Education & Workforce Development

The collaboration between the Walmart Foundation and the nonprofit organization FoodCorps illustrates how companies can lend both their financial firepower and their expertise to help nonprofits scale up their missions.

With more than 25 years at Mars, General Manager of Mars Symbioscience, Nici Bush, is dedicated to promoting better lives through nutrition at Mars Edge. Nici and her team are responsible for expanding CocoaVia™, our cocoa extract dietary supplement, to help more people benefit from cocoa flavanols, which promote healthy blood flow to vital organs like your heart and brain.

In business, government, philanthropy and the arts, and all over the globe, we need leaders who are transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same. The Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGLs) aims to do just that. It brings together a diverse, dynamic, and globally representative group of leaders with the mission to create a community with the vision, courage, and influence to drive positive change in the world.

CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNHI /MI: CNHI) and its New Holland Agriculture brand are bringing multimedia learning to classrooms across India through the “New Holland Digital Classroom”. This multimedia education program is aimed at enhancing the teaching quality and capabilities of Indian government schools. It is a part of CNH Industrial India’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program and represents an investment of INR 25M from the Company.

Ghana's Volta region has the lowest quality education in the country, and lack of facilities means 87% of girls in primary school do not continue to secondary school. Tetra Tech partnered with Voices of African Mothers and Cornell University Sustainable Design’s Sustainable Education Ghana to give girls a safe and sustainable place to receive an education. Watch the video above to learn more about this project and partnership.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. and Albertsons joined forces to donate more than 40,000 pounds of protein to Three Square Food Bank. Smithfield’s contribution was part of the company’s 2019 Helping Hungry Homes® donation tour.

Rockingham County students in North Carolina recently joined Mohawk Group and Karastan to commemorate the installation of an on-campus SmartFlower™ solar energy unit with a collaborative hands-on art project facilitated by plant employees. On a canvas backdrop using eco-friendly paint, students from Morehead High School and Central Elementary School covered their hands in different colors and imprinted them around a message embodying Mohawk’s commitment to sustainability: “We Believe in Handprints Over Footprints.”

At the Annual Meeting of the Global Chagas Disease Coalition in Barcelona, Spain, Novartis announced that it is joining the Coalition as a member contributor. In addition, the company announced its commitment to launch a multinational, prospective, randomized study with heart failure drug, Entresto® (sacubitril / valsartan), in people with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy, one form of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. This is the first definitive morbidity and mortality study to assess a potential therapy for cardiac disease in this underserved patient population.

On International School Meals Day, learn how we work with customers, NGOs and governments to tackle nutrition challenges around the world. #ISMD2019

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative has reached more than 86,000 students and nearly 6,000 teachers across 100 middle schools in 18 states and Washington, D.C. The 50 new schools joining the program next school year will bring the total to 150 middle schools nationwide.