Serviceplan Teams up with Central Council of Jews to Launch #StopRepeatingStories Campaign in Response to Surge in Antisemitic Crimes

Since tension and violence continued to rise across the Middle East, there has been a massive increase in the number of antisemitic crimes in Germany. This is shown by the latest figures presented at the Federal Press Conference shortly before Holocaust Memorial Day. To draw attention to this growing issue, the Zentralrat der Juden in Germany has launched a comprehensive initiative that has received widespread press and social media coverage. Designed and implemented by Serviceplan, #StopRepeatingStories uses AI to demonstrate: “How it starts is reminiscent of those days. How it…

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Co-op pilots’ sustainability payments for British farmers

Co-op announces pilot scheme to financially reward farmers in its beef supply chain for sustainable farming practices. In partnership with its supplier Dunbia, the leading convenience retailer outlines plans to rapidly decarbonise its supply chain in a new ‘Beef Sustainability Pilot’, which will see farmers rewarded for reducing their impact on the environment. The two-year programme will enable Co-op to monitor the impact of integrating sustainable farming practices within its beef supply base. It will also help to provide accurate emissions data and will inform actions on an integral part…

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Cargill and ENOUGH expand partnership to provide consumers with innovative, sustainable protein options

Cargill and food tech leader ENOUGH, which produces fermented protein sustainably, are expanding their current partnership to further innovate nutritious and sustainable alternative meat and dairy solutions consumers crave. Cargill is investing in ENOUGH’s most recent (Series C) growth funding campaign and has signed a commercial agreement to use and market its fermented protein.   ENOUGH uses a pioneering technology that enables large-scale sustainable protein production of its signature ABUNDA® mycoprotein. ABUNDA is grown by feeding fungi with sugars from sustainably sourced grain that is then fermented in a natural production…

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Effie Worldwide Partners with NordStella to Launch Effie Saudi Arabia

Effie Worldwide, the global marketing industry’s pre-eminent effectiveness organization and organizer of the Effie Awards®, has expanded its partnership with NordStella to launch Effie Saudi Arabia. The partnership will create the organization’s first national Effie Awards program in the Middle East. NordStella, part of Akama Holding, is also the organizer of the MENA Effie Awards, the regional Effie Awards program that has been successfully recognizing and celebrating the most effective marketing efforts across the Middle East & North Africa, since 2009. While work that ran in Saudi Arabia has been…

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Human Rights Campaign Report Releases New Data on Experiences of Black Queer Youth

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, released a report in partnership with the University of Connecticut featuring data collected from nearly 1,200 Black LGBTQ+ youth (ages 13-17) from across the country. The report presents extensive data and guidelines that can be used by parents, caregivers, school administrators, educators, counselors and other youth-serving professionals to better understand and support Black LGBTQ+ youth. Despite some of the solemn statistics presented throughout the report, Black LGBTQ+…

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