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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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Health & Healthcare

Safety by Design: Safe Projects From Concept to Facility Operation

Safety by Design is a method of collaboration that brings design, EHS, and teams together to ensure that facilities are safe to build and safe to use. Here’s how we do it at CRB and how you can implement this approach.

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Education

AT&T and Discovery Education Put the Power of Sustainability in Students' Hands

Discovery Education today launches a new effort supported by AT&T, providing innovative, dynamic resources focused on sustainability through the award-winning Experience platform.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

10 Million Kids: Why We're Committed to GroMoreGood

This belief drives our corporate purpose to GroMoreGood everywhere. Nowhere is this purpose more evident for me than in our gardens and greenspaces community outreach initiatives.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

[WEBINAR] Delivering Measurable Change With Community Investment

Join Benevity and Michelle DiSabato, to learn how to move your community investment programs beyond activities and tactics and into strategic efforts that yield real behavioral change and measurable results.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Perspectives S2E18: Ami Dar, Idealist.org

In this episode, Ami Dar, Founder & Executive Director of Idealist.org, joins Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly for a conversation on how COVID-19 has impacted the private and social sectors – and why not everything should go back to the way it was.

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Green Infrastructure

Discovery Green Unveils New Grand Allée, a Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Sustainability Project

Discovery Green, the 12-acre park in the heart of downtown Houston, announced The Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Allée, a project funded by a $300,000 grant from The Green Mountain Energy Sun Club.

Innovation & Technology

Tech for Good - Fight Human Trafficking Using Technology

Join us in the fight to prevent human trafficking because we are at a time in history where working together on a global level is not just possible, it’s imperative.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

UPS Infographic | UPS Browns Get a New Look

This infographic is from UPS's 2019 Interactive Sustainability Report: Accelerating Sustainable Solutions.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Global Citizen and Cisco Open Applications for Third Annual Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award

International advocacy organization Global Citizen and Cisco today announced that applications are open for the third annual Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award, which recognizes and uplifts youth activists who are positively impacting the world.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Rooted in Our Purpose: ScottsMiracle-Gro's 2020 Corporate Responsibility Report

We recently announced our corporate purpose to GroMoreGood everywhere, which goes beyond the products we put on store shelves to push our company to think bigger and be better when it comes to our communities, the planet, our consumers, our partners and our family of associates.

Energy

Republic Services, Aria Energy and bp Partner on New Renewable Energy Project

Republic Services (NYSE: RSG) and energy partners Aria Energy and bp (NYSE: BP) today announced the startup of a landfill-gas-to-renewable-natural-gas (RNG) project at South Shelby Landfill. The project directly supports Republic's commitment...

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Research, Reports & Publications

Valvoline Releases Its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, ‘We’re Service Driven’

Valvoline Inc. today released its 2019 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. The foundational pillars of corporate social responsibility at Valvoline™ center on its three “V”s – Values, Vow, and Vision

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

2020 Back to School Month: The Need to Support Students is Greater Than Ever This Year

Heading "Back to school" is not business as usual this year. While many schools are starting the school year 100% remote (for at least the first few weeks or months), others are taking a hybrid approach by offering some virtual learning days...

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Hunger Project: Partnering to Create Solutions That Bring Hunger Down to Zero

Chronic hunger is not just about food: it is a phenomenon linked to the rights of women and girls, income opportunities, health, education, social justice, the environment, and climate change.

Education

JetBlue For Good - Youth and Education: Preparing for Takeoff

No career or level of education should be out of reach. So, together with our customers, crewmembers and community partners we’re in the business of turning flights of fancy into reality.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

SAGE and LifeCents Partner on Financial Wellness Program for LGBT Elders

SAGE, the world’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT elders, partnered with LifeCents to develop and launch SAGECents, a unique version of the app built specifically for LGBT elders. This program was created to ensure LGBT elders have access to resources that will support their financial literacy and stability. The digital wellness platform, created with support from the Wells Fargo Foundation, will help SAGE constituents navigate the unprecedented economic environment resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Rising to the Sustainability Challenge

Picture a snow globe. Inside its crystalline sphere, the conditions are always ideal for a winter wonderland — even in the hottest days of summer. So, what if farmers could take this idea and use it to create optimal, self-contained cultivation...

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

IWBI Announces RMZ Corp as World's First to Achieve WELL Health-Safety Rating for Facility Operations and Management

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) today announced that leading privately owned developer, manager, and investor of real assets RMZ is the first organization globally to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating for Facility Operations...

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Watch Land Betterment Corporation's Impact Minute Episode 11

Land Betterment, an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites to create sustainable community development and job creation, is proud to release Episode 11 of its Impact Minute video blog.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

New W-GDP Partnership With the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and Qualcomm® Uses Mobile and Online Learning to Bring Entrepreneurship Skills to Over 15,000 Women in Vietnam & Indonesia

The Women Entrepreneurs Amplifying Ventures and Economics (WEAVE) program will leverage Qualcomm-enabled digital technology to support and empower 15,000 women entrepreneurs running small and growing businesses (SGBs) in Vietnam and Indonesia.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Johnson & Johnson Named to Fast Company's 2020 Best Workplaces for Innovators List

From its work on an Ebola vaccine—and an investigational COVID-19 vaccine—to collaboration taking place across its Johnson & Johnson Innovation centers, we take a look at the innovative spirit that permeates the company's culture.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Why Does Such A Thing Exist? Solidarity Microfinance for Women in the United States

While most of us generally consider the United States to be a “rich” country by global standards, and while this is true by several measures, many people in the U.S. still live in poverty.

Events, Media & Communications

Keep America Beautiful to Conduct Second Annual Signature 'Plogging' Event on Sun., Sept. 20

Join Stamford, Connecticut-based Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, on Sun., Sept. 20 for the second annual Keep America Beautiful TrashDash™ plogging event and fun run.

Diversity & Inclusion

Podcast: WE Local India Keynote- Rasha Hasaneen

In this SWE Diverse episode, Heather Doty, SWE FY20 President, speaks with Rasha Hasaneen, vice president of innovation and product management excellence at Trane Technologies.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Culture of Care and Camaraderie Makes Bacardi USA, Inc. Great Place to Work-Certified™ for Third Year in a Row

Bacardi paves the way for new talent, innovative thinking, and a family culture that has earned the world’s largest privately-held spirits company the well-deserved accolade of Great Place to Work-Certified™ in the U.S. for the third year in a row.

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    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...

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    The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...

  10. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...

  11. IWBI | WELL Building Standard
    Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...

  12. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.

  13. Green Mountain Energy Commitment to Sustainability
    At Green Mountain Energy Company, we share our customers’ commitment to the environment and sustainability. We are inspired by the success that we...

  14. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...

  15. GoDaddy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
    Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...