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Health & Healthcare

Alexion Joins the Covid Alliance to Support Testing in Ireland

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the lives of people all around the world, inspiring individuals and companies alike to step up and serve their communities in more ways than ever before.

Health & Healthcare

Choosing Commercial Carpet for School Sensory Rooms

School may have been out for summer, but class was in session for our team at Mohawk Group as we worked on a sense-ational surprise for students at New Hope Middle School.

Social Impact & Volunteering

The Heartwarming Project at Hershey

Young people between 18 and 22 are far more likely to report feeling lonely than any other generation and teens today report high levels of stress, anxiety and other mental health challenges.

Research, Reports & Publications

Dow's Sustainability Targets Launch 2020

Dow announces aggressive new targets to address both carbon mitigation and plastic waste. Building on our 2025 Sustainability Goals, these targets will put Dow on a path to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and a waste-free world.

Education

Pandemic Doesn't Stop High School Engineering Summer Camp

The Sonoma State University Engineering Summer Camp, funded by Keysight, didn't let the pandemic defeat them. They wound up selecting one cohort of 12 students to participate for two straight weeks, and did everything remotely.

Education

CNH Industrial Announces 2020 Sergio Marchionne Student Achievement Awards Winners for North America

CNH Industrial N.V. announced the winners of the 2020 Sergio Marchionne Student Achievement Awards for North America.

Research, Reports & Publications

Evolving Location Strategies in the Era of COVID-19

As COVID-19 continues to change lives across the globe, many employers are wondering what effects the pandemic will have on industries, jobs and the workforce over the near and long term.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Paving His Own Road to Success Through eBay

After receiving his first dirt bike at the tender age of four, eBay seller Donovan Mitchell realized he wanted to become a professional motocross racer.

Events, Media & Communications

Health Is the Heart of Resilience: Paving the Way to Better Risk Management

COVID-19 has laid bare the seemingly obvious, yet often overlooked fact that ensuring employee safety and health, not to mention customer and supply chain worker safety, is critical to executing a sustainable business strategy. Hear from a diverse...

Diversity & Inclusion

Building a More Inclusive and Diverse Environment at Cox

At Cox, we carry a shared responsibility to champion a more open environment, where everyone can use their unique talents and tenacity to drive growth – their own professional growth and the growth of our organization as a whole.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Direct Relief's 90 Ton Aid Shipment Heads to Lebanon Early Next Week

Trucks will haul the 80,000 pound shipment from the Santa Barbara warehouse to FedEx headquarters in Memphis, TN. From there, the aid will be flown to Lebanon.

Health & Healthcare

Safety by Design: Safe Projects From Concept to Facility Operation

Safety by Design is a method of collaboration that brings design, EHS, and teams together to ensure that facilities are safe to build and safe to use. Here’s how we do it at CRB and how you can implement this approach.

Education

AT&T and Discovery Education Put the Power of Sustainability in Students' Hands

Discovery Education today launches a new effort supported by AT&T, providing innovative, dynamic resources focused on sustainability through the award-winning Experience platform.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

10 Million Kids: Why We're Committed to GroMoreGood

This belief drives our corporate purpose to GroMoreGood everywhere. Nowhere is this purpose more evident for me than in our gardens and greenspaces community outreach initiatives.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

[WEBINAR] Delivering Measurable Change With Community Investment

Join Benevity and Michelle DiSabato, to learn how to move your community investment programs beyond activities and tactics and into strategic efforts that yield real behavioral change and measurable results.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Perspectives S2E18: Ami Dar, Idealist.org

In this episode, Ami Dar, Founder & Executive Director of Idealist.org, joins Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly for a conversation on how COVID-19 has impacted the private and social sectors – and why not everything should go back to the way it was.

Green Infrastructure

Discovery Green Unveils New Grand Allée, a Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Sustainability Project

Discovery Green, the 12-acre park in the heart of downtown Houston, announced The Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Allée, a project funded by a $300,000 grant from The Green Mountain Energy Sun Club.

Innovation & Technology

Tech for Good - Fight Human Trafficking Using Technology

Join us in the fight to prevent human trafficking because we are at a time in history where working together on a global level is not just possible, it’s imperative.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

UPS Infographic | UPS Browns Get a New Look

This infographic is from UPS's 2019 Interactive Sustainability Report: Accelerating Sustainable Solutions.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Global Citizen and Cisco Open Applications for Third Annual Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award

International advocacy organization Global Citizen and Cisco today announced that applications are open for the third annual Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award, which recognizes and uplifts youth activists who are positively impacting the world.

Research, Reports & Publications

Rooted in Our Purpose: ScottsMiracle-Gro's 2020 Corporate Responsibility Report

We recently announced our corporate purpose to GroMoreGood everywhere, which goes beyond the products we put on store shelves to push our company to think bigger and be better when it comes to our communities, the planet, our consumers, our partners and our family of associates.

Energy

Republic Services, Aria Energy and bp Partner on New Renewable Energy Project

Republic Services (NYSE: RSG) and energy partners Aria Energy and bp (NYSE: BP) today announced the startup of a landfill-gas-to-renewable-natural-gas (RNG) project at South Shelby Landfill. The project directly supports Republic's commitment...

Research, Reports & Publications

Valvoline Releases Its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, ‘We’re Service Driven’

Valvoline Inc. today released its 2019 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. The foundational pillars of corporate social responsibility at Valvoline™ center on its three “V”s – Values, Vow, and Vision

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

2020 Back to School Month: The Need to Support Students is Greater Than Ever This Year

Heading "Back to school" is not business as usual this year. While many schools are starting the school year 100% remote (for at least the first few weeks or months), others are taking a hybrid approach by offering some virtual learning days...

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Hunger Project: Partnering to Create Solutions That Bring Hunger Down to Zero

Chronic hunger is not just about food: it is a phenomenon linked to the rights of women and girls, income opportunities, health, education, social justice, the environment, and climate change.

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