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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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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Building the Trade Workforce of the Future: Stanley Black & Decker Launches 5-Year, $25 Million Commitment to Train More Than 3 Million Skilled Trade Workers

Beginning Oct. 1, nonprofits can apply for grants as part of the “Empower Makers” Global Impact Challenge. The program is a critical component of Stanley Black & Decker’s CSR program that includes a goal to empower 10 million makers by 2030.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Black & Veatch Federal Services Group Wins Share of $800M USAID Worldwide Contract

Black & Veatch announces today that it has won a share of a seven-year, $800 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for architectural, engineering and other services to support the growing global mission of USAID.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Alternative Dairy Processing: Four Key Challenges

Alternative dairy is growing fast. To grow with it, manufacturers need to overcome four key challenges.

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Diversity & Inclusion

PNC Bank Launches Project 257: Accelerating Women's Financial Equality

PNC Bank announces the launch of Project 257: Accelerating Women's Financial Equality, an initiative designed to help close the 257-year economic gender gap and expand on PNC's decades-long track record of supporting female financial decision makers.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Verizon Response: Hurricane Ida

Verizon and our vendor partners were able to restore fiber to the Hammond area and deploy portable assets to the Raceland area, so at this time, there are no longer any significant gaps in service anywhere throughout the storm-impacted areas in Louisiana.

Green Infrastructure

The Ultimate Flexible Building

Think of a building: how’s it doing in the pandemic? Has it adapted well to a change in circumstances? Can you see it remaining useful and relevant for the foreseeable future?

Environment

Inogen Alliance 20 Year Celebration: Interview With Andreas Kopton

In this second video we hear about how Inogen Alliance expanded in the beginning from Andreas Kopton, HPC AG - The Engineering Company in Germany.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

How Hank Aaron Helped Others Keep Swinging

While many know Hank Aaron’s public baseball life, it’s this other side of him that’s being celebrated by the Atlanta Braves and Truist for Hank Aaron Week.

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Environment

Insights on the Economics of Soil Health on 100 Farms

The Soil Health Institute (SHI), the non-profit charged with safeguarding and enhancing the vitality and productivity of soils, will release its comprehensive report on the Economics of Soil Health on 100 Farms

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Environment

Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens Hosts Roundtable Addressing Climate Crisis in Africa, & Calls on the Uk Government to Increase Support Ahead of Cop26

Ahead of COP26, The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens organized a virtual roundtable assembling key government and industry leaders to discuss adaptation in combating the climate crisis.

Environment

SC Johnson Invites Londoners to Walk Beneath the Ocean's Surface in The Blue Paradox - An Immersive Experience Exploring the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis

SC Johnson is launching The Blue Paradox, an immersive educational experience with 360-degree digital projections.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

HACR Releases Results of 2021 Corporate Inclusion Index

Hispanic inclusion in Corporate America stalled or reversed course during 2020, according to the 2021 HACR Corporate Inclusion Index (CII) released today.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Tokyo 2020 Legacy Highlights Social and Environmental Benefits Created by the Games

Increased sports participation, stronger engagement and initiatives to create a more sustainable city have been highlighted as part of a series of legacy case studies published by

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Education

LG and Discovery Education to Launch 'Happiness in Action' Virtual Field Trip

LG’s Life’s Good: Experience Happiness program, in collaboration with Discovery Education, is launching “Happiness in Action,” a no-cost Virtual Field Trip dedicated to teaching students how to put the Six Sustainable Happiness Skills.

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Events, Media & Communications

Join Interface, WWF and IKEA at Responsible Business USA

After mass disruption businesses are ready to move beyond resilience and recovery to re-capturing growth.

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Innovation & Technology

Envisionit Deep AI: Meet the Team Democratizing Access to Healthcare

The intrepid Envisionit Deep AI team was awarded one of this year’s $50,000 USD Second Runner-Up Prizes. Their AI solution called RADIFY can be used as a clinical decision support tool to assist the diagnosis of diseases with medical imaging.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Towards New EU Sustainability Reporting Standards

GRI welcomes support from Caisse des Dépôts for its contribution to EFRAG’s technical work

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Innovation & Technology

All About Solar Energy

As the largest object in our solar system, the sun makes up 99.8 percent of the mass of all the system's planets and pieces combined. A star that big shines enough light on the Earth every hour to power the world’s annual electricity needs.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Georgia-Pacific Partners With Convoy of Hope in Response to Hurricane Ida

In response to Hurricane Ida, GeorgiaPacific's partner, Convoy of Hope, has already deployed 19 trucks filled with life-sustaining food and relief supplies to Northern Louisiana and will begin helping the hardest hit areas as soon as

Social Impact & Volunteering

CITGO Pitches in to Support Communities Impacted by Hurricane Ida

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, CITGO stepped up to provide ongoing support to affected communities to help mitigate the storm's immediate impact and assist them as they work to recover and rebuild.

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Diversity & Inclusion

AISES Receives $962,500 Grant From the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to Increase the Representation of Indigenous Peoples in STEM

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded a $962,500 general operating grant to increase the representation of Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific Islands in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education and careers to AISES.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Employees Are Still Skipping Lunch Despite Working From Home, New Tork Survey Finds

COVID-19 has drastically changed the workplace, but despite being closer to their own kitchens, workers are still not finding the time for a lunch break.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Goodyear Ventures Invests in EV Charging and Software Company AmpUp

Goodyear announced today that its venture capital arm, Goodyear Ventures, has added AmpUp, a leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging, to its investment portfolio.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

From the Fifth Third Bancorp 2020 ESG Report: Employee Engagement

The Fifth Third Compass guides four strategic priorities. Each priority helps our culture to evolve and strengthens employee engagement.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Alkermes Announces Launch of 4th Annual Alkermes Pathways Research Awards® Program

Alkermes will begin accepting applications for its annual Alkermes Pathways Research Awards® program on 9/13/2021. This competitive grant program supports researchers working to advance understanding & awareness of disease states in neuroscience.

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