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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

MetLife Foundation Commits $240,000 to Build an Interactive Financial Services Map

MetLife Foundation announced a new program where researchers from University of Kansas and University of Michigan will lead a project to build a web-based, interactive map showing where financial services are located in communities across the United States and how the locations of these services affect individuals’ financial opportunity. The project, known as Mapping Financial Opportunity, will provide a tool that policymakers at all levels, regulators, consumer advocates, families and others can use to search by ZIP code and learn more about the financial opportunity within their communities.

Innovation & Technology

Techstar's Most Competitive Accelerator Lands in Atlanta; the $18B Cox Instinct for Innovation Strikes Again

Techstars launched "for real" in the ATL when it named its first managing director: entrepreneur Michael Cohn. Michael is most famous for Cloud Sherpas, a multi-national cloud services company he co-founded. It was acquired by Accenture last year, after it grew to 1,100 employees.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Vigilant Global and VFast Announce Communications System Upgrade for Sandwich Technology School

Vigilant Global and VFast announce communications system upgrade for Sandwich Technology School

Events, Media & Communications

Training for What We Hope Never Happens

While safety-related incidents on our systems are rare, being prepared for when something does occur is part of our commitment to safety. Getting it right is more important than ever when it comes to emergency response, so we are prepared to act quickly and efficiently when the times comes.

Health & Healthcare

More than 750 Million Anti Malaria Treatments for Adults and Children Provided Without Profit

Today is World Malaria Day. Malaria is preventable and curable, yet it is still one of the most deadly diseases in developing countries. Despite extraordinary progress in the fight against malaria over the last 15 years, the disease still claims the life of a child every two minutes. Since 2001, working with a range of organizations, the Novartis Malaria Initiative – one of the pharmaceutical industry’s largest access-to-medicine programs – has provided more than 750 million treatments for adults and children, without profit, to more than 60 countries, contributing to a dramatic reduction of malaria deaths in Africa.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

[VIDEO] Benevity User Conference 2016: Penny Zuckerwise, Guggenheim on Employee Engagement

Recently in San Diego, business leaders from the U.S. and Canada gathered at Benevity's Goodness Matters User Conference to discuss the future of corporate philanthropy. In this video filmed at the conference, Benevity client Penny Zuckerwise, Founding Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Guggenheim, explores how companies can lead corporate social responsibility and engage employees in giving and volunteering programs.

Environment

In Special Earth Day Promo, Fox Offers "Independence Day" for Only $0.99 to Benefit Earth Day Network's Conservation Efforts

In honor of Earth Day, and to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Fox's "Independence Day," Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has partnered with Earth Day Network and Google Play to offer fans a Digital HD download of the sci-fi classic for only $.99 between Friday, April 22, and Monday, April 25. Fox's proceeds will benefit Earth Day Network's Trees for the Earth initiative, which aims to plant 7.8 billion trees over the next five years. "Independence Day: Resurgence," the sequel to "Independence Day," will arrive in theaters June 24.

Environment

Inspiring Sustainability Champions

Today Earth Day, we introduce you to the teachings (video) of Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff (Aleut), Founder of the Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways and Dr. Robin Kimmerer, SUNY distinguished teaching professor and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Young Adult Cancer Survivor and LIVESTRONG Leader: Valerie

LIVESTRONG Leaders are individuals that make a yearly significant commitment to those in their community affected by cancer by spreading the message of LIVESTRONG. They do this by fundraising, hosting events, bringing LIVESTRONG resources to their local hospitals and more. One of our amazing leaders from France, Valérie Sanja, talks about why she is involved with LIVESTRONG and what she is doing in her community to help spread the LIVESTRONG message.

Innovation & Technology

AT&T Setting Out to Connect More U.S. Residents to the Internet

AT&T is making wireline home Internet service more affordable for low-income households starting today through Access from AT&T, a new program designed to help bridge the digital divide.

Environment

Las Vegas Sands Commemorates Success of “I Will If You Will” Campaign

In celebration of Earth Day, Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) proudly announces that more than 26,000 individual green actions were completed by its team members during the company’s annual “I Will If You Will” (IWIYW) global challenge. Initiated by Sands ECO360, Las Vegas Sands’ global sustainability program during the week leading up to Earth Hour on March 19th, the challenge encouraged the company’s team members to take action to reduce their impact on climate change.

Environment

Subaru's Zero Landfill Expertise are Helping Solve a Serious Waste Challenge in National Parks

Subaru, together with the National Park Service and the National Parks Conservation Association, is leveraging their environmental expertise to work toward the goal of making these invaluable places zero landfill.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Volunteer Projects Engage Employees and the Community

In corporate volunteerism, a company’s employees and retirees work together with local young students and residents to revitalize a community in need. Schools are cleaned up, fresh flowerbeds are planted in parks and colorful murals are painted in children’s play areas.

Energy

Business Statement Welcoming the Paris Climate Agreement

The Paris Agreement on climate change is a landmark achievement – it establishes an inclusive, pragmatic and, hopefully, durable framework for progressively strengthening efforts globally to address the causes and consequences of climate change.

Environment

21CF Businesses Celebrate Earth Day with Photo Contests, Nat Geo Features, Days of Service, and More

Since the launch of its corporate sustainability program in 2007, 21st Century Fox has consistently made Earth Day a focal point of its yearly calendar, regularly extending its celebration into a full month of activities engaging colleagues around the world. From the FOX network's annual "Green It. Mean It." PSA campaign, now in its ninth year, to a long tradition of spring volunteer events, 21CF's global colleagues embrace Earth Day as a time to take action in their own lives to better the environment, as well as inspire others to care about the planet.

Environment

Hospitals 'Going Green'

Environment

Flying Toward a Cleaner Future

Environment

Earth Week Guest Post: Corporate Renewables Growth: The Sky is the Limit

Fossil fuels make up two-thirds of the approximately 1,100 gigawatts of capacity in the U.S. bulk power fleet. However last year the United States retired 14 gigawatts of fossil-fueled generation and brought 16.4 gigawatts of carbon-free generation online, with wind energy leading the mix at 8.5 gigawatts of newly installed capacity, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Even with low natural gas prices, new natural gas projects brought 6 gigawatts online. This is an exciting sign of a changing tide.

Environment

Ontario Children Helping House Endangered Bats

TransCanada and Earth Rangers partner to help protect Little Brown Bats.

Environment

VIDEO: With SunPower Every Day is Earth Day

Our company exists to help change the way our world is powered and leave the planet better off for future generations. That’s our purpose. It’s why we’re here.

Environment

The Promise of a Connected Earth

Right now, on this day, at this point in time, connections are being made like never before.

Environment

Happy Earth Day from Qualcomm!

Happy Earth Day! This year, the theme of our celebration is “Global Goals, Local Action,” in recognition of the international climate agreement that was reached in December 2015 in Paris, and which we hope will be signed into force by world leaders in New York City today.

Education

Norfolk Southern Rolls Out New Safety Train and Website to Educate First Responders

In keeping with a strong tradition of safety, Norfolk Southern today rolled out a new educational train and website to help first responders across its network respond to potential rail-related incidents.

Environment

Etsy to Make Their Decentralized E-Commerce Model 100% Renewable by 2020

Chelsea Mozen joined the inaugural class of Bard’s MBA in Sustainability program in the fall of 2012 because she wanted to help rewire the world with clean energy. Today, one year after graduation, Chelsea joined Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson and other team members at the company headquarters to announce a bold, near-term commitment to achieve “carbon neutrality.”

Environment

TD Forests Helps the Nature Conservancy of Canada Protect 167 Hectares of Critical Forest Habitat

To celebrate Earth Day, the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is announcing that it has acquired 167 hectares (412 acres) of cedar forest near the Pugwash River in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. TD Bank, through the TD Forests program, helped secure this property, which is one of the largest stands of cedar in the province and one of only a handful in northern Nova Scotia.

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