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Education

Motivating Young Minds With an Entrepreneurial Spirit

Georgia-Pacific employees and other local business professionals recently spent time with some bright students in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

NESsT: Connecting Refugees With Sustainable Employment

Cisco will provide seed funding for NESsT to establish a NESsT Refugee Employment Initiative, so they can better support and strengthen local social enterprises that create dignified jobs and wraparound services for Ukrainian refugees.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Kimberly-Clark Commemorates 150th Anniversary With Grants to Three Global Nonprofit Organizations Selected by Its Employees

As Kimberly-Clark celebrates 150 years of providing Better Care for a Better World, the Kimberly-Clark Foundation announced that it will honor this milestone anniversary by awarding three $150,000 grants to global nonprofit organizations.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

New SEC Climate Disclosure Regulations Will Set the Bar for Climate Reporting

The SEC's proposed climate reporting disclosures could have profound effects on the trucking industry, as carriers of all sizes struggle to track and report scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Frank Mycroft and Oliver Browne of Booster fuels explain.

Diversity & Inclusion

Rumsey To Become Cummins' First Female CEO

Cummins Inc. has announced President and Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Rumsey will assume the role of President and CEO, becoming the company’s first female Chief Executive Officer.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Mastercard Strive Community Awards $1M to Digital and Data-First Projects to Strengthen Small Businesses

The Mastercard Strive Community announced the inaugural grant recipients from its Innovation Fund.

Education

CNH Industrial Capital India Provides Financial Literacy Program for Farmers

CNH Industrial Capital, the financial services division of CNH Industrial, has launched a Financial Literacy Program to educate farmers in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

Health & Healthcare

When Innovation Meets Prevention: How Medical Wearables Are Changing the Healthcare Industry

The technologies and sensors of wearable devices enable real-time monitoring of patients and the collection of important patient data. They hold enormous potential, but also challenge developers and manufacturers.

Responsible Production & Consumption

BlueTriton Brands Joins The Water Council's WAVE Program

The Water Council is pleased to announce BlueTriton Brands has signed onto The Water Council’s WAVE program, becoming the first company in the beverage industry to participate.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

PSE&G Prepares for Hurricane Season With Major Outage Exercise

Just when you think it can’t get worse than a snowstorm on Halloween, several critical facilities lose power, including one as a result of a nearby plane crash – or so went the scenario of this year’s preparedness exercise held earlier in June.

Education

Student Journalists Headline Healthy NewsWorks 2022 Film and Book Fest

Healthy NewsWorks hosted their 2022 Film and Book Fest at the Merion Tribute House in Merion Station, PA.

Research, Reports & Publications

New Financial Health Study Examines Deep Gender Gap in Financial Health With Men Nearly 50% More Likely To Be Financially Healthy

The Financial Health Network, the nation’s authority on financial health, in partnership with the Principal® Foundation, released The Gender Gap in Financial Health report, exploring why women in America continue to fare worse financially than men.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

About the Alkermes Inspiration Grants® Program

Organizations supporting people living with addiction, serious mental illness and cancer have faced unique needs and challenges during the COVID pandemic.

Innovation & Technology

Pursuing Sustainability and Productivity Gains With Digital Project Delivery

WSP, as a world-leading design and consulting firm, is committed to working with contractors and builders to transform our industry and provide leadership in DPD to enable projects to be built faster and with less risk.

Sustainable Development Goals

Greater Collaboration and Transparency in Reporting Are Key to a More Sustainable Semiconductor Industry

The threat posed by climate change is motivating efforts around the world to improve corporate sustainability, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C under the Paris Agreement.

Diversity & Inclusion

Southern Company Invests in Advancing Racial Equity and Social Justice

In 2021, we invested more than $66 million to advance racial equity and social justice in our communities as part of a larger commitment to invest $225 million through 2025.

Diversity & Inclusion

UniWorld Group, Inc., Connecting Brands With Multicultural Consumers Since 1969 and Partnering With The Home Depot for More Than 20 Years

Today, UWG is the longest-standing, full-service, multicultural advertising and marketing agency in the United States, and has been partnering with The Home Depot for more than 20 years.

Environment

Climate Action for Suppliers Helps Make HP's Supply Chain More Sustainable

In 2021, HP announced a range of ambitious climate action targets, including a commitment to be net zero by 2040 — a full decade ahead of the Paris Agreement.

Sustainable Development Goals

Illumina Among First in the World to Receive Approval of Science-Based Net-Zero Target

Illumina, Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, announced today it is among the first group of companies worldwide to receive approval of its net-zero targets by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

Responsible Production & Consumption

How an ‘Internal Water Price’ Helps Companies Make Better Decisions

Too often, water is seen as a low-cost commodity—and not the precious resource vital to life and business that it is. Setting an internal price focused on the true value of water helps leaders better understand and manage risk.

Energy

Emerging Trends in Biofuels: ESG and the Energy Transition

We are increasingly seeing the need for companies to incorporate ESG risks into their enterprise risk management. This increased demand for ESG is happening across all industries – so what does this mean for the biofuels industry?

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

SkysTheLimit.org Celebrates Disability Pride Month; Supports Differently Abled Entrepreneurs

SkysTheLimit.org (“Sky’s the Limit”) is pleased to celebrate all the differently abled entrepreneurs who are pursuing their passions and interests by building their business from the ground up.

Innovation & Technology

How 6G Will Change the Way We Interact With Technology

Mobile providers are accelerating their rollout of the flexible, low-latency, multi-gigabit-per-second communications network known as 5G.

Responsible Production & Consumption

How We're Delivering Progress on Cocoa Sustainability

Our pledge to invest half a billion dollars in these communities by 2030 is translating to meaningful results on the ground, helping to keep children in school, helping to diversify and increase incomes, giving farmers the support to build thriving businesses and protecting forests.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

From the Fifth Third Bancorp 2021 ESG Report: Our Approach to Sustainability

Our approach to corporate sustainability and ESG is focused on doing well by doing good.

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    60 years ago, Mary Kay Ash created an unparalleled opportunity for women to define their own successes and control their own futures. Her vision of...
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    To help break cycles of inequality, we empower the next generation to reach their full potential through higher education.
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    We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...
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  15. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
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