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Diversity & Inclusion

Ensuring the Best Workplace Experience Through DEI

What is PSEG doing to ensure that everyone has the best workplace experience? What is the most common misconception about diversity, equity and inclusion?

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Owens Corning: Materiality & Stakeholder Engagement

In 2020, we conducted a refresh of the 2019 Materiality Assessment, in which we sought to confirm the continued relevance of the existing Material Topics and their relative positioning within the materiality matrix visuals for the company as a whole and broken out by region.

Research, Reports & Publications

Enbridge: Our Approach to Scope 3 Emissions

Our immediate focus is on executing on our plan to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Yet, we are doing our part to reduce Scope 3 emissions as well.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru & National Ski Patrol: 25 Years of Partnership

National Ski Patrol® and Subaru celebrate a quarter century of helping others, together.

Diversity & Inclusion

Human Rights Campaign and Gilead Will Work Together to Combat HIV Epidemic and Promote Transgender Justice

Gilead Sciences and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization announced Gilead will provide a $3.2 million grant to support communities impacted by HIV.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

We Can Help: Walmart Joins the Response to Support Veterans, Afghan Refugees

The Walmart Foundation is committing $1 million to three nonprofits supporting Afghan refugees entering the U.S., as well as veterans and their families.

Education

Intel Employee Volunteers and U.S. Olympic Athletes Join Together for Virtual Girls Steam Camp

It isn’t often that we get to see into the future, but that is exactly what I had the chance to do this past month.

Media & Communications

Happy Healthy Workplaces Ebook

As a society we’re starting to grasp that we are strongly social, inter-dependent, woven into nature, complex, diverse and both fragile and resilient.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Developing Crucial Caring Skills: Taking 'Time Out' As Parents or Unpaid Carers Needs a Rebrand

When the pandemic turned our lives upside down, leaders all across the country found themselves drawing on a particular set of skills: empathy, resilience, stress tolerance.

Education

Truist and EVERFI Bring No-Cost Early Literacy Digital Education to Teachers, Families and Communities Nationwide

Truist Financial Corporation and EVERFI Inc. announced all elementary students nationwide will soon have access to WORD Force Universe, a proven, no-cost digital early literacy program designed for students in grades K-2.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Alkermes Shortlisted for 2021 Ibec KeepWell Awards

We are excited to announce we have been nominated to receive an award recognizing our support for the mental health and well-being of our employees from Ibec!

Research, Reports & Publications

T. Rowe Price: Latest Research Highlights How Employers Can Help Close Racial and Ethnic Retirement Savings Gaps With Financial Wellness

T. Rowe Price today released a series of white papers featuring findings from its sixth annual Retirement Savings and Spending survey focused on the financial attitudes and behaviors of 401(k) savers and retirees.

Innovation & Technology

Power of 9: India

The StoveTrace program provides an affordable, reliable, mobile-phone-based monitoring device to enable widespread participation in a voluntary carbon market when individuals use clean cookstoves instead of traditional biomass burning cookstoves.

Environment

Duke Energy Teams With Accenture and Microsoft to Develop First-of-its-kind Methane-emissions Monitoring Platform

Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) announced it is working with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) on the development of a new technology platform designed to measure actual baseline methane emissions from natural gas distribution systems.

Research, Reports & Publications

Introducing the 2021 Porter Novelli Focus: Business & Politics

Our new 2021 Porter Novelli Focus: Business & Politics research shows that companies can and should speak up on domestic political issues but must be ready for the ramifications – good and bad.

Innovation & Technology

Empowering the Next Generation of Water Innovators

Austin Alexander, Vice President, Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem, shares her perspective on youth innovation, the opportunity to ignite a new generation of water innovators and how solving water lies in the power of the collective.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

12 Young Circular Economy Innovators

Meet the group of students and early-career professionals looking to drive the transition to a circular economy

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Perspectives S3E17: Susan McPherson, McPherson Strategies

CSR and social impact expert Susan McPherson talks about her new book, “The Lost Art of Connecting,” and signature “gather, ask, do,” method for meaningful networking and lasting business relationships.

Diversity & Inclusion

Leading the Way

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

One Year Into Pull Up For Change, Has the Beauty Industry Really Progressed?

“Fighting systemic racism is a long-term journey. Last year was about taking an introspective look at ourselves and the areas we could improve on as a brand,”

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Corporate Climate Action: 4 Ways Businesses Can Fight Climate Change

Over the last few decades, climate change has catapulted from a merely debatable topic to the modern crisis being faced by our planet.

Energy

IT and OT Work Together to Make Grids Smarter

The joining of information technology and operational technology, also known as IT/OT convergence, will be the key to modernizing electricity grids.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fighting Food Insecurity in the U.S.

International Paper (NYSE: IP), one of the world’s leading producers of renewable, fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper, has made a $110,000 donation to Feeding America® to support year-round hunger relief efforts.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

MilliporeSigma & Seeding Labs Promote Access to Global Science Learning With Expanded TeleScience Website

Seeding Labs is a signature partner of the Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, whose U.S. and Canada business operates as MilliporeSigma.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge Winner Oorja Is Making a Difference for Farmers in India

In rural India, 70 percent of people depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Discover how the Cisco Global Solver Challenge 2019 Grand prize winner, Oorja, makes solar energy accessible to farmers in India.

Latest Campaigns

  1. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...
  2. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  3. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  4. Kingfisher Around the World
    The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
  5. Impacting Today and Tomorrow
    What we do matters and our associates can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in the community.
  6. International Paper | SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS
    Vision 2030 Goal: Improve our climate impact and advance water stewardship
  7. Sustainability by Antea Group
    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
  8. PSEG People & Communities
    PSEG is committed to improving the lives of our customers, our employees and the diverse communities we serve throughout New Jersey and Long Island...
  9. KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service
    KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...
  10. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...
  11. Sustainability- Carnival Corporation's Way of Doing Business
    Carnival’s approach to sustainability is a full-time commitment; it is not a cost of doing business, it is a way of doing business. We at Carnival...
  12. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  13. Enriching Women's Lives
    60 years ago, Mary Kay Ash created an unparalleled opportunity for women to define their own successes and control their own futures. Her vision of...
  14. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...
  15. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...