Wells Fargo Foundation has upped its initial $2 million in grants to relief organizations to $5 million, broadening support to homeowners and the small business community.
My friend and fellow Guiding Stars blogging colleague, Allison Stowell, and I recently returned from the world’s largest dietitian conference, the annual conference of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Women running small businesses are changing their approach to digital technology. Instead of expensive transformations, they’re choosing concrete step-by-step actions, supported by other women and well-chosen tools.
Your child’s latest birthday photo, that cute dance video. Share them on social media and they add to your family’s digital footprint. And depending on the settings you’ve chosen, AI could use them.
When words aren’t enough, actions speak louder. That’s the heart of “Beyond Words,” a new children’s book from Aflac that teaches empathy and the power of showing up for others. Written by bestselling author Sheri Fink, the story follows Buddy the bear cub on a heartfelt mission.
T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) announced the latest 25 Hometown Grants recipients. With up to $50,000 awarded per town to help fund local projects, T-Mobile has invested more than $20 million in grants to 450 small towns and rural communities.
Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is an advanced form of minimally invasive surgery. It’s gained acceptance over the last two decades as a preferred method for prostate removal (prostatectomy), because of the benefits to patients and surgeons compared to traditional approaches.
Telemundo today announced Tu Momento. Tu Jugada. — known in English as Telemundo’s Next Play — a nationwide sport impact and community initiative that champions the transformative power of sports to character, teamwork and leadership.
FedEx Express Corporation, one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, recently announced the launch of the 2025 FedEx University Students Environmental Entrepreneurship Challenge, in collaboration with the All-China Environment Federation (ACEF).
SLB:U sits at the intersection of helping rural women entrepreneurs find stable and diversified income sources while also addressing the significant opportunity for scalable last mile delivery. It strengthens last mile distribution while improving economic mobility for women
This week, Visa is opening the doors to its new state-of-the-art Health Center offering employees preventive care, primary care, and physical therapy, among other services focused on wellness.
We recognize that water stress, water quality and water access are critical global issues. As a result, we’re constantly working to minimize water use at each of our sites around the world. At our LEED Platinum® certified Kalyani Vista building in Bangalore, India, we’ve reduced our on-site potable water usage by 40%.
The circular economy, which is regenerative and restorative by design, is helping organisations to create more value while reducing their dependence on scarce resources. The print industry is already playing a leading role in the shift to a circular economy; a transition which has been driven by the desire for greater economic and environmental sustainability.
2016 was a transformational year for TransCanada. Even though we’ve had some big changes, employees and contractors remained dedicated to the local causes they care about.
The White House proposed the elimination of the Low-Income Home Energy Program (LIHEAP) last week. While this proposal is not binding, we urge Congress and the Administration to reconsider this position. LIHEAP, created under President Ronald Reagan, has a history of bipartisan support and has provided millions of vulnerable Americans critical assistance with their energy bills since it was first created in 1981.
CECP celebrates the life of David Rockefeller by reflecting on his contributions to society, including the role he played in the founding of CECP: The CEO Force for Good.
In 2016, we expanded our existing approach to filing and enforcing patents to ensure we balance the need to protect our intellectual property with a country’s economic maturity.
Global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland recently hosted the company’s team of Global Stewards at Timberland headquarters in Stratham, New Hampshire for their 12th annual week-long training meeting. The Global Stewards, a team of 30 dedicated and passionate employees from 20 different countries, volunteer above and beyond their regular job responsibility to serve as ambassadors of Corporate Social Responsibility to their location.
The Amgen Scholars Global Program Office is now accepting applications for Spring 2017 U.S. Alumni Travel Awards. The deadline for application submission is April 21, 2017.
Global EHS Managers use self-inspections and/or third-party compliance audits to gauge the EHS risk exposure of their facilities. Self-assessments may lean towards underreporting findings and underestimating risks. Third-party audits cost more. Is there a solution that can strike a compromise? Read more about this at the Antea Group website.
Join GSK, PSI, the Public Health Institute, and IntraHealth International for the Twitter Chat, Preventing the Preventable, Treating the Treatable: Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), on Wednesday, 3/29 at 10 AM ET at #GEFlive.
In celebration of World Water Day, the James M. Cox Foundation announced a $1 million grant to support the efforts of American Rivers to protect and restore the nation’s rivers.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today announced the launch of the ninth annual Strategy Challenge, the Firm’s signature skills-based pro bono volunteer program. Over the course of the next ten weeks, teams of Morgan Stanley employees in New York and London will work with leadership teams at 14 nonprofit organizations to provide strategic recommendations to address their mission-critical challenges.
Following on from the successful launch of Uncharted Waters, a report jointly published by Business Call to Action (BCtA), UNDP and Deloitte in October 2016, BCtA has now launched its Inclusive Business Maturity Toolkit. While the report examines how the private sector can move beyond philanthropy and corporate social responsibility to more meaningfully contribute to the SDGs, the toolkit takes this concept a step further by helping companies identify both how well they’re including people at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP) as employees, consumers and more, and how they can do it better.
Atlas Copco USA’s employee-run program Water for All has surpassed $1 million in donations. The milestone comes after making a $50,000 contribution to charity: water, a New York-based nonprofit organization dedicated to funding water projects across the globe.
Did you know that a metric ton of electronic waste can contain 8 to 16 ounces of gold? Whether we like it or not, precious metals show up in more than just that gold necklace or platinum ring we might have purchased - from the titanium used in our high-end mountain bikes, to platinum in our cellphones, to silver in our solar panels, precious metals are all around us.
PepsiCo’s 10-year-old sustainable business philosophy, Performance with Purpose, is embedded deeply into its workplace culture — so deeply, that it’s part of the "code of conduct" that must be signed and upheld by every employee.
Pentair, a global leader in sustainable water solutions, is collaborating with the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at UC-Davis to advance water stewardship and accelerate new innovations in dairy and beer processing.
Black & Veatch’s 2017 Strategic Directions: Smart City/Smart Utility Report reinforces lessons learned in the past year—although governments and municipalities believe strongly in the smart city model, they continue to struggle to fund these efforts. According to survey data, only 16 percent of municipalities can self-fund a smart city initiative, a little over a third cannot.
Last year, AEG relaunched its 2020 Environmental Goals to include a new water target to reduce potable water use at water-stressed sites by 2.3 percent per year from 2010 to 2020. Through different water conservation projects like drought-tolerant landscaping and equipment retrofits, AEG reduced its 2015 potable water use by 27 million liters of water at its water-stressed sites compared base year consumption.
Pentair's next Project Safewater initiative with Water Mission will deliver clean, safe drinking water and sanitation to 150,000 people in Central America.
At Whirlpool Corporation, we are passionate about improving our consumers’ quality of life while minimizing our environmental impact. We have been focused on sustainability since 1969, long before it became the norm, and we continue to integrate it into our everyday work. Join us in celebrating World Water Day!
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