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Beyond Financial Inclusion: What Drives Financial Health for Women Entrepreneurs?

CARE’s new Strive Women report finds digital divide, financial stress and household responsibilities limit business success in emerging markets.

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Tapestry Career Spotlight: Eric Chavous, Senior Manager, Counsel

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Innovation & Technology

Innovating for Impact: Trane Technologies Helps Geely Bring Efficiency to Their Electric Car Manufacturing

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Diversity & Inclusion

How a Group of 'Nasty Women' Who Launched Careers at ViacomCBS Created a Vital Support Network

Behind every great woman, is another great woman. Or, in the case of Samantha Cooper, EVP of global content licensing at ViacomCBS: eight great women.

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Sustainable Development Goals

UN Calls for Action From the Global Business Community to Help End the Humanitarian Crisis of Seafarers

The UN Human Rights Office and the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, have joined the United Nations Global Compact in calling for businesses across the value chain to act and assess the human rights situation facing seafarers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Media & Communications

Cummins Unveils Refreshed Sustainability Website

To meet the growing demand for sustainability information, Cummins has refreshed its sustainability website, adding ESG strategy summaries, videos, sustainability news and more.

Research, Reports & Publications

With COVID Causing Financial Strife, Americans Taking a Hard Look at Health Care Spending

That’s the key takeaway from the annual 2020 Aflac WorkForces Report, which takes a magnifying glass to how employees and employers expect to approach health care benefits enrollment each year.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful Announces 2020-21 Great Youth Advisory Council

Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful (GC&B), a Keep America Beautiful affiliate in Lawrenceville, GA, has announced its new class of Green Youth Advisory Council members. Twenty-one high schoolers from across the area have been selected to serve as youth leaders to help engage a new generation of environmental stewards.

Education

Happy World Teachers' Day

Qualcomm recognizes and celebrates teachers across the globe for their steadfast commitment to their profession and to the students they serve.

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Media & Communications

Watch Land Betterment Corporation's Update from its Eastern Kentucky Ag Tech and Sustainable Housing Site

Land Betterment, an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites to create sustainable community development and job creation, show and discuss its development plans for its multi-purpose, 120-acre site located in Perry County, Kentucky, near the town of Hazard.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck Named to Working Mother Best Companies Lists

Merck is proud to be named one of Working Mother's 100 best companies for 2020, a distinction we've been honored to receive for more than 30 years running, and a 2020 Best Companies for Dads, for the third consecutive year. With a focus on...

Environment

The Science & Art of Goal Setting: Announcing Johnson & Johnson's New Climate Goals

Johnson & Johnson’s latest climate goals build on the legacy and achievement of our previous efforts, while accelerating action as part of the larger movement by the private sector, along with governments and civil society, to ramp up the ambition and implementation of climate goals during this new UN Decade of Action.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

New Innovation Lab Cultivates Women-Led Businesses in the Sanitation Economy

Powered by the Toilet Board Coalition, with the strategic support of Kimberly-Clark and its Kotex brand, the Women in the Sanitation Economy Innovation Lab is a new initiative intended to cultivate and catalyze early stage ideas and businesses within the Sanitation Economy that are either women-led and/or women’s health-focused.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Taproot Foundation Unites Skilled Volunteers, Private and Nonprofit Sectors for Pro Bono Week 2020

Taproot Foundation, a national nonprofit that connects organizations with volunteers sharing their professional skills pro bono, will host a week of virtual events in October celebrating Pro Bono Week in partnership with sponsor American Express.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

"ESG Beat" Podcast Featuring CECP's Brian Tomlinson, Director of Research, CEO Investor Forum

Listen to this latest episode of "The ESG Beat", recorded with Professor Amelia Miazad for the Sustainable Capitalism course at University of California, Berkeley - School of Law.

Innovation & Technology

This Paint Inspired by Butterflies Could Be the Secret to Cooler Cities

Cypris Materials has created a paint inspired by blue morpho butterfly wings, which get their color from blue lightwaves reflecting off the nanostructure of the wings themselves.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Franklin Templeton Responds to Connecticut's Call to Address Economic and Racial Disparities

Franklin Templeton is proud be part of the Corporate Call to Action Working Group, joining leading financial services companies that are committed to addressing structural racism and racial inequity in the United States.

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Green Infrastructure

Electrification of Agricultural Vehicles

Agricultural mobile machinery/vehicles are a type of machinery used in farming or other agriculture-related activities, such as harvesting.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Fifth Third's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report Highlights the Value of Sustainability

Fifth Third published its inaugural ESG Report, which highlights how the Bank generates long-term sustainable value for stakeholders, including robust support for small businesses and its communities through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Energy

Facility Optimization and Solar Energy

After optimizing your facility, you can raise the sustainability bar and realize further cost reduction by considering renewable energy sources such as solar energy.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

$10,000 Awarded to Title 1 School for Virtual Financial Literacy Education

Jackson Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit with the mission to advance financial knowledge on a national scale, today announced Potter-Burns Elementary School in Pawtucket, RI as the winner of the 4th annual Cha-ChingTM Money Smart Kids Pledge Challenge.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Powering Data Centers with Natural Gas: A Report on the Benefits of Natural Gas for Data Center Backup Power

Increasingly dynamic and reaching monumental scale in size and complexity, data centers are using record levels of power. Resilient, sustainable alternatives for emergency backup power is one way data centers are working towards greener operations.

Education

Episode 43: How Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab Embraced Connected Learning To Reach More STEM Students Than Ever Before [Podcast]

Kids who attend Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab STEM summer camps create their own inventions to express themselves and solve problems for their communities. While distanced learning made this year a little different, it also let more students participate.

Innovation & Technology

Why Manufacturing Matters: Intel's 40 Years in Arizona

Caring for the communities where we operate has always been important to us. I’m proud to say that over the past 5 years, employees have volunteered more than 700,000 hours at Arizona schools & nonprofits where we’ve donated some $33.8 million.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

ASCM, PYXERA Global, and Ellen MacArthur Foundation Announce Collaboration to Accelerate the Adoption of Circular Economy Supply Chain Practices

The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), PYXERA Global, and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation today announced they will work together to help companies become more circular, which will contribute to economic recovery following the pandemic and beyond.

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Events, Media & Communications

CNH Industrial and Nikola Co-Sponsor Politico's “Decarbonization of Heavy Transport and the Role of Hydrogen”

CNH Industrial N.V. and Nikola Corporation co-sponsored Politico’s Decarbonization of Heavy Transport and the Role of Hydrogen.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Whole Planet Foundation Launches Annual Poverty Is Unnecessary Project

This October, Whole Planet Foundation celebrates its global impact on poverty and the partners who further its mission.

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Events, Media & Communications

Arrow Electronics Sponsors 2020 Colorado Women in Technology Conference

Arrow Electronics sponsored the Colorado Technology Association’s Women in Technology Conference, a long-running forum for women to discuss the opportunities and challenges of being a woman in the technology industry.

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