Disney Parks, for example, shared "it can wait" with over 95,000 employees; Goodyear blimps displayed the message in skies over Miami and Los Angeles; and the Girl Scouts worked with 112 councils nationwide to inspire pledges never to text and drive among scouts and local communities.
I felt so inspired, I pledged I would run it, too – I've always wanted to do something extreme.
That PBS has to turn to 40-year-old clips to try to get you inspired enough to pledge money says something dismaying about the current state of popular music, or perhaps about the average age of PBS viewers.
Notably, no Colombian institution signed a Zika-inspired pledge last February that banded together many countries (including Brazil), foundations, and journals to "share data at the earliest opportunity".
Mr. Norquist created the "no-tax pledge," which precludes any sane discussion of how to achieve deficit reduction, and which has inspired copy-cat pledges "on issues such as climate change, that create additional litmus tests that box in moderates and make cross-party coalitions nearly impossible".
Only because it was public, Ms. Illingworth noted, did Bill Gates's and Warren Buffett's "giving pledge" inspire dozens of other extremely wealthy peers to pledge half their fortunes to charity.
He was hired by Youth's Companion magazine, where the Pledge was inspired by patriotism and promotion.
As a counterpoint to the drab mainstream show, I was rather inspired by the 21 Pledges for Progress that the Institute of Ideas put forward that offered a range of commitments to discuss and organize around.
Feeney's "giving while living" philosophy helped to inspire The Giving Pledge, an effort by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage America's wealthiest people to commit to giving away the majority of their money to charity during their lifetimes.
In fact, inspired by John Sutherland I here pledge to eat the first book of hers that does.
