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Tech and Personal Finance Sustainability Innovators Announce Partnership and Co-Branded Experience

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St. Louis-based plug partners with Treecard to create sustainability-driven shopping experience for consumers, exclusively benefitting global reforestation efforts

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — plug, a leading online retailer of in-demand personal tech devices, announces a partnership with Treecard, the debit card app that is reforesting the planet. Treecard will offer the plug shopping experience to its users, housing a fully integrated, Certified Pre-Owned tech shop through the Treecard app. This collaboration aims to maximize the environmental impact of both brands.

Discarded electronic products, e-waste, represents 2% of trash in landfills and equals 70% of overall toxic waste.

The partnership between these rapidly growing brands is rooted in a shared commitment to the environment and providing access to sustainable products and services. plug connects people around the world to reliable, Certified Pre-Owned devices, making it affordable and easy to make an environmentally-conscious tech purchase. Treecard helps debit card users to adopt greener habits and plants trees as they spend.

“Treecard gives a portion of our profits to Ecosia, our tree planting partner, to plant and protect trees in biodiversity hotspots where they are needed most,” said James Cox, co-founder of Treecard. “As a results of our customer’s efforts we expect to fund over 5,000,000 trees this year, and the addition of this all-new, integrated plug shop allows us to bring more value to customers and, ultimately, plant even more trees.”

The tech shop is now accessible through the Treecard app and offers visitors full access to the plug catalog of available devices. Since 2009, plug has saved over one million devices and Treecard has helped to plant more than 180 million trees in over 32 countries. With every purchase made, this partnership is contributing exclusively to the reforestation efforts and the goal of saving more than two million devices from landfills by 2025.

“Reducing e-waste is at the heart of plug’s mission,” said Oday Alaytum, founder and managing partner of plug. “As technology prices rise and global e-waste volumes continue to grow, customers are looking for a way to save on today’s popular technology and make environmentally-friendly purchases. Increasing our exposure to like-minded consumers through this partnership with Treecard not only broadens access to reliable and sustainable tech, but prevents more devices from reaching landfills.”

Unneeded, unused, and discarded electronic products, known as e-waste, represents 2% of America’s trash in landfills and equals 70% of overall toxic waste. According to the EPA, e-waste is the fastest growing municipal waste stream in America but a large number of what is labeled as “e-waste” is actually whole, discarded electronic equipment or parts that are readily marketable for reuse or can be recycled for materials recovery. The energy saved by recycling one million laptops is equivalent to the electricity used by 3,657 U.S. homes in a year.

More information on plug can be found at the company’s website, www.plug.tech, or Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), Pinterest, or YouTube pages at @plugbettertech. Learn more about Treecard at www.treecard.org, or Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), or LinkedIn pages at @treecardapp or on Instagram at @treecard.

About plug
plug, formerly eCommsell, is a St. Louis-based consumer electronics provider and online retailer that connects people to reliable, renewed devices. The company was founded by Oday Alyatim in 2020 to make it affordable and easy for people to get the most out of their personal technology purchases and help reduce unnecessary e-waste. plug hand tests and certifies every device it sells through its rigorous 90+ point ‘Certified Pre-Owned Assurance’ certification process, providing a one-year performance warranty and 30-day, money-back guarantee on all devices sold. plug is ‘Responsible Recycling’ or ‘R2’ certified, and has helped, along with its sister company Comm Depot, to prevent over one million working devices from reaching landfills since 2009.

About Treecard
Treecard is an empowering green app that rewards customers by planting real trees when they adopt greener habits. From walking to shopping, Treecard’s community can turn their everyday actions into trees and support other vital environmental projects. Treecard’s mission is to make it easy and fun for anyone to have a positive impact on our planet, no matter where they are in their sustainability journey. Trees are planted where they are needed most and protected by vetted and responsible tree-planting organizations, shoulder-to-shoulder with local communities.

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Sensi.AI Hosts “An Evening of Learnings with Sensi & Teepa Snow” for Senior Care Leaders

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Complimentary Dine & Learn for Strategic Care Operators Not Yet Using Sensi

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 

WHAT:
The senior care industry is at an inflection point. Families are demanding more transparency. Staffing shortages are accelerating. And a growing aging population is moving across settings, from home to assisted living to hospice, with care that too often resets at every transition.

That’s why Sensi.AI and dementia care pioneer Teepa Snow are coming together for a complimentary Dine & Learn at The Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, NC. With more than 8,000 in-person trainings across 30+ countries, Teepa is one of the most influential voices in senior care today.

Through intimate dinner conversation and expert-led sessions, attendees will leave with a practical care and AI playbook and a clearer picture of how human-centered expertise and care intelligence can work together across the full care continuum to address staffing challenges, elevate standard of care, and preserve compassion at scale.

WHEN:
November 10, 2026 | 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM

WHERE:
The Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Home care agency owners serving 20+ clients and senior living community owners with 50+ residents are invited to apply to attend here.

Upon applying, qualified companies will receive an official invitation.

 ABOUT SENSI.AI

Sensi.AI is THE agentic operating system for care providers, built for the care teams who are burning out, the coordinators running blind, and the seniors who deserve better than a system held together by exhausted people doing their best.

When the care layer knows a senior’s patterns, the ops layer makes smarter staffing decisions. When the ops layer runs smoothly, the growth layer enables providers to serve more seniors who deserve care. That is the power of Sensi’s care intelligence, trained with years of real care data.

The results speak for themselves: Armed with 100+ care-related insights, agencies using Sensi reduce hospitalizations by an average of 22% and double the length of service. Sensi is HIPAA compliant and supports more than 80 percent of the largest home care networks in North America. For more information, visit sensi.ai.

ABOUT TEEPA SNOW, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA

Teepa Snow is an Occupational Therapist with over forty years of rich and varied clinical and academic experience. Her philosophy is reflective of her education, work experience, medical research, and first-hand caregiving experiences. Her advocacy efforts led her to the development of the GEMS® State Model for understanding the progression of dementia and changes in abilities. She also created the Positive Approach to Care® training strategies, which are effective techniques for anyone seeking to optimize care and support for those living with brain change. As the Education Director of Eastern North Carolina’s Alzheimer’s Association, she also helped to create the nation’s award-winning DVD entitled Accepting the Challenge: Providing the Best Care for People with Dementia. Her user-friendly approaches provide guidance and leadership to national efforts to promote best practices in care.

Teepa founded the Positive Approach to Care® organization in 2007, and it is now collaborating to improve dementia care in more than thirty countries worldwide. Positive Approach to Care provides online and in-person services, training, and products to professionals, family members, the lay public, and individuals living with brain change. In 2022, Teepa founded Snow Approach Foundation, a nonprofit organization based near her home in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with the mission of fostering the development of a neurodiverse, inclusive community. For more information, please visit teepasnow.com or snowapproach.org.

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Scrum Alliance and IIBA Partner to Connect Agile Delivery and Business Analysis

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New partnership launches with reciprocal member benefits.

DENVER, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Scrum Alliance®, the global leader in agile and scrum training, and the International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®), the world’s leading association for business analysis, today announced a strategic partnership designed to bridge agile delivery and business analysis.

Scrum Alliance members receive 15% off eligible IIBA memberships, certifications, learning bundles, and renewals. IIBA publications and certification application fees are not eligible for the discount. Likewise, IIBA members receive 15% off eligible Scrum Alliance on-demand microcredential courses. Each course includes a two-year Scrum Alliance membership.

As organizations integrate AI and rethink how work gets done, the ability to identify the right problems, make sound decisions, and rapidly realize value from those decisions is becoming increasingly important. Business analysis and agile delivery bring complementary capabilities to that challenge.

“Agile delivery and business analysis have always worked side by side,” said Tristan Boutros, CEO of Scrum Alliance. “As AI changes how organizations make decisions and create value, the ability to connect insight with execution becomes even more important. By bringing the Scrum Alliance and IIBA communities together, we can help professionals build the broader capabilities they need to lead and deliver in this new environment.”

“For organizations investing in AI, the hard part is deciding what will provide business value and getting teams aligned to act on it,” said Delvin Fletcher, President and CEO of IIBA. “Business analysis and agile delivery both help solve for that. We’re thrilled to team up with Scrum Alliance to give our global communities a better way to expand their capabilities and lead through change.”

Ready to take advantage of these partner benefits?

For Scrum Alliance members: Access your IIBA discount and learn more at www.scrumalliance.org/iiba/iiba-for-scrum-alliance-members.For IIBA members: Explore Scrum Alliance microcredential courses and claim your offer at www.scrumalliance.org/iiba.

About Scrum Alliance

A nonprofit focused on agile education and professional credentialing, Scrum Alliance continues to advance its vision of Agile for Anyone™ by equipping professionals and their organizations with the education, skills, and community needed to succeed in today’s ever-evolving workplaces.

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About IIBA

For over 20 years, the International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) has helped shape the practice of business analysis to achieve better enterprise outcomes. A professional association with 30,000 members, 120 chapters, 1,500 volunteers, and 500 partners worldwide, IIBA supports the recognition of business analysis within organizations. It enables networking and community engagement, provides foundational standards and resources, and offers internationally recognized certification programs for career advancement. For more information, visit iiba.org.

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MailXstream Launches Zapier Integration to Automate Print-to-Mail Order Submission

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New connection links MailXstream to more than 7,000 apps, letting businesses trigger printed and mailed documents automatically from the tools they already use

WILMINGTON, N.C., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MailXstream, a cloud-based print-to-mail platform operated by eVanguard Solutions, Inc., today announced the release of its official Zapier integration, giving businesses a no-code way to connect MailXstream’s print-and-mail service to thousands of other applications.

The integration allows a document created or updated in an app such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or an accounting or CRM system to automatically flow into MailXstream for printing and mailing, without staff manually uploading files or re-entering recipient information. Recipient addresses and mailing lists can be pulled in the same way, sourced from a spreadsheet, database, or CRM record at the moment an order is created.

The integration also reports back: businesses can route Slack notifications, update records, or trigger follow-up emails automatically when an order completes, encounters an error, or requires approval, and can look up an order’s status from within any automated workflow.

“Manual mailing steps are one of the last bottlenecks in an otherwise automated back office,” said Jay Rohr, President of eVanguard Solutions, Inc. “This integration lets a business’s existing systems talk directly to MailXstream, so a document that used to require someone to open MailXstream and submit it by hand now goes out the same way it always would have — just without anyone touching it.”

The integration includes a Send Document action for submitting orders, along with triggers for Order Completed, Order Errored, and Order Action Required, plus a Find Order search for checking an order’s status mid-workflow. It supports MailXstream’s separate Production and Test environments, so businesses can build and prove out a workflow safely before connecting it to live mail.

Setup requires a MailXstream account with order-creation permissions, a Zapier account, and an access token generated from the MailXstream profile page. Once connected, users choose a MailXstream template, map the document and recipient data from their trigger app, and the Zap is ready to run.

The MailXstream Zapier integration is available now to all MailXstream customers. For setup instructions and detailed workflow examples, visit mailxstream.com or contact MailXstream support.

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support@mailxstream.com
1-877-365-MAIL (6245)

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About MailXstream
MailXstream is a service of eVanguard Solutions, Inc. First launched in 2005, MailXstream is an on-demand print-to-mail platform that lets businesses in healthcare, finance, legal, insurance, and property management send invoices, statements, notices, and marketing mail directly from their desktop, with next-business-day entry into the USPS mail stream.

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