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Agency: DigitasLBi
Client: Whirlpool
Date: Aug 2016
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Home appliance company Whirlpool is providing schools across the country with washers and dryers in hopes of making it easier for students to clean their clothes. Based off of the insight that students who don’t have access to clean clothing are more likely to skip school, according to Whirlpool, the goal of the initiative is to improve attendance rates. Called ‘Care Counts’ and created in partnership with DigitasLBi & Ketchum, Whirlpool recently wrapped up a pilot version of the program across 17 schools and found that “after examining the correlation between student attendance and loads of laundry washed and dried, over 90% of tracked students in the first year of the program improved their attendance, averaging 6.1 more days in school than the previous year.” The initiative is expected to expand to more than 30 schools in its second year while 300 other schools have expressed an interest in the program, according to Whirlpool.

Credits

Chief Creative Officer: Ronald Ng

EVP, Executive Creative Director: Morgan Carroll

SVP, Group Creative Director: Mike Frease

VP, Creative Director: Louie Calvano

Associated Creative Director: Chris Jansma

Sr. Art Director: Bryan Haupt, James Collins

Sr. Copywriter: Samantha Bordignon,

Lead Experience Designer: David Plant

VP, Executive Producer: Greg Lederer

VP, Account Director: Kristine Kobe

Account Manager: Julie Wisniewski

VP, Group Director, Creative Strategy: Brian Sherwell

Associate Director, Social Strategy: Rachael Datz

VP, Account Director – Media: Caitlin Finn

Media Supervisor: Ryanne Donnellon

Media Planner: Samantha Harvey

Production Company: C41 Media

Director: Mai Iskander

Director of Photography: Mai Iskander

Executive producer: Carla Tate

Line Producer: Carla Tate

Editing House: Cutters, Inc

Editor: Kathryn Hempel/Emily Tolan

Producer: Patrick Casey

Audio Mix: Another Country

Mixer: David Gerbowsi

​Ketchum

Vice President/General Manager: Sarah Gates

Vice President: Alison Bruder

Account Supervisor: Shane Arman

Senior Account Executive: Rachel Carlisle

Account Executive: Kelsey McGovern

Assistant Account Executive: Stefani Duhon