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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Skilling For a Digital Future

Southeast Asia is riding a digital wave. With 500 million people entering the workforce in the next 10 years, countries will need to prepare for new digital opportunities.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Entergy Texas Gives Back this Holiday Season

Funded by Entergy shareholders, Entergy Texas, Inc. is supporting organizations helping those in need this holiday season.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Helping Give Students a Voice

I created the New York City Youth Activism Coalition to empower young people and improve educational opportunities. Through our conferences and roundtables, we voice student concerns and demand action from government and school officials.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Biogen Recognized by Newsweek as one of America's Most Responsible Companies

The passion and incredible work of our colleagues around the world helped to make this recognition possible.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Truist Foundation President Lynette Bell Discusses Corporate Giving and More On Untapped Philanthropy Podcast

During an interview with Untapped Philanthropy podcast, Truist Foundation President Lynette Bell spoke about corporate giving, agility and lessons funders can learn from banking.

Health & Healthcare

Illumina-Supported Startup Uses Tampons to Offer Critical Clues About Women's Reproductive Health

When entrepreneur Ridhi Tariyal walked out of Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital in the fall of 2013, she left feeling frustrated.

Health & Healthcare

Waiting for HUGS: Providing Care to Make Smiles Possible

A child’s smile is one of their earliest expressions of joy and connection. Unfortunately for children born with congenital ear and facial deformities, they are not only deprived of a smile, but also a healthy life from the complications that follow.

Innovation & Technology

Chevron Products Company to Debut Havoline® PRO-RS™ Renewable Full Synthetic Motor Oil, Chevron's First-Ever Renewable Passenger Car Motor Oil Offering

Havoline PRO-RS to Join Chevron’s Trusted Havoline® Brand of Advanced Passenger Car Motor Oils as the Portfolio’s Ultra-Premium Product, Made with 25 percent Sustainably Sourced Plant-Based Oils

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sustainable Finance in Action | Acre: Careers in Finance Are Changing

With the world coming together at COP26 to discuss action on climate change, Acre partnered with The London Institute of Banking & Finance to highlight all the work we are doing to make an impact.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

AEG and The LA Kings Adopt 42 Los Angeles Families in Need for Holiday Season

This Season of Giving, AEG employees and the LA Kings adopted 42 Los Angeles families in partnership with various nonprofit organizations’ Adopt-A-Family Program.

Diversity & Inclusion

100 Flags Fly in Florida to Honor Duke Energy Veterans

For Veterans Day on Nov. 11 and all month long, fields of honor across America honor those who served

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

An "A to Z" Approach to Customer Service in Agriculture

In the time it will take you to read this sentence, nearly 100 packages will have left an Amazon warehouse.

Diversity & Inclusion

2021 Fifth Third Bank Diversity Leadership Symposium: Stories of Action and Inspiration

Fifth Third recently hosted its annual Diversity Leadership Symposium in collaboration with the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. The event is the largest annual gathering of business leaders in Greater Cincinnati

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Owens Corning Listed on CDP's Water A List

We’re proud to have earned a spot on CDP’s Water A List, recognizing the work we do to lead the way to a water secure future through corporate transparency and leadership.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

This Engineer Once Lived Without Access to a Toilet - Now He's Helping Entrepreneurs Provide One for Others

Life for Sewedo Mautin looked very different when he was growing up in Nigeria. He didn’t have a reliable toilet in his home for the first 22 years of his life.

Diversity & Inclusion

Equity Requires Doing a Little Bit of Good, Wherever You Are

Once you see inequity, there’s no way to unsee it. The first time I really understood this was during my first year at the University of California, Berkeley.

Energy

Cummins and Sinopec Officially Launch Joint Venture to Produce Green Hydrogen Technologies in China

Cummins Inc. and China Petrochemical Corporation announced the formation of a 50:50 joint venture — Cummins Enze (Guangdong) Hydrogen Technology Co., Ltd (“Cummins Enze”).

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

#ThankYouForward: Regions Bank Supports Community Heroes in Birmingham - and Empowers Them to Inspire Others

Regions Bank is saying thanks – with a twist – to members of one of Birmingham’s most valuable communities – its devoted senior volunteers.

Responsible Production & Consumption

5 Steps to a Corporate Strategy That Delivers on Sustainability

Many companies are realising that they must do their part and embed sustainability into their core strategy. In our work supporting companies, we have identified 5 key steps that help companies develop a truly embedded strategy.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Enbridge ESG Forum: Corporate Governance

Watch Karen Uehara, Vice President and Corporate Secretary at Enbridge, discuss the company’s approach to corporate governance.

Education

FedEx Delivers CubeSat Prototype Kits for First Global Challenge

For FIRST Global’s new CubeSat Prototype Challenge initiative, teams used components from a provided Arduino-based kit, delivered by FedEx, to design and build a CubeSat prototype and launch it into the lower layers of Earth’s atmosphere.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Meeting the Demand for Sustainable Packaging Alternatives

Jose Gorbea, HP’s Global Head of Brands explores how, with the right focus, print service providers can react to consumers' search for more sustainable packaging solutions.

Health & Healthcare

Gilead Sciences and Breast Cancer Awareness Month

The SABCS brings the scientific community and advocates together to focus on the biggest needs in breastcancer, including how the disease uniquely affects Black women.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

UNFCU Foundation Honors Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka With Its 2021 Women's Empowerment Award

UNFCU Foundation recently presented its 2021 Women's Empowerment Award for Lifetime Achievement to Dr. Mlambo-Ngcuka, a human rights champion.

Research, Reports & Publications

Return on Sustainability, Spotlight 4: Credible Brand Differentiation

This ebook looks at how companies can effectively establish sustainability credentials and use them as strategic differentiators. In other words, how sustainable practices in the supply chain can result in ROI through brand differentiation.

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