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Environment

Benevity Partners With Count Us In To Increase the Impact of Corporate Climate Action

Benevity’s Climate Action Kit enables companies to educate employees on how to adopt environmentally sustainable behaviors and make informed decisions to reduce their environmental impact with the support of their employers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Chemours and First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania Recognized on the 2023 Faces of Philanthropy List by the Philadelphia Business Journal

The Chemours Company (“Chemours”) (NYSE: CC), a global chemistry company, with First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania (FCFP), today announced their recognition on the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 2023 Faces of Philanthropy list.

Research, Reports & Publications

Making Better Essential: Pentair Showcases Positive Impact on People and the Planet in 2022 Corporate Responsibility Report

Pentair today released its 2022 Corporate Responsibility Report, reporting on the Company’s efforts toward Making Better Essential through its products and solutions, for people and the planet.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Truist Invests Over $5 Million Into Atrium Health Foundation To Advance Health Equity and Workforce Development in Charlotte

Atrium Health announced a $5.05 million gift to the Atrium Health Foundation “Giving Hope” campaign from the Truist Charitable Fund and Truist Foundation.

Education

Bacardi Expands Shake Your Future to Madrid Where Young Unemployed Will Be Given Fresh Start in World of Bartending

Shake Your Future graduates receive an internationally recognized diploma and access to permanent employment opportunities within the sector, empowering them to transform their lives and build a brighter future.

Sustainable Development Goals

SAP and EKOenergy Partner for a Renewable Future

SAP has been using 100% renewable electricity to power all its data centers and offices since 2014. In the journey to 100% renewable electricity, SAP chose the internationally recognized EKOenergy label.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Cummins Removed Tons of Waste, Including E-waste From Jamestown, New York Community in 2022

Cummins continues its Destination Zero path by helping its communities reduce waste. The company’s Jamestown Engine Plant will have another community recycle day on Saturday, June 10.

Diversity & Inclusion

Generation Change's Hands Off Presents: Gina Tonic

Generation Change (GenChange) is an audience-inspired, audience-led initiative at Paramount designed to elevate and empower young people who are driving change around the world.

Education

Fifth Third Bank Finance Academy® Impacts Minority Students

Fifth Third’s Finance Academy program, one of its Fifth Third L.I.F.E. (Lives Improved through Financial Empowerment®) programs, reached nearly 70,000 students that attend schools in low- and moderate-income communities in the 2021-2022 school year.

Diversity & Inclusion

“Equity in Action” – Building a More Inclusive Tomorrow

In celebration of International Women’s Month, Bloomberg New Voices (a Bloomberg News initiative) and the Bloomberg Women’s Buy-Side Network (BWBN) Singapore chapter recently organized “Equity in Action” – Building a More Inclusive Tomorrow.

Diversity & Inclusion

How To Define Inclusive Growth — And How To Get There

YouTube influencer and philanthropist Lilly Singh and Mastercard’s Shamina Singh took the stage in a packed room in Washington, D.C., to share how we can all encourage greater gender equity.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Recycling Plastics, Reusing Water

Recycling plastics can save landfill space and conserve energy and water that would have been used to make new materials, among other benefits. But mechanical recycling also comes with its challenges.

Sustainable Development Goals

How Qualcomm is Prioritizing Waste Management

Through our Environmental Program Management Standard, we focus on identifying activities, services and processes that generate waste and strive to reduce the impact of our waste disposal practices on the environment.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

5 Practical Steps for Advancing DEI in Your Medical Device Company

In 2017, our Boston Scientific leadership team found ourselves faced with a dilemma. Poring over our annual employee survey results, we were taken aback to learn — much to our chagrin — that not all of our female employees felt they had equal opportunities for promotion as their

Social Impact & Volunteering

Podcast: A Blueprint for High-Engagement CSR Programs

Get an inside look at a growing social impact program. Patricia walks through the innovations she’s pioneered and lessons she’s learned leading Splunk’s volunteering, giving and matching, and community investment programs.

Energy

The Sustainable Data Centre: How To Curb Soaring Energy Use

With cloud now the default way of working for businesses in almost every sector, the amount of energy used by data centres is ever increasing: currently up to 1.5% of global electricity demand, according to the International Energy Agency.

Innovation & Technology

EHSxTech Takes Dublin: Discussing the Future of EHS in Tech

The end of March saw EHS professionals from some of the biggest names in the tech industry gather for the Antea Group USA’s EHSxTech® one-day event.

Education

Michigan Ross School of Business and Ceres Announce New Sustainability Education Program for Corporate Boards

The University of Michigan Ross School of Business, a top-ranked global executive education provider, in collaboration with Ceres, a leading nonprofit organization driving equitable solutions to the world’s greatest sustainability challenges,

Environment

Nippon Otis Installs Large Solar Panel Grid at Factory

Nearly a quarter of annual electricity consumption at the Nippon Otis Elevator Company logistics and engineering center can now be offset by power generated with newly-installed solar panels. 

Research, Reports & Publications

Companies Worldwide Are Not Setting Near-Term Goals To Radically Change Business and Save the Planet

head of Earth Day, a new Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose® (CECP) Investing in Society report finds environment, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure rates among top companies are increasing: Fortune 500® companies increased ESG disclosures 6.21% between 2019 to 2021

Education

Cadence Recognizes Technology Leaders of Tomorrow

Meet a group of highly accomplished women who have received the Cadence’s Women in Technology Scholarship.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Celebrating National Volunteer Week: Four Team Depot Captains on Giving Back to Communities

For 30 years, Team Depot, The Home Depot’s associate volunteer force, has been giving back to communities across the country. All year long, Home Depot associates volunteer their time and sweat equity to address the needs of local communities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Don’t Believe the Hype on EHS: It’s Not Just Another Name for ESG

There’s a lot of confusion in the sustainability market right now, and I think a lot of it has to do with acronym overload. GRI? TCFD? CSRD? It’s a lot to keep track of, even for specialists.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Covia Cares: Improving our Local Communities

Every day, Covia helps improve our local communities by donating to local food banks, advancing the safety and health of first responders, and building key relationships in our local communities. To further support impactful community engagement and encourage Team Member voluntee

Social Impact & Volunteering

6 Communications Principles To Boost Engagement in Your Employee Giving and Volunteering Programs

It’s hard for employees to engage with giving and volunteering programs…when they don’t even know they exist. Which is why an effective communications strategy is critical. Discover 6 Communications principles to boost engagement in your programs...

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