Month: April 2025

Bigger, bolder, better: Clear Channel’s Compass scheme expands to support scaling businesses with national reach

Stuart Mitchell

Clear Channel UK is doubling down on its commitment to supporting Black-owned businesses with the return of the Compass scheme in 2025, in partnership with Jamii. This year, the initiative is expanding its impact with a £250,000 prize pot—providing five winners with national digital Out of Home advertising campaigns worth £50,000 each to help scale their businesses and increase their visibility. Following previous successful editions, Clear Channel is evolving Compass to support more established businesses looking to scale up, ensuring that winning brands have a national presence—whether through e-commerce platforms…

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Latest Blackbaud Institute Data Reveals 2024 Charitable Giving Neared All-Time High

Stuart Mitchell

The Blackbaud Institute, a research lab at Blackbaud, the leading provider of software for powering social impact, today released new insights in its 2024 Trends in Giving Spotlight. This report draws from Blackbaud’s robust philanthropic dataset to provide social impact professionals with insights into industry trends, benchmarks for success, and strategies to elevate fundraising efforts. The Blackbaud Institute gives social impact professionals data to understand broader industry trends, benchmark success and take fundraising to new levels. The current spotlight provides a round-up of the charitable giving trends that defined 2024,…

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TotalEnergies publishes its Sustainability & Climate 2025 Progress Report and further strengthens its emissions reduction targets

Stuart Mitchell

TotalEnergies publishes its Sustainability & Climate – 2025 Progress Report, which presents the progress of its transition strategy. This report completes the sustainability report that will be integrated into the Universal Registration Document in application of the CSRD. TotalEnergies sees, in 2024, the rewards of its integrated and balanced multi-energy strategy This strategy, which combines profitable growth and sustainable development, is anchored on two pillars: oil & gas (notably LNG) and electricity (notably renewable), the energy at the heart of the transition. It proved its relevance once again this year:…

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55 million more people now enjoy better social protection, compared to 2021, as a result of a global ILO programme

Stuart Mitchell

The ILO’s Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All has contributed to major improvements in social protection coverage, adequacy, and comprehensiveness, resulting in more than 55 million people having access to benefit worldwide during the second phase of the programme, which ran from 2021 until 2025. The Flagship Programme’s annual Development Partners meeting took place on Thursday in Geneva and was attended by 55 representatives of governments, workers and employers’ organizations, and over 1400 joining in online. The participants shared significant progress in building robust social protection…

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Episode 19 of CIPR’s Engage Podcast out now; Joining the Board: the opportunity for communications professionals

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has published the latest episode of its Engage Podcast, exploring how public relations practitioners can step into boardroom positions and the unique value they bring to organisational leadership at the highest levels. Episode 19 – Joining the Board: the opportunity for communications professionals – examines the pathways to director and non-executive director roles for PR professionals, the distinctive perspective communications experts contribute to board-level decision making, and practical advice for practitioners considering this career progression. Hosted by Ann-Marie Blake FCIPR, Co-Founder of True…

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