Month: October 2024

The LEGO Group and NIKE, Inc. unite to elevate the power of creative play and sport

Stuart Mitchell

The LEGO Group and NIKE, Inc recently announced a multi-year partnership that will celebrate creative play and sport, offering new and exciting opportunities for children and families worldwide. The LEGO Group and NIKE, Inc have long histories of championing kids’ right to play. Both brands know that creative and physical play are essential to children’s development, and help kids reach their full potential as they develop essential life skills through play that allow them to thrive as they grow up. A recent LEGO Group study (1) revealed that for a…

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Urgent Scale-Up of Clean Technologies Needed to Keep Australia on Net-Zero Trajectory

Stuart Mitchell

The window for achieving net zero by 2050 is closing, but Australia could still achieve a carbon emissions trajectory in line with the major goal of the Paris Agreement – holding global warming to well below two degrees Celsius and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change. BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook: Australia shows what it would take to get there. Australia must rapidly decarbonize its power sector to stay on track, growing renewable-energy capacity by 135% before 2030, to more than 126 gigawatts. BNEF’s analysis shows that Australia’s energy mix…

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2024 Digital Fundraising Hub to include focus on marketing & economic trends

Stuart Mitchell

The Spanish Fundraising Association’s (AEFr) Digital Fundraising Hub will take place on 10 October this year, in Barcelona. This is the fourth edition of the event for nonprofit professionals, and will focus on digital fundraising, marketing, and economic trends. Carlos Molina, analyst and writer for MultiVersial.es newsletter, will discuss trends and innovation in digital business and how it will impact the NGO sector. Jimena Tormo, head of gaming and interactive IPs by DeAPlaneta Entertainment, will share innovative examples of how XR and gaming can transform fundraising and take a look…

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New tool helps small businesses create privacy notices

Stuart Mitchell

The ICO have launched a new, quick and easy-to-use tool to help small organisations and sole traders create a bespoke privacy notice and protect people’s information rights. Under data protection law, every organisation that holds people’s information needs to explain why it holds it and what it does with it. This is so their customers, suppliers, staff and volunteers know what will happen to their personal information. Organisations can provide this information through a privacy notice, which is displayed on its website or included in other communications, to ensure they’re…

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Patagonia giving all US employees paid time off to vote early and volunteer in 2024 election

Stuart Mitchell

Patagonia has been asking its community to vote the planet since the 1970s, and it has given employees Election Day off in the United States since 2016.  This year, the outdoor apparel company with more than 2,000 employees in the U.S. will close its stores, warehouse and offices on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, which is national Vote Early Day. Employees will receive a paid day off and have the entire day to vote early and volunteer. The company is calling it Vote Early and Volunteer Day.  Democracy experts and advocates agree that…

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