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Education

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Award $10,000 to 2021 Stronger Than Hate Challenge Winners

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation), and Discovery Education today announced the winners of the 2021 Stronger Than Hate Challenge.

Environment

What Facebook's Water-Positive Goal Means for Water-Stressed Communities

About 95 percent of the western U.S. is now under drought conditions, and southwestern states — Arizona, Nevada and Utah, as well as parts of California, Colorado and New Mexico — are suffering a “megadrought” that has been building for over 20 years.

Diversity & Inclusion

In Case You Missed It: Creating Equitable Access to Capital for Black-Owned Businesses

Lynette Bell, president of Truist Foundation, spoke to the necessary relationship-building between banks and communities on the “Creating Equitable Access to Capital” panel for the Yelp annual Black in Business Summit.

Diversity & Inclusion

Creating a Smarter, More Inclusive Future for All

At Lenovo, we have a vision to provide smarter technology that builds a smarter, more inclusive future for our colleagues and communities.

Health & Healthcare

Celebrating the Science That Transforms Patients' Lives

At BMS, we translate big ideas to scientific advances that transform patients’ lives by asking good questions, learning from experiments, leading clinical trials, and listening to patients at every step of the way.

Energy

PSEG Joins UN 'Race To Zero' Initiative, Commits to Setting Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets

PSEG announced that it has joined the Business Ambition for 1.5°C and the Race to Zero campaigns and commits to developing science-based targets.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

UNPRI Delays Its Assessment Plan - A Sign of Things to Come?

UNPRI is an investor network working to develop a more sustainable financial system, they have set a powerful precedent for the enforcement of sustainability agreements and recently have been improving their systems

Media & Communications

Business Sustainability Risk and Performance Index 2021

See key findings from the fifth edition of the Business Sustainability Risk and Performance Index: Insights from Global Supply Chain Ratings, which examines the sustainability performance of more than 46,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis during the period 2016-2020. All in a bite-sized infographic format.

Environment

First European Improved Forest Management Carbon Offset Project Achieves Independent Verification

Global Forest Support GmbH (GFS) and SCS Global Services (SCS) announced the completion of validation and verification of the first European Improved Forest Management (IFM) carbon project under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)

Environment

Tetra Tech's Leslie Turner Discusses Providing Municipalities With Safe Drinking Water

Leslie Turner has more than 20 years of experience in planning, permitting, design, project management, and construction management for water programs throughout the Southeastern United States.

Environment

Trane Technologies Healthy Spaces Podcast Season 2 Episode 2: Healthy Workspaces for Now. And Tomorrow.

In this episode of Healthy Spaces with Trane Technologies, Joanna Frank, president and CEO of the Center for Active Design, and Dr. Alberto Acosta, executive director of Medical Services at Trane Technologies, share some key lessons learned - and a way forward for employers and employees.

Green Infrastructure

River Trails School District 26 Awarded for Outstanding Energy Efficiency Commitments

Trane® - by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator - has recognized the River Trails School District 26 in Mount Prospect, Illinois

Diversity & Inclusion

New Holland Agriculture Celebrates International Rural Women's Day

CNH Industrial brand New Holland Agriculture is celebrating the United Nation’s International Day of Rural Women.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Illumina Named to Forbes World's Best Employer List

We are proud to announce that Illumina has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Employer List for the first time.

Environment

Educating Girls: The Overlooked Solution to Climate Change

Girl Rising partners with organizations like HP and 1Million Teachers to work with community-based educators and religious leaders to increase the number and capacity of home-grown educators to deliver learning to girls anywhere in the world.

Environment

WSP USA Joins Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment to Net Zero

In recognition of Climate Action Day, WSP has furthered its commitment to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, embodied carbon in its structural system projects by 2050 as a signatory to the Structural Engineering Institute SE 2050 Commitment Program.

Diversity & Inclusion

When Opportunity Knocks

Miguel Cardenas was happily working & living in Mexico with his family in 2016, when some of his colleagues made the move to Kohler Co. Even though Miguel was happy with his employer of 13 years, he was soon persuaded to also take a chance on Kohler.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Qualcomm Provides Emergency Call Device To Promote Public Safety to the Gangnam Support Center for Family With Disability

Gangnam Support Center for Family with Disability is distributing an emergency device embedded with a Qualcomm Technologies solution for the safety of the disabled in the local community.

Health & Healthcare

Herbalife Nutrition Honors Partners Who Are Helping End World Hunger Through “Nutrition for Zero Hunger” Initiative

Herbalife Nutrition and the Herbalife Nutrition Foundation (HNF), are honoring their nonprofit partners and the impacts they have made together in fighting food insecurity during the second year of its Nutrition for Zero Hunger initiative.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Update on Land Betterment's LBX Positive Cryptocurrency

Land Betterment, an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining and industrial sites to create sustainable community development, shares updates on its Land Betterment Exchange (LBX) Cryptocurrency.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Dial® Gives Back to Teachers by Partnering with DonorsChoose

In addition to soap donations, this collaboration consists of a 1:1 match commitment (up to $100,000), where Dial® will double the impact of a consumer’s donation to projects on DonorsChoose through a dollar-for-dollar matching donation by Dial.

Social Impact & Volunteering

IP's Mansfield Team Addresses Clothing Insecurity at Local Elementary School

After learning about school uniform insecurity at the Mansfield Elementary School, Industrial Packaging’s Mansfield, Louisiana, Mill team donated 466 articles of clothing to local students in grades in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade.

Innovation & Technology

The Tools to End Technology Abuse

NortonLifeLock provides financial resources to the National Network to End Domestic Violence in support of its Safety Net Program. The program addresses the intersection between tech & safety, helping to create safer spaces for survivors.

Health & Healthcare

FDA Authorizes Quest Diagnostics' COVID-19 Collection Materials for Emergency Use

Quest Diagnostics has received FDA emergency use authorization for its Collection kit for COVID-19, which are intended to be used as part of a program to collect anterior nares (nasal) swab specimens for molecular testing at the laboratory.

Diversity & Inclusion

Chef Aarón Sánchez: “Our Time Has Come”

Aarón Sánchez joined T‑Mobile’s special Hispanic Heritage Month edition of its Talking with Trailblazers series, dishing about his cooking career, preserving his family legacy through food and planting seeds for the next generation of Latino chefs.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Fifth Third’s Neighborhood Program
    Fifth Third has a proven track record of success in community development through its neighborhood program, which creates and implements innovative...
  2. 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...
  3. Communities and People
    Employees are our most valued resource and are at the center of everything we do. Their talent, diversity, and commitment are crucial to our...
  4. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  5. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  6. Forests
    Managing our forests sustainably and protecting water, wildlife, and species at risk.
  7. KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service
    KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...
  8. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...
  9. Subaru Love Promise: Community
    Subaru is dedicated to supporting those who need it the most in our communities. From donating food to Feeding America, providing essential items to...
  10. IWBI | WELL Building Standard
    Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...
  11. Scotts Miracle-Gro | Environment Improvement
    Earth's beauty and resources should be appreciated now and preserved for generations to come. Discover the stewardship initiatives underway to protect...
  12. Opportunity for All
    At Trane Technologies, uplifting our communities and workforce is the key to our continued success. We focus on broadening access to education...
  13. Recognition of our Company
    As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...
  14. Investing in our Communities
    We invest in sustainable community outcomes that improve lives.
  15. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...