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Dec 15 2022

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London

The Vivienne Foundation exists to honour, protect and continue the legacy of Vivienne's creativity and activism.
Since the start of her career in the 1970s, Vivienne was renowned not only for her fashion design, but also her activism. Vivienne always utilised her platform of prestige to make the world a better place.

The Foundation is built upon Vivienne’s four pillar approach to save the world – halt climate change, stop war, defend human rights and protest capitalism. We raise awareness and fundraise for NGO’s aligned with our mission to create a better society and halt climate change.

Vivienne identified the fact we need government cooperation to make our strategy fully effective. Therefore, we aim to work with NGOs, scientists and experts to lobby the government to implement legal changes. We believe this is vital to achieve tangible and impactful results. “Charities and NGOs can save lives; however, we cannot achieve systemic change without government cooperation. The only way we can save ourselves is with government help and our strategy must be put into law” DAME VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

The Vivienne Foundation is set up as a not-for-profit company to enable the Foundation to have political aims and views within our campaigning and advocacy work. As a registered charity we would be unable to do this.

Posted by Laraferreri on Apr 25 2023

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Provides (a useful service)Provides a useful social service.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
Sustains (change)Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
The Vivienne foundation is a charity that supports social change, however they focus on climate change, stopping war, human rights, and capitalism.

Notes

The Vivienne foundation did a great job with bringing awareness to these issues, as well as highlighting Vivienne's impact in the industry.