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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

Schneider Electric: Ending Earth Overshoot Day Starts with Sustainable Action

Earth Overshoot Day: It’s the day of the year when we’ve used more natural resources than our planet can renew in 365 days. This year in the United States , Earth Overshoot Day falls on July 29 — the earliest it has ever been. Thirty years ago, it fell on October 15 and despite the progress made in recent years, it has been steadily moving up since.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Massachusetts Middle Schooler Wins 2019 Arrow Innovation in Electronics Award

Arrow Electronics presented Massachusetts seventh grader Vikram Anantha with its 2019 Innovation in Electronics Award at the National Invention Convention, a celebration of K-12 inventors and entrepreneurs from across the United States.

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Events, Media & Communications

Hosting Green Meetings and Events Around the World with Sands ECO360

Las Vegas Sands hosts Green Meetings and Events of all shapes and sizes from extravagant runway shows to large-scale business conferences, aiming to infuse even the most luxurious events with sustainability.

Diversity & Inclusion

Is the Glass Ceiling Broken?

The glass ceiling is widely regarded as one of the major challenges for women in business. The concept is fairly straightforward. An invisible ceiling exists in many corporate environments, creating a barrier between women and high-level positions that tend to be dominated by males in leadership roles. Women have been shattering this boundary for years and, as society has evolved, the strength and role of the glass ceiling may be changing.

Sustainable Development Goals

AIDA Cruises Presents Latest Sustainability Report: World's First LNGoperated Cruise Ship, AIDAnova, Commissioned in 2018

In the latest edition of “AIDA cares” the company documents further progress on its way to emission-neutral cruising. As early as 2023, 94 percent of all AIDA guests will be sailing on ships that can be fully operated with low-emission liquefied natural gas or, in port, with green shore power.

Research, Reports & Publications

Watch Embracing Change: Alliance Data's Sustainability Report Highlights

Alliance Data Systems Corporation (NYSE: ADS), a leading global provider of data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions, today released its 2018 Sustainability Report, which presents progress made over the past year and highlights connections to the Company’s current transformational business strategy.

Innovation & Technology

Improving Mobility with a Smile

Four years after Jim Ryan became quadriplegic, HOOBOX Robotics is using Intel artificial intelligence to help the disability advocate and blogger find new ways to get around by using facial expressions to operate his wheelchair.

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Freeport-McMoRan Invests in Indigenous-Owned Organic Coffee Cooperative

For nearly 20 years, PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), a Freeport-McMoRan company, has sponsored a coffee farmer collective in Papua, Indonesia. Known as Amungme Gold, the coffee has been farmed and processed by indigenous Amungme farmers under the guidance of Freeport-McMoRan’s entrepreneur business program to meet growing demand from consumers.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Empowering Peruvian Artisanal Fishing Communities to Earn a Fair and Sustainable Income

Social enterprise Sustainable Fishery Trade (SFT) has committed to empowering 5,000 fishers in Perú and Chile by improving practices to protect the sustainability of fishing, and connecting artisanal fishers directly to buyers to provide fair and dependable sources of income. SFT made the declaration as the organisation officially joins the Business Call to Action (BCtA), with the aim of meeting their goals by 2021.

Education

Bridgestone Gives Continuity to Project on Traffic Education in Public Schools

Bridgestone, the world’s largest tyre and rubber company, gives continuity to the project “Bridgestone Traffic Education”, this year with the theme #Intraffic, #lifeleadstheway. The purpose of the educational initiative is to raise awareness among children and teachers from public schools about traffic rules and good practices.

Research, Reports & Publications

Towards More and Better Reporting

GRI’s 2018 Annual Report demonstrates how to navigate the challenge of analyzing and accessing data by presenting it online in an accessible and compelling way.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

An Olympic Homecoming: In 2021, IOC Session Returns to Athens, Where Olympic Legacy Stands Tall

As the IOC returns to Athens for its 2021 Session, let’s take a closer look at the legacy that the Olympic Games Athens 2004 created for the city and its people.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

New Leadership Team Driving Sappi Forward

2018 was a year of transformation for Sappi North America (SNA). We rebuilt a paper machine, developed an entirely new packaging line, helped launch exciting new brand positioning for our dissolving pulp product, and established a creative, passionate sustainability team to set the course for our future.

Diversity & Inclusion

CBRE Named One Of 2019's Best Employers For Women By Forbes

CBRE Group, Inc. is a Forbes 2019 Best Employer for Women based on an independent analysis by market research company Statista. More than 1,200 companies were evaluated and CBRE is the only commercial real estate firm to make the list.

Diversity & Inclusion

Smithfield Foods Sponsors Veteran Honor Flight to Nation’s Capital

The Smithfield Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Smithfield Foods Inc., announced today a $125,000 donation to the Midwest Honor Flight organization to sponsor 83 World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War veterans for an all-expenses-paid flight to visit the nation’s capital.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Kimberly-Clark Doubles Down on Climate and Energy Goal, Aiming for 40% GHG Reduction by 2022

Kimberly-Clark published its 2018 Global Sustainability Report this week and marked the occasion with an aggressive new goal on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction, 40% absolute greenhouse gas emission reduction globally against its 2005 baseline. That’s twice its initial goal of 20% reduction by 2022 set out in late 2015.

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Carnival Cruise Line Partners With Clean the World to Assist in Global Soap Recycling Initiative

Yesterday, Carnival Cruise Line announced it is the first large-scale cruise operator to partner with Clean the World.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Is There a Role for Philanthropy in Renewing Democracy?

Has the world of organized philanthropy done everything it can to shore up democratic values and aspirations, or has it been pursuing its own ideas of the public good?

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Mohawk Group Takes Home HiP Award With Science-Backed Workplace Carpet

Biophilia can be a part of a project in subtle, almost imperceptible ways and still have a huge impact on the holistic quality of that space. Take, for example, Mohawk Group’s latest workplace carpet offering, Relaxing Floors. It won a HiP award at NeoCon 2019 for its novel concept: that naturally occurring fractal patterns, which have been demonstrated to reduce stress, can be incorporated into contract spaces through flooring.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Aflac Reports on Effort to Give Children With Cancer Huggable Robots

A foundation affiliated with Aflac Inc. has given toy robots that look like the Aflac Duck to children who are facing cancer in about 200 U.S. hospitals and clinics, Aflac said today.

Education

Bridging School and Workplace Experiences: Career Days Offer Learning Opportunities for Students and Associates

Every year, T. Rowe Price provides hundreds of high school students across the globe an opportunity to participate in a Career Day, an event designed to provide them with insight into the professional workforce and help them develop workplace skills. The firm recently hosted events in Baltimore, Colorado Springs, Sydney, and London.

Environment

20 Years Later, Southern California Edison and Fire Agencies Still Work Together to Protect Communities

SCE also continues to expand its 2019 Wildfire Mitigation Plan to protect the public from wildfires in high fire risk areas by installing insulation around power lines. It’s meant to protect the lines from arcing and sparking during high-wind events.

Education

JetBlue’s Soar with Reading Initiative Lands in New York City Placing Free Book Vending Machines in Each of the Five Boroughs

JetBlue (Nasdaq: JBLU), New York’s Hometown Airline®, today launched its ninth annual Soar with Reading initiative in its hometown, marking the first time its innovative free book vending machines have touched down in New York City.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Duke Energy Prepares Vulnerable Residents for Storm Season

Duke Energy recently joined with local community groups to assemble and distribute storm preparedness kits to about 4,000 seniors, some of Florida’s most vulnerable residents. The program expanded across the state after a 2018 pilot in Pinellas County that reached 1,000 homebound seniors in the Meals on Wheels program.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Republic Services Touch-a-Truck Visits Bozeman, MT

Our Republic truck was a big hit at the touch-a-truck event at Little Tree Education Center in Bozeman, MT. The kids (and Driver) had a blast!

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