Link TV appreciates you, our discerning viewers, as being active intellectually, culturally, and in your community. We know you care who our friends are and how we stay credible. Link has launched a new initiative to work with corporate sponsors which are actively supporting philanthropic efforts, whereby we will tell the story of these projects on our website.

Staying committed to our values, Link TV vets its corporate partners for their Corporate Social Responsibility achievements  -  Socially responsible companies honor the people and planet that help them make a profit.  We seek to work with companies that have demonstrable projects impacting their employees, community and the environment in a positive way.

Dean's Beans is our first corporate sponsor - one which is both profitable and doing "good" for the global community in which it conducts its business.

Which companies do you admire and why? Does it really matter to consumers if the business is socially responsible? Discuss on Real Conversations with Dean's Beans Founder and CEO, Dean Cycon.

For World Food Day 2009 (which is tomorrow, October 16th!), Link TV is helping to promote a campaign called Stand Up, Take Action, a movement now four years in the running. As part of the framework for the UN Millennium Development Goals adopted by global leaders in the year 2000, worldwide hunger and poverty must be eradicated by the year 2015. A lofty endeavor, you say? Maybe. But millions of global citizens are demanding that this promise be kept, or at the very least, kept a priority. Each year, through events organized by Stand Up, Take Action, attention is called to this ongoing issue, and the movement is growing. Last year, it broke its own Guinness World Record for the largest mobilization around a single cause in recorded history. Click here for events taking place this weekend in your area.

Watch this video and join the countdown to World Food Day!



Link TV has a lot of great food and hunger related programming, that can be found on our ISSUE: Food page, like a new Michael Pollan special called “Deep Agriculture”, and more. Also, learn about the coffee industry and Fair Trade practices that are effecting small farmers in poor countries around the world from Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO of Dean’s Beans.