Month: August 2018

Penguin Random House reports progress towards Creative Responsibility goals

Stuart Mitchell

Penguin Random House UK has published its second Creative Responsibility report, detailing progress towards our 2020 goals across four focus areas of Reading, Community, Inclusion and Sustainability. They launched our Creative Responsibility Manifesto in 2016, setting out a mission to help close the creativity gap – defined as the gap that exists because not everyone in society has an equal opportunity to meet their creative potential. The report is presented as a visual scrolling web page and features individual people as case studies to bring the impact of the programme’s…

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Crowe personnel volunteer 75,000 hours to honor firm’s 75th anniversary

Stuart Mitchell

As part of a yearlong 75th anniversary celebration, Crowe CEO Jim Powers challenged personnel to volunteer 75,000 hours in their communities, more than double the number of volunteer hours from the previous year. “Not only did our people meet the 75,000-hour challenge, they crushed it,” said Powers. “By the end of the challenge, we volunteered 82,000 hours, the equivalent of providing 39 full-time people at the nonprofits we served.” Two-thirds of personnel volunteered during the year, well above the industry norm of 31 percent. Using data from Independent Sector, the…

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Amnesty International staff targeted with malicious spyware

Stuart Mitchell

An Amnesty International staff member has been targeted by a sophisticated surveillance campaign, in what the organization suspects was a deliberate attempt to spy on its staff by a government hostile to its work. In early June 2018, an Amnesty International staff member received a suspicious WhatsApp message in Arabic. The text contained details about an alleged protest outside the Saudi embassy in Washington D.C., followed by a link to a website. Investigations by Amnesty International’s technology team revealed that clicking the link would have, according to prior knowledge, installed…

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Walmart Increases Access to Legal Education with New Partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart Inc. and the Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc. (CLEO), in recognition of CLEO’s historic 50th Anniversary celebration, have announced the launch of a new scholarship program intended to increase the accessibility of legal education to minority, low-income, and under-represented groups. The program is representative of Walmart’s push to increase diversity and inclusion across sectors and the value the company places on education. The program is made possible by a $100,000 grant from the Walmart Legal Department to CLEO, a national nonprofit organization seeking to expand opportunities for minority…

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Asda Foundation launches £200,000 fund to fight holiday hunger

Stuart Mitchell

The Asda Foundation has announced the first wave of charitable grants from its Healthy Holiday Fund, with a total of £200,000 available to good causes across the UK. The grants – up to £1000 each – are part of a new fund set up by the Foundation to enable local charities to run more activities for children over the holidays. It comes as research published on Friday from the Trussell Trust shows the number of food bank referrals for children rises steeply in the school holidays, as they lose access…

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