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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Tetra Tech’s USAID Oceans and Fisheries Partnership Team Wins Company’s 2019 Technical Achievement Award

Tetra Tech believes in the loyalty, effort, and excellence of its employees and initiated its annual Excellence and Achievement Awards program to recognize individuals and teams for achievements that demonstrate best-in-class performance and service to the community.

Education

Open P-TECH Goes Live!

The newly released platform, Open P-TECH, is a free digital education experience launched by IBM to equip young people, aged 14-20, and educators with foundational knowledge about topics like cybersecurity, AI and cloud computing, plus professional skills like Design Thinking and Agile.

Education

IBM Extends Its Online Education Resources to All for Free

IBM has extended its online education resources to all for free. The global scale and speed of disruption in education from the COVID-19 pandemic is “unparalleled” according to the United Nations with an estimated 290 million students impacted globally and growing as several schools and universities are forgoing in-person classes in favor of remote learning.

Health & Healthcare

HP Response to COVID‐19

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Agnelli Family and Its Companies Respond to the COVID-19 Emergency

In response to the COVID-19 emergency, the Agnelli Family and its Companies have put in place a series of measures, in coordination with the Italian Civil Protection Department, to support the Italian national health service in its care of the sick and to provide assistance to those who currently require it, or who will do so in the future.

Sustainable Development Goals

Verizon’s COVID-19 Relief Efforts Centered on Students and Healthcare Workers

Verizon announced support for relief efforts across communities impacted by the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Fifth Third Takes Actions to Care for Customers and Employees

Fifth Third is taking action to support its employees and customers, ensuring business continuity throughout the quickly-evolving health and economic environment.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Strategic Disaster Response & Relief: 5 Strategies to Effectively Address Immediate and Emerging Needs of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Through Philanthropy

The outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) is dominating media headlines. You may even have already been personally impacted by disruptions to your everyday life. Although the situation is changing rapidly, organizations like yours can’t hesitate

Health & Healthcare

Business Lessons From Phase One of the COVID-19 Pandemic

As we take time to think about the health of our families, friends, and communities in the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, here are five lessons to guide us through these turbulent times and the uncertainties which lie ahead.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

As an international organization, with employees and stakeholders around the globe, GRI has been closely monitoring the developments concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health & Healthcare

Perseverance in Rare Diseases at Sanofi

There are 7,000 known rare diseases in the world that collectively affect 350 million patients. Sanofi has pledged to help improve the care, the health and the lives of patients and their loved ones on their journey for nearly 40 years.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Plant-Based Food Manufacturing: Hopping on the Plant-Based Train

Plant-based is all the rage right now. Considering hopping on the plant-based train? CRB wants to chat about how your organization can quickly and efficiently move into the plant-based market

Environment

Forestland Stewards Initiative

International Paper’s conservation partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), known as Forestland Stewards, was created to conserve and restore southern forestlands.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Ecolab's Emilio Tenuta and Dow's Mary Draves on Their Strategic Partnership

Emilio Tenuta, Ecolab's Senior Vice President of Corporate Sustainability, and Mary Draves, Dow's Chief Sustainability Officer and Vice President of Environment, Health and Safety, joined GreenBiz Editorial Director at GreenBiz Studio to discuss their partnership.

Innovation & Technology

How Exascale Computing Will Impact Our Lives, Our World

Researchers and engineers will be able to solve problems that previously were out of reach with HPE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP).

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

3BL Media Opens CSRwire for Free Social Impact Communications Around COVID-19

As we start a new work week, many of us are still wrapping our heads around the reality that we’ve awakened to a much different world than the one we knew just a few days ago.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Agree to Disagree — With Yourself

The tougher the choices we have to make, the less sense we make making them. Understanding and educating ourselves can help us make better-informed decisions more consistent with our values.

Research, Reports & Publications

Utilities Must Constantly Be on Offense in Cat-and-Mouse Game Against Hackers

With the influx of DER, utilities' grid and communications networks are becoming more integrated and complex, opening them up to vulnerabilities. As hackers grow more sophisticated, utilities are ramping up cybersecurity.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

EarthShare Announces New Grant Opportunity to Fund Clean and Equitable Energy Initiatives in Maryland and Pennsylvania

EarthShare is supporting the transition to clean and equitable energy through a new grants program that will establish community-level initiatives in Maryland and Pennsylvania, focused on renewable and equitable energy

Diversity & Inclusion

Women Rise Against 'Toxic Machismo' in Latin America

International Women’s Day was on March 8, and as we consider what it means to achieve true gender equality, we must also consider the ingrained structural and insidious cultural/societal frameworks that hold women back.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Acre's Global Impact

Ingrained in Acre’s DNA is a strong sense of purpose – we aspire to catalyse social and environmental improvements though our activities.

Research, Reports & Publications

New CLP Reports: Building a Utility of the Future at a Time of Transition

The CLP Group has launched its new Sustainability Report and Annual Report, highlighting the Company’s continuous efforts in building a sustainable energy business that will thrive on changes and challenges.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Truist Announces COVID-19 Relief Measures for Communities, Clients and Teammates

Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today announced its Truist Cares initiative to support the short-term and long-term needs of communities, clients and teammates in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Diversity & Inclusion

Pave Your Own Road: 8 Tips for Women in Construction

Women in Construction Week highlighted the valuable and growing role women play in the construction industry. Check out these 8 tips for women in construction from CRB.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Business Continuity Planning Today

We are living in uncertain times with the recent threat of a global pandemic in our midst. Every business is struggling with how to keep their businesses running while keeping their employees and customers safe.

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