DDI Launches Fundraising Campaign

(IDEX Online News) – The Diamond Development Initiative International (DDI launch the Friends of DDI fundraising campaign.

Retailers who sign on for the Friends of DDI program receive the Retailers Friendship Kit, which includes a Certificate of Recognition, counter displays, information postcards and gift box insert cards imprinted with the donor’s name that can be distributed to customers and constituents.

Membership in the Friends of DDI conveys to consumers a jeweler’s concern for the estimated 15 percent of diamond workers who labor under challenging, artisanal mining conditions.

Under the leadership of Susan Jacques, CEO of Borsheim’s Fine Jewelry and Gifts and Honorary Chair of the Friends of DDI campaign, jewelry industry leaders have come together to lend their support and serve as examples to the greater industry. Joining Jacques in this campaign is The Palladium Alliance International, also a Millennium Star level contributor.

DDI brings the jewelry and the diamond industry, non-governmental organizations and governments together in a common effort that aims to ensure that diamonds are an engine for positive economic and social development in communities where diamonds are sourced in Africa and South America.