Wells Fargo Foundation has upped its initial $2 million in grants to relief organizations to $5 million, broadening support to homeowners and the small business community.
My friend and fellow Guiding Stars blogging colleague, Allison Stowell, and I recently returned from the world’s largest dietitian conference, the annual conference of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Women running small businesses are changing their approach to digital technology. Instead of expensive transformations, they’re choosing concrete step-by-step actions, supported by other women and well-chosen tools.
Your child’s latest birthday photo, that cute dance video. Share them on social media and they add to your family’s digital footprint. And depending on the settings you’ve chosen, AI could use them.
When words aren’t enough, actions speak louder. That’s the heart of “Beyond Words,” a new children’s book from Aflac that teaches empathy and the power of showing up for others. Written by bestselling author Sheri Fink, the story follows Buddy the bear cub on a heartfelt mission.
T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) announced the latest 25 Hometown Grants recipients. With up to $50,000 awarded per town to help fund local projects, T-Mobile has invested more than $20 million in grants to 450 small towns and rural communities.
Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is an advanced form of minimally invasive surgery. It’s gained acceptance over the last two decades as a preferred method for prostate removal (prostatectomy), because of the benefits to patients and surgeons compared to traditional approaches.
Telemundo announced Tu Momento. Tu Jugada. — known in English as Telemundo’s Next Play — a nationwide sport impact and community initiative that champions the transformative power of sports to character, teamwork and leadership.
FedEx Express Corporation, one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, recently announced the launch of the 2025 FedEx University Students Environmental Entrepreneurship Challenge, in collaboration with the All-China Environment Federation (ACEF).
SLB:U sits at the intersection of helping rural women entrepreneurs find stable and diversified income sources while also addressing the significant opportunity for scalable last mile delivery. It strengthens last mile distribution while improving economic mobility for women
The Best Disaster Response and Community Resilience Corporate Citizenship Award recognizes businesses and chambers that help communities prepare for and recover from disasters. Read on to learn more about the significant, positive impacts these businesses have had in communities, locally and globally.
More than 370 cars passed through T. Rowe Price’s Owings Mills campus in three hours during the firm's first community shred event. Volunteers directed the flow of traffic and helped community members shred and recycle 9.5 tons of paper, equivalent to saving 161 trees and 28 cubic yards of landfill waste.
The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) convened a workshop today in Oxford, England to begin dialogue on how circular economy thinking could apply to healthcare plastics in the European Union as a means to enable greater recycling and reuse opportunities and reduce negative environmental impacts. The workshop, sponsored by Baxter, BD, Johnson & Johnson, and SABIC, included key stakeholders and thought leaders from Aarhus University, Amcor, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, EUROPEN, National Health Service, and Plastics Europe.
Whirlpool Corporation will showcase its award-winning, energy efficient Whirlpool brand laundry appliances in its booth at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Los Angeles Oct. 5-6.
Ed Anderson started out with a mission to honor his late friend Dave Thomas. The Wendy’s Founder made it his mission to always give back and did so in a big way when he created the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.
Space travel is a popular topic in science and in film. “The Martian,” starring Matt Damon, saw the main character use his skills as a botanist to grow food and survive on the planet. Such a feat may seem like Hollywood hype, but scientists at NASA, with help from Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, are working together to make growing food on Mars a reality.
As I interact with the heads of corporate sustainability for Fortune 500 companies on a daily basis. What is fundamental to these conversations, as well as to my regular conversations with the responsible investing community, is the increasing desire for companies to better understand the broader environmental and social impacts they are having, both positive and negative.
Channel 2 WSB-TV and The Trust for Public Land are recognizing volunteers who are creating, preserving or enhancing Atlanta’s outdoor spaces. Chris Beck, Linda Cotten Taylor and Pauline Drake have been selected as finalists for Atlanta’s 2016 Cox Conserves Heroes program, and the public is being asked to vote now through Oct. 26 at wsbtv.com/coxconservesheroes.
After a short break to Pleaides activities due to summer holidays, Atlas Copco Turkey women employees and Professional Women Network met for September activity which hosted Erdem Aksakal, a white collar/writer, as the speaker.
Hydropower is generally less expensive per kilowatt-hour than wind or solar energy, and the untapped potential of many dams and waterways means there’s much more electricity to be had.
As National Manufacturing Day approaches this week, Whirlpool Corporation will mark the occasion with a month-long series of events to highlight the importance of American manufacturing.
Space travel is a popular topic in science and in film. “The Martian,” starring Matt Damon, saw the main character use his skills as a botanist to grow food and survive on the planet. Such a feat may seem like Hollywood hype, but scientists at NASA, with help from Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, are working together to make growing food on Mars a reality.
The Arby’s Foundation will partner with TEGNA Inc and Points of Light for Make A Difference Day on Saturday, October 22. Make A Difference Day is one of the largest annual single-days of service nationwide.
Josh Raglin, general manager facilities, has helped make Norfolk Southern a U.S. corporate leader in conservation capitalism, a business approach that turns conservation into opportunities for profit.
One year after the announcement of these Sustainable Development Goals, Amway asked Michelle Nunn, president and CEO of CARE USA (one of our global partners) to reflect on the significance of these goals, as well as our unique and strong partnership.
What makes the employee volunteer program at 1st Source Bank so successful? According to them, their employees are the key. They recommend finding champions within your company who will set and example and encourage others to volunteer.
At Wendy’s, we understand that energy conservation in our industry is a big responsibility. It’s a long-term commitment and full of complex (and often expensive) changes that aren’t going to happen overnight. I’m lucky to work with a first class energy team that’s fast at work to improve energy efficiency at Wendy’s.
Bacardi Limited, the world’s largest privately held spirits company, has once again been named among the most reputable companies in the world, according to the annual Global RepTrak® 100 list compiled by the Reputation Institute and published in Forbes. Ranked at #92, this is the third year in a row family-owned Bacardi has made the annual global ranking.
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