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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CNH Industrial Announces Unprecedented Support for Brazilian Social Responsibility Projects in 2021

CNH Industrial has a longstanding commitment to furthering sustainability in Brazil, not only in terms of the products it produces, but also more broadly in communities across the country.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Raza Development Fund Awarded Wells Fargo Open for Business Grant to Provide Relief for Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19

PHOENIX, AZ.—Raza Development Fund (RDF), the nation’s largest Latino Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the Wells Fargo Open For Business Fund in support of its Small Business Initiative program which serves minority and women-owned small businesses suffering from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. The funding will extend its reach to support small businesses in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, Minnesota, and Florida. RDF will continue to provide technical assistance to businesses in all markets and help them arrive to a state of readiness to receive long term capital (low-interest loans) as a resource that will enable minority-owned businesses to achieve sustainable growth and long-term self-sufficiency.

Environment

Coalition Against GMO Mosquitoes Launches New Website and Sends Letter to Biden

The Coalition Against GMO Mosquitoes launches a new website to educate the nation and galvanize public opposition to genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes created by biotech corporation, Oxitec. The Coalition is also sending a letter by a concerned Florida Keys resident to President Biden urging an intervention in the impeding experimental releases of GE mosquitoes in the Keys.

Diversity & Inclusion

Give Me an H: Chief Diversity Officer Derek Bottoms Talks Career and Vision for the Future

VP of Associate Relations and Chief Diversity Officer, Derek Bottoms, shares his commitment to serving associates and how the company’s values play a major role in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Mohawk Group Announces Well Health-Safety Rating for All Showrooms and Design Studios, a Landmark Achievement in the Flooring Industry

Mohawk Group announces that all of its commercial showrooms and design studios are set to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute

Responsible Production & Consumption

Anglo American Unki Platinum Mine Earns World's First IRMA 75

SCS Global Services is pleased to confirm that Anglo American’s Unki platinum mine in Zimbabwe has earned the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) 75 level for responsible mining

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Group, Inc. Named One of the World's Most Ethical Companies for Eighth Consecutive Year

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) has been recognized as one of the 2021 World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices.

Innovation & Technology

Enbridge: The Importance of Innovation

Most of us, at one time or another, have had a creative idea for making things better at work. When we take those ideas and bring them to application? That’s innovation.

Health & Healthcare

New Mental Health Investments for Dow COVID-19 Relief

The pandemic continues to impact our health and safety, our economy, our culture – everything from the way we work to the way we shop…the way we gather to the way we learn.

Health & Healthcare

Bristol Myers Squibb Donates $11 Million to Advance Health Equity

Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) announced it has donated a total of $11 million to 56 nonprofit organizations focused on advancing health equity in the United States.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrate Black History Month and Support Racial Equity

This Black History Month NortonLifeLock is celebrating with a special 2:1 matching gift campaign to support nonprofit organizations addressing racial and social injustice.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Life Sciences Cares & Biogen Foundation Help Launch Food for Free's Just Eats Program

The combined funding will enable Just Eats to distribute 3,000 boxes of food per week through Food For Free’s network of community partners in Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, and Somerville.

Environment

Alex Gilbert on the Texas Blackouts

All eyes have been on the Lone Star State recently, watching the grim and undeniable impact of climate change on a population completely unprepared.

Energy

Upwing Energy Achieves Carbon Neutral Certification

Upwing Energy, an artificial lift technology company serving the oil and gas industry, announced today that it has been independently certified as a carbon neutral company under the PAS 2060 Carbon Neutrality standard.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CHL Coalition Launches Employee Experts Conversation Series

Driving actions in support of employee wellbeing is a key part of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Collaboration for Healthier Lives (CHL) Coalition’s leadership agenda.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

VinaCapital Foundation Launches Disaster Relief Activities For The Our Hearts To Central Vietnam Campaign In Nam Tra My District, Quang Nam Province

VinaCapital Foundation (VCF) announced the launch of disaster relief activities of “Our Hearts to Central Vietnam” Campaign in Nam Tra My district, Quang Nam province.

Diversity & Inclusion

Alliance Data's African American Resource Group Employee Spotlight: Suzanne Coates Brown

This month, our African American Resource Group (AARG) is spotlighting associates’ perspectives and experiences in observance of Black History Month, a month dedicated to learning about the Black community and its history and culture.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ecolab Ranks Third on Barron's 2021 Most Sustainable U.S. Companies List

Ecolab ranks third on Barron’s 2021 list of the Most Sustainable Companies in the U.S. Ecolab has been named to Barron’s Most Sustainable Companies in the U.S. list every year since it was first released in 2018.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bayer CEO Werner Baumann: Diversity Needs Clear Commitments

Bayer CEO Werner Baumann: Let's be completely honest here: I am a white, German man in his late 50s who spent his entire professional life in the same company.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Greater Women's Business Council Announces New Board Chair and 2021 Board Members

The Greater Women’s Business Council announced the appointment of Lissa Miller, SVP, Chief Supplier Diversity Officer at Truist Financial Corporation, as new board chair, as well as a new slate of board officers for 2021.

Events, Media & Communications

Towards the Digital Circular Economy

Join this webinar to learn how digital technologies can foster different circular economy strategies and related corporate practices, and to get an overview of which technologies are used in different industries

Diversity & Inclusion

Treating Everyone With Dignity and Respect: Trans Rights Are Human Rights

At Clarivate, we value every voice. We strongly believe that our colleagues are our best asset and we treat each other with dignity and respect; it’s our ethos and it’s in our DNA.

Education

Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab Continues to Broaden its Reach

Our Thinkabit Lab program shows students from all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds that they can be part of inventing the wireless world of the future.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: The Ethics of Environmentalism

If you wish everyone would compost their food waste to help mitigate climate change, then you should compost. If you wish everyone would refuse plastic straws to help keep them out of the oceans, then you should refuse plastic straws.

Education

Supporting Future Lawyers To Tackle Racism in Canada

In a Canadian first, one of the country’s largest banks has announced a scholarship program to increase the number of students pursuing a career in the legal profession with the intent to become advocates for anti-racism.

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