Each year on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the world recognizes the critical role women play in driving innovation, advancing discovery, and strengthening communities.
Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, launched the #DecodeYourRhythm campaign in India, a nationwide initiative to raise awareness about bradycardia, a type of arrhythmia in which the heart beats slower than normal.
FedEx Supply Chain has been honored with the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council’s 2025 Leadership Award in the Circular Economy category for its innovative e-waste pilot.
Europe’s economic future rests on its smallest players. More than 25 million micro and small businesses make up 99% of all EU enterprises and employ nearly half the population. Yet, a persistent gap is holding them back.
Candid and Idealist, two nonprofits that serve the social-impact sector through tools for insights and connection, announced an agreement that will transfer Philanthropy News Digest’s job service to Idealist
Last year, we launched Breakthrough!, our first global, live and in-person learning experience for above-restaurant leaders. Across 15 countries, nearly 4,000 Yum! leaders came together to share tools, practice together and commit to turning learning into action.
With 35 years of experience as a CEO, I’ve learned that our most precious resource is not capital, talent or technology — it’s time. It’s finite, irreplaceable and unequally distributed. And, ironically, it’s the very thing many of us feel we lack when trying to prioritize our he
Today marks 50 years since the start of the Innsbruck 1976 Olympic Winter Games. Half a century on, as the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games are about to begin, the legacy-driven approach taken by Innsbruck in 1976 is more relevant than ever.
Throughout 2026, the company will support community-focused initiatives alongside major sporting events including Super Bowl LX, NBA AllStar 2026, and the FIFA World Cup 2026™.
Around the world, the logistics sector is growing fast, but companies can’t find enough qualified workers to keep up. In fact, a shortage of skilled talent is now one of the top barriers to growth across the industry.
We’re often flooded with diet promises claiming to be the key to better health. Popular plans like keto and paleo encourage more meat. At the same time, fibermaxxing focuses on daily fiber intake (a difficult goal when you’re eliminating carbohydrates).
Wilson joins BBMG after 23-years at Wolff Olins, where she most recently served as a Global Principal and was responsible for helping multinational clients create category defining brands, including AOL, Fidelity, GE, Google Fiber, Product (RED), Spotify, Target, Turner Broadcasting, Unilever and USA Today. Wilson will lead BBMG’s brand strategy, design and social innovation practices across offices in Brooklyn and San Francisco.
In December of 2015, I was at home with my family enjoying the rest of the holiday season when multiple tornadoes hit the Dallas area. We later found out that some of our friends were impacted by one of the tornados. My natural instinct was to get in the car immediately to provide the support they needed. In all honesty, I did not have a plan. I just wanted to help.
Every child deserves a safe, loving and permanent family. That is the simple yet profound motivation behind National Adoption Month. Celebrated across North America each November, this special month of awareness helps to increase the number of families willing to consider adoption and celebrates the joys of creating families through foster care adoption.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and WILDLABS awarded over $65,000 to the winners of the organizations’ first-ever international Human Wildlife Conflict Tech Challenge. British conservation technologist Alasdair Davies and the Dutch team of Laurens de Groot and Tim van Dam will receive nearly $35,000 to further develop and field test their solution for human-wildlife conflict.
Profound change is sweeping across the grasslands and vast expanses of the East African savanna. Here, amid the verdant valleys and hillsides rippling through this sea of grass, small farmers have struggled for millennia to eke out a living from the sun-baked soils. But now, with the help of an ecosystem powered by cloud technology, new hope and opportunity are coming to one of the poorest regions, per capita, on earth. It’s an alliance that connects hundreds of thousands of small farmers with an infrastructure that can support applications developed by Intelipro, a software company based in Kenya, to help farmers develop their agricultural practices, access financial resources, sales, and most importantly, improve quality of life for them and their children.
I hadn’t been to Haiti since June 2010, six months after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that decimated much of the island. At that time, there were still many ruins of collapsed buildings, piles of rubble along the roadsides, and thousands of people living in makeshift tent camps. This August, I returned to Haiti and saw a very different country.
This October, the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC), in conjunction with the Plastics Industry Association hosted a Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference workshop aimed at helping recyclers learn more about the opportunity presented by healthcare plastics.
Here at Northern Trust, we stand behind breast cancer research! We are proud of our partners gathering and making donations for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk to celebrate all touched by breast cancer, including our own.
Nestlé markets across Africa are today showing their commitment to young people with numerous programmes and initiatives in celebration of Africa Youth Day.
As a young child, Anne Springs Close heard the statement often: “It’s a sin to be indoors on a sunny day.” Today, at the age of 91, it continues to be a guiding principle and the early inspiration for her life’s work.
Kayla Baumfalk joined the Nebraska Army National Guard in 2003, just out of high school. She would spend 11 years in this reserve component of the U.S. military—one of them deployed to Iraq—before her honorable discharge in 2014.
To continue the business journey towards long-lasting change, we need to be flexible, we need to take diverse perspectives into account and – most importantly – we need to be adaptable. Panorama is a start, and we call on all business and sustainability leaders to get involved, to share their perspectives and to consider alternative viewpoints
The French-based e-payment services company Wordline started sustainability reporting in 2014, and is now one of the pioneers to publish a GRI Standards report. We interviewed Sébastien Mandron, Corporate Social Responsibility Officer at Worldline, about how sustainability reporting helps the company enhance trust with its stakeholders.
The Citi Foundation today announced an expansion of its Community Progress Makers Fund, through an investment of an additional $20 million in leading nonprofit organizations across six U.S. cities. Organizations serving Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, D.C., may apply for grants up to $500,000 through the open Request for Applications. The deadline is December 18, 2017.
BNY Mellon’s Mitchell E. Harris, Michael Cole-Fontayn and Dario Parente are being honored for their impact on LGBT+ inclusion inside and outside the workplace.
Only two weeks remain until the 2017 Corporate Citizenship Conference! Roll up your sleeves in collaborative working sessions, have unparalleled networking opportunities, and hear from the best in corporate citizenship.
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, has announced a new Global Family Leave policy that is industry-leading in its global scope and strengthens the company’s commitment to Diversity and Inclusion. The policy will support Schneider Electric employees worldwide by providing paid personal time during moments when it matters the most, enabling them to better manage their unique life and work.
On October 12 and 13, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry’s Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) conducted a two-day Work Matters Summit at PNC headquarters in Pittsburgh.
We are combining start-up funding, incubation, and integration to accelerate Bechtel’s efforts to drive technological innovation and sustainability across the enterprise.
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