Month: April 2026

Key Takeaways:

• Heat stress impacts a wide range of stakeholders and business activities.
• A structured approach gives more clarity to how brands and manufacturers can collaboratively address and mitigate heat stress.
• Newly released, the AAFA Guide to Protecting Workers from Heat Stress aims to promote practical action on heat stress.

Heat stress is not a new issue, but it’s accelerating at a pace that the apparel and footwear industry must take further action upon. It is influencing how factories operate, how companies think about worker well-being, and how supply chains prepare for operational disruption.

For an industry that produces globally and sells globally, heat stress has implications across sourcing, production, and business continuity.

That is why AAFA has been working with industry stakeholders to develop the AAFA Guide to Protecting Workers from Heat Stress, focusing on what it takes to move from awareness to practical implementation.

Why Heat Stress Demands Greater Industry Alignment

Over the past several years, companies have made incremental progress on social responsibility and environmental performance, yet not fast enough, as recent Cascale reports noted. Expectations across supply chains have also become more complex, and companies are managing more requirements than ever before.

Heat stress brings those pressures into sharper focus because at the center of this industry is – and always will be – people.

It affects workers directly. It affects production timelines. And it raises important questions about how expectations are set and applied across the value chain.

Across many major sourcing regions, rising temperatures and more frequent extreme heat conditions are making this issue harder to ignore, particularly in factory environments where ventilation, pace of work, and other workplace conditions can intensify risk.

The goal of this work is to help the industry move toward a more consistent and practical approach.

What Manufacturers and Brands Are Telling Us

As part of this process, AAFA engaged dozens of stakeholders across the value chain. This included recent input gathered with support from Cascale, bringing in perspectives from both manufacturers and brands.

A few themes came through clearly. First, there is broad recognition that this is an important issue and that guidance can play a useful role.

Second, there is a strong focus on how that guidance is applied in practice. Manufacturers emphasized the need for approaches that reflect on-the-ground realities, including existing systems, operational constraints, and local conditions. Brands raised similar questions around how guidance can be integrated into current compliance programs without creating duplication or unintended consequences. Across both groups, there was a consistent message: clarity, consistency, and practicality matter.

What the Guidance Is Designed to Help Companies Do

The AAFA guidance is intended to help companies and facilities take a more structured approach to identifying, monitoring, and managing heat stress risks across the supply chain.

In practical terms, the guidance is designed to support companies in several areas, including:

• Determining when workplace heat conditions become excessive
• Monitoring and recording heat conditions at the facility level
• Tracking and responding to heat-related illness
• Preventing, mitigating, and managing excessive heat days through practical workplace measures
• Developing heat action plans and response procedures
• Strengthening worker training, awareness, and monitoring programs

It also encourages factories to establish heat thresholds, adjust workloads, and water and bathroom breaks in accordance with heat conditions, and strengthen alignment with applicable workplace health and labor requirements.

Just as important, based on recommendations from Cascale members and other stakeholders, the guidance emphasizes the importance of communication between buyers and suppliers, and between suppliers and their workers. Every decision to protect workers from heat stress can involve costs, impact production, affect workers, and change timelines. Regular communication between suppliers, buyers, and the workers themselves, is critical to make any effort to protect workers from heat stress a success.

The objective is to give companies guidance they can actually use — guidance that helps translate a growing body of research, policy attention, and industry concern into practical action on the factory floor.

Why Implementation Will Matter as Much as the Guidance Itself

As with any industry guidance, how it is used will ultimately determine its impact. That includes how expectations are communicated, how they are implemented at the facility level, and how companies work together when challenges arise. It also requires being mindful of unintended outcomes, such as additional audits, overlapping requests, delivery delays, additional costs, or requirements that are difficult to operationalize in practice. Getting this right will require continued dialogue across brands, manufacturers, and other stakeholders.

What Progress Will Require Going Forward

The AAFA Guide to Protecting Workers from Heat Stress is part of an ongoing effort. It will continue to evolve as the industry builds more experience and as conditions change.

AAFA will continue working with industry partners to refine the guidance and support implementation. For example, AAFA has planned an upcoming open industry webinar, “Implementing the AAFA Heat Guidance,” on May 19, which will provide an opportunity to walk through the guidance in more detail and discuss what practical implementation may look like across the value chain.

Efforts like those facilitated by Cascale are an important part of that process, helping to surface practical insights and ensure that a range of perspectives are reflected. Heat stress is a complex challenge, but it is one the industry is increasingly equipped to address. Progress will depend on alignment, collaboration, and a shared focus on what works in practice. By continuing to build on industry input and focusing on practical application, there is an opportunity to develop approaches that better support workers and strengthen the long-term resilience of global supply chains.

Members: Read the Summary of Member Perspectives on Cascale Connect

Key Takeaways:

• Heat stress impacts a wide range of stakeholders and business activities.
• A structured approach gives more clarity to how brands and manufacturers can collaboratively address and mitigate heat stress.
• Newly released, the AAFA Guide to Protecting Workers from Heat Stress aims to promote practical action on heat stress.

Heat stress is not a new issue, but it’s accelerating at a pace that the apparel and footwear industry must take further action upon. It is influencing how factories operate, how companies think about worker well-being, and how supply chains prepare for operational disruption.

For an industry that produces globally and sells globally, heat stress has implications across sourcing, production, and business continuity.

That is why AAFA has been working with industry stakeholders to develop the AAFA Guide to Protecting Workers from Heat Stress, focusing on what it takes to move from awareness to practical implementation.

Why Heat Stress Demands Greater Industry Alignment

Over the past several years, companies have made incremental progress on social responsibility and environmental performance, yet not fast enough, as recent Cascale reports noted. Expectations across supply chains have also become more complex, and companies are managing more requirements than ever before.

Heat stress brings those pressures into sharper focus because at the center of this industry is – and always will be – people.

It affects workers directly. It affects production timelines. And it raises important questions about how expectations are set and applied across the value chain.

Across many major sourcing regions, rising temperatures and more frequent extreme heat conditions are making this issue harder to ignore, particularly in factory environments where ventilation, pace of work, and other workplace conditions can intensify risk.

The goal of this work is to help the industry move toward a more consistent and practical approach.

What Manufacturers and Brands Are Telling Us

As part of this process, AAFA engaged dozens of stakeholders across the value chain. This included recent input gathered with support from Cascale, bringing in perspectives from both manufacturers and brands.

A few themes came through clearly. First, there is broad recognition that this is an important issue and that guidance can play a useful role.

Second, there is a strong focus on how that guidance is applied in practice. Manufacturers emphasized the need for approaches that reflect on-the-ground realities, including existing systems, operational constraints, and local conditions. Brands raised similar questions around how guidance can be integrated into current compliance programs without creating duplication or unintended consequences. Across both groups, there was a consistent message: clarity, consistency, and practicality matter.

What the Guidance Is Designed to Help Companies Do

The AAFA guidance is intended to help companies and facilities take a more structured approach to identifying, monitoring, and managing heat stress risks across the supply chain.

In practical terms, the guidance is designed to support companies in several areas, including:

• Determining when workplace heat conditions become excessive
• Monitoring and recording heat conditions at the facility level
• Tracking and responding to heat-related illness
• Preventing, mitigating, and managing excessive heat days through practical workplace measures
• Developing heat action plans and response procedures
• Strengthening worker training, awareness, and monitoring programs

It also encourages factories to establish heat thresholds, adjust workloads, and water and bathroom breaks in accordance with heat conditions, and strengthen alignment with applicable workplace health and labor requirements.

Just as important, based on recommendations from Cascale members and other stakeholders, the guidance emphasizes the importance of communication between buyers and suppliers, and between suppliers and their workers. Every decision to protect workers from heat stress can involve costs, impact production, affect workers, and change timelines. Regular communication between suppliers, buyers, and the workers themselves, is critical to make any effort to protect workers from heat stress a success.

The objective is to give companies guidance they can actually use — guidance that helps translate a growing body of research, policy attention, and industry concern into practical action on the factory floor.

Why Implementation Will Matter as Much as the Guidance Itself

As with any industry guidance, how it is used will ultimately determine its impact. That includes how expectations are communicated, how they are implemented at the facility level, and how companies work together when challenges arise. It also requires being mindful of unintended outcomes, such as additional audits, overlapping requests, delivery delays, additional costs, or requirements that are difficult to operationalize in practice. Getting this right will require continued dialogue across brands, manufacturers, and other stakeholders.

What Progress Will Require Going Forward

The AAFA Guide to Protecting Workers from Heat Stress is part of an ongoing effort. It will continue to evolve as the industry builds more experience and as conditions change.

AAFA will continue working with industry partners to refine the guidance and support implementation. For example, AAFA has planned an upcoming open industry webinar, “Implementing the AAFA Heat Guidance,” on May 19, which will provide an opportunity to walk through the guidance in more detail and discuss what practical implementation may look like across the value chain.

Efforts like those facilitated by Cascale are an important part of that process, helping to surface practical insights and ensure that a range of perspectives are reflected. Heat stress is a complex challenge, but it is one the industry is increasingly equipped to address. Progress will depend on alignment, collaboration, and a shared focus on what works in practice. By continuing to build on industry input and focusing on practical application, there is an opportunity to develop approaches that better support workers and strengthen the long-term resilience of global supply chains.

Members: Read the Summary of Member Perspectives on Cascale Connect

Last week in Los Angeles, Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, senior director of communications at Cascale, had the opportunity to attend the “Design for Compliance: Textile EPR in California” event during Los Angeles Climate Week (LACW) – which brings together a range of events and conversations across sectors exploring climate solutions, policy, and innovation.

LACW discussions affect not only fellow Angelenos, but also the world – as California ranks as the fourth largest economy. Those specific to textile, apparel, and footwear manufacturing are particularly of interest, given that Los Angeles is also the largest apparel manufacturing hub in the United States.

Quick Recap of LACW:

• Dubbed “Design for Compliance: Textile EPR in California” the event convened cross-sector conversations on climate solutions, policy, and innovation.
• California, and LA specifically, have a part to play in global textile policy discussions.
• Discussion focused on moving California’s SB 707 textile EPR law from policy design into implementation.

Fashion is Outrageous and the California Product Stewardship Center (CPSC) co-hosted the event, which was held at the Little City Farm urban regenerative farm and zero-waste event space. It brought together designers, circularity stakeholders, and experts including Marissa Nuncio, executive director of the labor organizing nonprofit Garment Worker Center and Paul Asplund-Dirani, co-executive director of Project Ropa, which provides clothing to people experiencing homelessness. Event attendees were encouraged to explore and express these ideas through creative exploration led by Gabrille Miller and Kestrel Jenkins, co-founders of FIO.

Joanne Brasch, director of advocacy and outreach at CPSC, led the discussion on how California is moving from policy design to implementation for SB 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act, which is the nation’s first statewide extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for textiles. The conversation focused not only on the policy landscape, but also on what implementation will require in practice — from infrastructure readiness to producer obligations and system coordination.

While Climate Week conversations often focus on emerging solutions and future pathways, CPSC’s perspective highlighted the sustained stakeholder engagement and coalition-building required to bring SB 707 forward. A clear takeaway was that “design for compliance” is increasingly becoming synonymous with designing for system readiness, linking product design decisions directly to recovery infrastructure and material flows – connecting design, policy, and end-of-life systems.

The conversation was especially relevant to discussions happening during climate weeks held around the globe. Across sectors, there is increasing attention on how climate goals translate into implementation — particularly where policy, industry systems, and infrastructure intersect.

As Cascale approaches its 2026 Annual Meeting, held in Athens this September, participants are increasingly challenging how the industry shows up to this collective call to action. Because it’s not one city or company acting in isolation, it’s a shared economic and climate reality.

And every corner of Cascale’s global, diverse membership brings an important perspective to the table.

Learn More & Join Us in Athens

Last week in Los Angeles, Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, senior director of communications at Cascale, had the opportunity to attend the “Design for Compliance: Textile EPR in California” event during Los Angeles Climate Week (LACW) – which brings together a range of events and conversations across sectors exploring climate solutions, policy, and innovation.

LACW discussions affect not only fellow Angelenos, but also the world – as California ranks as the fourth largest economy. Those specific to textile, apparel, and footwear manufacturing are particularly of interest, given that Los Angeles is also the largest apparel manufacturing hub in the United States.

Quick Recap of LACW:

• Dubbed “Design for Compliance: Textile EPR in California” the event convened cross-sector conversations on climate solutions, policy, and innovation.
• California, and LA specifically, have a part to play in global textile policy discussions.
• Discussion focused on moving California’s SB 707 textile EPR law from policy design into implementation.

Fashion is Outrageous and the California Product Stewardship Center (CPSC) co-hosted the event, which was held at the Little City Farm urban regenerative farm and zero-waste event space. It brought together designers, circularity stakeholders, and experts including Marissa Nuncio, executive director of the labor organizing nonprofit Garment Worker Center and Paul Asplund-Dirani, co-executive director of Project Ropa, which provides clothing to people experiencing homelessness. Event attendees were encouraged to explore and express these ideas through creative exploration led by Gabrille Miller and Kestrel Jenkins, co-founders of FIO.

Joanne Brasch, director of advocacy and outreach at CPSC, led the discussion on how California is moving from policy design to implementation for SB 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act, which is the nation’s first statewide extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for textiles. The conversation focused not only on the policy landscape, but also on what implementation will require in practice — from infrastructure readiness to producer obligations and system coordination.

While Climate Week conversations often focus on emerging solutions and future pathways, CPSC’s perspective highlighted the sustained stakeholder engagement and coalition-building required to bring SB 707 forward. A clear takeaway was that “design for compliance” is increasingly becoming synonymous with designing for system readiness, linking product design decisions directly to recovery infrastructure and material flows – connecting design, policy, and end-of-life systems.

The conversation was especially relevant to discussions happening during climate weeks held around the globe. Across sectors, there is increasing attention on how climate goals translate into implementation — particularly where policy, industry systems, and infrastructure intersect.

As Cascale approaches its 2026 Annual Meeting, held in Athens this September, participants are increasingly challenging how the industry shows up to this collective call to action. Because it’s not one city or company acting in isolation, it’s a shared economic and climate reality.

And every corner of Cascale’s global, diverse membership brings an important perspective to the table.

Learn More & Join Us in Athens

Last week in Los Angeles, Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, senior director of communications at Cascale, had the opportunity to attend the “Design for Compliance: Textile EPR in California” event during Los Angeles Climate Week (LACW) – which brings together a range of events and conversations across sectors exploring climate solutions, policy, and innovation.

LACW discussions affect not only fellow Angelenos, but also the world – as California ranks as the fourth largest economy. Those specific to textile, apparel, and footwear manufacturing are particularly of interest, given that Los Angeles is also the largest apparel manufacturing hub in the United States.

Quick Recap of LACW:

• Dubbed “Design for Compliance: Textile EPR in California” the event convened cross-sector conversations on climate solutions, policy, and innovation.
• California, and LA specifically, have a part to play in global textile policy discussions.
• Discussion focused on moving California’s SB 707 textile EPR law from policy design into implementation.

Fashion is Outrageous and the California Product Stewardship Center (CPSC) co-hosted the event, which was held at the Little City Farm urban regenerative farm and zero-waste event space. It brought together designers, circularity stakeholders, and experts including Marissa Nuncio, executive director of the labor organizing nonprofit Garment Worker Center and Paul Asplund-Dirani, co-executive director of Project Ropa, which provides clothing to people experiencing homelessness. Event attendees were encouraged to explore and express these ideas through creative exploration led by Gabrille Miller and Kestrel Jenkins, co-founders of FIO.

Joanne Brasch, director of advocacy and outreach at CPSC, led the discussion on how California is moving from policy design to implementation for SB 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act, which is the nation’s first statewide extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for textiles. The conversation focused not only on the policy landscape, but also on what implementation will require in practice — from infrastructure readiness to producer obligations and system coordination.

While Climate Week conversations often focus on emerging solutions and future pathways, CPSC’s perspective highlighted the sustained stakeholder engagement and coalition-building required to bring SB 707 forward. A clear takeaway was that “design for compliance” is increasingly becoming synonymous with designing for system readiness, linking product design decisions directly to recovery infrastructure and material flows – connecting design, policy, and end-of-life systems.

The conversation was especially relevant to discussions happening during climate weeks held around the globe. Across sectors, there is increasing attention on how climate goals translate into implementation — particularly where policy, industry systems, and infrastructure intersect.

As Cascale approaches its 2026 Annual Meeting, held in Athens this September, participants are increasingly challenging how the industry shows up to this collective call to action. Because it’s not one city or company acting in isolation, it’s a shared economic and climate reality.

And every corner of Cascale’s global, diverse membership brings an important perspective to the table.

Learn More & Join Us in Athens

LINCOLN, Neb., April 22, 2026 /3BL/ – The Arbor Day Foundation lit up the Empire State Building in New York City on Wednesday, in celebration of both Earth Day and National Arbor Day. The global tree planting nonprofit was joined by Snoopy, the beloved character from the iconic Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz.

“The Empire State Building always marks the moments that matter. So, by turning it green on Earth Day, we’re sending a message to the world that planting trees is more important than ever,” said Dan Lambe, chief executive of the Arbor Day Foundation. “We hope today’s green glow is a reminder of how powerful trees can be in the effort to shape a healthier, more resilient future for people and the planet.”

Lambe and Snoopy pulled the lever together on behalf of the Arbor Day Foundation and Peanuts Worldwide, turning the world’s most famous building green. Afterwards, both organizations were given a VIP tour of the Empire State Building and its iconic observation deck. High-profile celebrities, companies, and organizations are regularly invited to participate in this unique tradition.

“Messages of environmentalism and celebrating Arbor Day are built into the Peanuts comic strip,” said Melissa Menta, SVP Global Brand and Communications for Peanuts Worldwide. “To quote Lucy, ‘the planting of a tree shows faith in the future’ and we are honored to have supported the Arbor Day Foundation’s mission through our partnership over the past 5 years.”

In the last five years, the Arbor Day Foundation and Peanuts Worldwide have collaborated to plant more than 141,000 trees together in a range of cities and forests. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the classic Peanuts animated special “It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown”, which is available to stream for subscribers on Apple TV. The anniversary is being celebrated with the release of vinyl and CD editions of the original soundtrack by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc (who along with Bill Melendez Productions created the special). Every copy sold plants a tree in a forest of greatest need.

The Arbor Day Foundation is a global nonprofit dedicated to planting trees. It has helped plant over 500 million trees in communities and forests in more than 60 countries across six continents since its inception in 1972. 

Earth Day is celebrated annually on April 22 and National Arbor Day is observed on the last Friday in April.

About the Arbor Day Foundation 

The Arbor Day Foundation is a global nonprofit inspiring people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. They foster a growing community of more than 1 million leaders, innovators, planters, and supporters united by their bold belief that a more hopeful future can be shaped through the power of trees. For more than 50 years, they’ve answered critical need with action, planting more than half a billion trees alongside their partners.

And this is only the beginning.  

The Arbor Day Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit pursuing a future where all life flourishes through the power of trees. Learn more at arborday.org.

About Peanuts

The characters of Peanuts and related intellectual property are owned by Peanuts Worldwide, which is 80% owned by the Sony Group and 20% owned by the family of Charles M. Schulz. First introduced to the world in 1950 in the Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the gang have made an indelible mark on popular culture. In addition to enjoying beloved Peanuts shows and specials on Apple TV, fans of all ages celebrate the brand around the world through thousands of consumer products, as well as amusement park attractions, cultural events, social media, and comic strips available in all formats, from traditional to digital. Peanuts recently celebrated its 75th Anniversary with unprecedented worldwide exhibitions and activities, collaborations, digital marketing campaigns, and more.

About Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.

Lee Mendelson Film Productions (LMFP) is the publisher of the Vince Guaraldi musical catalog associated with Peanuts®. LMFP is also the producer of the classic Peanuts® television specials, including “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” and “It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown” along with the Hollywood animation studio Bill Melendez Productions. LMFP also produced over 50 other network Peanuts® specials, 12 prime time Garfield specials, 121-program series “Garfield and Friends” and many other film and television animated, documentary and entertainment programs. Founded by the late Lee Mendelson in 1963, Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc., has received 11 Emmy Awards (from 45 nominations) and four Peabody Awards, as well as producing projects that have received Grammy and Academy Award nominations.

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LINCOLN, Neb., April 22, 2026 /3BL/ – The Arbor Day Foundation lit up the Empire State Building in New York City on Wednesday, in celebration of both Earth Day and National Arbor Day. The global tree planting nonprofit was joined by Snoopy, the beloved character from the iconic Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz.

“The Empire State Building always marks the moments that matter. So, by turning it green on Earth Day, we’re sending a message to the world that planting trees is more important than ever,” said Dan Lambe, chief executive of the Arbor Day Foundation. “We hope today’s green glow is a reminder of how powerful trees can be in the effort to shape a healthier, more resilient future for people and the planet.”

Lambe and Snoopy pulled the lever together on behalf of the Arbor Day Foundation and Peanuts Worldwide, turning the world’s most famous building green. Afterwards, both organizations were given a VIP tour of the Empire State Building and its iconic observation deck. High-profile celebrities, companies, and organizations are regularly invited to participate in this unique tradition.

“Messages of environmentalism and celebrating Arbor Day are built into the Peanuts comic strip,” said Melissa Menta, SVP Global Brand and Communications for Peanuts Worldwide. “To quote Lucy, ‘the planting of a tree shows faith in the future’ and we are honored to have supported the Arbor Day Foundation’s mission through our partnership over the past 5 years.”

In the last five years, the Arbor Day Foundation and Peanuts Worldwide have collaborated to plant more than 141,000 trees together in a range of cities and forests. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the classic Peanuts animated special “It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown”, which is available to stream for subscribers on Apple TV. The anniversary is being celebrated with the release of vinyl and CD editions of the original soundtrack by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc (who along with Bill Melendez Productions created the special). Every copy sold plants a tree in a forest of greatest need.

The Arbor Day Foundation is a global nonprofit dedicated to planting trees. It has helped plant over 500 million trees in communities and forests in more than 60 countries across six continents since its inception in 1972. 

Earth Day is celebrated annually on April 22 and National Arbor Day is observed on the last Friday in April.

About the Arbor Day Foundation 

The Arbor Day Foundation is a global nonprofit inspiring people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. They foster a growing community of more than 1 million leaders, innovators, planters, and supporters united by their bold belief that a more hopeful future can be shaped through the power of trees. For more than 50 years, they’ve answered critical need with action, planting more than half a billion trees alongside their partners.

And this is only the beginning.  

The Arbor Day Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit pursuing a future where all life flourishes through the power of trees. Learn more at arborday.org.

About Peanuts

The characters of Peanuts and related intellectual property are owned by Peanuts Worldwide, which is 80% owned by the Sony Group and 20% owned by the family of Charles M. Schulz. First introduced to the world in 1950 in the Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the gang have made an indelible mark on popular culture. In addition to enjoying beloved Peanuts shows and specials on Apple TV, fans of all ages celebrate the brand around the world through thousands of consumer products, as well as amusement park attractions, cultural events, social media, and comic strips available in all formats, from traditional to digital. Peanuts recently celebrated its 75th Anniversary with unprecedented worldwide exhibitions and activities, collaborations, digital marketing campaigns, and more.

About Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.

Lee Mendelson Film Productions (LMFP) is the publisher of the Vince Guaraldi musical catalog associated with Peanuts®. LMFP is also the producer of the classic Peanuts® television specials, including “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” and “It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown” along with the Hollywood animation studio Bill Melendez Productions. LMFP also produced over 50 other network Peanuts® specials, 12 prime time Garfield specials, 121-program series “Garfield and Friends” and many other film and television animated, documentary and entertainment programs. Founded by the late Lee Mendelson in 1963, Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc., has received 11 Emmy Awards (from 45 nominations) and four Peabody Awards, as well as producing projects that have received Grammy and Academy Award nominations.

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