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Entrepreneur Expands Her Thriving Tax Firm With Digital Innovation

Helen Mathis taught accounting as a vocational instructor for 30 years before facing a career-defining moment: The school where she worked closed and Mathis knew she needed a new plan

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La Red de Innovación e Impacto Capacitaciones Especializadas

Nuevos talleres y curso para este mes de Junio enfocados en sustentabilidad para pequeños negocios.

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Green Infrastructure

Black & Veatch Expands 'Experts on Demand' to Include Data Center Facility Consulting and Advisory Services

Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are increasingly employing more data-intensive applications to conduct business and serve their customers, driving a growing need to upgrade or modernize their enterprise data center infrastructure.

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Education

From School Hall to Safari: Creating VR Experiences for Children With Special Educational Needs

When the UK entered its first lockdown last spring, most schools abruptly closed. As students, teachers, and families adjusted, one school kept its doors open for some of its most vulnerable.

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Education

Henkel Launches Researchers' World Program in North America

Beginning June 17, 2021, Researchers’ World at Mill River Park will offer free workshops, introducing students to the concepts of sustainability, consumption, recycling, materials science and more.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

FedEx and United Way Mumbai Help 400 Women Restart Their Businesses

In honor of International Women’s Day, read how our FedEx Express India team, in collaboration with United Way Mumbai, is helping empower women to restart their small businesses.

Diversity & Inclusion

Comcast Advances Economic Mobility and Racial Equity in Underserved Communities Through $10 Million Investment with Inclusiv

Comcast has committed to invest $10 million aimed at building equity in credit unions led by serving people of color through Inclusiv’s Racial Equity and Resilience Investment Fund

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Combining Expertise for More Sustainable Fashion

Ever wonder how much water was used to make your favorite cotton T-shirt? About 2,700 liters, or roughly three years of drinking water.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Grande Prairie, Alberta, Students Nurture and Release Painted Lady Butterflies

The International Paper Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, mill, through the International Paper Foundation, has provided an unforgettable, hands-on learning experience for children in its community.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Miracle-Gro® Encourages Families to Share the Benefits of Edible Gardening, Expands No Kid Hungry Partnership With the Release of the GroMoreGood™ Harvest Donation Bag

In an effort to spread the joy of gardening and get more children in need access to healthy meals, Miracle-Gro today unveiled its new GroMoreGood Harvest Donation Bag

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

NortonLifeLock Recognized for Supporting Healthy Families and Communities

NortonLifeLock has made JUST Capital’s recently released list of The Top 100 US Companies Supporting Healthy Families and Communities.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

System Change is Key to Driving Social Impact Work That Matters

The level of system change required to tackle many of the world’s most pressing challenges can seem overwhelming. Sometimes, a simple and unlikely symbol changes our perspectives.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Accelerating Leadership in a Consequential Decade Through Action and Accountability

We are in the most consequential decade of our time. The actions we take today will determine whether we, as a global community, can avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis and reckon with the inequities that prevent far too many from accessing opportunities.

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Health & Healthcare

Record-breaking Achievement at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine

Our team at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine sequenced the genome of a critically ill infant to provide a clinical diagnosis in a record-breaking 13.5 hours and leading to implementation of life-saving treatment 4 hours later.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

UnitedHealth Group Welcomes Joy Fitzgerald as Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer

Our journey to build the health care workforce of tomorrow, reflective of the people and communities we serve, requires a sustained commitment to more deeply embed diversity, equity, and inclusion into our everyday work.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Foundation Grants Seek to Expand Broadband Internet Access in Indiana's Underserved Areas

Two Duke Energy Foundation grants totaling more than $113,000 will help improve broadband internet access in underserved areas in 15 Indiana counties.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Promoting a Sustainable and Ethical Supply Chain

To impact global change, Clarivate is making a conscious choice to engage with suppliers who align with our sustainability goals – whose products and services are produced in a way that treat people and the environment ethically and responsibly.

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Environment

Ceres Company Network Welcomes Fifth Third Bank

By joining the Ceres Company Network, Fifth Third joins 60 companies who commit to achieving robust sustainability goals, improving resiliency, and advancing market-based and equitable solutions to the world’s biggest sustainability challenges.

Education

DesignFWD: Surviving to Thriving: A Paradigm Shift in Shaping Hybrid Environments

This course will discuss various strategies in the built environment that will help us navigate the new workplaces.

Environment

Can We Pay Farmers to Store Carbon Emissions in Their Fields?

As companies turn to the latest carbon-capture technologies, one low-tech solution has been gaining ground: Carbon farming, or regenerative agriculture

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Environment

Kimberly-Clark Among the First to Join WWF's New Forests Forward Program

As Kimberly-Clark works to provide the essential products its consumers need to care for themselves and their families, it is committed to doing so in a manner that cares for the world’s forests and the diversity of life they support.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Schneider Electric Addressing Climate Change on World Climate Day

All this is of course welcome. But governments can’t, and shouldn’t, go it alone. Companies, too, need to be part of the climate change solution.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Itron’s 2020 Environmental Social Governance Report Highlights Industry Infrastructure Support, Driving Greater Efficiency

Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), which is innovating the way utilities and cities manage energy and water, today released its 2020 Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Report

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Climate Solutions Provider 3Degrees Prepares to Scale With New COO Role, Hires Malcolm Fabiyi

3Degrees' new COO Malcolm Fabiyi brings 20+ years of combined experience in corporate management, environmental solutions, and management consulting to 3Degrees, as well as an international perspective.

Events, Media & Communications

Nestlé: Leading for a Sustainable Future

The Shared Value Initiative invites you to join Nestle CEO Mark Schneider for a fireside chat on Tuesday, June 22 with SVI Senior Advisor and Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Mark Kramer about Nestle’s journey

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Diversity & Inclusion

Change Your Corporate Mindset

On companies addressing racial equity: “I worry that we are trying to make the opportunity fit us, rather than seriously exploring what we need to change about ourselves to take advantage of the opportunity.” Read Change Your Corporate Mindset.

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