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Education | PNC Financial Services Group

PNC Volunteers Bring Basic Financial Knowledge to New Volunteer Opportunity

May 27, 2025 4:25 PM ET

For about two years now, the PNC Center for Financial Education (CFE), an effort led by Community Development Banking, has been collaborating with community-based nonprofits to offer financial education to individuals, first-time homebuyers and small businesses.

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Traditional Medicinals Launches Herbs for All To Expand Access to Herbal Wellness

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

A $9.6 Million Campaign To Make Chattahoochee Nature Center More Inviting

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Cocoa Market Turmoil: How Hershey Is Innovating Through Unprecedented Challenges

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Diversity & Inclusion

High School Internship Program Helps Students Grow Careers in Banking

Nov 20, 2023 9:30 AM ET

For Jorge Estudillo-Castillo, thinking about a future career in banking started while attending Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Twin Cities and interning at a U.S. Bank branch in Minneapolis.

Diversity & Inclusion

Insight From Nielsen: New Research Shows That Disability-Inclusive Content Is Smart Business

Nov 20, 2023 9:30 AM ET

It’s the classic fashion catalog pose. Two fetching models, a man and a woman who look like they’re about to go yachting, peer into the camera with a look that borders on smoldering.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Doing Good by Giving Back: Honoring National Philanthropy Day

Nov 20, 2023 9:30 AM ET

As a global company committed to developing solutions that improve people’s daily experiences, HARMAN has always believed in pursuing ideas, technologies and partnerships that have a profound impact on people, communities and the broader society.

Diversity & Inclusion

Local Business L&M Hair Company Wins KeyBank’s Key4Women, 2023 Women-Owned Business Pitch Contest in Partnership With Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), and the Portland Thorns FC

Nov 20, 2023 9:00 AM ET

KeyBank’s Key4Women program, Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), and the Portland Thorns FC announced that local business, L&M Hair Company, is the winner of a business pitch contest for women-owned businesses (WOBs) located in Oregon and SW Washington.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Franklin Templeton Employees Engage in Read for the Record Initiative

Nov 20, 2023 9:00 AM ET

This year, 40 Franklin Templeton employees across seven offices read to over 1,200 students as part of Jumpstart’s 17th anniversary of Read for the Record.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

DP World and McLaren Racing Pioneer Sustainable Logistics in Moving F1 Race Equipment

Nov 20, 2023 9:00 AM ET

Sustainability met speed last week through DP World's latest collaboration with McLaren Racing.

Innovation & Technology

Bad Actors Using AI To Target Businesses via BEC

Nov 20, 2023 9:00 AM ET

Business Email Compromise – known simply as BEC – often looks like an innocuous email. Yet it’s one of the most financially damaging online crimes.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Fortune and Great Place to Work® Name Cadence One of the World’s Best Workplaces™ in 2023, Ranking 9th

Nov 20, 2023 9:00 AM ET

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that Fortune magazine and Great Place To Work® have honored the company as one of the 2023 World’s Best Workplaces™ for the eighth time, ranking Cadence #9.

Environment

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Joins MIT SHINE Research Initiative

Nov 20, 2023 9:00 AM ET

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has become a member of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for Net Positive Enterprise (SHINE) established by the Materials Systems Laboratory (MSL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Social Impact & Volunteering

Subaru of America Adopts All Classrooms on Camden High School Campus

Nov 20, 2023 8:35 AM ET

Last year, Subaru adopted the city's middle schools and the year before adopted elementary schools as part of its Subaru Loves Learning initiative. The company partners with AdoptAClassroom.org with its initiative.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Video: SEE® Creates Sustainability Beyond Our Oceans With Talley's

Nov 20, 2023 8:30 AM ET

Global packaging provider SEE (formerly Sealed Air) worked with Talley's, a New Zealand-based agribusiness company, to provide a seafood packaging solution that aligns with Talley's eco-conscious values and meets industry and retailer requirements for recyclable packaging.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Duke Energy Honors Ohio and Northern Kentucky Veterans With Foundation Grants, Volunteerism

Nov 20, 2023 8:10 AM ET

Duke Energy proudly honors our nation’s veterans with Foundation grants in 2023 totaling $35,000.

Green Infrastructure

Trane Technologies Delivers on Low-Carbon Steel Commitment With 1M+ Sustainable HVAC Systems

Nov 20, 2023 6:45 AM ET

Trane Technologies today announced a significant milestone for its industry-leading, sustainable climate solutions – with more than one million HVAC units with low-carbon steel shipped to homeowners and commercial customers across the U.S.

Environment

Landmark Oceans Futures Platform Projects the Arctic, Gulf of Guinea, and Central Pacific To Be Among Future Climate-Driven Fisheries Conflict Hotspots

Nov 18, 2023 2:00 PM ET

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced the launch of its Oceans Futures platform, a first-of-its-kind initiative that projects seascapes surrounding the Arctic Ocean and within the Gulf of Guinea, Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Tropical Pacific, and Central Pacific will experience

Environment

Newly Released Resources for Private Equity Investors Will Help Evaluate Portfolio Progress Toward Net Zero

Pepco and IBEW Local 1900, our local union representing line workers and other field personnel, have sponsored the organization’s annual Out of the Darkness Community Walk in Washington, D.C. since 2022, raising more than $16,000 to support their work.

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