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Innovation & Technology

Qualcomm AI Enables Cars, Smart Factories, and More at the Connected Intelligent Edge

Thanks to our powerful Qualcomm AI Engine, we can now run highly complicated neural networks solely on-device to keep your personal data local and secure.

Diversity & Inclusion

Spotlight on Our ERGs: PRIDE

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are an important part of company culture. They help build community and engage different perspectives with the goal of encouraging positive change within and outside of the company.

Education

10 Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Entrepreneurs Share Their 2022 Breakthroughs

In 2022, small business owners — more than 100,000 of them — gained access to free courses, one-on-one coaching, and networking with fellow entrepreneurs through Verizon Small Business Digital Ready.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Helping Ensure the Health and Success of Future Leaders

Through Quest’s ongoing support, and with this new investment from Q4HE, the NBCA will expand its efforts to help students transform their potential into possibility.

Research, Reports & Publications

Cisco Releases 2022 Purpose Report, Highlighting Progress on ESG Goals

The 2022 Cisco Purpose Report describes our goals, progress, and impact for the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics that are significant to achieving our purpose to Power an Inclusive Future for All

Energy

Sustainable Fuels Offer Immediate Emissions Reductions to Fleets While They Electrify

Sustainable fuels offer immediate carbon reductions to fleets as they embark on the iterative transition to electric vehicle fleets.

Environment

COP 27: How Can ICT Help Us Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change?

This must be a decade of action, yet many experts warn that we are heading in the wrong direction. On the eve of COP 27, we lay down the critical role of ICT and public-private partnerships in helping our world mitigate, adapt to and build resilience against climate catastrophe

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Regions Next Step Survey Finds Many Americans Aren't Prepared for Medical Expenses

Regions Bank announced the results of a new medical financial hardship survey that finds people are not financially prepared to cover medical expenses or pay off medical debt, despite perhaps thinking they are prepared.

Education

FedEx & Accion Business Owner Education and Learning

Accelerating business growth for women and entrepreneurs of color

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Fifth Third Offers Tips on How To Keep Your Money, Credit and Identity Safe During the Holiday Shopping Season

Here are a few easy actions you can take to protect yourself this holiday season and beyond.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

4 Experts on How To Improve Employee Participation in CSR

To create impactful and sustainable CSR programs, employees need to get involved and stay involved. Centering the employee experience is key.

Innovation & Technology

How AI and the Latest Technologies Can Accelerate Progress on Sustainability Goals

At IBM, we believe that hybrid cloud and AI technologies are critical enablers to meet ESG targets both internally and externally.

Energy

SCE Teams With Lockheed Martin on Huge Solar Farm Expansion

Now up and running in Palmdale: a 20-megawatt, ground-mounted solar farm that is the largest Net Energy Metering project in Southern California Edison’s 50,000-square-mile service area.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Southwire 2021 Sustainability Report: Doing Right

Utilizing responsible business practices guided by ethics, mutual respect, integrity and honesty allows Southwire to protect stakeholders while establishing trust.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Blitz Building for Recovery: The Home Depot Foundation and Habitat for Humanity Build Homes for Families Impacted by Central U.S. Tornadoes

In the wake of last year’s storms in the Central U.S., Team Depot, The Home Depot’s volunteer force, began donating and distributing water, trash bags, disaster relief buckets, and other essential items to affected areas.

Sustainable Development Goals

Alibaba Cloud Champions Clean Energy During 11.11 Shopping Festival

Alibaba Group’s computing arm Alibaba Cloud boosted its use of clean energy and leveraged cloud-native technology to make this year’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival its most eco-friendly to date.

Health & Healthcare

The Herbalife Nutrition Foundation Partners with Global FoodBanking Network to Remind the Public How They Can Help Reduce Hunger

The Herbalife Nutrition Foundation through their Nutrition for Zero Hunger initiative, have partnered with the Global FoodBanking Network, to remind everyone you can take steps this holiday season to help reduce hunger and food waste.

Social Impact & Volunteering

GivingTuesday 2022: A Record-Breaking Day of Generosity

At CyberGrants, we’re continuously humbled by the efforts of our customers and their employees to make a difference and we’re honored to support their generosity. This GivingTuesday, over $30 million was given through our platform by 25,017 donors.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

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At AMD, we believe we can have the most impact on addressing the systemic causes of forced and bonded labor by working with multi-stakeholder initiatives and leveraging relationships with our manufacturing suppliers.

Events, Media & Communications

Fifth Annual CGF China Day, and Food Safety, Health and Sustainability, Digital Supply Chain Days to Take Place 9th-10th January 2023

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) will host on 9th – 10th January 2023 the fifth annual edition of the China Day in Shanghai, which will bring together CEOs from the CGF China Board of Directors and from CGF member companies based in China.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Enviva Celebrates Hoke Community Forest Restoration Project With the Planting of Longleaf Pine in North Carolina

Environmental associations, companies, and organizations alike partner with Hoke County, North Carolina residents to restore more than 500 acres of land back to longleaf pine

Energy

Kohler Partners with Polar Explorer Robert Swan on Antarctic Expedition

A leader in energy resiliency for more than 100 years, Kohler is equipping Swan’s journey with a customized KOHLER generator that utilizes a KOHLER diesel engine fueled by hydrotreated vegetable oil.

Environment

Forest Habitat Brings Wildlife and Peace to Detroit Neighborhoods

Pearson lives near the Oakwood Forest, where Marathon Petroleum’s Detroit refinery has been planting trees to re-naturalize the former residential area.

Diversity & Inclusion

New Holland Agriculture Delivers Tractors to Women Farmers in Uganda

CNH Industrial brand New Holland Agriculture has delivered 20 of its TT4.75 tractors to women farmers in the Soroti and Katakwi districts of Uganda.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Gen Recognized as One of America's Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek

Gen (NASDAQ: GEN), a global leader dedicated to powering Digital Freedom, today announced the company has been named to Newsweek's list of America's Most Responsible Companies 2023.

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