As part of the Milano Cortina 2026 Cultural Olympiad, the Olympic Museum announced a new collaboration with BAM - Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano, project of Fondazione Riccardo Catella, a leading cultural institution in Milan.
For families in remote villages across northeastern India, seeing a doctor often means long journeys over difficult terrain, lost daily wages, and sometimes, lifesaving treatment that comes too late.
As part of the Milano Cortina 2026 Cultural Olympiad, the Olympic Museum announced a new collaboration with BAM - Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano, project of Fondazione Riccardo Catella, a leading cultural institution in Milan.
Comcast NBCUniversal announced it will provide a $75,000 cash contribution to the Winter Storm Recovery Fund, a unified fund of United Way of Greater Nashville, the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, and Mayor O’Connell, and administered by United Way.
During this event, Jerry will share insights on leadership, teamwork, and achieving peak performance. He’ll offer practical, actionable takeaways and share stories about iconic moments from his career, both on and off the football field.
I always find the topic of meal planning to be polarizing. You’re either a fan who finds it valuable or it’s your idea of monotonous drudgery. But I’m here to say there’s more than one way to meal plan.
2025 has reshaped the U.S. small business landscape in ways few expected. Shifts in economic policy, funding, and market dynamics have created new pressures — and opened new opportunities — for the entire ecosystem.
Savitri’s busy cosmetics and grocery store in Nasopur village, located in Rajasthan, India, hasn’t always been as large and well-stocked as it is today. A few years ago, she ran her business from a small room, offering limited items with little opportunity to expand.
Addressing climate change can help to support the economic development and long-term growth in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). EMDEs require trillions of dollars to address climate change, yet only a fraction of this funding is currently mobilized.
“When you’re in a movement, you don't hold your finger to the wind,” Gloria Steinem told the rapt audience. “You become the wind.” Or, put another way, “If you feel you’re pushing a rock uphill, throw it.”
Napoleon has been credited with the saying, “An army marches on its stomach.” An infantryman himself, Napoleon understood first-hand the importance of supplying an army on the move in which it was common practice for each soldier to procure his own food from villages along the campaign trail.
People in your community and all over the world partner with Habitat for Humanity to build or improve the place they call home. In fact, Habitat is the largest privately held homebuilder and regularly ranks as one of the top 20 homebuilders in the United States.
Last week, a few journalists, a farmer, an entomologist and an ice cream man drove two hours southeast from Oakland to Chowchilla, California. It’s an in-between place most people never will visit — the neighborhood bar is a lonely box with one window — but if you’ve eaten an almond in the United States, you depend upon this community. Its riches are rooted in nature.
Mercy Ships and Costa Group celebrated Tuesday the official start of the memorandum of understanding which has been recently signed. The agreement is aimed to develop synergies in different fields with the objective to support the accomplishments of Mercy Ships.
Global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland recently joined more than 1,000 sustainability leaders from around the world at GreenBiz 17, hosted in Phoenix, AZ. The annual three-day event brings together companies, sustainability executives, nonprofits and academics to discuss emerging trends and challenges facing sustainable business through presentations, panels, and workshops.
Over the past few evenings, I’ve been escaping from the news of the day by reading some science fiction. Or at least I thought my choice was science fiction. The book, Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford, describes how automation threatens jobs and industries not in the distant future, but in the coming decades. Ford points out that while advanced technologies and automation have the potential to improve our lives by offering driverless cars, digital finance, and data-driven medical diagnoses, these advances also threaten jobs and industries.
The start of a new year often conjures up hopes of a new you – losing extra pounds, stopping that unhealthy habit, or making changes to enrich life overall. In fact, many of us are already trying to prevent bad health and create solutions for the solvable in ourselves.
As the communication technologies leveraged by the public safety sector advance, the intersection with smart city initiatives becomes all the more inevitable. Technological advances afforded by broadband long-term evolution (LTE) networks have changed how first responders, city and county officials, public agencies and transportation fleets communicate and gather data to better serve their communities.
In February 2014, a large sinkhole opened up beneath the National Corvette Museum and swallowed $1 million worth of classic cars. Researchers used Xylem’s EXO water-monitoring technology to study the sinkhole and ensure the surrounding buildings were safe.
Kesko’s Annual Report 2016 describes the recent steps that Kesko has taken to strengthen the customer experience for consumers and businesses, both in-store and in digital channels. In addition to the progress of Kesko’s strategy and sustainability work, the report presents a comprehensive package of interesting stories.
The Sustainability Report 2016 follows A.P. Moller - Maersk’s continued work to unlock growth through their business, while operating responsibly and sustainably. The Report details the changes made on the ground at shipyards in Alang, India, progress on activities to create shared value by enabling trade, and a special feature on responsible tax.
After combating severe sleep debt, major diaper malfunctions, nap schedules and breastfeeding woes, I thought long and hard about whether I wanted to return to work before the end of my year-long protected leave (yay, Canada!). Did I really want to leave the tiny love of my life in the care of someone else (in this case, Daddy) so I could set my alarm every day, commute through busy morning traffic to sit in meetings and navigate heavy workloads?
In the latest chapter of the President to President series, published today, Mary Ann Baenninger, Ph.D., president of Drew University in Madison, N.J., describes her role as a leader in higher education as she navigates the various social issues present on campus and in contemporary U.S. culture.
On Saturday, March 11, a group of experts will lead a panel at SXSW on how digital technology is helping the global fight to end trachoma, the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. The panel, titled “How to End a Plague: Smartphones, Science & Partnerships,” will explore how a smartphone-based platform has become a critical weapon in the fight against this disease.
John Leonard, Program Manager at Optimizely, knew his co-workers were very generous, but he didn't realize just how generous until he saw the results of the company's most recent annual employee giving campaign.
Scotiabank believes young people are our future leaders. Congratulations to Enactus Canada’s Western Canada winners of the Scotiabank EcoLiving Green Challenge and the Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge.
Voya Financial announced today that Paul Zemsky, chief investment officer, Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions at Voya Investment Management, has been appointed to the Board of Directors for Futures and Options, a nonprofit career development and paid internship program for New York City youth.
The team who wrote and published Boeing’s 2016 environmental report will join 3BL Media for the next “Best Practices” webinar to share their formula for using multimedia and storytelling to convey the aerospace giant’s sustainability progress with audiences around the world.
“Beyond the Data: Sustainability Reporting Through Storytelling and Multimedia” is scheduled for 11 a.m. ET on March 30. There is no cost to attend, and the content is appropriate for CSR and sustainability professionals, and the communications executives who support them.
As a child, I was more interested in watching science documentaries about wildlife and human disease than cartoons. I still remember that my favorite show was about the diseases most dangerous to mankind. I always had an interest in science, so I decided to major in it in college.
Global target-setting and new gender disclosure requirements raise hopes for faster progress on closing the gender gap. GRI contributes to this goal by driving better business reporting: helping organizations identify the gender gaps, measure relevant data and thus commit to a more equal world.
Wells Fargo supported 14,900 nonprofits in 2016, donating $281.3 million to organizations across the country. Separately, Wells Fargo’s team members showed their commitment to communities by donating a total of $98.87 million to 30,000 nonprofits, including $60.7 million that was pledged during the company’s monthlong Community Support Campaign. For the eighth consecutive year, United Way Worldwide named Wells Fargo’s workplace giving campaign No. 1 in the U.S.
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