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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement | Verizon

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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Environment

A Global Lens on Current COVID-19 Business Impacts

Inogen Alliance has compiled a peek into current, local regulations and COVID-19 impacts to businesses in Asia, Europe, and South America.

Innovation & Technology

Enbridge: New Ways of Working

Our industry is changing. The ways in which energy is delivered, the types of energy delivered, and the impact of that delivery on the world around us are changing.

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Energy

Net Zero: DIY (Do It Yourself)

We have never spent more time in our own homes than we have in the past twelve months. It is no surprise then that consumer spending on home improvements is one sector that continues to experience growth, along with digital entertainment and consumer electronics.

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Health & Healthcare

Alkermes Shares Tips for Preventing Cancer and Spreading Awareness

Though National Cancer Prevention Month has come to an end, Alkermes will not stop working to uncover potential new cancer immunotherapies.

Green Infrastructure

Lineas Chooses Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Transform Freight Operations and Support Business Growth

Lineas has selected HPE to provide next-generation IT infrastructure in an as-a-service model to support their transformation from a conventional freight company into an efficient and sustainable transport system for the European logistics industry

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Sustainable Development Goals

UN's Sustainable Development Goals May Help Investors Identify Best-in-Class Companies

Investors who use the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals in their ESG analysis can better identify best-in-class companies and produce best-in-class ESG outcomes, according to new research by Martin Currie

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Essity Is Recognized Globally for Its Continued Leadership in Sustainability

Global hygiene and health company, Essity, announced it was recognized by four leading indices and benchmarking organizations for its commitment to sustainable business practices and innovation.

Environment

Bayer Crop Science: First Strategic Partner in the “Living Soils of the Americas” Initiative

Bayer Crop Science has become the first strategic partner in the “Living Soils of the Americas” initiative

Diversity & Inclusion

An Update on our $100M Commitment

Over the last year, our company has come together like never before – to educate and uplift our employees, advance equity, and reorient our support of underserved, underrepresented, and under-resourced communities.

Health & Healthcare

A Refocus On The Issues Of Health & Protection

According to the 2020 Aflac Health Care Issues Survey, COVID-19 affected 16% of families with children under 18 in the household — and of these, 75% said they or a member of their household required hospitalization for the coronavirus.

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Environment

The Values Behind Our ESG Commitment

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, energy providers like PSEG have reinforced their roles as essential services by providing around-the-clock power and gas to millions of customers whose homes now serve double-duty

Diversity & Inclusion

Technology Leader Fahim Siddiqui Honored by Two Community Organizations

Fahim Siddiqui, The Home Depot’s senior vice president of information technology, has been named on the Islamic Speaker Bureau’s “100 Influential Georgia Muslims” list. 

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CGF Announces New Members for February 2021

The Consumer Goods Forum is delighted to announce the following new companies have joined our global membership community and, in doing so, have confirmed their commitment to our vision of better lives through better business.

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Energy

Leading the Way to Carbon-Free Generation, Long Ridge Energy Terminal to Add Hydrogen Fuel Capability

With Black & Veatch as program manager, Ohio’s Long Ridge Energy Generation is retrofitting its 485-megawatt combined-cycle power plant to run on natural gas and carbon-free hydrogen.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Former U.S. Surgeon Generals to Keynote Second Annual National Healthcare DEI Conference

The Healthcare Diversity Council (HCD) of the National Diversity Council (NDC) will host their second annual National Healthcare DEI Conference on Tuesday, July 27 and Wednesday, July 28, 2021 via Whova/Zoom.

Environment

Effective Project Execution in a Challenging Environment During a Challenging Time

Inogen Alliance members from France and the UAE conducted environmental closeout studies at five NATO Camps across the Resolute Support mission area in Afghanistan.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Global Citizen Presents: A 'Recovery Plan for the World' Roundtable Conversation

International advocacy organization Global Citizen, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, and the World Health Organization last week launched Global Citizen’s Recovery Plan for the World

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Events, Media & Communications

CSRHub's Bahar Gidwani Speaking at BattleFin Virtual Discovery Days

CSRHub's Bahar Gidwani Speaking at BattleFin's 2021 Virtual Discovery Days. He will be part of a discussion on cloud analytics for ESG big data.

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Energy

Her Team Is Creating the Products, Services and Offerings Customers Want

How does a 100-year-old company like Duke Energy transform for the future? Senior Vice President of Customer Solutions and Strategies Swati Daji says you think big. But more importantly, you think about the customer.

Research, Reports & Publications

Uneven Progress: How Attitudes and Actions Are Evolving and What Continues to Hold the VC Industry Back

Traditional VCs are less likely to prioritize or take action toward investing in multicultural-founded companies when compared to women or multicultural VCs.

Responsible Production & Consumption

SCS' New Gluten-Free Standard Delivers Highest Level of Accountability

SCS Global Services today announced the launch of a new Gluten-Free Certification Standard to drive greater adoption of industry best practices with regards to auditing, testing and reporting.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Ecocentricity Blog: I Called Bank

Banks don’t have to be a part of our environmental problems. If they choose, they can be part of our environmental solutions.

The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada

Education

MilliporeSigma Partnership Spotlight: KIPP St. Louis

For more than eight years, we have partnered with KIPP St. Louis, a public charter school in St. Louis that primarily serves students living below the poverty line.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sands ESG Report Details Company's Commitment to Sustainability

Sands’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report keys in on a number of important performance metrics to demonstrate the company’s commitment to being a good corporate citizen.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Mastercard Issues $600 Million Sustainability Bond

Mastercard today announced that it has successfully priced a $600 million Sustainability Bond at a fixed rate of 1.90%.

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