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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement | Verizon

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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Social Impact & Volunteering

Delivering Food and Hope to Families in Indianapolis

In September, Marathon Petroleum’s Transportation and Rail (T&R) Health and Safety department, along with team members from the local fleet operations, environmental and corporate medical services department, volunteered to distribute food at Gleaners Food Bank.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Four Dow Leaders Recognized on 2024 Outstanding Role Model Lists

Dow (NYSE: Dow) announced that four of its leaders have been recognized in the 2024 Outstanding Role Model Lists supported by YouTube.

Diversity & Inclusion

Comcast NBCUniversal Celebrates Native American Heritage Month 2024

Comcast NBCUniversal is committed to honoring the rich and vibrant history of Native American communities. This Native American Heritage Month, we are celebrating the dynamic cultures, aspiring stories and ongoing contributions that Native Americans make to society.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

How I Found My Way To Impact Investing & Why I Hope More Women Will Join Me

When impact investing focuses on women, it’s typically as beneficiaries of capital – and that’s very important. And I want to encourage impact investing to be equally thoughtful in getting women into roles managing and deploying capital as well.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

PSEG Feeding Hope: Supporting Communities Experiencing Food Insecurity

Together, we’re not just addressing hunger – we’re creating opportunities and strengthening communities across New Jersey.

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Events, Media & Communications

CFOs Are Now Key Players in Sustainability Strategies

The Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) role has become an accepted part of the C-suite in recent years as regular sustainability reporting is now a best practice for the largest U.S. publicly-traded companies.

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Education

TCS’ Flagship STEM Education Program goIT™ Celebrates 15 Years, Empowering Over 300K Students With Digital Skills

Since its inception in 2009, Go Innovate Together has reached over 300,000 students in 48 countries, helping them develop skills to thrive in the global digital economy.

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Energy

From Learning to Earning: How Multistakeholder Partnerships Are Shaping the Future Workforce

Empowering young people is crucial, not only for their own growth but for addressing critical challenges, such as climate resilience, and preparing them to lead in a rapidly evolving world.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

ASPCA® Joins the Subaru Share the Love® Event As National Charity Partner for 17th Year

For the seventeenth year in a row, the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) has been selected as a national charity partner in the Subaru Share the Love® Event to help support thousands of animals in need across the country.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Cisco: Publicly Available Life Cycle Assessments Document Our Products’ Environmental Impact

We are excited to announce that Cisco is now publishing life cycle assessments (LCAs) for some of our hardware products.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Cascale Joins the Industry We Want To Discuss Collaborative Approaches To Increase Climate Adaptation Efforts in the Garment Sector

Cascale team member Hanna Griesbeck Garcia, manager of stakeholder engagement and project manager of TIWW, recently moderated The Industry We Want (TIWW) Deep Dive webinar that focused on unpacking challenges related to stagnating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

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Innovation & Technology

Empowering Success Through Digital Innovation: Mary Kay’s Cutting-Edge Tools and AI-Driven Equality Research

For Mary Kay, it’s mission critical: we’ve been accelerating our digital innovation efforts to unleash the full potential of women entrepreneurs.

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Events, Media & Communications

Baker Tilly’s Healthy Outcomes Podcast: Transforming Senior Healthcare Through Value-Based Care

On this episode of Healthy Outcomes, Baker Tilly’s host Mark Ross interviews Dr. Kate Goodrich, Chief Medical Officer at Humana. Together, they discuss the transformative potential of value-based care, specifically senior-focused healthcare innovation, and more.

Research, Reports & Publications

Cintas Corporation Releases Fiscal Year 2024 Community Impact Report

Cintas Corporation (Nasdaq: CTAS) published its Fiscal Year 2024 Community Impact Report, which includes information and data about the company’s philanthropic initiatives that it supported during the last fiscal year through Cintas Cares.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Covia Proudly Recognizes National Miners Day

On this occasion, Covia pays tribute to current and former miners, whose work is the first step in creating critical materials and everyday products that the world relies on.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Victoria’s Secret & Co. Awarded for Alabama Cotton Farms Collaboration and Adaptive Launch From the Anthem Awards

Victoria’s Secret & Co. recently received a Silver Award in the Sustainability, Environment, & Climate Category for the Fourth Annual Anthem Awards thanks to a unique collaboration with four Alabama cotton family farms.

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Energy

Southwire Invests in BoxPower

Southwire Company, LLC is pleased to announce an investment in BoxPower Inc., a turnkey microgrid platform provider.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Albertsons Companies’ Portland Division Teamed up With Sunshine Division for Thanksgiving Meal Delivery

Albertsons Companies’ Portland Division associates teamed up with Sunshine Division to pack thousands of turkey meal bags for their inaugural Thanksgiving Meal Delivery. Albertsons Companies associates joined hundreds of dedicated volunteers to prep the meal bags.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Celebrating Nonprofits on Giving Tuesday

Nonprofits are the superheroes of our world, providing a lifeline for those in need. This Giving Tuesday, we celebrate the dedication of nonprofits committed to tackling tough social issues facing local communities.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

PotlatchDeltic’s Idaho Tree Planting

Tree planting is one of the most important investments a timberland company undertakes, setting the stage for the future and ensuring all the benefits that forests provide are perpetuated.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Resilience Pays Off: 75% of Microbusiness Owners Relaunch After Setbacks, GoDaddy Reports

According to GoDaddy's 2024 Annual Venture Forward report, 75% of microbusiness owners who close a business don't give up, even if their efforts didn't yield a profit. Instead, they persist, launching new ventures. Of these, 39% become the main income for their households.

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Energy

Our Approach to Clean and Renewable Energy

At Meta, we work to design, build and operate some of the most innovative and sustainable data centers in the world. They provide the technology that billions of people use every day to connect and build community.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Bringing Social Impact and Employee Development Together for Business Success

Companies that prioritize aligning employee development with social impact initiatives are not only investing in the future of their workforce but are also positioning themselves, and the impact businesses they work with for long-term success.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

HanesBrands Celebrates 15 Years of Hanes for Good, Donating Over 6 Million Essential Apparel Items to Support the Unhoused Community Nationwide

HanesBrands is proud to celebrate the 15 th anniversary of its Hanes for Good program. Since 2009, Hanes for Good has donated more than 6 million items, including 4 million pairs of socks, to hundreds of partner organizations across all 50 states.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Cisco's Sustainability 101: What Is E-Waste?

Cisco created Circular Design Principles, which are considered throughout the company’s new product development process so our product and packaging designs can adopt a more circular approach.

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