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PNC Volunteers Bring Basic Financial Knowledge to New Volunteer Opportunity

For about two years now, the PNC Center for Financial Education (CFE), an effort led by Community Development Banking, has been collaborating with community-based nonprofits to offer financial education to individuals, first-time homebuyers and small businesses.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Manchester City and Xylem Tackle Water and Education Issues in Bangalore With Fan Volunteers

Five Manchester City fans from across India were given an exciting volunteering opportunity to team up with the Club’s Official Water Technology Partner, Xylem, to increase access to safe water for primary schools in Bangalore.

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Environment

American Forest Foundation Welcomes International Paper as a Family Forest Carbon Program Partner

The American Forest Foundation announced today that International Paper has joined AFF and its partner, The Nature Conservancy, in supporting the Family Forest Carbon Program to enhance carbon sequestration in family owned forest land across the U.S.

Diversity & Inclusion

2020 Catalyst Award Winner Medtronic Hires Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer

Medtronic is hiring its first Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer, underscoring its continued focus and significant investment in inclusion and diversity as a business priority. Sally Saba, M.D., will assume the position effective March 2, 2020

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Environment

Unlocking the Power of Policy at Ceres 2020 in New York!

At Ceres 2020 in New York, we’ll explore how policy and legislation can serve as real solutions to our most pressing sustainability challenges and how both investors and companies can help shape innovative climate and energy policies

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Connecting Employee Communities at Qualcomm

Qualcomm Employee Networks (ENs) are employee-driven, enterprise-supported networks, promoting the professional growth of our employees. They support the communities in which we do business, offer collaboration and encouragement among employees.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrate Black History Month: For the Love of Baseball and Small-Town Life

On weekdays, you'll find Duke Energy security officer Hugh Gorie helping keep watch over Oconee Nuclear Station near Seneca, S.C. On weekends from April to September, you'll find him on baseball diamonds...

Innovation & Technology

Goodyear Connected Tires Can Reduce Lost Stopping Distance, a Key for EVs, AVs

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company recently eclipsed 3 million miles of data from road tests and field trials with customers derived from its connected tires.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Two New Helicopters Help Support Wildfire Mitigation Efforts

As the helicopter, brightly painted yellow and green, makes its way toward the helipad at Chino Airport, the rotors are noticeably quieter, the size of the aircraft larger than most of the fleet.

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Innovation & Technology

The New Energy World:­ Perspectives from Global Leaders

"Our Green Chemistry initiative is as much about driving efficiency in our factories (staring with technology development to design future processes) as it is about sustainability." - Frederick Hellman, Compliance Associate Director, Astra Zeneca

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating Black History Month: Jessica O. Matthews

It takes an innovative mind to correlate a soccer ball with electricity. It takes an entrepreneur — a modern-day pioneer like Jessica O. Matthews — to turn such an item into a source of energy for the developing world.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

LIXIL Earns Place in CDP’s Water Security A List for Second Consecutive Year

LIXIL has been named in the CDP ’s prestigious Water A List for two consecutive years. Incorporating its Corporate Responsibility commitment in its products, services, and business, CDP’s recognition reflects LIXIL's leadership in water stewardship.

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Erb Institute Faculty Director Joe Árvai Recognized for Contribution to Risk Analysis

As businesses address climate change, the ways they assess, analyze and mitigate risk are critical. Árvai is an expert in the risk and decision sciences, and he is a frequent advisor to governments, government agencies, NGOs and the private sector.

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Health & Healthcare

Study: Your Home’s Water Quality Could Vary by the Room – and the Season

Is the water in your home actually safe, given that water utility companies in the U.S. aren’t required by law to monitor the water that specifically enters a building at its service line?

Energy

Millennials and the Financial Impact of the Energy Transition

Millennials were born into a rapidly changing financial landscape which should inform us of the diligence required for the next economic revolution.

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Environment

Using Shared Value for Climate Action

A look into FSG’s project with Swedish construction company OBOS.

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Innovation & Technology

The Long and Short of 77 and 24 GHz Automotive Radar

Automotive radar developers continue to hold onto the tenet, that good technology truly can save lives as Keysight and Calterah work to create better radar detection for blind spot detection, lane change, parking assistance, and collision avoidance.

Environment

Cascade Comes Clean About Dishwashing Habit

P&G detergent brand, Cascade is launching “Do It Every Night,” a campaign to encourage water conservation in an unexpected way: by considering running the dishwasher every night, instead of washing dishes by hand.

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Events, Media & Communications

What Nature Can Teach Business About Achieving Shared and Sustainable Value

Companies are recognizing that more inclusive business models and collaborations that include diverse actors can drive both economic growth and accelerate impact on addressing our UN Sustainable Development Goals. What’s behind this realization?

Events, Media & Communications

Goodyear Unveils New Brand Campaign That Champions the Power of Forward Movement

Goodyear’s newest campaign highlights the relationship between physical movement and unlocking human potential.

Sustainable Development Goals

Practical Help for Businesses to up the Pace of SDGs Progress

This year marks just ten years to go to the deadline for completing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Arrow Electronics Employees Sponsor Donation Drive for REMAR Mexico Shelter

Employees in Arrow Electronics’ Guadalajara, Mexico operations sponsored a donation drive for the REMAR Occidente Shelter that provides essential services for women and children.

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Innovation & Technology

Surprise! T-Mobile Announces Not Just One, But Three Grand Prize Winners of the Second-Annual Changemaker Challenge

Instead of just ONE team walking away with the Grand Prize, all three teams were selected to each receive a total of $10,000 in seed funding for their project.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

PayPal Funds Research Into Illegal Firearm Distribution

With the U.S. holding the title for more public mass shootings than any other country globally, increasingly, Americans are looking to all stakeholders to solve the gun violence epidemic.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Nevada Homeless Alliance Sponsor of the Year Sands Cares Helps the Organization Provide for Those in Need

The Nevada Homeless Alliance (NHA) organizes Project Homeless Connect, a series of service events bringing providers together in a single place to help those in need in the local Las Vegas community.

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Events, Media & Communications

U. S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome M. Adams and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta join Chef David Bouley and Dr. Mark Hyman at The WELL Conference

Two globally recognized physicians, a renowned integrative medicine expert, and one of the world’s leading restauranteurs will join the more than 50 leading designers, architects, business leaders, academicians and public health professionals...

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