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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

The Value of Giving Back: Honoring IBM Volunteers Around the World

IBM’s Volunteer Excellence Awards have been presented annually by our Chairman and CEO since 2005. Today, I’m honored to announce the 15 winners of the 2021 IBM Volunteer Excellence Awards and the impact of their accomplishments.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Keysight Technologies' Crisis Management Plan Enables Quick Response

Keysight has defined policies, procedures, and decision-making practices across critical functions to help quickly and effectively manage crisis incidents in real-time.

Diversity & Inclusion

Duke Energy Announces $1 Million in Grants To Support Organizations Focused on Social Justice, Racial Equity in North Carolina

Duke Energy today announced the recipients of $1 million in grants through the Duke Energy Foundation for North Carolina nonprofits working to advance social justice and racial equity.

Health & Healthcare

Medtronic Podcast: Krista Sugerman Explains How Medtronic Is Developing New Innovative Technology To Make Its Fight Against Diabetes Is Personal

In this episode, Krista Sugerman, VP, Global Marketing & Comm. of the diabetes business at Medtronic, shares how diabetes has impacted people close to her and why the company is keeping focused on how living with diabetes is a constant balancing act.

Education

Baker Hughes Foundation Contributes $1 million to Historically Black Colleges and Universities

The Baker Hughes Foundation has announced $1,000,000 in grants to four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) for the 2022-23 academic year, part of the Foundation’s long-running mission to promote education and opportunity

Energy

AMD Advances Performance-Per-Watt to Benefit Gamers

The demand for immersive, realistic gaming experiences is constantly pushing the boundaries of technology, driving enhancements to support features like raytracing, variable rate shading, and advanced upscaling technologies.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Benevity Appoints Lance Ludman as Chief Financial Officer

Benevity appoints Lance Ludman as Chief Financial Officer to deliver scalable, data-driven financial strategies to support global growth.

Education

AccountAbility Releases Simplified Chinese Translation of Its AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS V3)

AccountAbility announcing the launch of the Simplified Chinese translation of its AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS v3), helping organizations apply the leading methodology used by sustainability professionals worldwide for sustainability-related assurance engagements.

Diversity & Inclusion

Tapestry Announces New Partnership With Disability:IN

Tomorrow marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a day designed to increase awareness and understanding of the challenges faced by the 1+ billion people worldwide living with disabilities.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Video: Tackling Hard-to-Recycle Plastic Waste | One Take With Ron Cotterman

Sealed Air is driving the packaging industry in creating circular value chains that prevent waste, enable recovery of materials, and reduce dependence on natural resources.

Sustainable Development Goals

The Battle for Green Credentials

Unfounded eco-claims create and fuel levels of risk that undermine business and investor confidence says Mandi McReynolds, head of global ESG at Workiva.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Musim Mas Group Wins The RSPO Excellence Award For Smallholder Impact

The leading body for sustainable palm, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), awarded the Musim Mas Group with the Smallholder Impact Programme Award.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Golf Entrepreneurs Take a Swing at E-Commerce With Expert Advice From Verizon

Like many inspired business ideas, Denny Rivas’ company, The Original Cap Magnet, was born on the golf course.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating Disability Inclusion with Accenture

Join Accenture on YouTube to catch Beck Bailey's conversation with Molly Burke and Dr. Sai Kaustuv Dasgupta on the contributions of persons with disabilities in our communities and how we can all be better allies.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Truist and Truist Foundation Announce $4.5 Million in Grants To Strengthen Texas' Racially Diverse Small Business Ecosystem

Truist Foundation announced a $3.5 million grant to PeopleFund, a Texas-based Community Development Financial Institution and nonprofit 501(c)(3) that strives to create economic opportunity and financial stability for underserved people.

Energy

JetBlue and Fidelis New Energy Sign Agreement for 92 Million Gallons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel

With this MOU, Fidelis’ negative carbon intensity SAF is helping JetBlue advance toward its goal to reach 10 percent of its total fuel usage as SAF on a blended basis by 2030.

Innovation & Technology

United Airlines Invests in Battery-Maker Natron Energy With Eye Toward Further Electrifying Ground Operations

United Airlines announced a strategic equity investment in Natron Energy, a battery manufacturer whose sodium-ion batteries have the potential to help United electrify its airport ground equipment like pushback tractors and operations at the gate.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Edison Volunteers Pack Holiday Cheer

Some 240 Edison International volunteers spent Saturday morning alongside several other organizations packing food boxes for low-income families at the Orange County Food Bank.

Innovation & Technology

Dow Features Seven New High-Performing and Sustainable Technologies at In-Cosmetics Asia 2022

Dow will showcase seven high performing and sustainable new technologies to expand its personal care portfolio at in-cosmetics Asia 2022.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Renewing our Commitment to our Pledge Partners

The Peloton Pledge is our plan to become an antiracist organization and tackle systemic inequities surrounding physical and mental wellness in our communities.

Environment

City of Charleston, Hilton Grand Vacations and Arbor Day Foundation Team up to Plant Trees in Hampton Park in Observance of Arbor Day

On Dec. 2, 2022, the City of Charleston will partner with Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. (NYSE:HGV) and the Arbor Day Foundation to plant 13 trees in Hampton Park, in observance of Arbor Day.

Innovation & Technology

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose, Tata Consultancy Services, and PYXERA Global: Narrowing the Digital Gender Gap

Over 90 percent of jobs worldwide have a digital component, yet a large digital gender gap persists.

Responsible Production & Consumption

China's Livestreaming Farmers Harvest Views This 11.11 Shopping Season

During the world’s largest retail event earlier this month, over a million eyes turned to a chestnut farm in rural China as 37-year-old Han Wenliang livestreamed sales of her produce.

Events, Media & Communications

Live From UNGA 77 - September 23

This Friday, we wind down the conversations around the UNGA. But the conversations around the important issues at the heart of these days continue on.

Diversity & Inclusion

KFC China Brings More Local Products to Its Menus - Boosting Rural Revitalization

Yum China has recently launched the Trio Black cereal drink - a hot breakfast drink - at more than 270 KFC stores in Sichuan province and Chongqing.

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