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Education

Bringing STEM to Students With Help From Cox Enterprises

Imagine a world where Netflix makes your kids smarter, and Youtube is safe. A world where K-12 children can live-stream classes from the very best instructors in courses like robotics, microbiology, chemistry and engineering.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Beyond Women on Boards: How Gender Lens Investing Can Transform Your Impact Strategy

Understanding on how to unlock the power of capital to support gender equality commitments remains limited. Gender lens investing is a powerful new approach with the potential to change that.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

NRG’s CEO Talks Sustainability to Investors

Sustainability is embedded in our culture, aligned with our strategy and necessary for our long-term success.

Health & Healthcare

4 Questions for a Scientist Working on a Revolutionary CAR-T Therapy for Multiple Myeloma

The early data results seemed almost too good to be true.

That's what Sen Zhuang, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President, Oncology Clinical Research, Janssen Research & Development, was thinking at a meeting of the ASCO last summer.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating ON Semiconductor’s Women’s Leadership Initiative

WLI became ON Semiconductor’s first corporate diversity and inclusion affinity network group in 2014. Developed by several female leaders within our corporate headquarters to promote awareness of women and the importance of having women in leadership.

Diversity & Inclusion

Q&A With Leila Stansfield, VP of Global Strategy and Champion for Women in Leadership at Bacardi

Leila Stansfield, VP of Global Strategy for the world’s largest spirits company in the world, is also responsible for promoting a diverse and inclusive environment, one that reflects the communities the Bacardi operates in.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Truist to Donate $225,000 for Disaster Relief in Middle Tennessee

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating Women Who Make Positive Change in the World

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Aramark Building Community Organizational Leadership Award Goes to Woods Services

Woods Services was awarded the 2019 Aramark Building Community Organizational Leadership Award in recognition of its efforts to provide innovative, comprehensive, and integrated health and case management services

Diversity & Inclusion

By Celebrating Women Every Day, Can We Innovate for Good Faster?

International Women’s Day, fast approaching on March 8, is a powerful reminder to celebrate women in our lives.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

NPHY, Sands Highlight Progress in the Movement to End Youth Homelessness

With support from Las Vegas Sands for the Movement to End Youth Homelessness in Southern Nevada, Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) continues to spearhead the community effort to address the high rates of youth homelessness.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Group, Inc. Named One of the World's Most Ethical Companies for Seventh Consecutive Year

CBRE has been recognized as one of the 2020 World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. This is the 7th year in a row CBRE has been recognized.

Diversity & Inclusion

These Women Found Fulfilling Careers in Energy

Women make up about 20 percent of the country’s utility industry workforce, and at Duke Energy, we're on a mission to increase diversity and strengthen a culture that supports it.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Freeport-McMoRan United Way Campaign Tops $11 Million

Freeport-McMoRan employees continued the tradition of giving back to the community by pledging more than $4 million in 2019, which raised a record-setting $11.1 million with the company match program for United Ways across the U.S.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Nature Needs Heroes: Actor Yo Yang on Supporting Eco-conscious Projects

Timberland is proud to feature Yo Yang in the brand’s “Nature Needs Heroes” campaign, which celebrates heroes around the world who are making positive change for the planet, and calls on the global community to join the movement.

Education

Meet the Reinventor: Yamilée Toussaint Beach, Founder of STEM from Dance

Yamilée Toussaint Beach is easily described as a polymath. Growing up on Long Island, she excelled in math and science in school, and after class dedicated herself to jazz, ballet, and modern dance.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

New Holland Agriculture Plant in Zedelgem, Belgium, ‘Supporting’ Its Workers in More Ways Than One

New Holland Agriculture a global agricultural brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI/ MI: CNH), hosted Hilde Crevits, the Belgian Minister of Agriculture and Work, at its New Holland Agriculture plant in Zedelgem, Northwest of Belgium.

Innovation & Technology

We Are Family! Meet the Ambitious Young Social Entrepreneur Who Took Home the T-Mobile Family Challenge Grand Prize

Legally Ours exposes middle sch​ool students to the legal field while promoting community involvement and building their communication skills.

Health & Healthcare

Profiles in Creating Possible: Staci Bush Helps Gilead Go Beyond Medicine to Address Barriers to HIV Care Through Partnerships

Staci Bush can still remember the first time that she, while working as a physician’s assistant at an LGBTQ+ teen health center in Chicago, became aware of the term “single tablet regimen for HIV.”

Responsible Production & Consumption

Don’t Lose Sleep Over How to Recycle Your Mattress

It doesn’t happen very often, but there usually comes a time when you need a new mattress. So, what’s the right way to discard your old one? Read on for the details and rest easy!

Environment

WEC & Bank of Africa – BMCE Group Sign an Agreement to Promote Environmental Governance in Private and Public Sectors of Morocco

WEC & Bank of Africa signed an agreement that will enable public & private sectors in Morocco to improve their environmental performance through green technologies, practices & services, addressing air pollution, water, & waste management challenges

Social Impact & Volunteering

Up-Skill Your Employee Volunteer Champions, Ambassadors and Leaders

Need to invest in your influential employees (the social innovators) leading in the company's employee giving and volunteering program? If you want to achieve sustainable scale with limited resources - this is for you!

Events, Media & Communications

Behind the Masthead: TriplePundit Holds Virtual Open House April 1

TriplePundit, which has covered the business of doing better since 2005, will invite the sustainability and corporate responsibility community into its newsroom April 1 in a virtual open house. Registration is free and open now.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Reforestation: More Than Planting Trees

Climate change and biodiversity loss are on everyone’s minds these days – as they should be.

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