Most conversations around proxy voting focus on shareholder proposals and executive compensation. Meanwhile, the most significant votes tend to fly under the radar: director elections.
Federal Express Corporation, one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, together with Junior Achievement (JA), announced the winners of the 2025 FedEx/JA International Trade Challenge Asia Pacific finals held at a live event in Singapore.
Four years ago, Taylor Brown received a bone marrow transplant at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as treatment for severe aplastic anemia.
Aflac, working with sports broadcaster, fashion entrepreneur and cancer survivor Erin Andrews, today launched Check for Cancer, a national movement aimed at boosting U.S. cancer screening rates by 10% over the next decade.
In fall 2024, Hurricanes Helene (Category 4) and Milton (Category 3) struck Florida's Gulf Coast within weeks of each other, causing widespread flooding and power outages affecting over three million people across the Southeast.
The 10 finalists for the 2025 3M Young Scientist Challenge have spent the summer working with 3M scientist mentors to refine their projects ahead of the final contest at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, Oct. 13-14.
Aflac employee Cyronn Herrington had a unique childhood, starting at birth. He was diagnosed with hemophilia B, a chronic bleeding disorder that keeps blood from clotting properly.
In Colombia, the fight against disease outbreaks is reaching a critical point—and the collaboration between Direct Relief and FedEx is helping make a tangible difference.
John told me, “I’m convinced people don’t need a hand out, they want a hand up.” A hand out is a one-time quick fix, while a hand up focuses on changing the system to create widespread, long-term impact.
“From São Paulo, Brazil, to Babakan, Indonesia, our people are fostering breakthrough innovations and community-level programs that are providing real-world solutions to tough sustainability issues,” said Mary Draves, Dow’s chief sustainability officer and vice president, Environment, Health & Safety.
Advancing risk reduction is one of Mosaic’s 2025 ESG Performance Targets. EHS Manager Jeremy Hilderman and Process Safety Management Engineer Lian Blackwelder explain more.
Meredith Kruger Kos is an Impact Analyst for the General Mills Foundation and the latest feature in our ‘You Grow, Girl!’ series, which aims to amplify the voices of female farmers around the world.
As the conversation around social justice & equitable access to opportunity progresses, the Pizza Hut & BOOK IT! teams will continue to do their part to provide access to books that help children develop a deeper connection to the world around them.
In 2019, we published MetLife’s 17th annual U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study. Our annual employee benefit trends study surveys employees and employers across the U.S. to examine changing workplace dynamics — and how employers can best respond to them. In 2019, we focused on how employers can attract, engage, and retain the best talent by helping employees thrive in work and in life.
It is vitally important for businesses to carefully consider the various ways COVID-19 will impact their real estate operating expenses in the foreseeable future. CBRE has compiled the following information to help pinpoint these considerations.
On August 19, 1871, world-renowned aviation pioneer Orville Wright was born. Along with sibling Wilbur, the Wright Brothers invented and engineered the first motor-operated airplane. Thanks to their world-altering creation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established August 19th as National Aviation Week.
Humans rarely design systems of production with decomposition in mind. Whether it’s a snow ski, a scooter or a skyscraper, the things humans make often lack a clear plan for disassembly into their basic building blocks, and it’s a significant problem.
Zambia is home to some of Africa’s most spectacular landscapes, premier national parks, and Africa’s Big Five game animals—lions, leopards, rhinoceroses, elephants, and African buffalo. Each year, nearly 1 million visitors make wildlife tourism a major contributor to Zambia’s economy and one of the few sources of formal employment for communities in rural areas.
Progress is a wonderful thing. Data shows us that people today are collectively more healthy, literate and environmentally conscious than at any point in human history.
Tetra Pak published its 2020 Sustainability Report, celebrating the many ways the company has worked to protect food, people and futures in the past year. An annual tradition since 1999, this year's report is especially poignant in the midst of a global pandemic, while the world's focus on planet and the environment is being challenged.
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition program for high school students with disabilities and provides marketable and skill-building opportunities that are geared to helping participants secure competitive employment.
Lisa Ling talks to UNICEF’s Henrietta Fore about global efforts to get all kids vaccinated. Harvard's Dr. Vikram Patel discusses children’s mental health during the pandemic. Plus, parents ask the experts their pressing questions about COVID-19.
Phyllis Young has volunteered for countless community events, nonprofit boards and fundraisers, but being able to help Willa Carson Health and Wellness Center in Clearwater, Fla., this year means more.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the lives of people all around the world, inspiring individuals and companies alike to step up and serve their communities in more ways than ever before.
School may have been out for summer, but class was in session for our team at Mohawk Group as we worked on a sense-ational surprise for students at New Hope Middle School.
Young people between 18 and 22 are far more likely to report feeling lonely than any other generation and teens today report high levels of stress, anxiety and other mental health challenges.
Dow announces aggressive new targets to address both carbon mitigation and plastic waste. Building on our 2025 Sustainability Goals, these targets will put Dow on a path to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and a waste-free world.
The Sonoma State University Engineering Summer Camp, funded by Keysight, didn't let the pandemic defeat them. They wound up selecting one cohort of 12 students to participate for two straight weeks, and did everything remotely.
As COVID-19 continues to change lives across the globe, many employers are wondering what effects the pandemic will have on industries, jobs and the workforce over the near and long term.
After receiving his first dirt bike at the tender age of four, eBay seller Donovan Mitchell realized he wanted to become a professional motocross racer.
COVID-19 has laid bare the seemingly obvious, yet often overlooked fact that ensuring employee safety and health, not to mention customer and supply chain worker safety, is critical to executing a sustainable business strategy. Hear from a diverse...
At Cox, we carry a shared responsibility to champion a more open environment, where everyone can use their unique talents and tenacity to drive growth – their own professional growth and the growth of our organization as a whole.
Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
Through our Goals That Inspire we strive to make a positive difference in our communities by relying on our ability to understand their needs and then...
In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
Whirlpool Corporation has several CSR partners including United Way, Habitat for Humanity International, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Consulada...
This year marked the 20th anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Katrina, one of the worst, deadliest and most costly natural disasters to ever...
