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2025 Principal® Charity Classic Raised Record $10.6 Million for Iowa Youth

The Principal Financial Group

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

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Software-Defined Vehicles: The Critical Road to a Secure Future

Keysight Technologies

Innovation & Technology

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Impact: Delivering Financial Security

Northwestern Mutual

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Health & Healthcare

Thinking About Fermentation in Fresh Ways

To call it “time-tested” would be an understatement. Though fermentation is one of the world’s oldest preservation techniques, it’s finding new life as an exciting catalyst for food innovation.

Education

Cisco: Have You Ever Been Inspired by a Teacher?

January 24 is the International Day of Education, celebrating what the United Nations describes as a “fundamental human right” and “the bedrock of societies, economies, and every person’s potential.”

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Shatterproof Raises $2M To Drive Solutions to the Addiction Crisis

Mark Hoplamazian, President and CEO of Hyatt, receives 2024 Shatterproof Hospitality Hero Award

Energy

Duke Energy Launches EV Charger Rental Program in North Carolina

As the pace of electric vehicle (EV) adoption accelerates nationwide, Duke Energy has launched an EV charger rental program in North Carolina that enables residential and business customers to lease an EV charger from the company at a low monthly cost.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Responsible Minerals Initiative Launches Network for Institutional Investors

Responsible Minerals Initiative Launches Network for Institutional Investors

Health & Healthcare

Gilead Sets Sights on Hepatitis C Elimination As It Marks 10 Years of Curative Therapies

Long-time liver specialist Carrie Frenette says she won’t ever forget the people she treated for hepatitis C (HCV) before 2013 – the year that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a Gilead medicine. The medicine was the first curative therapy for HCV.

Education

Chemours and the Georgia 4-H Foundation Partner To Provide Environmental Education and Leadership Programs to Georgia Youth

Chemours and the Georgia 4-H Foundation have announced a partnership to provide environmental education and leadership learning to youth.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Georgia-Pacific Recycles Cardboard Boxes and Creates EcoSmart Paper Cups

We’re always looking for ways to create more value for our customers while using fewer resources.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Video: Interview With Lead Developer Behind SEE's New Compostable Packaging Tray

The next time you buy chicken or meat at the grocery store, the tray on which the food is packaged might be compostable and can be prevented from going to landfill. Hear Tiffani Burt, Ph.D. talk about SEE's latest sustainable packaging solution.

Green Infrastructure

West Branch Local School District To Complete Energy-Saving Upgrades for a More Resilient and Sustainable Future

Trane® – by Trane Technologies has collaborated with the West Branch Local School District in Beloit, Ohio to develop and implement each of the energy savings measures.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Motorola Solutions Foundation Announces Another Exceptional Year of Impact

The Motorola Solutions Foundation, the charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI), today announced its year-end results for 2023.

Research, Reports & Publications

CECP Study on the “S” in ESG Shows Connection Between a Company’s Positive Business Performance and Its Commitment to Purpose

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose© (CECP), in collaboration with the CECP Global Exchange, released the Global Impact at Scale: The S in ESG.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Build. Give. Invest: A New Framework That’s Worth the Risk

I can sum up most of the teaching I’ve encountered about Christian finances in two words: make and give.

Energy

Delmarva Power Advocates for Continued Energy Assistance Funding and Reminds Customers To Act Now To Secure Support

February 7th was Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Action Day and Delmarva Power employees were on Capitol Hill to meet with representatives and advocates for policies that protect funding for LIHEAP and support vulnerable households in Delaware and Maryland.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Forming Strategic Alliances

“You’re better than that.” The sentence rang louder than any classroom bell John Martin heard his tenth-grade year.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Driving Hope: Operation Warm and Subaru® Team Up To Make an Impact

During their Subaru Loves to Help® month, from January 15 through the end of February, our collaboration with Subaru will help serve over 150,000 children living in urgent need.

Research, Reports & Publications

Electrification 101: Ensuring Equitable EV Charging Access

RMI’s Electrification 101 series explores the challenges and opportunities that a rapidly electrifying transportation sector presents for the power grid, offering solutions to support proactive grid planning for oncoming EV charging needs. Find the other articles in the series be

Education

2024 Executive Predictions: Navigating the Tech Talent Gap

Keysight is committed to nurturing tomorrow’s innovators and helping students to lean into their curiosity and love of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and make that passion into a career.

Research, Reports & Publications

Electric Vehicle Trends and Challenges for Industrial Real Estate

EVs are now more popular than ever, with significant growth still ahead. There are over 3 million EVs on U.S. roads today and 26 million are projected by 2030, according to the Edison Electric Institute (EEI).

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Rumpke and Eastman Join Forces To Expand Recycling of PET Waste

Leading North American recycler, Rumpke Waste & Recycling (Rumpke) and molecular recycling pioneer Eastman, announced a groundbreaking partnership to help address the global plastic waste crisis.

Education

Fifty-One Youth Leaders Selected To Represent All 50 States As Stem Learning Ambassadors

STEM Next Opportunity Fund’s Million Girls Moonshot initiative announced its third cohort of the Flight Crew - a youth ambassador program that is advancing equity for girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Latino Network Hosts Fundraiser and Receives $300,000 Grant From KeyBank

Latino Network hosted a Gather for Good fundraiser on Thursday, February 8th in downtown Portland and received a $300,000 grant from KeyBank to support its Escalera (11th and 12th grades) and Fuerza (post-secondary) programs.

Events, Media & Communications

Fifth Third Bank Loan Opens Doors for Cinnaire’s Community Development Work in Illinois, Michigan

Cinnaire Lending Corporation (CLC), a certified Community Development Financial Institution has been awarded a $5 million Equity Equivalent investment, or EQ2, from Fifth Third Bank.

Energy

National Grid Provides More Than $1 Million in Incentives to Gore Mountain for Energy Efficient Snow-Making Equipment

Making sure the slopes have enough snow on them for the thousands who come to ski and snowboard each season at Gore Mountain is critical to the resort’s success.

Innovation & Technology

Five Predictions for Food and Agtech in 2024

I spoke to over a dozen top food and agtech experts, entrepreneurs and investors about their predictions for the food and agtech market in 2024. I asked, What food tech trends are you most bullish on for 2024? 

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