Month: July 2021

Raising Partners Supports Entrepreneurial Scotland Community Crowdfund

Stuart Mitchell

Raising Partners are excited to share the successful fundraise of Entrepreneurial Scotland’s first community crowdfunding campaign. As an independent charity, Entrepreneurial Scotland seeks to establish Scotland as the most entrepreneurial society in the world. Setting out to raise £75,000 to deliver a twin boost to their vital work. It took just four weeks to reach almost double the target, with the #FundTheFuture campaign closing at £140,000. The money raised will increase the scope of their “Saltire Scholar” internship programme which provides entrepreneurially-minded university students in their penultimate year of study…

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UN Women presents ‘A Force for Change’, an art exhibition and auction featuring work by 26 Black women artists, benefitting Black women

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women, the agency of the United Nations dedicated to gender equality and women’s empowerment, will host the first all-Black, all-women global selling exhibition and auction titled “A Force for Change”, with proceeds benefiting Black women across the world and the participating artists. Open to the public 27–31 July 2021 at 530 W 25th Street, New York, NY 10001, the exhibition includes 26 works by prominent and emerging female artists of African descent to recognize and elevate awareness of the transformative power of Black women’s art in social justice movements,…

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Expensify.org Announces Over 60 Semi-Finalists for Community Justice Grant Challenge to Fight Injustice and Win up to $100,000

Stuart Mitchell

Expensify.org, a charity founded by the preaccounting platform Expensify, today announced over 60 semi-finalists advancing to the first voting round for the Community Justice Grant Challenge. The grant challenge will provide up to $100,000 in funding to 10 grassroots organizations or individuals fighting injustices in their community. This initiative is just the beginning and part of Expensify’s $3 million commitment to combat systemic inequity. Since launching the grant challenge in February, Expensify.org received more than 1,000 applications to advance community initiatives supporting climate justice, food security, housing equity, reentry services,…

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Hubbub Enterprise gets the royal vote

Stuart Mitchell

Hubbub Enterprise has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category.  The social enterprise arm of the environmental charity Hubbub, which in 2020 became a certified B Corp, is behind the world’s first voting ashtray, the “Ballot Bin”, designed to tackle the most common form of plastic litter: cigarettes.   More than 3,300 Ballot Bins have now been sold in 38 countries around the world, from South Korea to Macedonia. Over 500 of these have been bought by local authorities in the UK and are proving an effective tool in the battle against…

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CAP – Digital Gold, Cartoon Dogs and the Moon – Advertising Cryptocurrencies

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Digital Gold, Cartoon Dogs and the Moon – Advertising Cryptocurrencies. 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. So far, 2021 has been the year of cryptocurrency. Bitcoin and its fellow travellers like Ethereum and Doge (a currency shaped like a cartoon dog, invented as a joke that has made some of its early adopters millionaires) have…

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