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Education & Workforce Development

Is Your Company Ready to Launch a Scholarship Program This Fall?

America's Charities

AI & Technology

3M Innovates To Help the Automotive Industry Navigate What’s Ahead

3M

Corporate Responsibility

GoDaddy 2025 Global Stakeholder Impact Report: About GoDaddy | Corporate Sustainability Approach

GoDaddy

Health & Healthcare

Guiding Stars: Dairy & Live & Active Cultures in a Balanced Diet

Guiding Stars Licensing Company LLC

Inclusion & Opportunity

Mary Kay Ash Foundation® Celebrates 30 Years and Over $100 Million Donated Toward Advancing Women’s Health and Safety

Mary Kay

Energy & Infrastructure

Connected Equipment is Protecting Louisiana’s Drivers

Ray C. Anderson Foundation

Education & Workforce Development

Truist Foundation Announces New Inspire Awards Challenge To Support Adult Workers in the Age of AI

Truist

Environment

Biochar’s Triple Win: Healthier Soils, Improved Crops, and Decarbonization

Cisco Systems Inc.

Featured Brands

Skills-Based Volunteering for the AI Era: Inside Cisco’s First Tech for Social Good Hackathon

Many nonprofits know they need to embrace AI, and most are already feeling the pressure to move faster than their resources allow. AI is advancing at a speed that’s hard for them to keep pace with, let alone adopt responsibly.

Catherine Bessant Joins Truist Board of Directors

Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) announced that its board appointed Catherine Bessant to join as a director. Bessant will serve on the board's risk committee.

LG Brings User-Friendly Design to the Laundry Room With ‘LG Comfort Kit’

Furthering its vision of a more inclusive home, LG Electronics USA has introduced the “LG Comfort Kit” for its U.S. laundry appliance lineup, making its inclusive “Design for All” philosophy a reality in one of the most essential rooms in the house.

3M Innovates To Help the Automotive Industry Navigate What’s Ahead

The automotive industry is under pressure from every direction. Electrification, software-defined vehicle architecture, lightweighting, manufacturing transformation, repair and recycling are not isolated challenges.

Guiding Stars: Dairy & Live & Active Cultures in a Balanced Diet

Have chronic congestion? “Stop consuming dairy.” Unrelenting belly problems? “Mmmm, could be cow’s milk.” Have you let this thinking guide your decision to avoid dairy? If so, you may lose out on essential macro and micronutrients.

Guiding Stars: I’m Done Losing Weight on a GLP-1—Now What?

Using GLP-1 agonist medications can improve health outcomes for a growing number of conditions including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, liver disease, and kidney disease. However, it’s no secret that lots of people take them primarily for weight loss.

Truist Foundation Announces New Inspire Awards Challenge To Support Adult Workers in the Age of AI

Truist Foundation today announced the launch of its fourth Inspire Awards, a capacity-building grant program for nonprofit organizations across the markets Truist Bank serves. This year’s challenge aligns to Truist Foundation’s focus on creating career pathways

Biochar’s Triple Win: Healthier Soils, Improved Crops, and Decarbonization

We often think of agricultural waste, such as crop residues, forestry byproducts, or even manure, as an end-of-the-line byproduct. But what if it were actually a valuable resource? Enter Biochar.

Check for Cancer Champion Dr. Ryan Schoenfeld Has a Vision for Earlier Detection

When it comes to cancer, progress is often measured not only by new treatments, but by how early the disease can be found. For Ryan Schoenfeld, Ph.D., CEO of The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, that distinction has become a defining focus

Medtronic Receives FDA Clearance for Nellcor™ Pulse Oximetry System With Nell-EQ™ Intelligent Processor, a New Technology Designed To Improve Reliability Across Diverse Patients and Conditions

The Nell-EQ™ intelligent processor is a new pulse oximetry processing technology designed to support more consistent and reliable oxygen saturation (SpO₂) and pulse rate monitoring across diverse patient populations, skin tones, and clinical care settings.

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Philanthropy

Saying Thank You to North Texas Food Bank on National Nonprofit Day

The North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) provided over 161 million meals to families in need between March 20, 2020, and June 30, 2021. This support continues as families begin to recover, and FedEx continues to be a part of the journey.

Inclusion & Opportunity

New Podcast Series “Equal Too” Fosters Game-Changing Conversations About Achieving Disability Equality

P&G announces the launch of a new podcast series focusing on topics important to the disabled community entitled “Equal Too: Achieving Disability Equality.” The podcast series is produced by P&G Studios in partnership with Harder Than You Think.

Corporate Responsibility

Illumina Commits to Net Zero Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050

Illumina, Inc. elevates climate action goals with commitments for net zero greenhouse gas emissions aligned with the Paris Agreement, commits to verified Science Based Targets, signs the Business Ambition for 1.5 degree...

AI & Technology

Data Driven Insights to Build Connected Communities

New data from the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth indicates residents on Chicago’s South and West sides are far from a 15-minute neighborhood. In fact, up to 86 percent of residents’ spending is done outside their neighborhood.

Volunteering & Community

The World's Changing, and IT Must Lead the Charge

The IT skills and knowledge required to bring about change converge in the area of modern app development, with modernized infrastructure—think containerization and microservices.

Environment

IP and NFWF Help Enhance Longleaf Pine Habitat Through the Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) & International Paper support restoration and enhancement of 108,700 acres of vital longleaf pine habitat that is essential for at-risk wildlife across 7 southern states.

Volunteering & Community

VolunteerMatch Partners With AmeriCorps and California Volunteers to Honor the 20th Anniversary of 9/11

VolunteerMatch is partnering with AmeriCorps and California Volunteers, Office of the Governor to help people find ways to give back in remembrance of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11

Education & Workforce Development

Preparing Tomorrow's Innovators Today

We believe every child deserves the opportunity to reach their full academic and professional potential.

Events

Whole Planet Foundation Virtual 5K Raises $25,000 for Low-Income Entrepreneurs

Five hundred and fifteen participants joined Whole Planet Foundation’s 2021 Power Your Purpose Virtual 5K to run, walk, bike or move for microcredit.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Climate Positive Financing for an Ecologically Sustainable and Economically Diverse Future

When it comes to climate change, oceans are the bellwether. For Maine, with a heritage and economy heavily tied to the sea, this is increasingly apparent - find out how and the positive solutions in this article.

Philanthropy

SAIC Partners With Feeding America to Fight Food Insecurity in America

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) today announced its 2021 campaign with Feeding America® to raise funds that will help provide millions of meals to people in need.

Events

Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerate 2021

Join us to learn best practices and trends, and hear about the use cases that are helping to make our communities smarter, safer, and more connected.

Volunteering & Community

Proving Innocence: Koch Pro Bono Initiative Lends Unmatched Support to Midwest Innocence Project

The State of Missouri sentenced Ricky Kidd to life. The Midwest Innocence Project helped him take it back.

Environment

Putt Your Way to a More Sustainable Future

WSP was honored to participate in design of waterfront PUTTING GREEN, an 18-hole climate change-themed mini golf course in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, now opened to the public.

Environment

Brightening Our Corner Newsletter - September 2021

Updates from the Biomimicry Institute:

Spider-inspired silk company, Spintex, awarded $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize®

Philanthropy

Tokyo 2020 Set to Match Japan's First Home Games in Driving Sports Participation

The Olympic Games Tokyo 1964 sparked a nationwide sporting boom, creating clubs for children and inspiring all generations to get active. Now hopes are high for Tokyo 2020 to leave a similar legacy.

Energy & Infrastructure

As Federal Infrastructure Bill Presses for Sustainable Development, Black & Veatch Poised to Provide Expertise

Advanced by the U.S. Senate and now awaiting a House vote, a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill calls for hundreds of billions of dollars of direct federal spending to broaden electric vehicle charging stations, wind and solar energy generation...

Volunteering & Community

Vistra Employees Restore Historic Black Cemetery

Employees at Vistra’s Luminant Trinidad Power Plant gathered with community leaders Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, to mark completion of a cemetery restoration project. The cemetery, located on Trinidad Power Plant property, is the final resting place for generations of Black residents, including enslaved Texans.

Philanthropy

Convoy of Hope Aids Flood Victims in Tennessee and North Carolina - Partners With Georgia-Pacific

Georgia-Pacific’s partnership with relief agency Convoy of Hope is helping victims of flooding in Tennessee and North Carolina. The joint effort of emergency supplies includes 4-6 loads of paper towels, bottled water, hygiene kits and snack food.

Events

Business Leaders, Sustainability and Health Experts and Environmental Groups Set to Unite at Sustainable Retail Summit to Help Shape Future of Industry

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) will bring together business leaders alongside sustainability, environmental and health experts at its annual Sustainable Retail Summit on 13th – 14th October

Energy & Infrastructure

Top 5 Reasons Hydrogen Has a Place in the Future of Rail

Cummins Inc. is the only company in the world powering hydrogen trains in commercial operation. In 2016, Cummins partnered with customer Alstom, a French railway equipment manufacturer, to engineer, supply, and integrate the hydrogen fuel cell solution in its Coradia iLint trains.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Logitech Commits to Remove More Carbon than it Creates with a Climate Positive Approach

Logitech is adopting a climate positive approach, addressing its carbon footprint across the entire value chain to achieve carbon neutrality this year and setting the company on a path to net zero by 2030, and beyond that, climate positive.

Events

Stevie Wonder to Headline Global Citizen Live in Los Angeles With Adam Lambert, Chloe x Halle, Demi Lovato, H.E.R., ONEREPUBLIC, Ozuna, The Lumineers, 5 Seconds of Summer, at The Greek Theatre on September 25, 2021

Global Citizen has announced the expansion of Global Citizen Live to include Los Angeles and London with an outdoor event in L.A., which is presented by Verizon, and headlined by Stevie Wonder with Adam Lambert, Chloe x Halle, Demi Lovato, H.E.R., ONEREPUBLIC, Ozuna, The Lumineers and 5 Seconds of Summer at The Greek Theatre on September 25, 2021.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Walmart Highlights Sustainability Commitments With Inaugural $2 Billion Green Bond Issuance as Part of Jumbo Transaction

Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) today announced it has successfully priced the company's first green bond. Net proceeds from the $2 billion green bond offering will be used to fund existing and future projects that enable Walmart to achieve its sustainability goals.

Philanthropy

Hurricane Ida Relief Efforts

Hurricane Ida, the fifth strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland, has impacted thousands of people across the nation. Even ten days later, Ida left hundreds of thousands in Louisiana and the city of New Orleans without power.

Latest Campaigns

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...

Corporate Social Responsibility Reports and Updates

At T. Rowe Price, living our values means always putting our clients first; fostering a collaborative, respectful, and inclusive work culture for all...

Kingfisher Around the World

The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...

Advocacy

Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...

Policy and Advocacy

Policy and Advocacy content from IWBI - International Well Building Institute

Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...

Nutrition and Health

Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...

Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship

The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.

Antea Group Brand

Antea Group Brand Content

2026 Wesco International Sustainability Report

Wesco’s 2026 Sustainability Report outlines progress toward long-term goals, demonstrates how sustainability shapes business decisions, and provides...