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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement | Verizon

Entrepreneur Expands Her Thriving Tax Firm With Digital Innovation

Helen Mathis taught accounting as a vocational instructor for 30 years before facing a career-defining moment: The school where she worked closed and Mathis knew she needed a new plan

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Land Betterment’s Agricultural Division Acquires 50% Ownership Interest in Canadian Greenhouse Operations

Betterment Harvest acquires 50% ownership interest in 2 Canadian world-class greenhouse operations providing a platform for organic & acquisition based growth.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Sofidel Supports Franklin Middle School Girls Basketball Team

To give back to the local community, Sofidel announced a $4,000 donation to the Franklin Middle School girls basketball team in Green Bay, Wisc.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Suncor 2022 Report on Sustainability: Biodiversity

Throughout the life cycle of our projects, we seek to avoid, minimize, restore and/or offset impacts to biodiversity from our operations.

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Diversity & Inclusion

LA Kings “We Are All Kings” Rink Tour Inspires Next Generation of Hockey Players

LA Kings “We Are All Kings” Rink Tour Inspires Next Generation of Hockey Players

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Education

PNC Taps High Schools as Means of Solving Entry-Level Skills Gap

There’s a problem in the labor market, and PNC has emerged as a corporate leader in helping to solve it through an impactful program.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sealed Air Maintains A- Climate Change Score From CDP

Based on its environmental disclosures, Sealed Air (NYSE: SEE) recently received an A- score from CDP for its climate change efforts.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Oportun Wins CEO Connection 2023 Economic Justice Award

Oportun has announced that it has been named a winner of the 2023 CEO Connection Economic Justice Award and recognized as an Economic Justice Champion.

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Innovation & Technology

Keysight Predicts: Top Technologies Expected To Grow Substantially in 2023

Heavily powered by the rise in technological innovations and software-centric solutions, our world is now closer than ever to tackling and overcoming many of emerging technology's most complex challenges.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

DraftKings and Gamres to Introduce Evidence-Based Responsible Gaming Tool, Positive Play Scale, to DraftKings Players in the United States

DraftKings Inc. and Gamres, a leading responsible gaming consulting and research practice based in Ontario, announced a new collaboration to introduce the Positive Play Scale to DraftKings through an online survey to select U.S. DraftKings customers.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

KeyBank To Offer SONYMA Loans To Help First Time Homebuyers

KeyBank is pleased to announce that it offers State of New York Mortgage Agency (SONYMA) loans. SONYMA offers low-interest rate mortgage loans and programs to help qualified buyers purchase their first home in the state of New York.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Growing Pains: Responsible Investing Reaches Adolescence by AB

ESG investing has survived a challenging year, with increased regulatory scrutiny and rocky performance providing fodder for fierce debate. While the turmoil that comes with rapid change can be unsettling, we welcome it as a sign that responsible investing is growing up.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Webster Bank Announces Launch of Finance Lab With Yonkers Partners in Education

Webster Bank, together with Yonkers Partners in Education announced it has launched the first-ever Webster/YPIE Finance Lab and introduced the YPIE Finance Major, to provide students in Yonkers schools with financial literacy skills.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

How Cisco Employees in Australia Step Up To Volunteer

The greatest reward for us at Cisco, is the satisfaction and teamwork derived from volunteering. We are forging bonds that draw us together so we can support those that are less fortunate.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GRI and International Development Center of Japan Launch Partnership

A new sustainability advisory partnership seeks to support companies in Japan to raise the quality of their sustainability reporting

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Research, Reports & Publications

Baker Hughes 2023 Energy Transition Pulse: Confidence To Hit Net-Zero Emissions Goals Stable Despite Energy Trilemma

Baker Hughes launched its 2023 Energy Transition Pulse report – a survey of 555 global senior executives to assess the industrial sector’s ability to focus on advancing cleaner energy amidst geopolitical and economic challenges.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

National Grid’s Post-Blizzard Western New York Contributions Increase to $1 Million

National Grid Foundation matches company’s $500,000 donation to further assist customers and communities impacted by historic December storm

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Innovation & Technology

CNH Industrial Takes Minority Stake in EarthOptics

CNH Industrial announces a minority investment in the US-based ag tech company EarthOptics through its Ventures arm.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fostering Connection and Career Success: Bloomberg and the City Tutors

Bloomberg invests in young leaders providing free training and internship opportunities through our growing network of education and mentoring nonprofit organizations focused on personal development, financial education, and preparing college and career success.

Diversity & Inclusion

Nguyen Thi Kim Thoa’s Story: Growing a Sustainable Farming Industry in Vietnam

HerVenture was brought to Vietnam thanks to our collaboration with Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™.

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Education

High School Girls Put STEM Education Into Practice With Refinery’s Female Mentors

A group of 40 high school girls spent a day at Marathon Petroleum’s El Paso, Texas, refinery gaining firsthand knowledge of careers related to science, technology, engineering and math.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Mastercard's Davos Takeaways: The Economy, Blockchain and Building Trust by Accelerating Inclusion

About 2,700 policymakers, finance and tech leaders, celebrities, journalists, academics and activists gathered at Davos to debate topics such as deglobalization, decarbonization, distrust and digitization under the theme of “Cooperation in a Fragmented World.”

Environment

Whole Life Cycle-Carbon Assessment: A More Complete Picture

The latest Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction found that “the lack of structural or systemic decarbonisation improvement in the building sector leaves its emissions reductions vulnerable to external factors.”

Diversity & Inclusion

D&I Weekly News Round Up: Special Edition – Best of 2022

Welcome to the latest edition of our Diversity & Inclusion News Round up. Today we are sharing some of our favorite articles and videos from 2022.

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Education

Girls’ Education: 5 Shocking Facts Everyone Should Know

The benefits of education are immense — for one, your ability to read and understand the rest of this article, among many other things. As a society, we recognize the crucial value of education and that’s why access to a quality education is a globally-recognized human right.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

International Paper Supports Alabama Communities After Deadly Storms

Communities are working to pick up the pieces after severe weather ripped through Georgia and Alabama earlier this month; killing at least six, displacing dozens, and causing significant damage to homes, buildings, and infrastructure.

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