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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Illumina Named Best for Vets Employer

We are proud to announce that for the first time, Illumina was named a Military Times Best for Vets Employer, coming in at #114 out of 160 companies selected.

Health & Healthcare

Prove Your Purpose: It's Officially NO-vember

This week, we look at how one brand is continuing its effort to reduce burnout by encouraging women to say “no.”

Diversity & Inclusion

MTV to Counter Hungary's Anti-Gay Law as EMAs in Budapest Will “Stand in Solidarity” With LGBTQ+ Community

After the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) will return live from Budapest, Hungary this year, with the company planning to use the big event to counter the country’s recent anti-gay law and “stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community in Hungary and around the world,” Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of MTV Entertainment Group Worldwide said in an internal memo.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Private Bank Launches Giving with Purpose with Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As Greater Cincinnati’s hometown bank & the community foundation of the Cincinnati region, Fifth Third Private Bank & GCF believe it is in the best interest of the region to come together & help clients build charitable assets to impact area lives.

Education

Leveraging Partnerships to Advance Digital Equity and Foster Opportunity for All Learners

For more than a decade, Comcast has focused efforts on effecting meaningful, lasting change to improve digital equity across the full spectrum of learning.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ralph Lauren Corp Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Delivering Good

We are honored to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from Delivering Good, a nonprofit that strives to create a more equitable world by helping those in need.

Research, Reports & Publications

Bloomberg to Offer Sustainalytics' ESG Research and Ratings on the Bloomberg Terminal

Bloomberg today announced that Sustainalytics’ ESG Research and Ratings are now available via the Bloomberg Terminal.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

EIB Backs Ørsted With €500 Million Loan Agreement, Boosts Green Energy

The 752 MW Borssele 1 & 2 wind farms count 94 wind turbines which, through inter-array cabling, transfer their energy to an offshore substation before reaching the grid via a high-tension line which the EIB previously helped finance with TSO TenneT.

Education

M·A·C Cosmetics Launches Tomorrow's Artist Program to Empower Next Generation of Makeup Artists

M·A·C Cosmetics UK & Ireland has teamed up with Incredible Brilliant Youth to launch a six-week makeup artistry training program for young people from marginalized backgrounds.

Environment

International Paper Heads to Climate Action's Sustainable Innovation Forum 2021

International Paper is headed to Glasgow for Climate Action’s Sustainable Innovation Forum 2021. The hybrid event, which is taking place Nov. 8-10, is uniting heads of state and unilaterals, environment ministers, business leaders, investors and NGOs

Environment

PSEG CEO Ralph Izzo Attends COP26, Calls for Urgent Action on Climate

PSEG Chairman, President and CEO Ralph Izzo is traveling to Glasgow, Scotland, to attend the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26), where he will call for urgent action to address climate change.

Sustainable Development Goals

The Consumer Goods Forum Becomes UN Race to Zero Accelerator at COP26

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) today announced it is an official “Accelerator” of the UN’s Race to Zero campaign, to encourage faster progress on carbon reduction across its global membership.

Health & Healthcare

How Parents Can Help Their Children Prioritize Mental Health and Excel in School

In an interview with Authority Magazine, Inner Explorer’s co-founder Dr. Laura Bakosh shares insightful advice for parents seeking to create the best learning environments for their kids and how they can prioritize their child’s mental health for future success.

Environment

Bloomberg Tackles Air Pollution - Inside and Out

Breathe in, breathe out. The average human takes this subconscious action 20,000 times a day. It’s easy to take for granted that the air surrounds us is healthy and clean, but according to the World Health Organization (WHO) an estimated nine out of 10 people worldwide breathe dirty air.

Research, Reports & Publications

Biodiversity Reporting and the Private Sector: It's Time for a New Paradigm

Biodiversity is often considered too immaterial, complex or expensive to integrate into private-sector monitoring programs, often leaving it sidelined next to mainstream carbon reporting.

Health & Healthcare

Giving Voice and Hope to Children With Sickle Cell Disease, One Duck at a Time

Over the years, corporations have become more creative in developing characters synonymous with their brands.

Diversity & Inclusion

OLAY Introduces Easy Open Lid For People with Disabilities, Shares Design With Beauty Industry

OLAY North America is introducing the Easy Open Lid, a limited-edition prototype developed with and for people with disabilities.

Environment

Sport Sets Pace for Climate Action as IOC and Other Sports Organisations Join Race to Zero Campaign

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has joined the UN-backed “Race to Zero” campaign, which is aimed at rallying climate leadership from non-government entities to work towards a carbon-free world.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Engineer Becomes a Mother While Responding to Pandemic

Abbott's Working Mother of the Year says she strives to integrate family and career to create work/life success.

Environment

Her Mission: Plant Trees to Ensure City's Future

With the help of thousands of volunteers, TreesCharlotte has planted 42,481 trees since the nonprofit launched in 2012. But keeping Charlotte’s tree canopy healthy will require much more than volunteers with shovels and saplings. It takes a city.

Green Infrastructure

Cummins Powers a New Battery Electric Transit Bus: The Electrip

Cummins Inc. takes another step toward its path to zero, as it powers Letenda’s new 30-foot, zero-emissions transit bus named the Electrip®.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Clarivate Named in Inc.'s First-Annual Best-Led Companies

Clarivate is on a bold entrepreneurial mission to help customers reduce the time from new ideas to life-changing innovations.

Energy

Black & Veatch and Industry Dive: Climate Resilience Strategies Command Top Priority in Utility, Manufacturing, Transportation Sectors

The increased frequency of extreme weather events is driving companies to realize the best way to protect their economic interests and maintain their social license to operate is to invest in climate resilience strategies.

Environment

International Sustainability Standards: Levelling the Disclosure Playing Field

All eyes are on COP26. At the highest possible level, world leaders are discussing how best to tackle climate change and hold each other accountable for their efforts to reduce global warming, writes Andromeda Wood, VP of Regulatory Strategy, Workiva.

Events, Media & Communications

The Land Betterment Exchange (LBX) Expands Team with the Hiring of Lyndsay Kline Ahead of its Cryptocurrency Exchange Launch

Land Betterment, an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining and industrial sites to create #sustainable community development, announces Lyndsay Kline as Manager of Social Media and Outreach.

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  5. License to Operate
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  6. Environmental Sustainability
    Cisco is working not only for a more inclusive future, but a more environmentally sustainable one as well. Environmental issues like climate change...
  7. Employee and Community Engagement
    At MilliporeSigma, we look for opportunities to use employee and community engagement to spark scientific curiosity and breakthroughs. We know that...
  8. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  9. Green Mountain Energy Sun Club
    Since its founding in 2002, the Green Mountain Energy Sun Club has donated more than $4 million to solar and sustainability projects focusing on...
  10. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
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    CARE works with corporate partners globally to invest in innovative, scalable, impactful, community-based solutions.
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    DP World is significantly expanding its operations in Latin America, focusing on enhancing port infrastructure and increasing cargo handling...
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