Day: 21 August 2021

Xylem Expands Investment In Next Generation Of Water Innovators

Stuart Mitchell

Global water technology company, Xylem, is expanding its investment in youth innovation to empower the next generation to solve the world’s greatest water challenges. The diverse program, including over 60 events in 2021, builds on Xylem’s 25 year sponsorship of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize with innovation competitions, in addition to community outreach initiatives and a global innovation incubator program. The winner of the 2021 Stockholm Junior Water Prize will be announced at a ceremony on August 24, during World Water Week. The annual competition brings together students from 40…

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PayPal Partners With ADL to Fight Extremism and Protect Marginalized Communities

Stuart Mitchell

PayPal Holdings Inc., in partnership with ADL, has announced a new partnership initiative to fight extremism and hate through the financial industry and across at-risk communities. This is the latest effort by PayPal in combating racism, hate and extremism across its platforms and the industry. Through this collaboration, PayPal and ADL have launched a research effort to address the urgent need to understand how extremist and hate movements throughout the U.S. are attempting to leverage financial platforms to fund criminal activity. The intelligence gathered through this research initiative will be…

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Hubbub’s Design By Nature 2021: Innovative designs to reconnect people with nature

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub announces the winners of its 2021 sustainable design competition for students Design By Nature . Students (and recent graduates) across the UK were challenged to get back to nature, with briefs inspired by the idea that ‘Good things happen when we connect people to nature’.  The judges were looking for the most insight-led, disruptive, collaborative and experimental ideas to bring to life and create real change.  See shortlisted entries: 2021 Showcase | Hubbub Foundation The two commended entries ‘The Hidden Drought’ by Joshua Fox and ‘XPlore’ by Lilymae Prescott,…

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Wellbeing team created at website performance and cybersecurity specialists

Stuart Mitchell

Leeds-based website performance and cybersecurity company RapidSpike has launched a dedicated wellbeing team to support its employee’s mental health. The young company has created a wellbeing team of five RapidSpike employees to put healthy high performance, resilience, and wellbeing at the heart of RapidSpike in a bid to enable each team member to excel and the business to thrive.  The business has also created a dedicated mental health guide to empower employees and give them resources needed to stay mentally strong and healthy while helping develop RapidSpike’s journey. RapidSpike’s CEO…

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REaD Group partners with Blackbaud to provide automated market-leading data cleansing for non-profits

Stuart Mitchell

Data and insight company REaD Group has joined forces with Blackbaud, the world’s leading cloud software company for non-profits, to integrate its REaDConnect API solution into Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge NXT cloud-based fundraising and donor management software solution to create Automated Data Cleansing (ADC). Raiser’s Edge NXT users will benefit from automated monthly cleansing of their database using REaD’s ADC solution, keeping their customers’ contact information up-to-date and GDPR compliant by screening for goneaways and deceased individuals and providing relocation details for customers who have moved. With clean, compliant data underpinning all their marketing activities, non-profits…

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