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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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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Primo Water North America Achieves Carbon Neutrality in Its U.S. Operations

Primo Water Corporation today announced that Primo Water North America, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Primo is now a CarbonNeutral® certified company that has achieved certification under The CarbonNeutral Protocol

Environment

Expert Advice: Connecting With Urban Forestry Experts to Help Rebuild Detroit's Tree Canopy

Urban tree canopies provide numerous benefits to communities and to the environment. They reduce air pollution and summer peak temperatures, provide wildlife habitats and neighborhood beautification, which can increase property values, and improve social ties among neighbors and within the community.

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Kohler Co. Launches Safe Water for All to Address Global Water and Sanitation Crisis

Kohler Co. today announced the launch of Safe Water For All, an initiative to further address pressing issues around water access, quality, and conservation and broaden public awareness around water issues.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

RESOLVE, VoteSafe, and Mission for Masks Partner to Launch Gear Up to VoteSafe

RESOLVE, VoteSafe, and Mission for Masks announce an initiative to support safe, in-person voting by getting personal protective equipment (PPE) to election officials, poll workers, volunteers, and voters for the upcoming U.S. national election, taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Events, Media & Communications

A First Look at the 3BL Virtual Forum Speaker Lineup

In just one week senior leaders from top brands will convene for episode one of 3BL Forum: Brands Taking Stands - Business Elects to Lead.

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Health & Healthcare

CRB Design-Build With Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing Picked To Manufacture COVID-19 Solution

CRB recently completed the design and construction of a large-scale facility for Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing that has been selected by the U.S. government to increase domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing for vaccines or therapeutics in the fight against COVID-19.

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Health & Healthcare

OLON Continues Strategic Collaboration With Novartis, Supporting the Expansion of the Africa Sickle Cell Disease Program to Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania

OLON announced it will continue its collaboration with Novartis to support the Africa Sickle Cell Disease program as it expands to Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

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Sustainable Development Goals

ON Semiconductor’s Actions to Mitigate Climate Change

Whether natural occurrence or man-made, it is clear there are some changes to our habitat occurring that we must address and ON Semiconductor is taking action.

Health & Healthcare

New Sensory Room at New Hope Middle School 'a Safe Space' for Special Needs Students

New Hope Middle School officially opened its new Kodiak Calming Cove, a sensory room for children with special needs, recently, and "it'll make a big difference for students to have a safe space they can go into," said Belinda Sloan, the school's principal.

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Events, Media & Communications

[WEBINAR] Reimagining Community Health Systems: Join SAP, Medtronic Foundation, and Leading Nonprofits in Community Health (Thurs, 10/15, 12 - 1 EDT)

Come get a glimpse of how the world can be reimagined toward a much stronger future with your help.

Diversity & Inclusion

Corporate Diversity Is Shrouded in Secrecy. It Doesn't Have To Be

Intel is committing our scale, expertise, and reach to work with other companies to accelerate the adoption of inclusive business practices across industries by creating and implementing a Global Inclusion Index.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MTV and Partners Want You to Get Ready to Vote Early

Vote Early Day helps all eligible voters learn about their early voting options and celebrate the act of voting early.

Environment

OKC Beautiful Partners to Clean up Local Waterway

OKC Beautiful, a Keep America Beautiful affiliate located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has joined forces with Riverport OKC to launch a new collaborative initiative focused on solving the problem of litter and debris along the Oklahoma River.

Diversity & Inclusion

Scotiabank Unveils Newest Downie-Wenjack Legacy Space in Partnership with The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund

In recognition of Orange Shirt Day, Scotiabank today unveiled its third Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF) Legacy Space, further demonstrating its commitment to promoting education and discussion around reconciliation.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Aramark's Global Day of Service Focuses on Students and Families, Adapts to Pandemic

Earlier this month, Aramark volunteers participated in Aramark Building Community Day, an annual global day of service that demonstrates the company’s year round commitment to enriching and nourishing people’s lives.

Innovation & Technology

Adobe Unveils Ambitious Multi-Year Vision for PDF: Introduces Liquid Mode

Digital experiences have never been more critical — cutting across all industries and impacting daily work and personal lives. And this has never been more apparent than the demand we’re seeing for our Document Cloud products and services, which have skyrocketed.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Scotiabank Backs Efforts to Support Black-Led Businesses

In the latest in a series of efforts to support Black-led businesses and Black communities, Scotiabank is proud to support the Government of Canada’s Black Entrepreneurship Program announced on Wednesday.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CEOs Talk About 2020 Leadership And The Future

To gain insight, on August 27, 2020, I moderated a panel of leaders in: financial services, retail, manufacturing, infrastructure, technology and telecommunications to talk about leadership during the pandemic and their view of the future.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Zero Hunger in Jeopardy: What We Can Do to Bring Hunger to an End

One of our most basic human needs is to feel safe and secure. Nearly three billion individuals can not afford a healthy diet and 1 in 10 individuals are experiencing severe food insecurity. We are experiencing a threat to our food security...

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

How Gildan is Managing and Minimizing Supply Chain Disruption During COVID-19

Everyday, we use and consume goods that have been made in many parts of the world; like the food we eat, the objects we use, and the clothes we wear.

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Health & Healthcare

Keeping Kids Fed: Hershey's Partnerships With Feeding America and Food Banks Canada

Many kids don’t get the nutrition they need during summer vacations when school lunch programs are on a break. To help bridge this gap, Hershey continued its longtime partnerships with Feeding America® and Food Banks Canada.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Keeping the Line Moving in Supply Chain

Shidah Ahmad, Vice President and General Manager of Keysight Technologies in Malaysia, discusses her role at Keysight, developing talent locally in Penang and worldwide, diversity, and the company’s STEM education engagement efforts.

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Education

“Road Trip” for 13,000 Kids Made Possible by FedEx

“FedEx’s distribution support is directly helping us bridge the digital divide so many are facing due to the pandemic, allowing us to bring no-tech educational resources to young people across the country,” said Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar, Acting Under Secretary for Education at the Smithsonian.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Points of Light Releases the Civic 50 2020 Key Trends and Insights Report

Points of Light a global nonprofit that is dedicated to accelerating people-powered change, released The Civic 50 Report featuring key trends, benchmarking data and insights from the 2020 honorees.

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Media & Communications

Rising Heat & Humidity, Rising Sea Levels, Up & Down Shifts in Crop Yields, More Large Fires, Huge Human Migration Within the United States -- What We Are Learning Today

There is so much going on in the global sustainability space that we could draw an apt analogy – it’s “like drinking water not out of a straw but a fire hose!”

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