Month: April 2024

The Foundation Practice Rating into the performance of charitable foundations is released

Stuart Mitchell

The annual Foundation Practice Rating (FPR) report into the performance of charitable foundations is now available. The Foundation Practice Rating (FPR) is an objective assessment of UK-based charitable grant-making foundations. It looks at foundations’ practices in three important and interlinked domains of practice: diversity, accountability and transparency. The report has found continuing improvement in the sector, with more organisations scoring high scores across the board and fewer recording the lowest marks. Giving Evidence – the researchers who compiled the report, gave a hundred foundations ratings from A to D on…

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Amazon announces first Disaster Relief Hub in Europe to support communities impacted by natural disasters

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon announces first Disaster Relief Hub in Europe to support communities impacted by natural disasters via a post on their website, which I have included in its entirety below. Through our Disaster Relief Hubs in the U.S., Asia, and Australia we have used our inventory, logistics infrastructure, and technology to respond to more than 145 natural disasters and humanitarian crises since 2017, donating more than 24 million relief items around the world. Amazon has opened our first Disaster Relief Hub in Europe. We will fill the hub with 1,000 pallets…

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Folk VML and Water Safety Ireland launch radio spot that uses ASMR to warn about the dangers of open water swimming

Stuart Mitchell

Dublin agency, Folk VML has teamed up with Water Safety Ireland to tap into the popular trends of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) and sleep and relaxation apps to create awareness around being too relaxed or complacent while in water. The radio spot, titled “Don’t Let Your Mind Drift”, uses the relaxing sounds of water and a soothing voice that guides the listener through a calming meditation. However, the tone abruptly changes when we realise the dangers that entering this state of relaxation in water poses. The campaign aims to…

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Information Commissioner’s Office seeks views on accuracy of generative AI models

Stuart Mitchell

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched the latest instalment in its consultation series examining how data protection law applies to the development and use of generative AI. The third consultation in the series focuses on how data protection’s accuracy principle applies to the outputs of generative AI models, and the impact that accurate training data has on the output. Where people wrongly rely on generative AI models to provide factually accurate information about people, this can lead to misinformation, reputational damage and other harms. “In a world where misinformation…

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Channel 4 targets new wave of investment into overlooked founders

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 is launching Untapped, a ground-breaking commercial initiative to invest in entrepreneurs who have traditionally been overlooked by the VC ecosystem. The initiative – led by Channel 4’s consumer investment arm, Channel 4 Ventures – is informed by new research which shows that founders securing significant investment historically fall into a narrow range of elite profiles. Untapped seeks to address this – and generate new revenues for Channel 4 – by investing in high growth businesses led by founders with a broader range of profiles based on factors including…

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