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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

Mielle Organics Joins P&G Beauty in a Major Move for Black Entrepreneurs Serving Black Women

P&G Beauty and Mielle Organics®, a popular textured hair care brand rooted in natural ingredients, announced today that it will join P&G Beauty, pending regulatory approval, further expanding access to healthy hair products and services for Black women around the world.

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Diversity & Inclusion

How Project Destined Is Changing the Face of Commercial Real Estate

In October 2022, USBCDC also contributed $25,000 to Project Destined’s Affordable Housing Bridge Program, an eight-week fellowship that exposes alumni to potential career paths by connecting them with nonprofit and for-profit affordable housing leaders and practitioners.

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Environment

Southwire 2021 Sustainability Report: Climate Change & Zero Carbon Transition

To maintain our leadership status in the wire and cable manufacturing industry and help drive the clean energy transition, we must address both the risks and opportunities of climate change—now and in the coming decades.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

IBM Volunteer Invests in STEM Education via Mentoring

Kyle volunteers with organizations from mentoring students in building robots to tutoring high school programming classes to teaching girls to program mobile apps for social impact.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Las Vegas Sands and Marina Bay Sands Launch $1 Million Hospitality Scholarship Program in Singapore

Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) and Marina Bay Sands have established a $1 million scholarship program that will help build a pipeline of new talent for the hospitality industry in Singapore through Sands Cares, the company’s community engagement program

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Utah Food Bank Receives $100,000 Grant From KeyBank To Support Culturally Responsive Food Initiative

KeyBank has awarded a $100,000 grant to Utah Food Bank to create an infrastructure that allows the organization to identify, track and distribute culturally appropriate foods to Salt Lake City communities in need, and eventually, state-wide.

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Environment

Sequencing the Sustainable Secrets of Seaweed

As nicknames go, marine algae got the short end of the strand. The informal term “seaweed” makes it sound like an undesirable pest. And it may seem like one, if you’ve only encountered it as a drying clump on the beach or a slimy surprise in the waves.

Green Infrastructure

LEED-Certified Office Buildings Command Higher Rents, Even Amid Challenging Conditions

LEED-certified office buildings command a rent premium over their non-certified peers even as the market endures the reverberations of the COVID-19 pandemic and remote work, according to a new report from CBRE.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Tapestry Named Among Built In’s ‘Best Places To Work’ for Second Year Running

For the second year in a row, Tapestry has been named among Built In's ‘Best Places to Work,’ recognized as a ‘Best Large Company’ based in New York.

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Innovation & Technology

ekō Solutions’ Commercial Division Expands Product Offering Into Animal Grooming

Land Betterment’s ekō Solutions Commercial Division recently created a customized container based animal grooming unit together with Block Experience Solutions.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SAIC Receives BIG Innovation Award for Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has been named a 2023 BIG Innovation Award Winner for its Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) solution. SAIC’s CUAS was developed to safeguard against the threats drones pose to defense and civilian infrastructures.

Diversity & Inclusion

Kohler Co. Appoints Laura Kohler As Company’s First Chief Sustainability and DEI Officer

Kohler Co. has announced that Laura Kohler will be the company’s first Chief Sustainability and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Officer, reporting directly to Chair and Chief Executive Officer David Kohler.

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Education

CNH Industrial Brand Raven Is Encouraging the Next Generation of Engineers

CNH Industrial brand Raven proactively invests in STEM education because it believes the need is great, and it believes it has excellent opportunities for students who are interested in STEM employment fields. 

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Natural Pest Control: Barn Owls To Combat Rats in Plantations

The use of barn owls to combat rat infestations is an example of the Musim Mas Group’s efforts to manage pests in plantations sustainably and economically.

Innovation & Technology

Looking Back To Look Ahead: 2022’s Top Ten Blog Posts

Before jumping into the new year and the many opportunities it will send your way, join us on a stroll down memory lane as we revisit our top ten blog posts of the year.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Health-Ade Joins Whole Planet Foundation’s Supplier Alliance for Microcredit $50,000 Fund

2022 was a challenging year in many ways but amid those challenges Health-Ade decided to increase their annual contribution in support Whole Planet Foundation’s mission to alleviate global poverty by joining the Supplier Alliance for Microcredit $50,000 Fund.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Dow Chairman and CEO, Jim Fitterling, Named #1 on 2023 ICIS Top 40 Power Players Ranking

Congratulations to our chairman and CEO, Jim Fitterling, named #1 on the 2023 ICIS Top 40 Power Players ranking.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Truist Foundation Awards Center for Employment Opportunities $1 Million To Advance Social, Economic Mobility for Formerly Incarcerated People

Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), the nation’s largest provider of comprehensive employment services to people returning from jail or prison, has received a $1 million grant from Truist Foundation.

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Health & Healthcare

Serving Up Safety: Gas Stoves and Air Quality

A member of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently suggested that the regulatory body may further scrutinize gas stoves based on associated health hazards, such as linkages to childhood asthma and impact on overall health and well-being.

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Diversity & Inclusion

The Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Award Program Established by the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation To Expand With Amgen’s Commitment of $8 Million

The Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Award Program (Winn Award Program) established by the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation (BMSF) announced that Amgen, a global biotechnology company, has committed to contribute $8 million over the next four years.

Research, Reports & Publications

Interview With Paramount Global – Our ESG Reporting Journey So Far

In this interview, Jessica Thurston, Vice President, ESG Strategy at Paramount Global, speaks to ESG software solutions provider Greenstone about the strong influence of the media and entertainment industry and the significance of Paramount’s evolving ESG strategy.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

International Paper's Advance Water Stewardship

Water is a critical input to our manufacturing process, and we can play a key role in conserving and protecting local water resources.

Environment

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable Releases the Water Circularity Good Practices Guide

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) recognizes that water circularity must be a part of a business’s water strategy, at the basin scale, for those actively managing water risk. As such, BIER has developed the Water Circularity Good Practices Guide.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

‘Smart’ Tech Hub Equalizes Access to 21st-Century Living

When the school bus opened its doors, 20 excited middle school students pushed their way out and began to run toward Smart North—a new youth tech hub in the small community of Deer River, in north central Minnesota.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Financing the Energy Transition: Eaton and BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions Launch New Finance Solution for Businesses and Building Owners

Eaton, the intelligent power management company, has joined forces with BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions to offer a tailored finance solution to help business owners accelerate their energy transition while preserving cashflow.

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