Month: March 2021

Love Home Swap Launches #distrAKTion Challenge To Raise Money For Albert Kennedy Trust

Stuart Mitchell

In celebration of the UK’s LGBTQ+ History Month, a month that aims to excite, inform, and celebrate everything about the diverse LGBTQ+ community, employees at the global home-swapping platform Love Home Swap are raising money for the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) by encouraging others to take part in the #distrAKTion challenge. The #distrAKTion challenge is split into 3 simple steps – participate, nominate and donate! Simply share a photo of yourself doing your hobby, nominate 5 friends to share their hobby, then donate £5 to akt via the charity fundraising page.   From bird-spotting to learning a new language or playing an instrument…

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New AI and machine learning training to close industry skills gap

Stuart Mitchell

The Institute of Data & Marketing (IDM) can announce a new partnership with the Southampton Data Science Academy (SDSA) to offer a new AI and Machine Learning for Marketers course delivered online. The data-driven marketing industry has been on a path to unlock the value of data to improve the customer experience and to better understand, attract, and retain customers. In the next two decades, AI presents an opportunity to accelerate and enhance the ways organisations harness data, spot trends more effectively, and shift towards predictive rather than historical data…

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Xylem And Planet Water Foundation Provide More Than One Million People With Clean Water And Hygiene Education

Stuart Mitchell

Xylem, a leading global water technology company, has today announced that its long-time partnership with Planet Water Foundation has provided more than one million people with access to safe, reliable drinking water and hygiene education. The milestone was achieved through ten years of partnership centered on a shared mission to create stability and equity for communities that lack access to clean water. Through the partnership, Xylem has sponsored the deployment of over 500 clean water projects in 14 countries across Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Over the last decade, more than 1,600 Xylem employees…

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Compassion in World Farming Welcomes Entries for its 2021 Awards

Stuart Mitchell

The annual Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards programme run by Compassion in World Farming has been streamlined this year to allow businesses hit by COVID-19 to progress towards the delivery of their existing animal welfare commitments.  Instead, the focus will be on the following award categories for which Compassion is now inviting entries. These are: Marketing & Innovation Awards for the Food Service & Manufacturing sectors – these awards recognise companies from these two sectors that provide the best example of work to measurably improve farm animal welfare (innovation), and…

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CitizensNYC Honors Five Remarkable Women: Launches “The New Yorkers for New York” Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Citizens Committee for New York City (CitizensNYC) has announced the launch of its 2021 virtual fundraising campaign The New Yorkers for New York. The organization kicks off Women’s History Month by honoring five extraordinary women who are working to rethink, rebuild, and reimagine  New York City. The five-month-long fundraising campaign will lift up the contributions women have made throughout New York’s history as well as their commitment to the city’s future. Each gift will be matched one-to-one, up to $150,000. CitizensNYC aims to raise $1.5 million dollars this year. This year’s honorees…

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