Day: 8 March 2019

Johnson & Johnson Announces 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis, the World’s #1 Infectious Killer

Stuart Mitchell

Ahead of the first-ever United Nations (UN) High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (TB), Johnson & Johnson announced a comprehensive 10-year initiative in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target of ending the TB pandemic by 2030. With the goal of saving an estimated 1.8 million lives and preventing 12 million new TB infections in the next decade, Johnson & Johnson will work with partners to improve detection of undiagnosed cases of TB, broaden access to its novel medicine for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), and accelerate research & development (R&D) to discover next-generation TB treatments. “TB is the…

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Social Tech Trust and Microsoft reveal the ventures that will take part in the Microsoft AI for Good Social Business Programme

Stuart Mitchell

Eleven ventures will join the four-month immersive accelerator programme to develop their AI for good solutions.  All ventures taking part have a social mission and are focused in the areas of either AI for accessibility or AI for environmental sustainability.  The programme, developed in partnership with Microsoft, will help demonstrate that the biggest opportunity for AI is not for AI to shape our future, but for people to shape AI to make the future we want to see.  The social business cohort will benefit from a curriculum delivered by industry…

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Tesco offers more surplus food to community groups this Easter

Stuart Mitchell

Charities and community groups across the UK are being invited to receive free surplus food from Tesco this Easter. Across the UK Tesco redistributes a million meals worth of surplus food a month to good causes as part of its Community Food Connection scheme, run in conjunction with food charity FareShare and powered by FoodCloud technology. Community Food Connection enables some 7,000 charities and community groups to pick up free food from Tesco each week, but some of those groups take a break during school holidays, which means Tesco can…

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Spotify Celebrates African American Culture with Music Merch Giveaway

Stuart Mitchell

From the power of Black spirituals and gospels that originated in Africa to the Harlem Cultural Festival of the 1960s, music is a fundamental element of Black history. That’s why in February, as part of their ongoing Black History is Happening Now initiative, Spotify created a line of limited-edition clothing and accessories inspired by contemporary music merch. The collection specifically celebrates the way Black creators have shifted the culture and shaped the music we know and love. “We really wanted to tap into the way that we, as Black people,…

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Ireland Welcomes a New Mná na hÉireann – Women of Ireland Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Social Innovation Fund Ireland, in partnership with Bank of America and the Department of Rural and Community Development, are today pleased to announce the Mná na hÉireann – Women of Ireland Fund. The new fund, which is the first of its kind in Ireland has been established to support charitable and social enterprise organisations that seek to enhance the economic mobility of women, by investing in organisations that provide training, upskilling, education and other services directly to disadvantaged women. According to figures from the Central Statistics Office Ireland, the gender…

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