Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

No Foolin'! T-Mobile Raises Over $1M For Teachers and Students With #GiveThanksNotPranks

Apr 5, 2021 12:00 PM ET

With the help of partner brands, customers and fans that joined in to #GiveThanksNotPranks this April Fools’, T-Mobile raised $1,038,950 through the nonprofit education platform DonorsChoose to purchase much-needed supplies for students and teachers!

Environment

VIDEO: Colorado Brewery Launches Glass Recycling Program

Apr 5, 2021 11:15 AM ET

Bob Kunkle is a second-generation employee for O-I Glass, one of the world’s largest glass packaging manufacturers. Bob noticed his friend Jeff Crabtree, founder of Crabtree Brewing in Greeley, Colorado, was tossing used beer bottles into the trash.

Diversity & Inclusion

Be An Agent of Change: 5 Takeaways From Stacey Abrams

Apr 5, 2021 10:30 AM ET

The Center for Inclusive Growth decided to commemorate Black History Month in February and Women's History Month in March by welcoming to Mastercard a true champion for positive change: Leader Stacey Abrams.

Health & Healthcare

GP PRO Survey Finds Elevated Consumer Support for Custodians During COVID-19

Apr 5, 2021 10:30 AM ET

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, custodians primarily performed their duties with little notice, often at night or after regular business hours. The pandemic led to enhanced cleaning and disinfecting practices and put custodians in the spotlight.

Innovation & Technology

Sustainable Investing Challenge Taps Grad Students for Innovation

Apr 5, 2021 10:25 AM ET

Sixteen teams of graduate students will pitch ideas that address critical social and environmental issues in the final round of the 2021 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge.

Health & Healthcare

Griffith Foods: Proud To Be a Founding Partner Supporting The NOURISH Movement

Apr 5, 2021 10:15 AM ET

We are extremely proud to be a founding partner supporting The NOURISH Movement– an incredible coalition of leaders across food, healthcare, and technology, coming together to collaborate and innovate around one mission: empowering human health through food, sustainably.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Enroot Launches Organic Sparkling Cold Brew Teas

Apr 5, 2021 9:30 AM ET

SCS Global Services is pleased to have been selected to work with Enroot, manufacturer of slowly cold brewed organic sparkling teas, to support its efforts to create a comprehensive responsible sourcing policy for its product ingredients, and to conduct verification audits of its suppliers.

Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Global Compact: Communication on Progress 2020

Apr 5, 2021 9:00 AM ET

A year unlike any other has brought us to an inflection point. The single biggest change in human behavior in history, triggered by the pandemic, has now triggered the single biggest reinvention of industry in living memory.

Health & Healthcare

Alkermes + Mental Health Missions

Apr 2, 2021 3:05 PM ET

This April, we're talking about Mental Health Missions and making mental health a priority.

Innovation & Technology

One Year into the Future of Wireless!

Apr 2, 2021 2:35 PM ET

To date, we’ve helped bridge the digital divide for more than 2.5 million underserved students nationwide with free or highly subsidized connectivity, and we are just getting started.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Rob Thomas and Matchbox Twenty Gift NFT Auction Proceeds to RADical Hope and Mental Health

Apr 2, 2021 2:15 PM ET

“What we're really talking about is the mental health of our future generations. Who we're going to be ten years from now depends on how we treat these people now," Rob Thomas said on Thursday evening. "I think the Trevor Project and RADical Hope are pinpointing a very, very huge group that we might lose, if we don't let them know how special they are and how normal they are. And so I just really, really think it's great to be a part of being able to have a voice to that."

Diversity & Inclusion

Organizations Celebrate Autism Awareness and Neurodiversity

Apr 2, 2021 1:45 PM ET

This week we explore three organizations that are creating empowering opportunities for the 3.5 million Americans who live with an autism spectrum disorder and another 400,000 who live with Down syndrome today.

Diversity & Inclusion

PSEG's Women's Leadership Alliance Works to Drive Change

Apr 2, 2021 1:00 PM ET

In honor of Women’s History Month, we connected with the women leading PSEG’s Women’s Leadership Alliance: Kate Almeida, Gas Operations district manager and president of WLA, and Kim Hanemann...

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Team Depot Tornado Relief Efforts Underway

Apr 2, 2021 1:00 PM ET

On Friday, March 26, Georgia experienced the strongest tornado it had seen in almost a decade. An EF-4 tornado hit Coweta County with 170-mph winds and severely impacted the city of Newnan.

Environment

Republic Services, Inc. Releases Inaugural Report Aligned With Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

Apr 2, 2021 12:30 PM ET

Republic Services, Inc. released the Company's inaugural climate disclosure report aligned with recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Digging Deep: A Celebration of Asia-Pacific Field Officers in Whole Planet Foundation's Portfolio

Apr 2, 2021 11:20 AM ET

Environment

Climate Change is Worsening Water Scarcity: How Business Can Help

Apr 2, 2021 11:00 AM ET

About 4 billion people live in water-stressed areas and face severe water scarcity during at least one month each year. Over a billion more — including 1 in 4 children — will live in areas of extremely high water stress by 2040.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Fifth Third Exceeds Five-Year Community Commitment, Achieves $41.6 Billion in Support Against $32 Billion Goal

Apr 2, 2021 10:45 AM ET

The $32 billion pledge included mortgage lending, small business lending, and community development loans and investments.

Diversity & Inclusion

Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership: Collaboration

Apr 2, 2021 9:15 AM ET

See how pro bono builds collaboration, one of Deloitte's Six Traits of Inclusive Leadership, in this profile from Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership.

Environment

Port of Long Beach Goes Green With Renewable Natural Gas

Apr 2, 2021 9:00 AM ET

Tetra Tech’s Mike Michels led the team that completed the design-build project for the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD) to convert biogas to fuel near the Port of Long Beach, the second busiest container port in the United States.

Environment

Georgia-Pacific: Welcome to Our Virtual Forestry Tour!

Apr 1, 2021 5:00 PM ET

Georgia-Pacific: Welcome to our Virtual Forestry Tour!

Diversity & Inclusion

Raising the Profile of Women in Construction in Argentina

Apr 1, 2021 5:00 PM ET

Adobe Construcciones, an Argentinian construction company based in Alvear, in the province of Santa Fe in the East of the Country has been a customer of New Holland Construction, a global construction brand of CNH Industrial, for over a decade.

Diversity & Inclusion

UNCF Dallas Recognizes Kimberly-Clark Foundation for Helping Students Achieve College Success

Apr 1, 2021 4:35 PM ET

The Kimberly-Clark Foundation proudly accepted the 2021 Masked Award last month during the Dallas United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Mayor’s Masked Ball.

Education

EarthX Celebrates Earth Week 2021 With Full Line-up of Events

Apr 1, 2021 4:00 PM ET

EarthX will celebrate Earth Week with virtual and in-person activities, including the EarthxTV Show premieres, a 10-day EarthxFilm festival, conferences, youth programming and more.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

ON Semiconductor Supports Constanța Hospital's NICU in Romania

Apr 1, 2021 3:55 PM ET

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated one in 10 babies, or 50 million worldwide, are born prematurely every year before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed.