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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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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Dow Products Win Two 2021 ICIS Innovation Awards

A pair of groundbreaking technologies from Dow (NYSE: DOW) were recently honored with ICIS Innovation Awards, which recognize companies who are paving the way in product, process, and sustainability innovations across the chemicals industry.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

NortonLifeLock Donates More Than 1 Million Meals to Feed Neighbors

2.3 billion people lack year-round access to adequate food. We are taking action this season and have donated $150,000 to organizations providing hunger relief, including Feeding America, Save the Children India, & The European Food Banks Federation.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Black & Veatch Recognized Among 'Best of the Best' in Michigan Workplace Safety, Health

Black & Veatch proudly announces it has received the Michigan Voluntary Protection Program in Construction STAR Award – the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (MIOSHA) highest honor involving workplace safety

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Education

Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Offer All Educators New, No-Cost Professional Learning Resources

As school systems nationwide begin to look towards Winter Break, Discovery Education and select social impact partners present curated professional learning resources at no cost to support educators’ continued professional learning.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

National Grid Restores Power to Nearly 180,000 Upstate New York Customers Impacted by Damaging Windstorm

National Grid’s upstate New York field force of more than 3,400 workers has restored power to nearly 180,000 of the approximately 215,000 customers impacted by the powerful windstorm that swept across the region Saturday through this morning.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sustainable Investing: Good News for 2022 and Beyond

For women-led and impact leading Domini Impact Investments, sustainable investing isn’t a trend; it’s a tradition. CEO Carole Laible explains what’s ahead for sustainable investing in 2022—and why women are the ones that will continue to power its momentum.

Health & Healthcare

Opinion: Time for a Closer Look at Sickle Cell Disease

While the country examines the impact of race on everything from public safety to college admissions, it’s a good time to ask: With so many American children affected, isn’t it time to boost awareness of sickle cell disease (SCD) with the same rigor we do comparable conditions?

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment Expands Its Equity Originations Team With the Appointment of Becca Ickowicz

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) has appointed Becca Ickowicz as a senior banker to expand the firm’s equity originations activity.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Workiva Named a Top Workplace for Parents

For the second year in a row, Workiva has been recognized as a Best Workplace for Parents by Great Place to Work.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Do You Want an Easy Way to Benchmark Your Environmental and Social Practices Against Peers, Your Industry, the S&P 500, and Russell 3000?

The Conference Board is delighted to announce two new online tools that let you quickly and easily see how your firm's environmental, human capital and social practices compare to other US public companies.

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Health & Healthcare

WELL Movement Takes Off in the Middle East

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) announced incredible growth and adoption of WELL across the Middle East, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to elevate awareness of the importance of health, safety and well-being

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Land Betterment Corporation Engages Urban-Gro, a Leading Controlled Environment Agriculture Architect-Led Design and Integration Firm, for Its First Indoor Vertical Farm

Betterment Harvest’s Busy Vertical Farm, from Land Betterment in collaboration with urban-gro, will be a premiere operation centered in the Appalachian region.

Innovation & Technology

Our Mission: Deliver the Trusted Foundation to Accelerate Innovation

It’s now a multi-cloud world, and organizations must choose between modernizing what they have or starting from scratch. Between tackling complex security challenges or taking on greater risk.

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Innovation & Technology

Black & Veatch Designs First-of-a-Kind Advanced R&D Facility for Cultivated Seafood in Singapore

Black & Veatch collaborated with Shiok Meats for the conceptual design and layout of their first-of-a-kind advanced research and development facility for cultivated seafood.

Sustainable Development Goals

El Abra Provides Start-Up Funds and Training to 33 Small Businesses in Chile

Minera El Abra selected 33 businesses for the Fund Empréndete 2021, which will finance businesses or business ideas of people in the Antofagasta Region who have been trained with the DreamBuilder program.

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Environment

Nearly 400 Companies Urge the U.S. Senate to Unleash the Build Back Better Act's Historic Investments in Climate, Clean Jobs, Savings and Environmental Justice

As the U.S. Senate prepares to debate the Build Back Better Act, nearly 400 companies of all sizes and industries from across the country are urging lawmakers to pass its ambitious climate, clean energy, and environmental justice measures.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Climate in the Cross Hairs With New ESG Long-short Strategy

Impact Cubed, a leading provider of ESG data and investment solutions, has launched its Impact Alpha strategy, a market neutral equity long-short strategy that aims to deliver an absolute return while targeting ESG themes and climate solutions.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Bloomberg Launches U.S. Municipal Bond Impact Index to Track Green, Social, and Sustainability Bonds

Bloomberg today announced the launch of the Bloomberg U.S. Municipal Impact Index designed to track the market of municipal bonds categorized as Green, Social, and Sustainability.

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Environment

Ceres' Impact at the Start of This Critical Decade Grows With Scores Joining Its Powerful Networks and Participating in New Initiatives

Amid rising action in tackling the climate crisis and other sustainability challenges, Ceres grew significantly in 2021 with scores of new institutional investors and major companies joining its powerful networks and global collaborations and five new groundbreaking initiatives that will drive more equitable market-based and policy solutions throughout the economy.

Research, Reports & Publications

P&G Publishes 2021 Citizenship Report and Continues Acts of Good

At P&G, doing good has been in our DNA since we were founded more than 180 years ago. For generations, we’ve supported consumers and communities through unexpected challenges, and last year has been no different.

Diversity & Inclusion

Enbridge ESG Forum: Workforce Diversity

Watch Melissa Harper, Chief Human Resources and Inclusion Officer at Enbridge, discuss the company’s approach to workforce diversity, equity and inclusion.

Health & Healthcare

Medtronic LABS Reimagines Community Healthcare Through Collaborations

Medtronic LABS is creating technology-powered healthcare solutions to accelerate patient access for disadvantaged communities around the world, and is now expanding their work to include the United States.

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Energy

Drones, Digitalization and More: The Key Trends Driving Wind Energy Investment in Asia and Beyond

As adoption of wind energy gains momentum worldwide, Black & Veatch looks to Asia—in which wind expansion almost doubled in 2020 compared to 2019—as a promising region for development of wind energy.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Griffith Foods Canada Recognized as One of Greater Toronto's Top Employers for 2022

For the 7th year, Griffith Foods Canada was recognized as one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers for 2022 by Canada's Top 100 Employers!

Energy

Kohler Co. Launches a Home Energy Management Systems Division Within Its Residential and Power Products Business

Kohler announces a new division within its Residential and Power Products business – the Home Energy Management Systems team led by Jennifer Rindt. The HEMS team is focused on providing products and services to support energy resiliency.

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