Day: 10 July 2021

Clear Channel joins forces with Jamii to launch Clear Channel Compass, a new initiative to create more visibility for Black-owned businesses on UK high streets

Stuart Mitchell

Clear Channel UK, one the UK’s leading Out of Home media and infrastructure companies, has announced the launch of Clear Channel Compass, a new long-term initiative designed to empower and support independent Black-owned businesses in the UK through Out of Home advertising in collaboration with Jamii. Understanding the challenges that face Black entrepreneurs, with visibility being one of the most vital parts to business success, the scheme will offer free outdoor advertising space to selected businesses and is open to both physical and online Black retailers and service providers. Applications…

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Comcast Advances Economic Mobility and Racial Equity in Underserved Communities Through $10 Million Investment with Inclusiv

Stuart Mitchell

Inclusiv and Comcast Corporation have announced that Comcast has committed to invest $10 million specifically aimed at building equity in credit unions led by and/or serving people of color through Inclusiv’s Racial Equity and Resilience Investment Fund. Launched in 2020, the Fund leverages investments to increase lending to minority-owned businesses, homeowners, and consumers, providing access to capital and new financial opportunity to traditionally underserved and underbanked communities. As Inclusiv’s first corporate investment, Comcast’s commitment will enable local financial institutions to deploy at least $200 million in total capital in communities…

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Coca-Cola Enrolls 100% of its U.S. Corn Supply in Pioneering Sustainable Agriculture Initiative

Stuart Mitchell

The Coca-Cola Company has enrolled more than 1 million acres of its U.S. corn supply in Field to Market’s Continuous Improvement Accelerator, supporting farmers through locally-led conservation projects across the company’s key sourcing regions. Coca-Cola’s projects in the Accelerator utilize Field to Market’s Fieldprint® Platform, a pioneering sustainable agriculture platform that enables farmers and the value chain to measure the environmental impacts of commodity crop production and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. The company hit a cumulative 1 million acre milestone—which exceeds 100% of its annual U.S. corn supply—at the…

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Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities

Stuart Mitchell

Apple has announced powerful software features designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities. These next-generation technologies showcase Apple’s belief that accessibility is a human right and advance the company’s long history of delivering industry-leading features that make Apple products customisable for all users.Later this year, with software updates across all of Apple’s operating systems, people with limb differences will be able to navigate Apple Watch using AssistiveTouch; iPad will support third-party eye-tracking hardware for easier control; and for blind and low vision communities, Apple’s industry-leading VoiceOver screen…

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Red Cross creates a timely new campaign that turns Instagram into a life-saving CPR tool

Stuart Mitchell

The Dutch Red Cross, or Het Nederlandse Rode Kruis, is launching ‘Life Saving Stories’, an innovative piece of CPR training on Instagram. The campaign was conceived, developed and produced in-house by 180 Amsterdam, in collaboration with the Red Cross.   The game consists of 35 animated Instagram Stories in which someone is resuscitated after a cardiac arrest based on the rhythm the person taps through the slides. By continuing to tap to the next story, the character stays alive.   With ‘Life Saving Stories’, 180 Amsterdam has, quite literally, tapped into the…

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