Olympic hockey player Hugo Inglis from New Zealand, Olympic rugby sevens player Kevin Wekesa from Kenya, the National Olympic Committee of the Netherlands and the International Biathlon Union have been named the winners of the IOC Climate Action Awards 2025.
While we often look to the sky for climate solutions - like wind turbines and solar panels - one of the most powerful technologies is right under our feet. This World Soil Day, we celebrate more than just the ground we walk on, but it’s un-canny capability to store CO2.
With seven days to go to the Opening Ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Annalena Baerbock, issued a solemn appeal urging all Member States to uphold the Olympic Truce.
Bath & Body Works is fortunate to be a brand whose products are enjoyed by customers worldwide, and it’s an honor to donate products in moments when people need them most.
Sustainability rarely took center stage at Davos this year. Instead, it quietly delivered by playing an implicit and influential role in most conversations throughout the week.
Famed for their smiles, willingness to help and their Olympic spirit, Olympic volunteers help to make special Games memories for the athletes, fans and officials that they encounter in their different roles.
For the third year in a row, Idealist surveyed their communities of hiring managers and job seekers to better understand the state of work and job seeking in the U.S. nonprofit sector.
Many of us remember the iconic scene from Disney’s The Lion King where Mufasa teaches Simba about the “circle of life:” a powerful metaphor illustrating the interconnectedness of all living beings and the delicate balance of nature.
Small businesses need capital to launch and scale their ideas. And yet, it remains one of the biggest barriers to growth for small businesses globally.
Olympic hockey player Hugo Inglis from New Zealand, Olympic rugby sevens player Kevin Wekesa from Kenya, the National Olympic Committee of the Netherlands and the International Biathlon Union have been named the winners of the IOC Climate Action Awards 2025.
International advocacy organization Global Citizen and voter registration organization HeadCount today announced additional artists participating in the Just Vote campaign, with the mission of engaging young Americans to check their status, register and vote in November and elections beyond.
Paula Wood, director, Global Safety Program was recently recognized by the Manufacturing Institute with a STEP Award. The annual STEP Ahead Awards recognizes women in science, technology, engineering and production careers who exemplify leadership within their companies.
A protesting hum greets members of the Ørsted Beekeeping Club every Tuesday after work. Covered head to toe in beekeeper suits, including hats and face nets, they pad softly between the beehives
Whole Cities Foundation, a nonprofit broadening community access to fresh food and nutrition education, announced today that it will award 40 Community First Grants this fall to nonprofit organizations in the U.S.
Thinking about science class, many recall Bunsen burners, charts, and experiments. In the new digital learning age, fostering scientific inquiry through STEM studies means trying new things.
The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation announced today that a donation of $1 million from Sodexo’s global Stop Hunger Endowment Fund was distributed to 27 food banks during Hunger Action Month. Areas included Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, Louisville, KY, New York City, Washington, and more.
Women’s sport has made significant progress recently, but efforts to ensure gender balance on and off the field of play continue. Just 10 per cent of accredited coaches at the Olympic Summer and Winter Games over the past decade were female, with women accounting for 30 per cent of technical officials over the same period.
New methods of measuring volunteerism can more accurately capture and strengthen the value of volunteer hours, according to a new report from Common Impact, a national nonprofit and leader in skills-based volunteerism.
Moody’s announced recently that it has enhanced Moody’s CreditView, its leading research, data and analytics platform serving credit market professionals, with a wide range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and climate analysis. The expansion of Moody’s CreditView is part of Moody’s broader effort to deliver a comprehensive, integrated suite of ESG solutions to the market and addresses user feedback that extra-financial information and analysis are becoming increasingly important for assessing an issuer’s risk profile.
While the mission and work of Net Impact have long included a focus on race and equity, on our journey towards anti-racism, Net Impact understands that we can and must continuously improve.
Now Available: Spanish, Portuguese, and Bahasa Indonesian translations of AccountAbility's signature sustainability management framework and guidance document, the AccountAbility Principles (AA1000AP, 2018)
Being a woman in a technology-driven career can often mean being the only woman in the room. So, in 2019, UPS launched our Leadership Summit focused on increasing the representation and advancement of women in technology at UPS.
Amid a wave of societal commitments to action on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and racial justice, investors are stepping up commitments and vowing to intensify engagement with companies on DEI.
Last summer’s devastating bushfires unified communities and politicians with pledges to recover and rebuild. They also ignited the climate change debate, fuelling the push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and their environmental consequences.
ViacomCBS’ effort reflects what is increasingly becoming mainstream across corporate America: ensuring all Americans can show up and make their voices heard without confronting any barrier to their voting rights.
Oweesta Corporation (Oweesta) announced a $5 million grant from the Wells Open Business Fund, which will enable the Native Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) intermediary to launch the Native American COVID-19 Disaster Recovery Fund.
Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) will host a timely conversation on October 13 about health equity between CEO Rob Bisceglie and the organization’s founder, Dr. David Satcher, 16th surgeon general of the United States
Since 2001, Mohawk has contributed more than $6 million to Susan G. Komen, the largest breast cancer research organization in the U.S., through corporate donation programs and employee-led initiatives to find a cure.
In the words of the late US Senator Everett Dirksen, “the oil can is mightier than the sword.” Whether it is mightier than the COVID-19 virus remains to be seen, however.
What can the fashion industry learn from nature’s circularity, and how can industry switch to a regenerative model that builds soil, boosts biodiversity, supports community, and cleans up existing pollution in the process?
Tetra Pak is on a journey to deliver the world's most sustainable food package. Learn why they aim to create packaging soley from plant-based materials that are fully renewable, fully recyclable and carbon neutral in this video.
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