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PRSA Joins Global Alliance to Celebrate Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Month in June

Stuart Mitchell

PRSA, the nation’s leading professional organization serving the communications community, is joining the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management to celebrate its Diversity, Inclusion & Equality Month in June. Throughout the month, the Global Alliance will share insights and best practices via articles and webinars at no cost. PRSA will be hosting and taking part in two of the month’s offerings. A Diversity & Inclusion Dialogue Session will take place on June 15 at 11 a.m. ET. The session will be moderated by Gladys Díaz, Diversity, Inclusion &…

Goodwill® Rising Together™ Initiative Announces New Partnerships with Accenture, Bank of America, Comcast Internet Essentials, Lowe’s and USAA to Increase Access to Careers for More than One Million People by 2025

Stuart Mitchell

Goodwill, the leading nonprofit provider of job training and placement services in North America, today announced five new partners — Accenture, Bank of America, Comcast Internet Essentials, Lowe’s and USAA — are joining its Rising Together™ initiative, expanding its reach and impact. While the U.S. economy continues to improve, the recovery has not been equitable. Rising Together™ is connecting people, particularly those who traditionally faced barriers to sustainable, well-paying jobs, to ensure they have access to a wide range of resources. These resources include skills training, job placement, transportation and…

Drax to pilot more pioneering new carbon capture technology

Stuart Mitchell

Renewable energy giant Drax is collaborating with the University of Nottingham and Promethean Particles on an innovative new carbon capture technology that could shape the future of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Trial is part of Drax’s bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) innovation programme and could see the technology deployed in future BECCS plants. The new process uses a type of solid sorbent called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which Promethean Particles are a global pioneer in the development and deployment of, to capture the CO2 released when sustainable biomass…

The Big Issue fast-tracks financial inclusion as 1,000 sellers now accept cashless payments

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue Group (TBIG) has hit a breakthrough of equipping 1,000 of its vendors with contactless technology via the Zettle by PayPal card reader, up by 68% since this time last year1. In addition, it is quickly fast-tracking to its goal of enabling all 1,500 vendors to become cashless by the end of the year with the adoption of Tap to Pay from Zettle by PayPal. With every pound of profit being invaluable for The Big Issue vendors, the new solution from Zettle by PayPal, launching today, enables sellers…

Virtual assistants talk back – Beauty brand LUX hacks virtual assistants to outwit casual sexism

Stuart Mitchell

LUX is standing up for virtual voice assistants to highlight the contagious nature of sexist attitudes in a new initiative launched today called ‘Shut up Sexism’ – created in collaboration with creative agency Wunderman Thompson Singapore. Almost 3 billion people are currently using voice automated software. Research by Brookings[1], a leading non-profit organisation, states that 92.4% of smartphone assistants have traditionally featured female-sounding voices. Furthermore, according to Gartner,[2] people will have more conversations with voice assistants than with their spouses. This form of AI is increasingly a part of our…