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 today 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 U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has announced a new sugar tax on the soft drinks industry in his budget, to be introduced in April 2018.
GM CEO Mary Barra has stated the auto industry will change more in the next five years than it has in the last 50. What’s in store, and how will the fusion of transportation and connectivity enable new ways to share mobility?
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced today that Freya Williams, CEO, Futerra, North America and author of Green Giants, and Jonathan Atwood, Vice President, Sustainable Business & Communications, Unilever North America, will open the annual TSC Summit in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning, April 21st.
This Sunday marks Easter, a holiday celebrated by many families with church, ham, egg hunts and chocolate. Lots of chocolate. Easter is the second top-selling confectionary holiday behind only Halloween, according to the National Confectioners Association. So now is a fitting moment to think about the effort that goes into making the chocolate in those Easter baskets.
As the focus on sustainability continues to increase at Ingersoll Rand’s global facilities, partnering with Rocky Mountain Institute’s (RMI) Business Renewables Center (BRC) aligns with the company’s efforts to develop innovative energy solutions and reduce greenhouse gases (GHG).
Barclays is launching a new report on the future of business scale-ups in the UK. It is part of a long-standing project partnership built with the business schools of both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.
You might be a superhero at the office, spearheading projects, coming up with great ideas and flying through your to-do lists. But even superheroes have a weakness, something that saps their energy, focus or strength. At the office, these power-reducing habits often begin with good intentions, but they end up wasting time instead of saving it.
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, March 25, 2016 /3BL Media/ — AT&T* and the Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) are joining to host a hackathon event in Prague on April 22-23, 2016. The event hopes to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the Visegrád Group, or V4 region.
The hackathon is open to developers and non-developers. The mission? Create new apps to harness Connected Life in 1 of 4 categories—in just 24 hours:
Non-regulated mixed plastic waste represents a large portion of the solid waste generated by healthcare facilities. Healthcare waste management decision makers and influencers must choose from a number of disposal options to deal with this growing environmental burden. To aid in this process, HPRC conducted a literature review of life cycle assessment (LCA) studies comparing the environmental impacts of recycling to other waste management options. The final paper presents the different types of waste management for plastics along with their advantages and disadvantages from an environmental perspective.
This week, Global Sourcing Council's 17 Weeks for 17 SDGs Intiative explores Goal 3 with examples of action from organizations and businesses to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all in their business strategy.
The key to a great corporate social responsibility program is deceptively simple. Listen to your community. This is especially important for volunteer programs.
When she grows up, the preschooler, an avid animal lover, hopes to become a baby animal rescuer or President of the United States (so she can give speeches about saving the world). She enjoys yoga and fairies and is committed to preserving fairy habitats.
We believe that every young person should have a caring adult to turn to. This provides a foundation for students to succeed in all that they do – in school and their future careers. That’s why we’re connecting our employees to students around the world through Aspire Mentoring Academy.
This morning, at Rainbow Village, a public housing development in Miami, Florida, Julián Castro, our forward-thinking and energetic Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and I announced a pilot program with ConnectHome to extend eligibility for Internet Essentials, Comcast’s signature broadband adoption program, to public housing residents in Miami-Dade County and the cities of Nashville, Philadelphia, and Seattle.
With a full schedule of thought leadership and connection time with our CSR peers across various industries, we continued our ongoing effort to find the best ways to help companies that are doing good in the community. One question we received from many attendees is how can we partner with grantees more effectively?
A new series of community events was launched in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on March 12 with a forum titled “Criminal Justice Reform: Motivating and Mobilizing the Faith Community for Restorative Justice.” The forum explored reforms needed to improve the fairness and effectiveness of the criminal justice system in New York State and the U.S.
Keystone Human Services recently developed a five year Strategic Plan to guide the organization forward. The Plan reaffirms our vision and values with a solid focus on global leadership in human services and a life-span perspective for the services and supports we offer. Keystone Human Services International is proud to be moving KHS’s strategy forward by developing a global presence for the organization.
HanesBrands (NYSE: HBI) announced today that five additional company manufacturing plants have earned U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star Challenge for Industry awards by reducing energy use by an average 18 percent.
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Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
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