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Education | PNC Financial Services Group

PNC Volunteers Bring Basic Financial Knowledge to New Volunteer Opportunity

For about two years now, the PNC Center for Financial Education (CFE), an effort led by Community Development Banking, has been collaborating with community-based nonprofits to offer financial education to individuals, first-time homebuyers and small businesses.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A Human Rights-Based Approach to COVID-19 Decision-Making

BSR has developed three primers on how to respect human rights during the COVID-19 crisis: one for the energy and extractives sector; one for the food, beverage, and agriculture sector; and one for the transportation and logistics sector.

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Diversity & Inclusion

At T-Mobile, Your Fight Is Our Fight

We’re not coming together just to celebrate Pride — we’re coming together as Black colleagues and LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies, because we believe in the visibility and value of all of our teammates.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

L'Oréal Launches Project to Help with Sustainable Transformation

L’Oréal has launched a €150 million program to protect the environment and support vulnerable women following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

5 Ways to Support Small Businesses As They Re-Enter the Market

As the economy slowly re-opens, small businesses can finally welcome back customers and staff under strict safety guidelines. It will take a while for them to get back on solid financial footing. To do so, it will take a great deal of support from both consumers and financial institutions like Comerica Bank.

Innovation & Technology

Intellectual Property Procedures: A Guide to Navigating IP at U.S. Universities

While many faculty that seek to facilitate and support student innovation dedicate courses and workshops on the role of IP, there are a number of obstacles to comprehensive education on these issues.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

BeChangeMaker Contestants Play to Win - for the good of the globe

They knew that their home country of Morocco was building more and more residential developments, but had no idea how to scale their idea to meet the demands of the construction industry.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

CSRHub Partners With FinMason to Provide ESG Ratings for Wealth Mgmt

CSRHub, the leading provider of ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) consensus ratings, today announced that it has partnered with FinMason to redistribute its ESG ratings via FinMason’s award-winning API.

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Education

Curiosity Labs™ at Home: Homemade Silly Putty

We’ve created a number of easy and educational science experiments that can be completed at home with materials typically found around the house.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Planet Foundation $10,000 Fund Partners Move for Microcredit

Whole Planet Foundation’s $10,000 Fund partners are mobilizing to support microentrepreneurs around the world on June 27th!

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Transparency Brings Corporate Response to Black Lives Matter into Focus

“In recent weeks we have seen a tipping point reached – and passed – in the Black Lives Matter movement. As protests have spread around the world, they have ignited demands for equality and an end to systemic racial bias in all its forms.

Environment

Farming for the Future at Frey Vineyards

As organic food sales are increasing, consumers are also drinking more organic, no sulfites added, wine as people are choosing to eat and drink pure products for their health and the health of the planet.

Diversity & Inclusion

UPS Longitudes | Inspiring Women Entrepreneurs Around the World

Women entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) face many barriers to finding resources to help them launch and grow successful businesses.

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Health & Healthcare

Novartis Expands Africa Sickle Cell Disease Program to Uganda and Tanzania

Today, Novartis and its partners announced the expansion of the Africa Sickle Cell Disease program to East Africa with the signature of two new memoranda of understanding with the Ministries of Health of Uganda and Tanzania.

Research, Reports & Publications

Edison International 2019 Sustainability Report: Company Overview

Edison International is one of the nation’s largest electric utility holding companies, providing clean and reliable energy and energy services through its independent companies.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Gender Equality is Men's Priority Too!

During my tenure at ON Semiconductor, I have witnessed our leaders place increasing importance on the value of diversity and inclusion, adding specific diversity metrics to our corporate bonus program.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Recovery to Resilience: How Energy & Sustainability Professionals Can Prepare for the Turn

We are living in an extraordinary time, the likes of which few of us could even imagine a few months ago. The ramifications of COVID-19 on human physical and mental health, the global economy, businesses (including many of our clients), and more are simply unfathomable.

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Innovation & Technology

The Way We Work Now: Teaching from a Distance with HP Inc.

On a Friday in mid-March, Jana Maiuri listened as her 6th-grade students engaged in a spirited discussion of the George Orwell classic Animal Farm.

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Events, Media & Communications

Free Bacardi Industry Webinar Champions Women & Provocative Topics

The Spirit Forward Womxn’s Empowerment Series, taking place 6/23 at 1pm ET, brings forth thought-provoking speakers and topics instrumental in creating change, beginning with the womxn who keep it all together and who are often underrepresented.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Skills for Cities 2020: Keeping Promises

Common Impact is dedicating Skills for Cities 2020 to support racial justice and Black-led nonprofits facing the double pandemic of racism & COVID-19. Learn more about the skilled volunteering events and how your company or nonprofit can participate!

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Energy

National Grid Reminds Qualifying Customers that Bill Payment Assistance is Available as Federally Funded HEAP Programs are Extended Through June 30

National Grid reminds customers that applications are still being accepted for the federally funded Home Energy Assistance Program and the Emergency HEAP program through June 30, 2020, while funds are available.

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Health & Healthcare

Merck Joins Agenda to Address COVID-19 Pandemic's Effects on Vulnerable Communities

Merck has signed on as a supporting company to a group of organizations looking to address the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Environment

Logitech Pledges Carbon Impact Transparency

Logitech International (SIX: LOGN) (Nasdaq: LOGI), maker of cloud peripheral products, today pledged to communicate the carbon impact of all its products on packaging and the company website.

Diversity & Inclusion

Supporting LGBTI People During Pride Month 2020 and the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 has exposed many of the systemic issues disproportionately impacting vulnerable populations, including LGBTI people. Here’s how the private sector can support LGBTI rights during Pride Month 2020 and beyond.

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Health & Healthcare

Lab Design Techniques to Accelerate COVID Test Processing

Testing is a crucial component of our global response to COVID-19. The more people we can test for the virus, the better we can understand the threat we’re up against.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Land Betterment Corporation Highlighted by Indiana's YOU ARE CURRENT

Land Betterment Corporation, an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites announces its spotlight article by Indiana’s local news publication, YOU ARE CURRENT.

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