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PNC Volunteers Bring Basic Financial Knowledge to New Volunteer Opportunity

For about two years now, the PNC Center for Financial Education (CFE), an effort led by Community Development Banking, has been collaborating with community-based nonprofits to offer financial education to individuals, first-time homebuyers and small businesses.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

La alegría de perderse algo: cómo la gente conecta con otros a través del “loud budgeting”

Incluso si tu año nuevo comenzó en grande, quizás ahora estés preocupándote silenciosamente por las metas financieras que te planteaste a ti mismo y cómo alcanzarlas. Por suerte, no eres el único.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Gildan Donates Apparel Worth $200,000 to FireAid Concert Benefitting LA Wildfire Victims

Charleston, South Carolina, Wednesday, January 29, 2025 – Gildan is pleased to donate U.S.$200,000 worth of American Apparel® and Gildan® garments to FireAid, a concert benefiting those affected by the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, California.

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Sustainable Development Goals

CSRHub Connects to Sustainable Platform

CSRHub and Sustainable Platform reveal new insights on ESG performance and greenwashing risk across thousands of companies. Explore how SDG alignment, data-driven tools, and multiple stakeholder perspectives shape sustainability ratings.

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Education

Curiosity Cube Teaches More Than 43,000 Students About Sustainability

Celebrating its sixth annual tour, the Curiosity Cube from MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, traveled across North America and Europe during 2024 to fuel curiosity and discovery among visitors.

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Events, Media & Communications

Exclusive Discount for 3BL Members: Save $500 on Corporate Communications (Mar. 6-7, NYC)

Get ready for one of the most anticipated gatherings of corporate communicators this year! Corporate Communications: Driving the Business Forward, hosted by The Conference Board, will take place on March 6-7, 2025, in Brooklyn, NY.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Essity Once Again Recognized as a Diversity Leader by Financial Times

Hygiene and health company Essity has, for the fourth consecutive year, been designated a Diversity Leader by Financial Times.

The ranking was compiled by the research firm Statista on behalf of the Financial Times by surveying more than 100,000 employees in European companies.

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Education

Students, Their Parents Thrilled About Winning U.S. Bank Scholarship Sweepstakes

We’ve all received emails claiming that we’ve won an amazing prize, but when Conner Tadlock got an email saying he was the grand prize winner of the U.S. Bank Student Scholarship program, he didn’t send it to his spam folder.

Innovation & Technology

4 AI Certifications for Business Owners

IBM Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals Certification

This is a course that includes test questions and it’s fairly comprehensive. It takes about ten hours to complete.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

DaVita Emphasizes Commitment to Whole-Person Care With Investment in National Kidney Foundation PEERS Program

The DaVita Giving Foundation announced an investment in the National Kidney Foundation (NKF)'s PEERS program, a program that provides social and emotional support for patients, care partners, and living donors through connections with mentors living through similar experiences.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Baker Tilly’s BuzzHouse Podcast: Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA) Explained

On this episode of BuzzHouse, hosts Don Bernards and Garrick Gibson are joined by Baker Tilly colleagues Michelle Isenhouer-Hanlin and Joe Marchese to explore the $6 billion Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA) under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF).

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Education

Chemours Community STEM Hub Opens at EastSide Charter School

North Wilmington, Delaware now has a new resource for the community as the Chemours Community STEM Hub at EastSide Charter School officially opened its doors.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

PSEG’s Day of Service Partners With Community Organizations To Honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Did you know? We partner with a number of organizations each year to help support our communities.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Griffith Foods Bangalore, India, Achieves ISO 14001 Certification for Environmental Management

Griffith Foods is thrilled to announce that our manufacturing site in Bangalore, India, has achieved ISO 14001 certification for environmental management! This

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Marathon Petroleum Expands Truckers Against Trafficking Initiative

Marathon Petroleum has expanded its partnership with Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT). Since launching the initiative in 2023, Marathon Petroleum has trained nearly 800 employees in the Transportation and Rail organization to identify human trafficking situations

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Sustainable Development Goals

CNH Supported Nuffield Study To Explore Potential of AI for Agriculture Industry

Case IH and parent company, CNH, had their labs and equipment used in a study to promote AI use in the agriculture industry.

Responsible Production & Consumption

SCS Standards Releases Revised SCS Responsibly Managed Peatlands Standard for Public Review

SCS Standards is pleased to announce that version 2.0 of the SCS-003 Certification Standard for Responsibly Managed Peatlands is now available for public review. 

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Environment

AEG Germany Reaches Sustainability Milestones

AEG Germany, operator of the Uber Arena, Uber Eats Music Hall and Uber Platz in Berlin and the Barclays Arena in Hamburg, has reached another milestone in its commitment to sustainability. AEG Germany's arenas are the first in Germany to receive Greener Arena certification.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Lenovo Honored With Golden Peacock Global Award for ESG

On November 13, 2024, Lenovo was honored with the Golden Peacock Global Award for ESG by the Golden Peacock Awards Secretariat and Institute of Directors.

Events, Media & Communications

Terra Nexus, UAE Joins Inogen Alliance

Inogen Alliance is pleased to announce the addition of a new Associate company, Terra Nexus in Dubai, UAE. The addition of this new Associate provides crucial complimentary coverage in this region expanding environmental services and expertise.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Role of EHS in Workers’ Compensation and Workplace Incident Management

Workplace incidents are often a part of business operations, but how companies handle these events significantly impacts employee well-being, organizational reputation, future reoccurrence, and compliance obligations.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Climate Vault Announces Recipients of Second Annual Carbon Champion Awards

Climate Vault, an award-winning leader in sustainable technology, today announced the recipients of the second annual Carbon Champion Awards. The award program honors organizations that are setting the standards for positive climate action.

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Innovation & Technology

Supporting Open Source, Contributors, and WordPress

At GoDaddy, we’re all about supporting the dreamers, the doers, and the builders who make the internet an exciting, inclusive place. Whether it’s entrepreneurs launching their first business or open source developers shaping the tools powering the open web.

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Health & Healthcare

Children’s Hospital Colorado Delivers Precision Medicine to Kids

Over the last 20 years, precision medicine has become the standard of care, but for many hospitals, the complexity of the process has made it challenging to integrate or manage efficiently and at scale.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

How Veolia North America's Engineered Fuels Solution Works

Veolia North America’s engineered fuels program evaluates non-hazardous industrial byproducts like plastics, packaging scraps, debris and more, then shreds and decontaminates the materials to use them as an alternative fuel in cement kilns.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Albertsons Companies Awarded Progressive Grocer Impact Award for Philanthropic Innovation and Corporate Giving

Albertsons Companies has been honored with two 2024 Impact Awards from Progressive Grocer. This recognition highlights our commitment to our Recipe for Change and supporting the planet we share and the communities we serve.

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