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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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Energy

At Annual Meeting, Chevron Investors Achieve Historic Majority Vote on Paris-Aligned Climate Lobbying

Investors sent a sharp message to both Chevron and ExxonMobil today over the companies’ failure to align their lobbying with the goals of the Paris Agreement and their refusal to engage with investors on climate risk, respectively.

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Media & Communications

Tata Consultancy Services Surya Kant, President of North America, UK and Europe, to Join CECP Board of Directors

As part of its continuing efforts to empower companies to drive long-term business success through positive societal impact, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) announced that Surya Kant, President, North America, UK and Europe, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has joined the organization’s distinguished Board of Directors.

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Innovation & Technology

CNH Industrial Bridges the Gap With Virtual Technology

COVID-19 has impacted our daily routine in many ways from travel bans and school closures to social distancing and stay-at-home orders.

Health & Healthcare

United Turns Old Uniforms Into Masks for Employees

United Airlines delivered 7,500 face coverings over the past week to front line employees at San Francisco International Airport and the airline’s San Francisco Maintenance Base that were made from 12,284 pounds of uniforms United upcycled.

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Keep America Beautiful Presents 47 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program Grants to Organizations throughout the United States

Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s largest community improvement nonprofit organization, today announced it has awarded 47 grants to Keep America Beautiful community-based affiliates and partner organizations for its 2020 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) to reduce the most littered item in America.

Media & Communications

Hallmark Uses Social Listening to Evolve

Distinctive company messaging does not speak at people. In order to create something that causes an onlooker to pause—organizations listen to the needs of consumers. The goal is to make them stop in their tracks and say, ‘Hey, this brand gets me.’

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bacardi #RaiseYourSpirits T-Shirts Help Support the Bar Industry

Casa BACARDÍ has launched a range of #RaiseYourSpirits t-shirts, available for purchase online. 100% of profits from the T-shirt sales will be donated to support bartenders, in partnership with the USBG National Charity Foundation.

Innovation & Technology

EarthxE-Capital 2020: How Can Cleantech 'Reset' After COVID-19?

The COVID-19 pandemic is ushering in could be a years-long economic slump, spelling trouble for consumer confidence at least for some time. Startups and early-stage investments are being hit particularly hard, as unknowns linger over...

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Education

Pandemic Stopped Their Program, but These Kids Adapted

What does a program that teaches students to think like engineers do when a pandemic shuts them down? It pivots. The coronavirus has canceled school programs around the world, including FIRST, where high school students build robots to compete...

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Environment

Water Protections and Other Regulations Are Rolling Back. What Should Businesses Do?

While companies thought they had a grasp of water protection and sustainability regulations, now these regulations are being rolled back rather than continuing the 50-year trend of strengthening them. What does it mean for the business sector?

Health & Healthcare

How to Clean and Disinfect Your Wood and Vinyl Floors

With an active home usually comes an active cleaning routine, and that’s especially true as so many of us are at home right now. As you deep clean your living spaces, it’s important to remember the approved cleaning steps for your specific type of floors so you don’t accidentally damage them.

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Health & Healthcare

T-Mobile Stands Strong with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as Telehealth Visits Surge 800%

With the VA seeing an 800% surge in telehealth visits, and with nearly 20,000 patients now meeting with their VA healthcare teams daily, the T-Mobile network is more than ready to support the VA without missing a beat.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Global Citizen and the European Commission Announce 'Global Goal: Unite for Our Future; a Campaign to Make COVID-19 Tests, Treatments and Vaccines Available for Everyone, Everywhere Who Needs Them

‌‌International‌ ‌advocacy‌ ‌organisation‌ ‌‌Global‌ Citizen‌ and the European Commission (EC) today‌ ‌announced‌ Global Goal: Unite for Our Future, a global campaign to coordinate the development of COVID-19 tests.

Health & Healthcare

Bringing Affordable Life and Health Insurance to Low-Income Earners in Sri Lanka

By partnering with Sri Lanka’s largest mobile provider and the Department of Post Sri Lanka, Softlogic Life is breaking down barriers and offering life and health insurance for millions of citizens.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Kotex's “4 Voices, 40 Minutes for Women and Girls” Featured Partners, Passion and Empowerment

In ten years, the stigma and shame associated with menstruating could be dissolved worldwide, and millions more women could have access to period products than today, when half a billion go without.

Diversity & Inclusion

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at Cox Enterprises: Meet Daisy Kuo

In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, Cox is shining a spotlight on some of the employees who make up our diverse company culture.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Hershey Doubling Down on Commitment to Ethical Cocoa Supply Chain

The Hershey Company (NYSE:HSY) today announced an expansion of its Cocoa For Good program, committing to 100% direct-sourced cocoa in high-risk areas by 2025, which will include all of its cocoa sourced by its suppliers from Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana.

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Energy

Geronimo Energy, a National Grid company, and Big Rivers Electric Corporation Announce Power Purchase Agreement for 160 MW MISO Kentucky Solar Project

Geronimo Energy (Geronimo), a National Grid company, and Big Rivers Electric Corporation (Big Rivers) announced today the execution of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the Unbridled Solar Project in Henderson and Webster Counties, Kentucky.

Health & Healthcare

DKMS Extends International Footprint With South African Partnership

DKMS is pleased to announce a collaboration with The Sunflower Fund in South Africa to provide patients worldwide with a second chance at life.

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Environment

Keep Moving Forward

Our vision is that together we can accelerate a climate-positive economy that restores forests and communities, while simultaneously empowering people.

Responsible Production & Consumption

The People Behind Today's Responsible Brands: Teresa Coles Talks with John Lanier of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation on How One Man's Conscience Upended an Industry

Teresa Coles of Riggs Partners talks with John Lanier of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation on how Ray Anderson's conscience upended an industry.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

[Webinar] Leading With Purpose In Extraordinary Times

Join Benevity CEO, Bryan de Lottinville and VP of Marketing, Sona Kholsa as they dive into the Benevity Labs Special Report: COVID-19 Relief to discuss how some of the world's most iconic brands are activating their people and communities.

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Innovation & Technology

Black & Veatch Launches COVOPERATE Mobile 'Boarding Pass' to Support Comprehensive Return-To-Work Programs

As return-to-work programs kick off, Black & Veatch announces the launch of COVOPERATE, a new workforce management application powered by Field2Base that can help employers safely and productively restore operations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

211 Service a Lifeline to 68,000 in Louisiana

Bechtel Group Foundation is helping the nonprofit do more with a $40,000 donation to the UWSWLA Coronavirus Response Fund, which will support individual and families struggling with economic issues.

Green Infrastructure

Katerra CLT Factory Receives Chain of Custody Certifications

Katerra, a technology company redefining the construction industry, today announced that its cross-laminated timber (CLT) factory has earned Chain of Custody (CoC) certifications under three major certification programs

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