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21October2016

Animation’s Social-Justice Potential Is Just Beginning

In Animation, Behaviour Change Communication, Chocolate Moose Media, Diabetes, Domestic Violence, Ebola, Firdaus Kharas, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Malaria, Media For Social Change, mHealth, Solar Energy, Zika

October 21, 2016

Since animation first became a commercial medium in 1892, it has taken on more personalities than almost any other cultural medium, and its potential is growing. […]

6October2016

Zika: Precautionary Steps; Medidas de Precaução; Medidas de Precaución

By Mike Levin

In Behaviour Change Communication, Chocolate Moose Media, Developing world, Firdaus Kharas, Malaria, Media For Social Change, mHealth, Zika

October 6, 2016

English On September 26, 2016, the Philippines became the 59th country to detect the Zika virus in local pregnant women. Officials at the Center […]

22July2016

Three New Awards Highlight Importance of CMM Communications Tools

By Mike Levin

In Behaviour Change Communication, Chocolate Moose Media, Developing world, Diabetes, Domestic Violence, Ebola, Firdaus Kharas, Human Rights, Media For Social Change, Uncategorized

July 22, 2016

“Very shocking statistics. We really need to do something.” That comment came from Trish Banda in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital city, after seeing the Violence Against […]

27May2016

Changing Environmental Behaviour

By Mike Levin

In Behaviour Change Communication, Chocolate Moose Media, Firdaus Kharas, Human Rights, Media For Social Change, Uncategorized

May 27, 2016

Behaviour-change communications has always been the bedrock of Chocolate Moose Media’s (CMM) animation strategy. CMM producer Jasmine El Mulki has a passion for the environment and […]

17May2016

Will the World Humanitarian Summit Succeed?

By Mike Levin

In Behaviour Change Communication, Chocolate Moose Media, Developing world, Domestic Violence, Firdaus Kharas, Human Rights, Media For Social Change, Refugees

May 17, 2016

By Firdaus Kharas On May 23 and 24 the world’s political leadership will convene in Istanbul for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, organized by the […]

15March2016

Targeting Zika and Other Mosquito-Borne Diseases

By Mike Levin

In Behaviour Change Communication, Chocolate Moose Media, Developing world, Human Rights, Malaria, Media For Social Change

March 15, 2016

Zika is just the most recent talked-about disease that is spread by mosquitos. There are dozens of viruses that are borne by the mosquito family (Culicidae) […]

16February2016

After Ebola: Stopping Zika With Grassroots Information

By Mike Levin

In Behaviour Change Communication, Chocolate Moose Media, Developing world, Ebola, Ebola: A Poem For Prevention, Firdaus Kharas, Human Rights, Malaria, Media For Social Change

February 16, 2016

Ebola is easy to demonize. It has visuals of bleeding eyes and mouths and a history of slow, grisly death. Zika doesn’t instill the same fear […]

29January2016

The Year of Saving Lives

By Mike Levin

In Behaviour Change Communication, Developing world, Diabetes, Domestic Violence, Ebola, Firdaus Kharas, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Malaria, Media For Social Change, Refugees

January 29, 2016

When a young intern at United Methodist Communications (UMCOM) spent her summer of 2015 uploading thousands of Chocolate Moose Media (CMM) animated videos, she was creating […]