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CITGO Private Foundation Announces Almost $500,000 in COVID-19 Donations for Venezuela

The Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc. (Simón Bolívar Foundation), the non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, is awarding up to $278,380 from its COVID-19 Small Grants Program to ten 501(c)(3) charitable organizations for the ongoing development of health-focused projects in Venezuela.

Social Impact & Volunteering

10 Tips for Commemorating Memorial Day Weekend During COVID-19

Here are 10 tips to help you commemorate the Memorial Day weekend and demonstrate your commitment to a clean and green environment at the same time.

Energy

Black & Veatch, ENACT Systems Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Commercial Solar in Southeast Asia

Black & Veatch announces a strategic partnership with ENACT Systems that will combine the engineering leader's expertise in global distributed energy and renewables with ENACT's cloud-based platform to advance commercial solar in Southeast Asia.

Green Infrastructure

Smart City by Mohawk Group Is a Path to a Smarter Planet

Inspired by the city of today and the cities of tomorrow, one company has created a carpet system that highlights the urban environments of the future, made in a sustainable way.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

USA Homeownership Foundation Receives $100,000 Grant From Wells Fargo Foundation to Assist Military and Veteran Families With Rental and Mortgage Counseling and Education Due to COVID-19 Crisis

USA Homeownership Foundation, Inc. DBA Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals (VAREP) today announced a $100,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Brett J. Hart Named President of United Airlines

United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL) has announced that effective May 20, 2020, Brett J. Hart, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, will be appointed President of United Airlines Holdings, Inc.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Boosting the Impact of Social Purpose Leaders

To continue backing the communities we serve around the world American Express today announced the recipient of the 2020 American Express Leadership Academy Alumni Summit Award: Prakash Tyagi, executive director of the India-based NGO, GRAVIS.

Environment

Ceres Announces New Partnership With Renowned Research Institute to Drive Investor and Corporate Action on the Global Water Crisis

Today, the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres announced a new partnership with a leading research institute to deliver a new global assessment that will serve as a foundation in developing bold new action steps to better protect the world’s most precious resource: water. This is the first of its kind assessment that takes a comprehensive look at the major threats to our global water supply from unsustainable corporate practices.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Bank Partners to Offer Free Career and Financial Coaching

Fifth Third Bank announced it is making its NextJob Job Seekers Toolkit available to the public through January 2021. It also is offering Operation HOPE’s financial coaching services to individuals and small businesses.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Kids Foundation and Lettuce Grow Unite to Donate Hydroponic Growing Systems to Schools and Nonprofits Across the U.S.

Whole Kids Foundation, a nonprofit focused on children’s nutrition and wellness, announced today that Lettuce Grow is donating 125 hydroponic growing systems and supplies, valued at $1,000 each, to K-12 schools and school garden-support organizations across the U.S.

Research, Reports & Publications

Blackbaud Releases Eighth Annual Employee Engagement, Corporate Social Responsibility Trends Report

Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good, today releases its eighth annual Industry Review, which provides key learnings and trends in employee philanthropic behavior and companies’ corporate social...

Media & Communications

3BL Media Newsfeed Debuts on EngageForGood.com

3BL Media announced today the expansion of its news distribution network to include EngageForGood.com, a community of business and nonprofit professionals working at the intersection of cause and commerce.

Research, Reports & Publications

Parker’s 2019 Sustainability Report Highlights How Team Members are Leading With Purpose

Parker Hannifin Corporation, the global leader in motion and control technologies, has released its 2019 Sustainability Report.

Health & Healthcare

Freeport-McMoRan Contributes to COVID-19 Relief Efforts

Freeport-McMoRan is using the strength of its global supply chain to acquire, purchase, donate and deliver much needed medical supplies and more to Covid-19 relief efforts. Many of the healthcare clinics and hospitals in communities where the company operates are in rural, remote locations.

Research, Reports & Publications

Investing for a Climate-Positive Future

Hannon Armstrong is the first U.S. public company solely dedicated to investments in climate change solutions.

Environment

Frederick Kaufman: Voices Inside Our Heads

When faced with something overwhelming, terrifying, or incomprehensible, the human mind can get pretty creative.

Diversity & Inclusion

It’s Time to ‘Restructure Everything’ — and Push Diversity

VMware recently held its annual Women Transforming Technology (WT2) conference, which focuses on promoting diversity and inclusion in the technology sector. As much as I’d been looking forward to attending the event — my first time — as...

Health & Healthcare

Are Healthcare Flexibles the Next Big Plastic Recycling Feedstock?

Learn how HPRC set out to pilot a mechanical recycling methodology for mixed-flexible packaging materials.

Health & Healthcare

Comerica’s ‘Yo Baker Man’ Inspired to Help Metro Detroit Healthcare Frontline Workers

Comerica Bank employee Will Rawls, a senior analyst in the bank’s institutional trust group and affectionately known as “Yo Baker Man,” began a Facebook fundraising effort in hopes to make and provide baked goods to local health care workers on the frontlines amid COVID-19.

Sustainable Development Goals

How Farmers Are Keeping Us Fed through the Global Crisis

In the space of a few weeks, life around the globe has been upended in the wake of COVID-19. Industries of all kinds have been forced to rapidly change how they work, and agriculture is no different.

Environment

WBCSD and BIER Will Develop Guidance to Monitor and Measure Water Circularity

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) announce collaboration on creation of water circularity metrics.

Green Infrastructure

Case IH Tractors Play Key Role in Turning Sugarcane Waste into Valuable Commodity

With energy generated from renewable sources predicted to be among the major sources of power in the next decade, a company in the Philippines is tackling the challenge head-on and turning trash into a highly prized commodity.

Research, Reports & Publications

FedEx Releases 2020 Global Citizenship Report

FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) recently announced the release of its 2020 Global Citizenship Report (GCR), which details the company’s corporate social responsibility strategies, goals, programs and progress.

Environment

More Than 330 Major Businesses Call on U.S. Congress to Build Back a More Resilient, Sustainable Economy From COVID-19

On May 13, CEOs and representatives from more than 330 businesses, including Adobe, Capital One, CommonSpirit Health, DSM North America, Dow, Eileen Fisher, General Mills, Mars, Inc., Microsoft, NIKE, Salesforce and VISA called on a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers to build back a better economy by infusing resilient, long-term climate solutions into future economic recovery plans.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

CIT Provides $37.3 Million Investment for Jordan Downs Apartment Project

CIT today announced a $37.3 million investment in the Jordan Downs Apartments Project, a 92-unit multifamily apartment complex to support low-to-moderate income families in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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