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Entrepreneur Expands Her Thriving Tax Firm With Digital Innovation

Helen Mathis taught accounting as a vocational instructor for 30 years before facing a career-defining moment: The school where she worked closed and Mathis knew she needed a new plan

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Innovation & Technology

Whirlpool Corporation: Returning to Space, the Final (Home Appliance) Frontier

Whirlpool Corp. Sr. Principal Engineer Alberto Gomes spoke at The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Aerospace Conference about a refrigeration system being developed for space and how it can improve life at home on Earth.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Tour for Diversity in Medicine, Gilead Sciences and the Advisory Group to SHC Vaccine Equity Program to Receive Booker T. Washington Award From National Minority Quality Forum

The National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) announced today that it will honor the Tour for Diversity in Medicine, Gilead Sciences and the Advisory Group to SHC Vaccine Equity Program with its highly acclaimed Booker T. Washington Award.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Griffith Foods Partners With Universidad Earth to Host Innovation Challenge

In partnership with Universidad EARTH, our team in Costa Rica recently hosted an innovation challenge about how to create nutritious, delicious, and sustainable products using heart of palm fiber as the main ingredient.

Environment

How Healthcare Technology Is Changing Wildlife Conservation

The Medtronic Reveal LINQ™ Insertable Cardiac Monitor is helping researchers learn characteristics of wild and endangered species to further conservation efforts.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

What Our Nonprofit Partners Are Doing to Support People Impacted by the War in Ukraine - and How You Can Help

Cisco employees have donated nearly $1M to 19 nonprofit organizations featured in our Ukraine Humanitarian Assistance Fund; with Cisco Foundation matching, we have raised nearly $1.9 million in total giving.

Innovation & Technology

Alibaba's Tmall Pilots Carbon Labeling to Drive Sustainable Consumption

Alibaba Group’s B2C e-commerce platform Tmall has launched eco-friendly product labels to help consumers check the impact of their purchases on the environment and make sustainable choices.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Georgia-Pacific LLC Attends WFF Leadership Conference

Last week I was grateful to attend the WFF Leadership Conference alongside my Georgia-Pacific colleagues to learn more about the unique experiences women face at work.

Environment

How Biologicals Add a New Dimension to Integrated Crop Management

The future of agriculture is about striking a delicate balance. A balance between finding ways to grow enough and decreasing its footprint.

Environment

Ensuring Grid Reliability in the Clean Energy Transition

How can we best support rapid decarbonization while maintaining the reliability of our power grid and accomplish these twin goals at least cost to the American people?

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Diversity & Inclusion

DICK'S Sporting Goods Huddles up With Meeting of America

DICK'S Sporting Goods became a pilot partner in the Meeting of America (MOA) program that brings together a diverse group of industry leaders striving to make a difference through dialogue.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Four Ways Investors Can Act on Climate Change

As scientists warn about a shifting climate, more investors are thinking about environmental risks and how they might affect their portfolios.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Gildan Participates in Fashion Revolution's 2022 Transparency Campaign

Gildan is participating in Fashion Revolution’s #WhoMadeMyClothes campaign, a global transparency movement to recognize the workers who make our clothes.

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Health & Healthcare

How Entrepreneur Eric Muthomi Is Achieving Food Security in Kenya

A successful entrepreneurial endeavor is one in which a founder can solve a serious problem that affects livelihoods or businesses.

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Green Infrastructure

Duke Energy Florida Celebrates Significant Milestone by Completing Park & Plug Pilot Program

Duke Energy announced the completion of its Park & Plug pilot program and the installation of 627 EV charging stations in public spaces and on thoroughfares in Florida.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Strategic Inclusivity Drives Retention at AllianceBernstein

Some problems are daunting, but if solved they generate a huge return. For example, how can you scale inclusive behaviors? How can you combat the Great Resignation?

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GRI Program Spreading Responsible Business Practices in Africa

A program to support more business in the African region to engage with sustainability reporting and increase their accountability is underway, thanks to funding from Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

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Environment

2022 TD Green Space Grant Recipients Provide Environmental Equity Solutions to Their Communities

TD Bank Group (TD) and the Arbor Day Foundation today announced the 2022 grant recipients of the TD Green Space Grants program.

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Education

Fifth Third Finance Academy Makes Impact

Since 2017, Fifth Third has brought financial education to students throughout our footprint, especially to kids who live in underserved communities. The impact runs deep—to the tune of 1.4 million hours of learning!

Education

Kohler Co. Launches New Three-Year Community Partnership Program to Increase Access to Educational Opportunities Across the United States

Kohler Co. announces a Community Partnership Program starting with 13 organizations across the country to help provide educational and workforce preparedness opportunities to students.

Research, Reports & Publications

Workiva Supports XBRL US in Pursuit of Standardizing ESG data With XBRL

XBRL US, the non-profit consortium for XBRL business reporting standards, this week announced the publication of corporate sustainability data in machine-readable XBRL format for Moody’s Corporation and Etsy, Inc.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MENTOR Announces Amplify Award Winners

MENTOR, the unifying champion for the mentoring movement, today announces its Amplify Award Winners -- individuals, organizations, school districts, and corporations from across the nation that exemplify the diversity, breadth, and depth of today’s mentoring movement.

Events, Media & Communications

Building Efficient 5g Network -the Journey to Net Zero Emissions

Our roundtable, Building efficient 5G networks—the journey to Net Zero emissions, will cover how service providers can reduce energy consumption and secure network energy and sustainability performance with the introduction of 5G.

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Health & Healthcare

The Need for Speed: How Operation Warp Speed Shifted the Pharma Industry

CRB’s Christa Myers provides her insights from topics in our latest Horizons Life Sciences report including operation warp speed, project delivery strategy, and the digital future.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

BlackRock's New Goal Could Signal the Investor Transition to Net Zero Is Well Underway

BlackRock’s newly announced goal to invest 75% of its corporate and sovereign assets in issuers with science-based climate goals potentially “sets a new bar that could signal to the rest of the market that the investor transition

Environment

Climate Finance: Moving Forward After COP26

From rising sea levels to the acidification of ocean water, from deforestation to the introduction of invasive species in ecosystems, the global effects of climate change are expanding in scope and scale

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