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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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Diversity & Inclusion

Aflac Partners With Championship Coach Dawn Staley To Bolster Player and Fan Experience During NCAA® Division 1 Women's Basketball Championship

Aflac Incorporated, a leading provider of supplemental health insurance in the U.S., announced plans to boost its support for the upcoming NCAA® Division 1 Women's Basketball Championship in an effort to draw attention to funding gaps that exist in women's athletics.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MetLife, New York Jets and New York Giants Team Up for Online Auctions To Support Students in Tri-State Area

MetLife, along with the New York Giants and New York Jets, has kicked off online auctions to support programs that help students better prepare for their futures.

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Environment

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition Launches Decarbonization Program To Drive SBT Adoption and Reduction in Emissions Across the Fashion Industry

The apparel sector is responsible for between two and eight percent of annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

On World Food Day, We Reflect on the Importance of Sustainable Agriculture

In Daveyton, South Africa, a team from DIS partnered with a major agricultural solution provider, who is our strategic customer, to empower Oliver’s Village’s sustainable agriculture efforts as part of Dow’s Business Impact Fund.

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Innovation & Technology

The Next Frontier in Carbon Capture Is a Hungry Bacterium

Emissions from industrial plants worldwide have been driving global warming for decades. Waste and gases from facilities like steel mills are rich in carbon and constitute about 21% of humanity’s carbon footprint. Biologists Sean Simpson and the late Richard Foster had an idea in 2005: Instead of causing harm, could these emissions be used for good?

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Planet Foundation Announces $10,000 Fund Donors

Whole Planet Foundation’s $10,000 Fund donors are committed to supporting microentrepreneurs around the world in 2022.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comcast RISE Reaches Program's Goal of Supporting 13,000 Small Businesses Hard Hit by COVID-19

As the two-year Comcast RISE program comes to its close, Comcast celebrates having provided over $110 million in monetary, marketing, and technology grants to strengthen and empower small businesses owned by people of color and women.

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Innovation & Technology

Legacy & CSRHub ESG Media Partnership

CSRHub and Legacy's partnership enables media strategists to make better planning decisions, directing investment towards companies with strong ESG ratings.

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Education

Sabrina Elba, Global Citizen, and 11 Organizations Call for Urgent Action To Help Children’s Education in Crisis

Thank you for your leadership on global education, and for the strong support you have given thus far to Education Cannot Wait, the United Nations-hosted global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises.

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Energy

SEEM Launches Operations Supporting Enhanced Energy Trading

The Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM) today announced it has initiated operations, which now allows participants to buy and sell power using the advanced SEEM platform.

Innovation & Technology

Launch of Human Rights and Child Labour Indices for Battery Passport

The Global Battery Alliance launched its Human Rights Index and Child Labour Index for the Battery Passport, ahead of Human Rights Day on 10th December.

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Innovation & Technology

Suncor Celebrates One Billion Barrels of In Situ Production

Suncor hit a major milestone this month as our in situ oil sands operations produced their combined one billionth barrel of oil.

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Energy

Baker Hughes Launches Consortium Exploring Technologies To Transform Abandoned Wells for Geothermal Energy Production

Baker Hughes is spearheading the geothermal energy consortium Wells2Watts, which aims to transform dry-nonproductive geothermal wells and non-productive oil and gas wells into geothermal wells capable of generating renewable electrical power.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

PositiveNRG Week 2022 – Here's to 15

For 15 years, NRG has encouraged employees to be the power of positive change in their communities. Over the years our commitment has grown into positiveNRG Week.

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Diversity & Inclusion

U.S. Bank Celebrates Five Years of Girls Who Code Partnership

In 1994, most people used their telephones to dial up a connection to the Internet, “Forrest Gump” topped the box office -- and women held more computer science jobs than they do today.

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Events, Media & Communications

ESG Reporting Trends in the USA - G&A's Annual Analysis!

The early issues of this newsletter over a decade ago had a feature that seems quaint today: in each issue we published a list of corporate ESG reports that we had found through our own extensive searching.

Responsible Production & Consumption

The (Sustainable) Story Behind a Holiday Tradition: The Tree Farms Supplying The Home Depot's Fresh-Cut Trees

Most of the Christmas trees sold in our stores come from family-owned tree farms, with many of them in three locations – Oregon, Canada and North Carolina. Whatever the type, when a family buys a fresh-cut tree, they’re taking home a sustainable, renewable resource that provides jobs.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Resilience and Circularity Among Key Focuses in 2023 for Tapestry

Interestingly, it has also informed a new business model that we’re pursuing, called Coachtopia. It is a completely circular business model, and we’re building product in Coachtopia with circularity in mind from the beginning.

Environment

Inaugural Drawdown Georgia Climate Solutions & Equity Grant Recipients Announced

Five Georgia-based family foundations today announce the awarding of inaugural Drawdown Georgia Climate Solutions & Equity Grants in support of efforts that advance climate solutions and prioritize equity in Georgia.

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Health & Healthcare

Gilead Sciences: U.S. Military Veteran Battles Lymphoma With Car T-Cell Therapy: Marcus' Story

After receiving his cancer diagnosis, Marcus was driven to beat it. “There's no way I'm going to let this disease get the best of me and not be here to raise my son and see him grow up.”

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Education

Search Begins for 2023 America's Top Young Scientist

3M and Discovery Education are excited to announce the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge is now open to entries.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Newsweek Names Tractor Supply to List of “America's Most Responsible Companies”

Tractor Supply Company, the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, announced today it has been recognized on Newsweek’s 2023 list of America’s Most Responsible Companies.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bread Financial Makes Contribution to Junior Achievement™ of Central Ohio's Financial Literacy Mission

Bread Financial Holdings, Inc., a tech-forward financial services company that provides simple, flexible payment, lending and saving solutions, today announced a $1.5 million gift to Junior Achievement of Central Ohio (JA).

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Georgia-Pacific Celebrates the 5th Anniversary of Engage

Georgia-Pacific is a founding corporate partner of Engage and has had 19 contracts with startups from the past ten cohorts.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Elevating Native and Indigenous Voices Through Cisco's Native American Network

November is Native American Heritage Month — in this month we can all come together to celebrate the culture, traditions, history and honor the contributions of our nation’s first people.

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