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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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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

PYXERA Global Announces Charles Hamidu as Chair of the Board of Directors for PYXERA Global Ghana

PYXERA Global is pleased to announce that Charles Hamidu, Founder and Managing Director of Amethyst Ghana Limited has become Chair of the Board of Directors for PYXERA Global Ghana.

Education

There Is a Shortage of African American Teachers in America

Research has shown that young Black students actually perform better overall when they have interacted with a teacher that is African American.

Diversity & Inclusion

VMware China Celebrates LGBT Pride for the First Time!

Our VMware team in China, along with the Beijing LGBT Center, celebrate their very first Pride Month event.

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Environment

Kimberly-Clark and Appalachian Woodlands Alliance Empower Small Landowners to Safeguard Forests

Strong partnerships are critical to engage the entire supply chain in responsible forest practices, and to safeguard forest ecosystems around the world.

Responsible Production & Consumption

AIDA Cruises Implements Onboard Initiatives to Reduce Food Waste

AIDA Cruises, the leading cruise line serving the German market, has implemented an array of onboard initiatives designed to continuously reduce food waste.

Responsible Production & Consumption

'With a Better Environment, We’ll Have a Better Crop': How Fargreen Is Closing the Loop in Vietnam’s Rice Production

Vietnam’s landscape is layered with green and golden rice fields. One of the largest exporters of rice in the world, the country produces more than 20m tonnes each year.

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Environment

Fishing for Good: Helping Combat Plastic Waste in the Sea

The fishermen of San Benedetto del Tronto on Italy’s Adriatic coast are more used to filling their nets with fish than anything else. But in recent years they have noticed the increasing level of seaborne plastic waste. Now they are turning their hand to doing something about it, with the support of FPT Industrial, the global powertrain brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE:CNHI / MI:CNHI).

Sustainable Development Goals

Tokyo 2020: Sustainable Games for a Sustainable Society

As the countdown to the Games begins, we look at some of the most innovative sustainability initiatives of Tokyo 2020.

Energy

Nuclear Energy Benefits The Environment

Bechtel is proud to partner with Georgia Power to deliver on an important project – the only ongoing construction of new nuclear generation currently in the United States.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Wells Fargo Donates Additional $7.9 Million for Small Business Growth

Wells Fargo announced another new boost to diverse small businesses today with $7.9 million in grants from its Diverse Community Capital program, which offers capital and technical assistance to minority-owned small businesses through Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). To date, the program has generated more than 103,000 jobs across the U.S.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Let’s Embrace Distributed Infrastructure to Decrease Power Outages

Data Center operators and businesses need predictability in their power supplies. Their infrastructure has to operate regardless of grid stability, weather conditions and other factors that threaten their systems.

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Events, Media & Communications

Martin Currie Rob Roy Challenge Celebrates Another Successful Year

Hundreds of people took to the Scottish Highlands for the Martin Currie Rob Roy Challenge, hiking and biking their way to raising thousands for charity. The event has been running since 2006 and has raised almost £4 million for good causes.

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Trane Unveils Building and Community Investments in Tyler to Deliver Environmental, Social and Business Benefits

Trane®, a leading global provider of indoor comfort solutions and services and a brand of Ingersoll Rand, held a celebration of its business, social and environmental sustainability on July 25.

Research, Reports & Publications

Environmental Sustainability at Intel

Our long-standing commitment to environmental leadership helps us achieve efficiency, reduce costs, and respond to the needs of our customers and community stakeholders. We invest in conservation projects and set company-wide environmental targets, seeking to drive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, water use, and waste generation. We also work with others to apply Intel® technology to environmental challenges such as climate change and water conservation.

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Cerro Verde, a Freeport-McMoRan Company, Graduates Women Entrepreneurs from the DreamBuilder Program

More than 300 entrepreneurs from Peru’s Arequipa region recently received their diplomas after finishing the DreamBuilder training program.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MetLife Named to FTSE4Good Index

MetLife, Inc. announced it has been named to the FTSE4Good Index, which highlights companies with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sappi Limited is Recognized as a Socially Responsible Investment 

Sappi Limited is proud to earn a spot in the FTSE/ JSE Responsible Investment Top 30 Index.

Diversity & Inclusion

Cracking the Code: Working Together to Engage and Empower Female Technologists at Bloomberg

To create products that serve increasingly diverse customers and solve a wider range of social problems, technology companies need women engineers.

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Innovation & Technology

ON Semiconductor In The News: Dr. Chakraborty, A Brief History of Batteries and EV Projects

Read our roundup of news, announcements, and energy efficiency projects including an interview with Dr-Sudipta-Chakraborty (link to original article), a brief history of batteries and much more.

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Environment

Why Are Bats Disappearing? Study Aims to Find Out

Bats are hard to find. They’re small (some weigh less than three pennies), they fly by night and hide during the day, but perhaps the most challenging part is that there are fewer of them than there used to be.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How to Start a Corporate Revolution

Interface’s story can not only inspire but also instruct us all in how a purposeless company can transform itself to become a vehicle for achieving something important for the world and improve its financial performance in the process.

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Diversity & Inclusion

AEG Teams Up With Mayor Eric Garcetti to Boost Diversity in Entertainment Industry Through Evolve Entertainment Fund

AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company, recently teamed up with Mayor Eric Garcetti in Los Angeles to host the Evolve Entertainment Fund (EEF) 2019 Summer Kickoff at L.A. LIVE on June 15, 2019.

Environment

Hallmark Receives Distinguished Designation for Responsible Sourcing of Timber and Paper Products by WWF

Hallmark UK is delighted to have been awarded 3 Trees in the WWF-UK’s 2019 Timber Scorecard, an accolade that underlines Hallmark’s ongoing commitment to finding responsible and sustainable ways to reduce their impact on the environment.

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Innovation & Technology

Taproot Foundation Launches Newly Transformed Matchmaking Platform Taproot Plus

Taproot Foundation is transforming how nonprofit and social change organizations access the pro bono support they need to achieve their missions by launching the newly redesigned matchmaking platform Taproot Plus at www.taprootplus.org.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck Recognized on PEOPLE’s 50 Companies That Care List

Merck was recognized on PEOPLE’s third annual 50 Companies That Care list for investing $500 million to reduce preventable maternal mortality across the globe with education, tools and technologies for health care providers and moms through its Merck for Mothers program.

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