Back in early 2020, TrendWatching launched ‘Covid Innovations’ to inspire entrepreneurs and marketers to serve their customers better in dire covid times.
With Covid thankfully no longer impacting daily life, we’re fully focused again on all innovations that make the world a little bit better - check out Daily, our free publication to stay on top of the latest trends, insights and innovations.
Global artists and partners have been working on The Plated Project to create limited edition art plates. Each art plate captures a moment from the life during COVID. For each plate sold, 100% of the proceeds go to Goonj and sponsor a ration and meal kit consisting of essentials like dal, rice, atta.
Read MoreThe app, available in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and a few US cities, makes live grocery data accessible, telling consumer show busy the shop is, to help them follow social distancing guidelines during COVID.
Read MoreAs OBOS is concerned that Norway will keep its vibrant sports and cultural life even after the COVID crisis, the initiative will be giving NOK 40 million to 'get the cheer back', by buying what became nothing: the tickets that were never sold, the fleas that are still in stock, the cakes that were never baked, the football tricks that were never learned, the notes that were never played.
Read MoreTheir solution is to put information about COVID on the labels of common consumer goods like cola and rice. By printing DIY mask instructions and hygiene recommendations on the packaging of these products, these designers have found a way to get information to the most vulnerable.
Read MoreThe specific program, #HomelessHostelsWork, aims at saving lives and ensuring that homeless people who enter won't be forced into homelessness again as soon as the COVID crisis ends. The #HomelessEntrepreneur’s team works with hostel and hotels, active citizens and businesses, local NGOs and local governing bodies to offer the best support as possible.
Read MoreAs many retailers have been forced to cancel orders placed in factories in countries like Bangladesh, Lost Stock offers surprise boxes, which contain three tops, directly from the factories, made for well-known brands who cancelled their orders, such as Topshop or C&A. Nearly 40 % of the proceeds from the sale of the boxes are then donated to factory workers.
Read MoreIn a special online project, part of the city’s RISE season (which pays tribute to extraordinary women across the globe), Culture Liverpool will showcase podcasts, blogs, music, visual art, photography and film showing female responses to the crisis, exploring social inequalities, isolation and trying to understand the ‘new normal’.
Read MoreThe Royal Academy of Engineering launched its Project CARE (COVID Africa Rapid Entrepreneurs) initiative, an international collaboration of academic, health and funding bodies in the UK and engineering entrepreneurs in Africa. The program is already helping local engineers to deliver products and services needed in the fight against COVID in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa.
Read MoreThe platform aims at making visible the needs of the hospitals, captures the donations, channels the deliveries to the beneficiaries, records the deliveries in images and publishes them in the same space as a proof of the cleanliness of the process, making donations transparent from their collection to their delivery.
Read MoreThe tech giant shares an eight-story building in Seattle with a nonprofit called Mary’s Place to open a unique new type of homeless shelter, serving 200 people. The building is divided in half lengthwise: half of it is divided for use by Amazon, the other side is used by Mary’s Place.
Read MoreAs Australian charities are in need of support, athletes and clubs from all the major codes are joining forces to support sick children with video messages, feed international students and deliver food hampers to tens of thousands of people each week with the campaign 'PlayForLives'.
Read MoreThis map is a directory of hundreds of innovations and solutions around the world that could support the response to COVID, helping people to adapt to life during the COVID pandemic and to connect innovators so they can collaborate on solutions.
Read MoreThe objective of the COVID Donations Observatory is to consolidate and get to know the numbers of the donations made during COVID, to promote them and inspire even more donations.
Read MoreAccenture Interactive invites Danes to upload pictures of their hands, along with personal messages of hope. Each image adds a patch of digital "skin" to an A.I.-generated 3-D hand, serving marker of the nation's solidarity against COVID. For each hand, Danish retailer Coop will donate 5 kroner (around $1) to Danish Red Cross COVID-19 relief efforts.
Read More‘Escape From Quarantine' was created by a group of three friends based in Toronto, enabling people to raise money for a good cause while having fun playing escape to rescue a doctor kidnapped for his vaccine.
Read More36 photographers from the Netherlands are selling their prints on PicturesforPurpose.org to support local food banks, with half of the profits going towards the Dutch Food Bank, and the other to the participating photographers, who’s jobs were also impacted by the COVID crisis.
Read MoreWith this platform, small shops can open an online shop within 5 minutes, then advise customers personally just like in the shop thanks to a video chat. Customers like shop tenants only need a smartphone, Lokaler.kaufen is non-profit and free of charge for customers and retailers .
Read MoreStay Home Club is an initiative launched by several local purpose-driven businesses in Berlin. They offer delivery of sustainable products, and, for each order, will give 10% of the amount to artists and clubs of the city.
Read MoreCOVID CONNECT is focused on reducing feelings of loneliness and social isolation. It is available to people who do not have good social networks to address despair, fear, loneliness, and other mental health concerns.
Read MoreThe project aims at proving a list of businesses and restaurants in Seattle, hit severely by COVID, and linking to their gift cards site so that customers can easily support them during this time of need.
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