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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Alliance Data's Karin Kimbrough Named to Savoy Magazine's List of 2021 Most Influential Black Corporate Directors

Congratulations to Alliance Data’s newest board member Karin Kimbrough for her inclusion on Savoy magazine’s list of 2021 Most Influential Black Corporate Directors.

Innovation & Technology

Bee Downtown: The Unlikely Pairing of Bees and Technology

Environment

HP and WWF Commit $80M to Protect Critical Forest Ecosystems

As world leaders convene this month at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, HP is pledging to expand its reforestation efforts and partnership with the World Wildlife Fund.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

How Shareholders Can Fight Climate Change

Shareholder advocacy is a powerful tool for investors to align social or environmental values with the companies in which they invest and to make a tangible impact.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Common Impact Names Ola Duru Chief Operating Officer

Today, Common Impact, the nonprofit pioneer in skills-based volunteerism announced the appointment of Ola Duru as Chief Operating Officer (COO).

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Faces of Acre - The Value of the Alliance

In our latest Faces of Acre, we sat down with Anna Keen, Acre’s Performance Director & founder of our Learning and Development business, Acre Frameworks, to discuss the Alliance process which is conducted as part of the development of Acre employees.

Education

Lenovo Partners With Yuva Unstoppable to Empower 6000+ Girl Students in Gujarat

Lenovo recently announced its Tablet based learning and lending initiative along with its NGO partner YUVA Unstoppable. This initiative aims to provide about 2590 Make in India tablets to 79 government girls schools in Gujarat.

Education

Henkel Expands Researchers' World Program in North America With Online Lesson Series

The lessons, presented in partnership with Mill River Park Collaborative, are specifically tailored to children ages 8 to 10, and take a holistic approach toward teaching and learning by putting children in the role of an actual researcher.

Diversity & Inclusion

Building a More Inclusive Tech Workforce for Native Americans

Lack of critical mass often leads to underrepresentation of Native American viewpoints and representation in racial disparity assessments–particularly in the tech industry.

Diversity & Inclusion

HACR Mourns the Loss of Iconic National Latino Leader and Lifelong Champion for Youth Development

The Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) mourns the unexpected passing of its longtime board treasurer and former board chair Ronald Blackburn Moreno who passed away on November 4, 2021.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Breaking Down Language Barriers

New program at Whirlpool Corporation’s Amana plant operations helps employees hone English skills

Diversity & Inclusion

The Evolution of ViacomCBS' Multicultural Marketing Capabilities

Multicultural marketing is no longer a ‘nice to have’—it’s a necessity.

Environment

Trane Technologies Healthy Spaces Podcast Season 2 Episode 4: Home Sweet (Healthy) Home

In Episode 4 of the Healthy Spaces with Trane Technologies podcast series, we connect with two science-driven leaders who spend a lot of time understanding research in the field of indoor air quality - and transforming those insights into solutions that can help make home environments safer and healthier.

Environment

Enbridge ESG Forum: Achieving Net-Zero GHG Emissions

Watch Pete Sheffield, Chief Sustainability Officer at Enbridge, discuss the company’s approach to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and lowering scope 3 emissions.

Environment

How Smarter Industries Can Help Decarbonize Our Planet

We humans, and our ability to innovate and find solutions to problems, are key to decarbonizing our planet and limiting the amount of global warming. Ericsson is leading the way by describing how innovative network performance can reduce energy use.

Environment

How Has Technology Changed Farming?

Aided by significant advancements in technology, farming innovation really began to pick up during the second half of the 20th century and into the beginning of the 21st century.

Innovation & Technology

Goodyear and SARTA Collaborate to Advance Intelligent Tire Technology and Sustainable Mobility

Goodyear and SARTA, two Northeast Ohio-based leaders in future mobility, today announced a collaboration to test intelligent tire sensors and prototype tires on SARTA’s fleet of diesel and zero emission hydrogen fuel cell-powered buses.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Further Growth, More Sustainable Future

As part of our Investor Day webcast, we shared how we will continue to grow our business while also delivering strong performance and a more sustainable future – which together adds value for all our stakeholders.

Health & Healthcare

American Workers Are Finding The Expansion Of Health Benefits Increasingly Vital

With open enrollment season upon us, new data shows U.S. employees now believe the expansion of health care coverage, telemedicine and supplemental insurance is more important today because of the pandemic.

Social Impact & Volunteering

World Central Kitchen Supports Communities Following Multiple Disasters

Disasters disproportionately affect underserved communities. Resources and basic necessities are already scarce day-to-day and are sure to be made worse when a natural disaster strikes.

Research, Reports & Publications

From Ambition to Action: Supply Chains Key to Scaling Corporate Net Zero Pledges in Line With COP26

Greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting and action has, in the years following the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement (2015), been established as a top priority on the corporate sustainability agenda.

Environment

Izzo From COP26: 'There Is Clear Momentum Internationally to Do More'

Public Service Enterprise Group Chairman and CEO Ralph Izzo, long a thought leader on climate change and taking action to fight it, is pleased at what he is seeing at the global Convention of Climate Change — better known as COP26 — sponsored by the United Nations in Glasgow, Scotland.

Events, Media & Communications

KeyBank Appoints Brian Maddox to Lead Newly Created Community Development Financial Institutions Team

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) has appointed Brian Maddox as the National Team Leader for its newly created Community Development Financial Institutions (“CDFI”) team.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Partnering for Speed: When Global Expertise Meets Local Knowledge

Embracing the notion of a hybrid partner will support Europe-based life science innovators in delivering drug therapies faster and more cost-effectively.

Environment

Action on Climate Change Needs an Inter-Connected Response

With the UN climate change conference – COP26 – continuing this week in Glasgow, it’s obvious that there is consensus among a majority of world leaders and key stakeholders that much more needs to be done, if the ambition of keeping global warming to a 1.5-degree increase is to have any chance of being met.

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