high net worth individuals, and funds in all aspects of film, television, and digital content production, financing, and distribution, including representing China’s top directors Zhang Yimou and Jiang Wen, and Ning Hao’s production company Dirty Monkey (that directed the last blockbuster film, Crazy Aliens). In the music sector, Jessie has represented Thai-Chinese superstar Mike Angelo in transactions with Tencent.

For most of 2018, Jesse served as CEO of a private equity firm that invests in the life sciences, gaming and entertainment sectors. He helped the firm establish a joint venture with a leading cancer treatment company. In March 2018, he assisted the firm in the acquisition of a publicly traded shell company and directed the acquisition of a Hollywood production/distribution company by the then publicly traded company.

In addition, Jessie is a founding member and executive of a blockchain project company involving Mike Tyson, which will be a blockchain-based global fighting competition, whose top fighters will earn the right to participate in action star reality shows; it is also applicable to major movie roles and other branding opportunities.

His pro bono work includes representing and supporting the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation. Building on the shared legacy formed over China during World War II, the Foundation’s mission is to rekindle the spirit of cooperation, science, commerce and exploration between the people of China and the United States by celebrating their contributions to aerospace technology; and to promote practical dialogue about the shared aviation history of both countries.

After traveling to and from China for more than a decade, Jesse is fluent in Chinese. He enjoys playing chess, long-distance cycling and sailing.

Dr Yi-with Mayor Bloomberg

Dr. Jeannie Jinsheng Yi

DYF Entertainment Group CEO

Since 1993, Dr. Jeannie Yi has been involved in the financial and entertainment industry, bridging the gap between the US and China in terms of capital, talent and culture. In 1996, Dr. Yi was portrayed in Working Women, a mainstream Manhattan women’s magazine; in 2004, Dr Yi was portrayed with 6 pages special in China’s top people magazine China’s Talent; in 2009, Dr Yi was honored as one of the “Top 10 Businesswomen in New Jersey”; in 2012, Dr Yi was awarded the “Chengdu Most Global Influencers” by her birthplace Chengdu with 3 million people casting votes. In 2013, Dr Yi received a special award of “Outstanding Beidaren of Peking University”. For five consecutive years (2003-2007), she had an influential column on China Press called “From Schools to Jobs”, guiding New York students in workplace and employment enhancement.

During the period of 2002-2005, when China was on the rise, Dr Yi wrote a series of books that drew extensively her experience working on Wall Street with top US investment banks. These books have influenced an entire generation of young students with secrets and behavior codes revealed of Wall Street – “Wall Street English”, “Wall Street Workplace”, “Office Politics – The Case of Wall Street Human Resources”. The Haier Way- a book on how to do business in China helped American CEOs to understand China and how Chinese guanxi relationship works in relation to their dreams, ambitions and shortcomings. The book won US Chamber of Commerce Recommendation Award and has been a best-seller in major bookstores, especially in Barnes Noble and on Amazon. For 18 years, the book has become a standard. From 2011 to 2018, Dr.Yi who has put her dream in making a difference in film and television and entertainment successfully introduced Canada’s largest animation company DHX to CCTV and successfully broke a deal with CCTV having signed 350 animation IPs. That deal was called “deal of the century”  and the former Prime Minister of Canada personally witnessed the signing. For the Beijing film and television company GH, Dr Yi introduced the most powerful special effects company in Hollywood-Digital Domain and assisted in arranging financing. She also introduced the Australian Gold Coast theme park Village Road Show and signed a contract with Hebei Province to jointly build a water park; introduced 20th Century Fox film company to her hometown Chengdu of a 600 mil RMB investment. The project was temporarily stopped due to the restructuring of the investment body.

In 1985, Dr Yi was awarded a full 5-year scholarship from Washington University in St Louid to study abroad. Peking University English Department arranged the travel cost for which Dr Yi was also grateful. In 1993 she obtained her doctorate degree in Comparative literature and Doctor of Philosophy; Certificate in Branding from Harvard Business School (2004). To be grateful is the key to Dr Yi’s success in life and career.

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We are at our friends Special Event Benefitting the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation | Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 • 6:00PM – 9:00PM

HUGO BOSS Fashions &
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation
Announce Launch of
Global Walk to Flatten the Cancer Curve

Stephan Born, Samuel Waxman, M.D., William T. Sullivan ©SWCRF

HUGO BOSS Fashions Inc has teamed up with the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation (SWCRF) for a special in-store party and announced the launch of the first-ever Global Walk to Flatten the Cancer Curve. As a lead event sponsor, HUGO BOSS will be donating 15% of store sales during this event to SWCRF. The event took place at the BOSS Store on 568 Broadway, NYC. Samuel Waxman, M.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SWCRF, Stephan Born, CEO and President Americas HUGO BOSS Fashions Inc., and William T. Sullivan, Executive Director, of SWCRF gave speeches during the event. Dr. Waxman and William T. Sullivan thanked Stephan Born and HUGO BOSS for their collaboration. They spoke about the importance of Global Walk to Flatten the Cancer Curve and this year’s 17th Annual Hamptons Happening.

Notable attendees included: Samuel Waxman, M.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SWCRF; Stephan Born, CEO and President America’s HUGO Boss Inc.; William T. Sullivan, Executive Director, of SWCRF; Philip Greenwald, CEO of HiWave; Randi Schatz, Michael Snell Founder of MJS Groupe, Mark D. Friedman of Brown Harris Stevens, Meteorologist Mike Wood from Good Day New York, James Ingram CEO of Splashlight & Telmar, Jessica Mackin and Christine Prydatko of James Lane Post, Carmen D’Alessio, Cindy Farkas, Ben Mindich, Montgomery Frazier.

The Global Walk to Flatten the Cancer Curve officially starts on June 30th, 2021, and culminates on July 10th, 2021, with a celebration of health and wellness at the SWCRF’s 17th Annual Hamptons Happening, where HUGO BOSS will receive the Fashion Cares Award. The virtual walk will raise international awareness and funds for life-saving cancer. Participants will log their steps during the 11 days with the aim of accumulating 25,000 miles, enough to travel around the world.

The incidence of cancer is rising around the world and advanced age is the most significant risk factor. More than 60 percent of Americans diagnosed with cancer are 65 and older.

SWCRF, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Aging, is leading the way in funding the scientists who are working towards the next breakthrough in cancer treatments.

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About Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation (SWCRF):
The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation is an international organization dedicated to curing and preventing cancer. The Foundation is a pioneer in cancer research and its mission is to eradicate cancer by funding cutting-edge research that identifies and corrects abnormal gene function that causes cancer and develops minimally toxic treatments for patients. Through the Foundation’s collaborative group of world-class scientists, the Institute Without Walls, investigators share information and tools to speed the pace of cancer research. Since its inception in 1976, the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation has awarded more than $100 million to support the work of more than 200 researchers across the globe. For more information about the SWCRF research, visit www.waxmancancer.org.

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Alfred Zaccagnino is a New York businessman who had a life changing moment while volunteering for 72 hours straight at Ground Zero on 9/11. He is now doing what he vowed to do while in the rubble of the World Trade Center- to dedicate his professional life giving back to his community. Next week he will achieve his dream – by partnering with almost 400 New York City public schools and the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Clubs to provide tens of thousands of bottles of his company’s hand sanitizer product – H2One – to children returning to the classroom, in order to help keep them safe during the pandemic. Alfred is committed to helping ensure as many kids as possible are able to sanitize their hands to help prevent the spread of germs both in the classroom and at home – a big worry for both teachers and parents. His company has also produced an animated video educating kids how to keep their hands clean using the H2One bottle as the teacher. Alfred was originally an air traffic controller, having been one of New York’s youngest ATC’s, appointed at just 20 years old! He has such a great story totell – and is finally getting to make good on the vow he made during 9/11.

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“Does your marketing team talk about impressions, clicks, and likes on Facebook more than cost-per-sale, and return on marketing investment?,” Donohoe asks in his debut book, The CEO’s Digital Marketing Playbook; The Definitive Crash Course and Battle Plan for B2B and High Valve B2C Customer Generation.

“If the answer is yes, you are setting money on fire,” Donohoe quips.

Welcome to the candor of a man who offers the C-suite of America’s high-end brands a focused look at what many companies fail to understand or execute when it comes to digital marketing. He explains, in his new book, how to fix what’s not happening in a company’s marketing and sales funnel, especially for companies that sell B2B or high end B2C.

“Digital advertising is the best, most cost-effective vehicle to win new business in B2B and high-value B2C,” says Donohoe, whose digital advertising agency has been on the Inc. 500 list and won an E&Y Entrepreneur of The Year Award, among others.

He boils down his prescription to four essential things that he calls The Core Four, and eight more areas he labels The Advanced Eight once the fundamentals are in place. He clearly details how a company should spend marketing dollars to drive more customers and revenue – and to do so profitably. His play book is geared towards billion dollar corporations to small businesses, both which frequently don’t execute on the essential, must-have arrows in the quiver of digital marketing.

Donohoe shares his strategies, tips, and insights on:
• The four essential digital marketing campaigns that every company in the world needs to run.
• How to focus all marketing conversations on things that deliver immediate ROI – and why clicks, retweets, and likes are not nearly as important as how much marketers talk about them.
• How to prioritize the major digital channels efficiently – search engines, social networks, display advertising, email campaigns.
• Why there is a 99% chance your company is not deploying the most simple, profitable campaigns and marketing tactics to compete in the 21st century.
• The key questions all CEOs need to be asking their company’s marketing leadership.
• Why and how terms such as PPC, SEO, and SEM are misused, misunderstood, and miscalculated.
• If you care about profitable marketing, you must use Google, Bing, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube and stop talking about any other digital channel.
• What needs to go into today’s ad creative in order to break through the clutter.
• Why tech terms and digital tools confuse most CEOs and CMOs – leading them to underperform and mismanage.
• The trends, challenges, and changes of the digital marketing landscape.
• What needs to be on a must-have, high-level strategy checklist for every company on Earth.

“This book is about creating new, or engaging with current, customers and driving more revenue and profit, and the methods, tech, ad channels, and work that it takes to do those things all day, every day,” says Donohoe. “Sometimes they’re not sexy, but they definitely work.”

The relatively cheap, easy, and most profitable types of things companies should be doing include:
• Advanced tradename search engine advertising on Google and Bing.
• Advanced social media advertising via Facebook/Instagram.
• Using digital advertising to nurture leads and customers can lift ROI by more than 35%.
• Stop treating email as if it can get you new customers.
• The use of landing pages versus your homepage.

“I fear that a huge percentage of a CEO’s or CMO’s marketing mindshare, let alone the stuff that employees in marketing departments really do on a daily basis, are focused on things other than activities directly tied to customer generation, revenue and profit.”

The CEO’s Digital Marketing Playbook highlights what does and does not work well in digital marketing and advertising. It could all change tomorrow, but for CEOs and CMO’s looking to execute smart, cost-effective digital campaigns for today’s marketplace, Donohoe provides us with the tools, insights, and strategies to succeed.

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