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Innovation & Technology

Innovate ... Then What?

Innovation is critical to business success. The experience of CLP’s digital experts shows that putting something new into the marketplace successfully and making it accessible to customers can be an epic journey.

Innovation & Technology

Ryan Picarella Joins LifeGuides® as Executive VP, Growth & Partnerships

LifeGuides® today announced that Ryan Picarella has joined as Executive Vice President, Growth & Partnerships. The company’s team is thrilled to welcome a pioneering leader in employee wellbeing, wellness, and corporate culture.

Diversity & Inclusion

Video Release: A Leadership Imperative for Systemic Transformation in DEI

A departure from “business as usual” is critical to rethink and reimagine long-standing, enduring challenges of inequality and exclusion.

Diversity & Inclusion

Supplier Spotlight: Diversant

In 2021, Diversant is known as the largest African American-owned internet technology (IT) staffing firm in the U.S. and the preferred staffing partner for many mid-market and Fortune 500 companies, including The Home Depot.

Research, Reports & Publications

Mining's Role in Advancing the Industry's Most Rigorous Standard

Today, the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) released the audit report of the Unki Mine in Zimbabwe, the first from Anglo American's portfolio of mines to be assessed against the IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining. Within the IRMA system, this moment is significant, as it is the second report released in the IRMA system, the first from a mine in Africa and the first from a site producing platinum group metals.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

PT Freeport Indonesia Sends Emergency Team to Assist in Recovery and Relief to West Sulawesi

Two earthquakes rocked the Mamuju and Majene areas in West Sulawesi on January 14 and 15, causing landslides, casualties and property damage.

Research, Reports & Publications

Viable Sanitation Enterprises: The Linchpin in Sanitation Markets

What factors determine the viability of sanitation enterprises beyond sales volumes? FSG conducted interviews with more than 60 sanitation enterprises across 3 countries to answer these questions.

Education

New Holland Presents Best Practices at Career Ready PA Coalition

Supporting students and investing in the future of local communities is a key commitment at CNH Industrial, and the company is passionate about advancing STEM education for young people.

Green Infrastructure

Georgia DOT, The University of Georgia and The Ray Break Ground on Latest Meadow-Research Installation

Georgia DOT, The Ray and the Univ. of Georgia’s College of Environment + Design announce Phase 2 of their meadow-research plantings on I-85 in SW Georgia.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Internet Society Extends Deadline to March 5 to Apply for Truist EPIC Grant

Due to the severe weather sweeping across the southeastern United States, the Internet Society is extending the deadline to Friday, March 5, to apply for the Truist EPIC Grant.

Health & Healthcare

Rediscovering Resilience

Medtronic recently donated more than 400,000 N95 surgical masks and 430,000 KN95 respirators for distribution in global COVID-19 hotspots. To date, the company, together with the Medtronic Foundation, has given more than $46 million to COVID-19 relief efforts.

Innovation & Technology

Putting the Tech in MedTech

At Medtronic, our engineers and scientists are working together in new ways to unlock and accelerate the potential of the latest digital technologies to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.

Education

Rockwell Automation and FANUC Join Forces to Address Manufacturing Skills Gap

Rockwell Automation and FANUC America recently came together to create accelerated work-and learn-apprenticeship programs preparing workers for jobs in advanced manufacturing, robotics, and automation.

Innovation & Technology

T‑Mobile, Georgia Tech and Curiosity Lab Team Up to Fuel 5G Innovation in Drones, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics and More

Developers will build and test new 5G use cases such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, industrial drone applications, mixed reality training and entertainment, remote medical care, personal health and fitness wearables and more.

Environment

Ceres Calls on Federal Reserve to Incorporate Climate Change and Racial Equity Into Community Reinvestment Act

The sustainability nonprofit Ceres issued formal comments to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors today, urging the agency to strengthen and modernize the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)

Environment

FloWater: An Answer To Our Plastic Bottle Woes?

In the 1990s, I recall my grandfather remarking upon the new ubiquity of plastic water bottles, “When did everybody get so thirsty all of a sudden?”

Diversity & Inclusion

Franklin Templeton Celebrates Disability Awareness Month

Franklin Templeton’s ABLE business resource group (BRG) celebrated a successful Disability Awareness Month.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Fifth Third Bank Hosts First Roundtable Event to Educate Minority Construction, Property Management Businesses

The intent of the session was to provide insight and tips about how to bid work for upcoming Fifth Third projects and introduce diverse suppliers to key decision makers.

Diversity & Inclusion

Alkermes Honors Black American Pioneers in Mental Health

In celebration of Black History Month, we're honoring Black American pioneers in the field of mental health. Their invaluable contributions have helped shape the field.

Sustainable Development Goals

Pine Gate Renewables Plants Sustainable Future Through New Partnership With the Arbor Day Foundation

Pine Gate Renewables, a leading national utility-scale renewable energy developer, and the Arbor Day Foundation today announced a new partnership to replant trees impacted as a result of project development.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

United, Chase and Visa Team up to Celebrate Black History Month

United Airlines, Chase and Visa are encouraging and rewarding United Credit Cardmembers who make donations to non-profits focused on providing access to educational opportunities for Black students and supporting human and civil rights policies.

Environment

Environmental Justice | New York City

When the Powers that Be are looking to site a pollution-spewing power plant, or a methane-leaking pipeline, or a diesel-fume-spewing transportation depot, they inevitably dump it on those without power – impoverished and minority communities.

Environment

Logitech Celebrates Entrepreneurs Driving Real Change

Leah Thomas, the founder of The Intersectional Environmentalist, is a creator, artist, and activist who is speaking up for environmentalism and inclusivity by creating a platform that advocates for both the protection of people and the planet.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

CIT Serves As Co-lead Arranger on $93.3 Million Battery Storage Portfolio

CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) recently announced that its Power and Energy business served as a co-lead arranger on a $93.3 million financing for a portfolio of six battery energy storage systems located in Texas.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Northern Trust Included in the 2021 Bloomberg LP Gender-Equality Index

We are one of 380 companies committed to more equal and inclusive workplaces.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  2. Emergency Response
    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  3. Inclusion
    Southwire’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) mission is to build a culture that recognizes and celebrates the value of diverse backgrounds...
  4. IWBI | Workplace Wellness
    A WELL Certified™ project has the potential to add measurable value to the health, well-being and happiness of people in the buildings. It can also...
  5. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  6. FedEx | Reports
    Find archived annual FedEx Cares and other CSR-related reports, covering enterprise-wide strategies, goals, programs and progress across the fiscal...
  7. Advocacy
    Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...
  8. Mary Kay Ash Foundation: Creating a Safer, Healthier World for Women
    In the U.S. and around the world, Mary Kay remains steadfast in its commitment to ending the cycle of domestic violence and finding cures for cancers...
  9. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  10. Business Strategy and Operations
    Keysight’s strategy is to accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, supported by our Keysight Leadership Model (KLM) and corporate value...
  11. KeyBank's Community Investment
    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...
  12. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  13. Aflac Insights
    Learn more about Aflac’s survey findings to better understand workplace trends as well as consumer attitudes, habits and opinions toward health and...
  14. Awards and Recognition
    This captures all of Action Against Hunger's awards and recognition.
  15. Accelerating access to healthcare technology
    We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...