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).
President of Cricket West Indies Dave Cameron wants over 300,000 children in the Caribbean to benefit from the Kiddy Cricket Scotiabank Chirpy’s Classroom Adventure Academic Manual.
In my role at JetBlue, I see firsthand how important science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are to shaping future generations of leaders. Most of the critical functions of JetBlue require STEM, including aircraft flight, repair, and routing.
Yet the aviation industry still lacks women in technical and analytical positions, a trend that is seen throughout the aviation sector. Women pilots, for instance, represent less than 7% of the commercial pilot population, and women represent less than 3% of all mechanics, according to 2015 data from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The topic of human rights in the context of businesses has been on the rise the past 20 years, initiated by the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. In this blog post, GRI's Chief Executive Tim Mohin sits with Caroline Rees, President and Co-founder of Shift (a non-profit organization working to help governments and companies implement the UNGPs) about how businesses should manage their human rights impacts, sustainability reporting, the SDGs and more.
Nearly half of India’s 1.3 billion people are women. Yet women comprise only one-third of HP employees in India—and just 15 percent are managers. When HP’s Nanditha Seetharamaiah learned about this inequality, she decided to do something about it.
Whole Planet Foundation is proud to welcome Chobani, a new $100,000 Fund donor to our cause of global poverty alleviation. Chobani’s generosity this year will fund approximately 550 microloans to create 2,900 opportunities for microentrepreneurs and their family members to live a better life through microcredit.
In celebration of World Water Day on March 22 and Earth Day on April 22, Xylem will host the second annual Make Your Mark 30 Day Challenge, a month-long event that encourages employees to engage in efforts to solve global and local water and environmental issues. The 30 Day Challenge is a signature event of Xylem Watermark, the company’s corporate citizenship platform aimed at providing and protecting safe water resources in communities and educating people about water issues.
As part of the launch to this year’s Make Your Mark 30 Day Challenge on World Water Day, Xylem Watermark will sponsor employee-led events with global nonprofit partner EarthEcho International, kicking off the 17th edition of the organization’s EarthEcho Water Challenge.
On Feb. 21, 40 high school students from New York City and neighboring public schools made their way to Viacom’s Times Square headquarters to celebrate Black History Month with a screening of Paramount’s critically acclaimed "Selma," a crucial film about the African-American experience.
Viacommunity hosted the event, which featured members of The BEAT, Viacom’s employee resource group focused on the African-American experience, on a post-screening panel. To coordinate this celebration in honor of Black History Month, Viacom worked with nonprofit organizations The Opportunity Network and Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation (SASF), which provide academic support to students from underserved communities.
Innovation is helping the World Food Program, frequent partner of The UPS Foundation, to explore more ways to accomplish their mission to address hunger and promote food security around the globe.
Frontier Co-op is a $100,000 Fund partner responsible to people and planet and has been supporting Whole Planet Foundation's mission of global poverty alleviation through microcredit since 2012.
In 2018, people with Down syndrome and other disabilities are celebrating extraordinary achievements. They are graduating high school with their peers, attending postsecondary programs, enjoying meaningful careers, and living long, healthy and productive lives. NDSS works on behalf of all individuals with Down syndrome across the lifespan. However, challenges remain, as the following story illustrates.
Last week, Maven Gig launched in Austin, a city ranked at the top of best cities lists with accolades such as “Greenest City in America,” and rated as one of the Best Cities for Recent College Grads. The Austin launch marked the first all-electric fleet for Gig, utilizing the Chevrolet Bolt EV as the sole vehicle offered. Through the platform, Austin residents now have access to vehicles on-demand for a weekly flat rate that includes the car, unlimited miles, insurance (minus deductibles) and maintenance.
Few companies are lucky enough to have over €1bn to spend on building themselves new headquarters. But then few companies have the resources of Bloomberg, the global business and financial information company set up by Michael Bloomberg. Last October he and a team of architects from Foster + Partners unveiled a new European HQ, which was a decade in the making and now occupies a 1.3-hectare site in the City of London.
Pfizer released its 2017 Annual Review, which highlights how The Power of Science drives every aspect of Pfizer’s business in its mission to deliver innovative medicines and vaccines that help improve health and well-being at every stage of life.
Today, Reputation Institute announced the company's annual results for the Global RepTrak® 100 ranking. Reputation Institute is the world's leading research and advisory firm for reputation measurement and management services. The RepTrak® model analyzes the reputations of companies and the 2018 study is based on more than 230,000 individual ratings
My Possibilities, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, will be making history later this month as they celebrate the pre-opening of the My Possibilities Campus for Higher Learning in Plano.
A national network of influential American businesses is calling on the Trump administration to maintain robust fuel-economy and emissions standards for passenger vehicles, and expressing support for states' rights to maintain those standards.
I recently had the opportunity to visit Puerto Rico to help the Timberland PRO team plan and execute a two-day service event in conjunction with its spring sales meeting. Moved by the devastation caused by last fall’s Hurricane Maria and eager to make a difference, the PRO team decided to change its usual regional meetings and meet as one national team in Puerto Rico. Community service is core to Timberland’s DNA, so it’s not unusual for us to build service into key company events such as sales meetings, vendor summits, and more. But in this case, the PRO team went above and beyond a typical service event, and dedicated two ten-hour days of the three-day meeting to serve.
Duke Energy is committing $500,000 to help fund an American Lung Association program targeting high-emitting wood stoves in North Carolina – replacing them with cleaner, more efficient models.
It seems like a simple enough idea — Why can’t the power company identify the place on an electrical circuit that caused an outage so fewer customers are affected and it takes less time to fix?
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