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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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Environment

Anti-Plastic Legislation Creates Opportunities for Bioalternatives

A growing number of actual and proposed bans on single-use plastic products, such as grocery bags, straws and water bottles, are feeding a worldwide appetite for bioalternatives, such as reusable, refillable and/or recyclable products and packaging. As a result, we’re seeing renewed markets for existing paper-based products and new opportunities for innovation in plant-based biomaterials.

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Media & Communications

Sustainable Brands Welcomes Newest Addition to Leadership Team

Sustainable Brands® announced today that Etienne White has joined the company’s leadership team as VP, Brands for Good to help expand the fast-growing collaborative initiative launched last month.

Black & Veatch

Research, Reports & Publications

Technology, Trading Offer Opportunity for Managing Nutrient Discharge

Nutrient pollution and the resulting excess of nutrients in waterbodies continues to plague aquatic environments around the world, threatening waterways, fish and plant life — and even public health.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

JetBlue Helps Rebuild Puerto Rico with Habitat Restoration

This summer, JetBlue joined The Ocean Foundation and other local organizations to learn how to restore ecosystems that protect coastlines. These are some of the habitats that were decimated during Hurricane Maria. In addition to hands-on work, JetBlue also offered financial support to The Ocean Foundation.

Benevity

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Electronic Payments Can Help You Scale Your Corporate Giving Program

When a cause needs to process a paper donation check, it creates costly administrative work. Non-profits must deposit each check and issue manual tax receipts. Benevity sends the majority (88% in 2018!) of payments processed through our platform electronically, with funds arriving within 30 days, making us a leader in the industry.

Research, Reports & Publications

A Message from our CEO, Antonio Neri, President and Chief Executive Officer at HPE

We live in an incredible time—where climate change, population, food, healthcare, and security all present urgent and interrelated challenges for our society. Fortunately, I believe technology can play an important role in addressing these rapidly-evolving global needs. And that is why we at HPE have dedicated ourselves to a clear, simple, and extremely important cause—developing and using technology to advance the way people live and work.

Health & Healthcare

Regional Health Provides Cancer Patients With a New Fun Tool

Rapid City Regional Health welcomed some new feathered friends to its pediatric floor.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Robert Ruano Appointed to Serve on Arbor Day Foundation Board of Trustees

The Arbor Day Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Ecostrata Services Founder and President Robert Ruano to serve for a three-year term.

Black & Veatch

Energy

Asia Aligns Power Infrastructure Investments to Meet Dynamic Energy Transition Needs

Black & Veatch’s new regional leader brings focus to integrated conventional, renewable, distributed generation and the power grid

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Education

The Behavioral Science Inspiring Better Financial Habits

Launched in the fall of 2015 with support from MetLife Foundation, Common Cents Lab aims to change people’s relationships with money.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Blockchain Through the Whole Supply Chain

The dirt road got bumpier and the jungle more beautiful, with a seemingly endless variety of trees and wildlife. The villages announced themselves with their wood and straw houses. Residents sat on porches, manning micro markets and looking after children. Others were heading out, machete in hand, to tend their parcels of farmland.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Common Impact Announces New Board Members as Organization Expands the Reach of its Mission

Common Impact, a national nonprofit leader for corporate skills-based volunteerism, has announced the appointment of two new board members.

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Innovation & Technology

Data Science to Improve Foresight and Decision Making in the Humanitarian Sector

The organization I work for—Mercy Corps—strives to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression through economic development and emergency relief programs around the world. This work has always been challenging. We’ve seen firsthand the fragmentation of armed actors in the Syrian War or increasing climate variability in the Horn of Africa, a region already made vulnerable by poverty and violent extremism. Add to this complexity, an emerging digital space where media platforms are used to recruit terrorists, manipulate voters, or incite violence against minorities.

Research, Reports & Publications

New Matching Gifts Guide for Employers! Everything You Need to Know to Match Employee Donations

A successful matching gift program can help your company attract and retain employees, showcase your corporate values, enhance your employees’ experience, and — most importantly — make a difference.

Innovation & Technology

Bayer Expands Industry-leading Digital Farming Platform in Argentina

The agriculture industry’s leading digital farming platform, Climate FieldView, has commercially launched in Argentina for the upcoming growing season. Already widely adopted globally, FieldView™ is transforming the way farmers manage their operations with data-driven, digital tools. The platform arrives in Argentina for the upcoming growing season to help farmers get the most out of each hectare.

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Diversity & Inclusion

For Youth Employment: Skills Work

Young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults. Women are also more likely to be underemployed and under-paid. That is why education and training are key determiners of success in the labor market.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Northwestern Mutual’s Ultimate Campout Unites Families Fighting Childhood Cancer

When a child receives a cancer diagnosis, their life as they know it – as well as their entire family’s – is put on hold, while treatment takes over as the family’s #1 priority. That’s why Northwestern Mutual’s Foundation* created the Ultimate Campout Fighting Childhood Cancer.

Education

Summer Reading Gets Easier with JetBlue’s Soar with Reading

Now in its ninth year, JetBlue is bringing its Soar With Reading program straight to its hometown of New York City. The initiative is tackling book availability in underserved areas through utilizing book vending machines, allowing kids to pick up free books whenever they want, right in their own communities.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

The Power of One – Mark Lovretin

We at PSEG have long focused on making life better for our customers and communities – employee volunteerism is a vital part of this public service. I take pride in being a part of a company that encourages me to pursue such rewarding work and recognizes my efforts to help these animals put their best paw forward in the search to finding their forever home.

Diversity & Inclusion

U.S. Soccer Sponsor Enters Equal Pay Fight on Women’s Side

One of U.S. Soccer’s official sponsors has sided with the World Cup-winning United States women’s team in its fight with the federation for equal pay, urging its partner, the governing body for soccer in the United States, “to be on the right side of history.”

The sponsor, Procter & Gamble, declared its support for equal pay in a full-page advertisement in Sunday’s editions of The New York Times.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Meghalaya: How Bacardi NH7 Weekender Was a Success Story in Sustainability

Each year, Bacardi NH7 Weekender draws in music lovers with a stellar line-up featuring top musicians, both Indian and international. For each edition, the flagship event is staged in Pune, and several other cities play host as well. Of all, the show in Meghalaya is especially unique. From an architectural point of view, it is a great example of sustainability. Here’s a look at how it made a statement last year.

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Media & Communications

National Grid: Protect Your Loved Ones from Scams This Summer

Summertime is the hottest season for scammers. Reported utility billing and payment scams are resurfacing once again across National Grid’s U.S. service area and around the Northeast. And National Grid is warning its customers to beware and know the signs of a scam.

Environment

Making the World Cleaner, Safer, and More Secure

For more than 40 years, we have partnered with industry, academia, and allied governments to make the world a cleaner, safer, and more secure place. We have performed environmental cleanup work at more than 500 contaminated sites across the world, managed operations at vital national security projects, and helped the U.S. and other countries reduce threats posed by weapons of mass destruction. Their results will benefit people and the environment for centuries to come.

Health & Healthcare

Scotiabank, MD Financial Management, and the Canadian Medical Association Announce $3.58 million to Support Family Medicine

Scotiabank and MD Financial Management Inc. (MD), in collaboration with the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), are announcing a $3.58 million investment to support professional development for family doctors across the country as well as awards and scholarships for medical students and family medicine residents.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Hallmark Beach Cleanup

Hallmark colleagues and their families in Hong Kong participated in a beach cleanup organized by Shenzhen Giving Tree Eco Volunteers Association in November 2018.

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