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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Could a Bank's $20 Million Investment Add Up to Better Days for South Chicago?

Fifth Third Bank will be making a three-year, $20 million investment in the South Chicago neighborhood.

Innovation & Technology

This Tool Teaches Children and Families to #BeCyberSmart

Through the PTA Connected initiative and with The Smart Talk tool, Kim Allman explains how families have the resources to make Cyber Safety easy and to end cyberbullying for good.

Innovation & Technology

FedEx Teams Up With Aurora and PACCAR to Test Autonomous Linehaul Technology

FedEx recently announced it will kick off a collaboration with Aurora and PACCAR to test Aurora’s autonomous driving technology in PACCAR state-of-the-art Autonomous Vehicle Platform (AVP) equipped trucks within FedEx linehaul trucking operations.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Schneider Electric in Universum's Top-25 World's Most Attractive Employers

Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, is one of the World’s Most Attractive Employers in Engineering, according to students worldwide.

Environment

Scott Budden: Farming Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay

Innovation & Technology

Letter to the G20: Why Digital Holds the Key to Meeting Global Challenges

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Johnson & Johnson Named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies List

Time chose Johnson & Johnson for inclusion on its first-ever list of TIME100 Most Influential Companies. An extension of the TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people, the list singles out 100 companies positively impacting the world.

Education

Rockwell Automation Connected Enterprise Lab Opens at Cleveland State University

Cleveland State University’s Washkewicz College of Engineering celebrated the grand opening of the Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) Connected Enterprise Laboratory on Sept. 28.

Innovation & Technology

Keysight Unveils Industrial Visibility Solutions for Electric Utility Market

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced a new series of Industrial Visibility solutions

Sustainable Development Goals

Workiva's Commitment to Building a Better Future

As a cloud-based platform provider, our value chain is simple. It demonstrates the priority issues we identified in our materiality assessment, and where our business practices create value impact to our stakeholders and society in alignment with the UN Sustainability Development Goals.

Environment

What Facebook's Water-Positive Goal Means for Water-Stressed Communities

About 95 percent of the western U.S. is now under drought conditions, and southwestern states — Arizona, Nevada and Utah, as well as parts of California, Colorado and New Mexico — are suffering a “megadrought” that has been building for over 20 years.

Education

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Award $10,000 to 2021 Stronger Than Hate Challenge Winners

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation), and Discovery Education today announced the winners of the 2021 Stronger Than Hate Challenge.

Diversity & Inclusion

Creating a Smarter, More Inclusive Future for All

At Lenovo, we have a vision to provide smarter technology that builds a smarter, more inclusive future for our colleagues and communities.

Diversity & Inclusion

In Case You Missed It: Creating Equitable Access to Capital for Black-Owned Businesses

Lynette Bell, president of Truist Foundation, spoke to the necessary relationship-building between banks and communities on the “Creating Equitable Access to Capital” panel for the Yelp annual Black in Business Summit.

Health & Healthcare

Celebrating the Science That Transforms Patients' Lives

At BMS, we translate big ideas to scientific advances that transform patients’ lives by asking good questions, learning from experiments, leading clinical trials, and listening to patients at every step of the way.

Media & Communications

Business Sustainability Risk and Performance Index 2021

See key findings from the fifth edition of the Business Sustainability Risk and Performance Index: Insights from Global Supply Chain Ratings, which examines the sustainability performance of more than 46,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis during the period 2016-2020. All in a bite-sized infographic format.

Energy

PSEG Joins UN 'Race To Zero' Initiative, Commits to Setting Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets

PSEG announced that it has joined the Business Ambition for 1.5°C and the Race to Zero campaigns and commits to developing science-based targets.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

UNPRI Delays Its Assessment Plan - A Sign of Things to Come?

UNPRI is an investor network working to develop a more sustainable financial system, they have set a powerful precedent for the enforcement of sustainability agreements and recently have been improving their systems

Environment

Tetra Tech's Leslie Turner Discusses Providing Municipalities With Safe Drinking Water

Leslie Turner has more than 20 years of experience in planning, permitting, design, project management, and construction management for water programs throughout the Southeastern United States.

Environment

First European Improved Forest Management Carbon Offset Project Achieves Independent Verification

Global Forest Support GmbH (GFS) and SCS Global Services (SCS) announced the completion of validation and verification of the first European Improved Forest Management (IFM) carbon project under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)

Environment

Trane Technologies Healthy Spaces Podcast Season 2 Episode 2: Healthy Workspaces for Now. And Tomorrow.

In this episode of Healthy Spaces with Trane Technologies, Joanna Frank, president and CEO of the Center for Active Design, and Dr. Alberto Acosta, executive director of Medical Services at Trane Technologies, share some key lessons learned - and a way forward for employers and employees.

Green Infrastructure

River Trails School District 26 Awarded for Outstanding Energy Efficiency Commitments

Trane® - by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator - has recognized the River Trails School District 26 in Mount Prospect, Illinois

Diversity & Inclusion

New Holland Agriculture Celebrates International Rural Women's Day

CNH Industrial brand New Holland Agriculture is celebrating the United Nation’s International Day of Rural Women.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Illumina Named to Forbes World's Best Employer List

We are proud to announce that Illumina has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Employer List for the first time.

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  1. Fifth Third's Commitment to Small Businesses
    Fifth Third believes that small businesses form the foundation of our communities – and when they succeed, we all succeed. Supporting them through...
  2. Social Progress
    Social engagement has always been an integral part of our sense of responsibility as a company. We care and we act to do our part to improve the...
  3. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  4. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  5. Digital Safety
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  6. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  7. Nutrition and Health
    Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
  8. Health and Safety by Antea Group
    Antea Group's health and safety consultants understand what it takes to help make a positive impact on safety culture. Read blogs, insights, and more...
  9. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  10. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
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  12. Retail Logistics
    DP World provides end-to-end retail logistics solutions including comprehensive Purchase Order management from origin consolidation to retailer PO...
  13. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...
  14. KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service
    KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...
  15. Accelerating access to healthcare technology
    We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...