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Diversity & Inclusion

The Home Depot Foundation To Grant $200,000 in Trade School Scholarships for Women in Construction

The Home Depot Foundation announced an investment of $200,000 in trade school scholarships for women, in celebration of Women in Construction Week (March 5-11). The Home Depot Foundation’s Path to Pro Scholarship for Women will provide $4,000 in financial assistance to women.

Education

United Celebrates Historic First Graduating Class of Flight Academy Pilots

United, the only major U.S. airline to own a flight school, is celebrating the graduation of United Aviate Academy's inaugural class of pilots, an important step towards training the next generation of talented, qualified, and motivated aviators.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Social Responsibility Solutions for a Sustainable World

With SAP, you’ll get full visibility into your social impact so you can start enacting positive, tangible change, all with centralized data for compliance and ESG reporting.

Diversity & Inclusion

Why Diversity in Health Tech Is So Crucial

Diversity in health tech will inevitably save lives. Having representation at all levels of development and implementation will ultimately lead to better service and success for everyone.

Education

Engaging Tools for Educators To Empower Students To Share the Power of STEM

High up in New York City sits an impressive feat of engineering – Edge at Hudson Yards. Soaring 1,131 ft in the air, Edge dominates the landscape as the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western hemisphere.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Comcast Issues $1 Billion Green Bond To Fund Clean Energy, Infrastructure Projects

Comcast announced the issuance of a $1 billion 10-year green bond, offering investors the opportunity to support environmental efforts such as those currently underway or under consideration as part of Comcast’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2035.

Diversity & Inclusion

MAC Cosmetics Honors Black History Month

The M·A·C Movement, M∙A∙C Cosmetics’ internal advisory board focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, partnered with The Estée Lauder Companies’ Network of Black Leaders and Executives (NOBLE) for the company’s 2023 Black History Month Capstone event.

Energy

FedEx and EIT Climate-KIC Name Four City Initiatives Selected for Funding in Sustainable Mobility Call

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE),EIT Climate-KIC and EIT Digital announce today the four cities selected to benefit from project funding as part of their Sustainable Cities Climate Impact Challenge.

Diversity & Inclusion

7 Steps To Apply an Intersectional Lens to Your Grantmaking

For today’s grantmakers to be successful, they need to embrace complexity. The issues we face—from racial injustice to poverty to climate change—are not simple or straightforward. The solutions won’t be either.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Texas Capital Bank Proud To Sponsor Successful Opening Day of the 2023 Houston Rodeo

On February 28, Texas Capital Bank was honored to serve as Opening Day sponsor of the 2023 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™.

Innovation & Technology

Digital Twins Answer the Question, “What If?”

Episode 5 of Source De[Code] explores how digital twins are aiding design teams in addressing the challenges they face in making potential performance upgrades a reality.

Green Infrastructure

Black & Veatch’s IgniteX Climate Tech Accelerator Program Now Accepting New Applications from Innovators

As climate change presents increasing challenges and opportunities, global critical infrastructure leader Black & Veatch again is sounding the call for climate technology innovators eager to leverage the company’s deep expertise in developing and deploying their solutions.

Diversity & Inclusion

The 5–9 Series: Mel Saettone

This 5–9 series showcases our employees outside of their 9–5, and delves into how GoDaddy’s flexible, human-first approach allows us to focus on what makes us thrive; whether that be a hobby, a side-hustle, or the simplest of things to recharge our batteries.

Diversity & Inclusion

Branch Manager Uses Cross Cultural Experience To Build Team, Help Customers

Cesar Alejandro Roman Gonzalez worked as a lawyer, pet store owner and coffee shop entrepreneur before saying goodbye to his native Venezuela, moving to Ohio and starting his banking career at U.S. Bank in 2015.

Diversity & Inclusion

Kimberly-Clark’s Alison Lewis and Lori Shaffer: Embrace Equity and Stay True to Yourself

Alison Lewis, Kimberly-Clark’s chief growth officer, and Lori Shaffer, the company’s vice president of global nonwovens, are committed to driving positive change for women and girls around the world.

Sustainable Development Goals

Liquibox (Now Part of Sealed Air) Launches Recycle-Ready Urn-Liner for Iced Tea and Coffee Beverage Dispensers

With many of the world’s quick service restaurants pledging to be green by 2025 with improved packaging and recycling practices, Liquibox (now part of Sealed Air) met the need to develop a recycle-ready version of its well-known patented urn-liner product line.

Diversity & Inclusion

KeyBank Reaches Out to Seattle and Tacoma’s Black Community To Promote Financial Wellness

KeyBank is focusing on its commitment to improving financial wellness among the local Black community with March events related to job recruitment and home ownership. Details on the events are below, and all local residents are invited to attend:

Education

IBM Wants You To Learn Tech

IBM — no stranger to anyone who works in the computing field — has launched a series of training modules on a site called skillsbuild.org. 

Environment

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Launches Decarbonization Guide for Members

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), as an impact-driven global convener of around half of the apparel and footwear industry, today launches its Decarbonization Guide for Members.

Environment

2023 TD Green Space Grant Recipients To Help Improve Community Resiliency and Environmental Equity in Underserved Areas Through Tree Planting

Arbor Day Foundation, TD Bank Group announce grants to support 22 organizations that are helping to expand access to greenspace, proliferate the benefits of trees, and support environmental equity within their communities.

Diversity & Inclusion

Fresh Films & Paramount's Content for Change Present Industry Insights: Season 2

Created by teens for teens, the Industry Insights web series is dedicated to empowering and educating future storytellers and creators on different career paths across media & entertainment.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CNH Industrial Renovates and Donates Resources to Wat Chatthong School in Thailand

CNH Industrial’s Asia Pacific Agriculture Brand and Commercial Services team, together with the Thailand Finance team have helped improve the safety and wellbeing of students at Wat Chatthong school in Ayutthaya, Thailand.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Inaugural LatinX Innovation Hub Launches at the SXSW Interactive & Music Festival This March

My Money My Future, a leading fintech for financial inclusion and Black & Brown Founders, an entrepreneurship focused non-profit, will co-host the first ever LatinX Innovation Hub at the SXSW Interactive & Music Festival this March.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Arrow Electronics Employees Give Back by Building Bikes for Denver Students in Title I Schools

The bike-building project was an initiative with Wish for Wheels, a Denver-based non-profit. Since 2004, they have distributed new bikes and helmets to 75,000 second-graders in underserved schools across the United States.

Diversity & Inclusion

Expedia Group Is Elevating and Celebrating Black Travelers All Year Long

I am really proud of the work Expedia Group is doing to elevate and celebrate Black travelers all year long, not just during Black History Month.

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