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

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

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

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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Grammy Award-Winning Melissa Etheridge Announced as Featured Speaker for PRSA’s ICON 2024

PRSA announced Grammy Award-winning rock artist Melissa Etheridge as a featured speaker at ICON 2024, taking place in Anaheim, Calif. October 15-17. Etheridge will participate in a conversation about her career journey and life’s advocacy work.   Etheridge has remained one of America’s favorite female singers for more than two decades. She stormed onto the American rock scene in 1988 with the release of her critically acclaimed self-titled debut album. Etheridge received “Songwriter of the Year” honors at the ASCAP Pop Awards in 1996, and celebrated a career milestone with a…

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Sainsbury’s launches agroforestry initiative as it celebrates 20-year partnership with the Woodland Trust

Sainsbury’s has announced the launch of a new agroforestry initiative in collaboration with the Woodland Trust as the two organisations celebrate 20 years of partnership. Agroforestry is the integration of trees, hedges and shrubs into farming systems which provides benefits including shade and shelter for animals and crops, improving biodiversity and soil structure while reducing soil erosion and capturing ammonia from the atmosphere. The Woodland Trust will work with farmers and growers that supply Sainsbury’s to offer in-person support to create planting plans that fit their farming systems. With only…

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