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More Brands Doing Good Éminence Organic Skin Care proceeds of the event benefitting INKAS (Ivins Social Cause: Children Nutrition and Cancer Awareness Charitable Organization: Éminence Kids Foundation Learn More: eminenceorganics.com/us/eminence-kidsfoundation No Kill Animals Supporters) and a local county initiative to build a new animal shelter. Dog Through the Éminence Kids Foundation, the company partners with local organic farms to donate and deliver organic fruits, vegetables and foods to sick children around the world. A survivor of a rare form of childhood leukemia, Éminence President Boldijarre Koronczay attributes his unlikely survival to the organic and Biodynamic foods he was fed by his mother and grandmother while undergoing treatment. Since launching in 2013, the foundation has donated thousands of gallons of organic cold-pressed juices, thousands of pounds of organic fruits, and hundreds of gallons of organic nutritious handmade soup for more than 30,000 meals. FarmHouse Fresh Social Cause: Animal Rescue Charitable Organization: The Ivins Animal Shelter & Adoption Center Learn More: farmhousefreshgoods.com/dog-bedfairy-book The latest in FarmHouse Fresh’s charitable Dog Bed Fairy initiative is a combined effort with long-term spa partner (and animal rescue supporter), Red Mountain Resort in Ivins, Utah. The Ivins Animal Shelter & Adoption Center received dog beds to fully outfit the shelter with cozy and long-lasting beds for their shelter animals. Then, on November 19, Red Mountain Resort will host a “Hike for Hounds” with ISPA Stands Up to Cancer lovers in the community will come together to hike their dogs along the resort’s Inspiration Trail, enjoy refreshments and mini spa treatments from FarmHouse Fresh, and participate in a silent auction to benefit the shelter. support by Wellness for Cancer. Working with Wellness for Cancer, a nonprofit educational foundation, ESPA’s four new collection of nurturing face and body rituals is underpinned by an extensive training program that will be made available to select ESPA spa partners who meet the required criteria. The ESPA Nurture & Support program involves in-depth therapist training and assessment over seven days, incor- Elemis Social Cause: Breast Cancer Education Charitable Organization: Breast Cancer Care Learn More: breastcancercare.org.uk According to Breast Cancer Care, someone gets the devastating news that they have breast cancer every 10 minutes in the United Kingdom. Breast Cancer Care is the only UKwide charity providing care, information and support to people affected by breast cancer. To help women feel good while going through chemotherapy, Elemis has pledged to donate £10,000 to Breast Cancer Care from sales of its limited edition “The Hero Collection” for total face and body nourishment. The collection contains the new Pro-Collagen Neck and Décolleté Balm, Pro-Collagen Marine Cream, Frangipani Monoi Body Oil and Cellular Recovery Skin Bliss Capsules. ESPA Social Cause: Cancer Awareness Charitable Organization: Wellness for Cancer Learn More: wellnessforcancer.com Building on the success of the initial program designed by Sue Harmsworth for Grayshott Spa in 2014, ESPA launches its new Nurture & Support program in other ESPA locations with porating two days of training by Wellness for Cancer and five days by the ESPA Training Academy. WTS International Social Cause: Clean Water Charitable Organization: charity: water Learn More: charitywater.org An initiative inspired by charity: water’s presence at the 2015 ISPA Conference & Expo, WTS International launches its WELLness Begins with Water initiative in support of charity: water and in partnership with the Green Spa Network and Global Wellness Day (GWD). WTS will work with the Green Spa Network on the development of protocols and recommendations aimed at significantly reducing the number of plastic water bottles and cups used at WTS-managed spa, fitness and lifestyle facilities. WTS will create an implementation guide that will provide solutions for reducing the carbon footprint created by plastic, as well as providing affiliated spas with suggestions on how to run their GWD fundraising events. All proceeds raised from the GWD events will be donated to charity: water in the name of WTS International. While we highlight many of our ISPA members’ philanthropic work, we also want to recognize ISPA’s recent charitable initiative in this “Giving Back” issue of Pulse magazine. At the 2016 ISPA Conference & Expo, the ISPA community came in full force to help raise funds for cancer research programs. To help in this initiative, ResortSuite sponsored this year’s registration bags which benefitted Stand Up to Cancer. It was a timely initiative since it honored spa industry members who lost their battle to cancer and those affected by their passing. Indeed, ISPA cares. October 2016 ■ PULSE 45