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Aii Announces Lead Funders for New $250M Fashion Climate Fund, Uniting Brands, Philanthropic Donors, and Industry Stakeholders

Stuart Mitchell

Apparel Impact Institute (Aii), the nonprofit organization dedicated to operationalizing and accelerating climate action and sustainability solutions in fashion, announced today the lead funders in its new $250M Fashion Climate Fund: Lululemon, H&M Group, H&M Foundation, and The Schmidt Family Foundation. Aii and its lead partners have established the Fashion Climate Fund to drive collective action to tackle fashion’s supply chain emissions. By leveraging a first-of-its-kind collaborative funding model for fashion between philanthropy and corporate entities, the Fund could unlock an estimated $2B in blended capital across various asset classes,…

Harnessing the Power of Diversity and Inclusion for Transformation – The Elsie Initiative Fund Shares Results of Funded Projects in its 2021 Annual Report

Stuart Mitchell

The Elsie Initiative Fund (EIF) launched its 2021 Annual Report: “Diversity. Inclusion. Transformation” – English version, highlighting initial results and the impact of pilot projects. The report features eleven projects that contribute to the meaningful participation of uniformed women to United Nations peace operations. Harnessing the Power of Diversity and Inclusion for Transformation – The Elsie Initiative Fund Shares Results of Funded Projects in its 2021 Annual Report Of note, Senegal – the largest police contributing country – deployed its first ever woman Formed Police Unit commander and two gender-strong…

IPA and ISBA launch Pitch Positive Pledge to improve pitching behaviours

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA and ISBA have today launched their much-anticipated Pitch Positive Pledge, a joint initiative that seeks to improve the behaviours of agencies and advertisers around pitching for the benefit of its people, the planet and profit. SIGN THE PLEDGE With almost 40% of the industry workforce reporting feeling stressed and anxious in the last twelve months, the Pledge, supported by Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and NABS, brings together the two trade associations, their members, procurement professionals and intermediaries, to focus on making the pitching process more intentional, accountable and…

Ad Net Zero Launches New Training – The Essentials Certificate

Stuart Mitchell

Ad Net Zero, UK advertising’s response to the climate crisis, led by the Advertising Association, ISBA and the IPA, has launched a new training course – The Essentials Certificate – to help people working in advertising and marketing services understand the climate crisis and the actions needed to achieve net zero emissions in advertising operations by 2030. The 10-hour online course is now available to all professionals, in the UK and internationally, via the IPA’s globally recognised CPD platform. It aims to empower advertising professionals with the knowledge and practical…

New toolkit launched to help organisations using AI to process personal data understand the associated risks and ways of complying with data protection law

Stuart Mitchell

Alister Pearson, the ICO’s Senior Policy Officer – Technology has put out a blog on their website which introduces a new beta version of their AI and Data Protection Risk Toolkit. He explains how it can assure organisations that use AI to process personal data that they are processing it in line with the law and how organisations can help the ICO shape a final version. “Understanding how to assess compliance with data protection principles can be challenging in the context of AI. From the exacerbated, and sometimes novel, security…