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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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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Mohawk Group Launches Data Tide: Innovative Carpet Collection Supports Nature With Data

Data Tide is one part of Mohawk Group’s larger sustainability effort, The Waterways Project. This project highlights new products, technologies and initiatives to give back to and restore the living rivers that sustain life.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Franklin Templeton Celebrates Women's History Month

Franklin Templeton’s Women at FT business resource group (BRG), in partnership with its specialist investment organizations, hosted more than 30 events to honor International Women’s Day (IWD) and Month.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Bank to Provide 1 Million Meals to Fight Hunger Across Bank's Footprint

The meals are being donated to food organizations across the Bank’s 11-state retail footprint in honor of the Bank’s annual companywide community celebration in May, centered on May 3. The date, 5/3 on the calendar, is recognized as Fifth Third Day.

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Health & Healthcare

Podcast: An Appetite for Opportunity: Changing Dietary Goals

In this episode of the CGF Podcast, host Louise Chester speaks to Markus Stripf, SpoonGuru, Georgie Altman, Google and Emma Burton, Price Waterhouse Cooper to find out more about a new report recently published by their respective companies.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Join HSUS and HSI's #BeCrueltyFree Campaign to End Cosmetic Testing on Animals

Cruelty-free beauty is on its way to becoming mainstream globally, driven in large part by the #BeCrueltyFree campaign led by Humane Society International, the Humane Society of the United States, our affiliates, and partners.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Goodyear Installs Air Purification Systems and Develops a Greenbelt Area in India

Goodyear India Limited (GIL), as a part of Goodyear’s Better Future framework and CSR initiative “Solutions to Air Pollution (SAP),”has collaborated with Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF), Corridor Management Unit of Mathura Road, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), and Indian Pollution Control Association (IPCA) for initiatives to protect the environment, to improve the quality of air that people breathe in Ballabhgarh and Faridabad and to raise awareness regarding air pollution and steps that can be taken to reduce it.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

VMware Citizen Philanthropists Celebrate Earth Month

VMware Citizen Philanthropists are active in their communities all year, adapting their efforts based on the needs of the nonprofits they serve and the communities of which they are a part.

Environment

UGG Announces Commitments To Restore Our Earth This Earth Day 2021

UGG has committed to restoration across four focus areas with an Earth Day theme for 2021 of "Restore Our Earth." Through FEEL GOOD, the brand's journey towards a more sustainable future focuses on restoring the planet.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Truist Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

May commemorates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and we’re shining a light on the tremendous contributions and cultures of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Stellantis Named Among Top Companies Recruiting Indigenous STEM Professionals

The editors of Winds of Change magazine have selected Stellantis to the publication’s annual list of top companies setting the standard for providing careers, development and recruiting opportunities for Indigenous STEM professionals in North America

Responsible Production & Consumption

Logitech Gaming Products Now Labeled Climate Pledge Friendly on amazon.com

Logitech Gaming Products are now signposted on amazon.com as “Climate Pledge Friendly”. This means eco-conscious consumers can also search for devices, which are “Climate Pledge Friendly” and find our gaming products – LogitechG and ASTRO Gaming.

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Education

GP PRO and Consumer Products Reimagine Opportunities in the Community

The Georgia-Pacific Buddy program is an employee-volunteer tutoring initiative that began over 20 years ago. The program was established to enhance the academic skills of students at M. Agnes Jones (MAJ) Elementary in the Atlanta Public Schools.

Sustainable Development Goals

Companies Commit to SDGs Collaboration

A new program to enhance corporate reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by making it more relevant to stakeholders, is now underway – bringing together senior representatives from international companies.

Diversity & Inclusion

Engineering a More Equal Future

Women are generally underrepresented in the engineering sector where less than one in 10 qualified engineers in Hong Kong are female. CLP is taking innovative steps to even up the profession’s gender imbalance.

Research, Reports & Publications

SCS Global Services Applauds Release of New Report by the United Nations Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action

SCS Global Services (SCS), a global leader in third-party sustainability and climate certification, congratulates the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action (FICCA) for publication last week of its groundbreaking report outlining the processes that contribute to low carbon sources of cotton and polyester.

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Events, Media & Communications

Food Safety: An Opportunity to Rethink, Reset and Recharge

Around the world, an estimated 600 million people fall ill after eating contaminated food each year, and concerns over food safety have been intensified by COVID-19.

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Health & Healthcare

Kansas City Lights the Night with a New Research Institute

Like many teenagers his age, when Ben noticed that something was a little off - he grabbed his phone. For weeks, Ben was going to school, participating in wrestling, and doing what most teenagers do in their free time - hanging out with friends.

Health & Healthcare

Walmart, Flipkart, PhonePe and the Walmart Foundation Leverage Global Resources to Scale Initiatives in Support of India's Pandemic Battle

Walmart, the Walmart Foundation, Flipkart and PhonePe are collaborating to counter oxygen shortages, support the national vaccination drive and donate to organizations making a difference in communities nationwide.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The CSRD: Breaking Down the Walls Between ESG and Finance

There’s a lot to talk about in the European Commission’s proposals for a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) that were shared on 21 April. I will explore some of its biggest talking points in a moment...

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Tree Planting Initiative: CNH Industrial Supports Central Elementary School in Nevada, Iowa

CNH Industrial donated $2,500 to the Central Elementary School in Nevada, IA for the purchase of trees in honor of Earth Day. Each year the Central Elementary School plans a tree planting day in the community to promote community and environmental awareness to its students.

Education

JetBlue Adds Peirce College to its JetBlue Scholars Employer-Sponsored College Degree Program

The JetBlue Scholars program provides the airline’s crewmembers with the flexibility to learn at their own pace and uses high-quality alternative college credit options including new technology-based learning platforms.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Managing Change: Corporate Citizenship and Social Revolution

Discover what the shifting role of corporations in affecting social change means for corporate citizenship and how CSR practitioners can manage this change!

Environment

Deckers Brands Celebrates Earth Day

At Deckers Brands, we have taken a holistic approach to build a unique and impactful Environmental Social Governance program. The earth has a limit to the rapid change it can withstand.

Environment

Morgan Stanley Commits to Mobilizing $1 Trillion by 2030 for Sustainable Solutions that Include Helping Prevent and Mitigate Climate Change

Public health emergencies, social and economic inequality and the ramifications of climate change stand among the most immediate and pressing global issues of our time. In response, governments, corporations and investors have rallied around sustainability efforts, not only to preserve our planet for current and future generations, but also to improve the standard of living for diverse communities.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Rockwell Automation Releases First GRI Report

This week, Rockwell Automation released its first report following the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework, measuring performance against key environmental social and government indicators.

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