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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

FedEx Road Safety Award Celebrates NGO Role Models

This year’s awards celebrate three organizations that have significantly grown their capacity to achieve national and international significance, influencing national policies and public perceptions of road safety. Their impacts and approaches make them role models for other NGOs

Health & Healthcare

Road Safety: Walking the Talk

I was honored to walk alongside Torine Creppy, the President of Safe Kids Worldwide, as we led more than 1,200 kids and adults in our FedEx and Safe Kids Walk This Way event, promoting pedestrian safety.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Meet the Fishermen Behind Fair Trade Certified Seafood

The launch of Fair Trade USA Certified yellow fin tuna provides a solution that addresses both social and environmental responsibility in global fishing communities.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Grocery Shopping for a Healthier Planet

"We want to do our part. We want to be incredible stewards to our customers, our communities and the environment," said Darcie Renn, Director of ESG & Sustainability for Albertsons Companies.

Social Impact & Volunteering

A Slice of NiCE: Nickelodeon Community Efforts - October 2022

A Slice of NiCE is a bi-weekly update/preview into what Nickelodeon Animation & the Community Efforts (aka NiCE) team is up to around the globe.

Environment

Fifth Third Goes Carbon Neutral Amid Broader Green Targets

The bank achieved the feat after reducing its corporate carbon footprint (including in its facilities and business travel operations), purchasing renewable power and investing in carbon offset projects.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Products: Safeway's Sustainable Seafood

Sustainable Development Goals

Dow Commits to Accelerating the Circular Ecosystem by Transforming Waste and Alternative Feedstock To Deliver 3 Million Metric Tons per Year of Circular and Renewable Solutions by 2030

By 2030, Dow will transform plastic waste and other forms of alternative feedstock to commercialize 3 million metric tons of circular and renewable solutions annually.

Sustainable Development Goals

118 Organizations Make Sustainability Appeal for Critical Improvements in Global Tuna Fisheries

A wide consortium of global tuna buyers, NGOs, and fishing industry associations have issued a call to regional fishery management organizations that they adopt more stringent rules on harvest strategies, fish-aggregating devices, bycatch limits, catch monitoring and control, and

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Cadence Highlights Women in Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Interview with Carolyn Woeber

To highlight the achievements of women in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Cadence spoke with Carolyn Woeber, applications engineering director at Cadence.

Diversity & Inclusion

Fifty-Seven Albertsons Companies’ Leaders Recognized as 2019 Top Women in Grocery

57 determined, inspirational and accomplished Albertsons Companies’ leaders were recognized at Progressive Grocer’s annual Top Women in Grocery event in Orlando, Florida last week. In all, 393 women were honored for their extraordinary achievements in the retail grocery industry. 

Health & Healthcare

Illumina Commemorates Juneteenth

Juneteenth celebrates June 19, 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas were finally told they were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had made them free.

Diversity & Inclusion

Truist South Florida Regional President Tony Coley Discusses His Banking Career

When Tony Coley is talking to people, inevitably they ask what he does for a living. He works at Truist Bank, he tells them. Then they ask which branch.

Energy

Report: U.S. Corporate Solar Investments Swell to 8300 Megawatts, Grow 20-Fold Over Last Decade

Fifth Third was the first Fortune 500 company and first bank to achieve 100% renewable power through a single, solar project in 2019.

Green Infrastructure

Greater Boise Continuing Program To Give Hard-To-Recycle Plastic Waste a Second Life

Reynolds Consumer Products, Dow (NYSE: DOW), and ByFusion announced a new business agreement that continues their collaboration in the greater Boise area to divert hard-to-recycle plastics from the landfill.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Feed Our Kids. Fuel Our Future. Albertsons Companies and Albertsons Companies Foundation Begin Sixth-Annual Hunger Is Campaign to Raise Money for Breakfast Programs for Kids.

Albertsons Companies and Albertsons Companies Foundation are once again teaming up with their customers across the country to help make sure every kid starts the day with a healthy breakfast.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Hamilton County Resource Names Fifth Third Bank Its 2021 Most Outstanding Partner

Fifth Third Bank was named a 2021 Most Outstanding Partner by Hamilton County R3Source, a division of the Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services in Ohio

Diversity & Inclusion

77 Albertsons Companies Leaders Honored as 2020 Top Women in Grocery

Join us in celebrating 77 of our incredible leaders who have been honored as Progressive Grocer magazine’s Top Women in Grocery for 2020!

Health & Healthcare

From Patents to Patients: Meet the Women Making a Difference at Illumina

As a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, Illumina is continuously striving to improve human health by unlocking the power of the genome.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Cadence Celebrates Women in CFD With Virginie Barbieux

“We, women engineers, are as resourceful and contribute at equal levels as our male counterparts.”

Research, Reports & Publications

From the Fifth Third 2021 TCFD Report: Letter from the Chairman & CEO

We all depend upon a healthy environment to live our best lives, and that’s why we’ve made accelerating the transition to a sustainable future a key priority of our Company.

Health & Healthcare

Illumina Celebrates National Intern Day

Happy #NationalInternDay to the 73 interns at Illumina and to all interns everywhere - the leaders and innovators of tomorrow!

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Chemours Supports Nonprofits during 'Do More 24 Delaware'

Chemours joined the United Way of Delaware and Spur Impact during Do More 24 Delaware, a 24-hour day of giving to help Delaware-based nonprofits raise funds and engage new donors.

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