John Lewis Partnership signs up to mental health at work commitment

The John Lewis Partnership has joined forces with other UK businesses and mental health charities and non-governmental organisations in the most widespread collaboration of its kind to promote a nationwide commitment on improving mental health care in the workplace. Developed with the knowledge and expertise of mental health charities, leading employers and trade organisations, the Mental Health at Work Commitment provides a framework for employers who recognise the importance of promoting staff wellbeing. This framework sets out six clear standards based on what best practice has shown is needed to make a difference and…

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The Scotiabank Women Initiative Commits $3 Billion in Capital over Its First Three Years to Support Women-Led Businesses

The Scotiabank Women Initiative™ has announced its commitment to allocate $3 billion in funding to women-led business in Canada over its first three years. The investment was announced at its fourth Un-Mentorship Boot Camp for women entrepreneurs held today in Toronto. “We are committed to strengthening equality for women-led businesses and that includes providing equal access to capital and to our full suite of financing solutions,” said Gillian Riley, President and CEO, Tangerine, and executive sponsor of The Scotiabank Women Initiative™. “We use a holistic and grassroots approach that provides…

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ReFED Announces Cohort for Industry-First Nonprofit Food Recovery Accelerator

ReFED, the only U.S. nonprofit wholly dedicated to reducing food waste, announced the cohort of ten organizations that will participate in its Nonprofit Food Recovery Accelerator. Thanks to the generous support of the Walmart Foundation, in partnership with +Acumen and in collaboration with a world-class, 50-member Expert Network, the Accelerator aims to catalyze ideas and inspire actions that lead to a doubling of healthy food available to the 40 million Americans facing food insecurity. “The Accelerator’s nationwide Open Call for Applications confirmed ReFED’s hypothesis that this type of program will…

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Alibaba and WFP Unveil Next Generation of Machine Learning Technology in the Fight Against Hunger

Alibaba Group and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced the launch of “Hunger Map LIVE,” a groundbreaking global hunger monitoring system that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning and data analytics to predict and track the magnitude and severity of hunger in over 90 countries in close to real-time. Hunger Map LIVE brings together streams of publicly available information on food security, nutrition, conflict, weather and a variety of macro-economic data – including from WFP all in one place to show a holistic picture of the food security…

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CAP – Call for evidence – children’s recognition of online ads

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Call for evidence – children’s recognition of online ads. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) is announcing an open call for evidence on children’s ability to recognise online marketing communications. Recognising when we are being marketed to is important for all consumers. That’s why it’s a central requirement of…

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