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The Journey Toward Impact and Outcomes: A Conversation with Michelle DiSabato, Impact Advisor at Blackbaud

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

In this episode of the Champions for Social Good Podcast, Jamie Serino speaks with Michelle DiSabato, Impact Advisor for the Corporate and Foundation Solutions division of Blackbaud. Michelle explains how her passion for impact and measurement led her to a career centered on helping foundations and corporations more clearly understand the impact that their programs are having on the people and communities that they're serving.

GM Intensifies Push to Train Young People for Jobs of the Future

Education

GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra and nonprofit leaders today introduced new, innovative programs designed to encourage young people to go into technology and engineering professions and improve teacher training in STEM-related subjects.

Students Help Build Hope for Victims of Hurricane Matthew

Social Impact & Volunteering

Amid the sawdust and hum of power tools, students at East Columbus High School in Lake Waccamaw, N.C., are helping rebuild their community. Students built 50 wooden bed frames in their classroom workshop for Columbus County residents whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Matthew. The October 2016 storm started in Florida and moved up the coast, killing nearly 50 people and damaging more than 100,000 homes and businesses in North Carolina.

Cox Communications President Pat Esser Named to 2017 Highest-Rated CEOs List

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Congratulations to Cox Communications President Pat Esser who has been honored by Glassdoor as one of the top 100 Highest Rated CEOs in the large US Business category.

Building a Toolkit for Becoming an Effective Mentor and Educator

Education

This summer, 1,100 student interns will be living, studying, and working on the sprawling campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, just north of Washington, D.C. Among them will be five Amgen Scholar alumni who will serve as mentors to some of the high school student interns in a unique pilot program to teach scientists how to be educators.

HPE and Tokyo Institute of Technology Build the World's Most Powerful Green Supercomputer

Innovation & Technology

The amount of energy required to fuel today’s supercomputers is enormous and can create an immense drain on resources. This is because traditional supercomputers consume massive amounts of electrical power and produce high amounts of heat, requiring larger cooling facilities to be built to ensure proper performance. To address this challenge, a new breed of innovation is required, purpose-built to maximize efficiency without sacrificing performance and scale.

Why Microsoft and The Markle Foundation Are Working Together to Connect Workers with New Opportunities in the Digital Economy

Education

Today we announced a three-year partnership between The Markle Foundation and Microsoft Philanthropies. Microsoft is investing more than $25 million over three years in Markle and the expansion of its successful Skillful initiative, first across Colorado and then to other states. This is one of the single biggest philanthropic investments Microsoft Philanthropies has made, reflecting the importance of the work involved.

Aligning Sustainability with Your Company's Long-Term Strategy

Sustainable Development Goals

Clare Connolly, a Sustainability Manager at Cabot Corp., explains how her team is working to align sustainability programs with the company's long-term vision and strategy. To learn more about how other EHS and sustainability leaders are making the business case for their programs, register for NAEM's 2017 Sustainability Management Conference or visit www.naem.org.-

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg is One of the Highest-Ranked CEOs in the U.S.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Business leaders are often judged by the financial success of their company. But every year Glassdoor lets employees be the critics.

The Rise of Social Enterprise in New Zealand

Events, Media & Communications

More and more, citizens and consumers are becoming socially and environmentally aware, and want their purchasing decisions to reflect their beliefs. In a capitalist society, social enterprise provides consumers with a form of activism as organizations with a social purpose open up an alternative for consumers to spend their money responsibly rather than on goods or services that ultimately perpetuate the growing global wealth disparity.

AT&T Releases 2016 Annual Sustainability Update: A Letter from our Chairman and CEO

Research, Reports & Publications

Since our start, AT&T has been about one thing: harnessing the power of our network to change lives and improve the world. And just as our network technology has gotten better over the years, so has our ability to address some of society’s toughest challenges.

Daimler Stakeholder Dialogs

Sustainable Development Goals

The Daimler Sustainability Dialogue has been a permanent platform for open and constructive discussions with a wide range of stakeholders for many years. Stakeholders are persons, groups or institutions which are directly or indirectly affected by a company's activities or who have an interest in these activities. Besides our employees stakeholders include customers, shareholders and investors as well as suppliers and other representatives from the worlds of politics, science and society.

WBCSD Insider Perspective | Low-Carbon Technology Partnerships Initiative (LCTPi 7)

Sustainable Development Goals

Last week during Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels, 250 sustainability professionals and policymakers from across the world gathered at the seventh global meeting of the LCTPi 7.

Women in Business Q&A: Tracy Skeans, Chief Transformation and People Officer, Yum! Brands

Diversity & Inclusion

Tracy Skeans is Chief Transformation and People Officer of Yum! Brands, Inc., one of the world’s largest restaurant companies with over 43,500 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories with 1.5 million associates.

Whole Cities Fast Facts

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Cities Foundation, a nonprofit established by Whole Foods Market in 2014, partners with U.S. neighborhood efforts to build thriving local food systems and grow community health. The foundation collaborates with community-led initiatives to broaden access to fresh, healthy food and high quality nutrition education.

NRG Energy’s Sustainable Customers Goals and Performance

Energy

A key part of our business is enabling customers to achieve sustainable energy outcomes. In 2016,
 we provided more consumers and companies with access to cleaner, smarter energy choices through our Business Solutions team and our multi-brand retail business.

De Beers' Emmarencia Shanglee Talks About Her Experiences as a Woman in Mining

Diversity & Inclusion

Metallurgist Emmarencia Shanglee predicts that more women will occupy top leadership positions in mining in the future.

Consumers Energy Reports Out on Sustainable Energy Mix

Research, Reports & Publications

As featured in the Consumers Energy Sustainability Report 2017: We’re well into our second century of powering Michigan. And we’ve got plans to take care of your family for centuries to come. We’ve leaned mostly on fossil fuels in the past, but the future is looking more green.

Aflac was #ThereWhen | The Hollist Family

Health & Healthcare

When Aflac employee and policyholder Japen Hollist’s son, P.K., was hospitalized following a life-threatening injury, Aflac was #ThereWhen they needed it most.

AkzoNobel – Creating Life’s Essentials

Research, Reports & Publications

As featured in the digital 2016 AkzoNobel Report: Our latest company film, highlighting how we create everyday essentials to make people’s lives more liveable and inspiring.

Carter Work Project Twitter Party

Events, Media & Communications

Please join us on Thursday, June 29, for a Twitter Party celebrating Habitat’s Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project, which will be held this year at sites throughout Canada in early July. President and Mrs. Carter and hundreds of volunteers will build alongside 150 future homeowners, all in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary.

Barclays | Green Growth

Energy

Barclays continues its commitment to the renewable energy sector with a refinancing package of £47m for Tirgwynt onshore wind farm in mid-Wales.

Showing Up Matters

Job descriptions for corporate responsibility practitioners commonly include references to supply chain, community engagement and sustainability reporting. Now, add lobbying to the list.

Sands for Singapore Assists in Deaf Awareness and Gift Preparation

Social Impact & Volunteering

Since 2013, Sands for Singapore has been supporting the local deaf community by working closely with one of Marina Bay Sands’ designated charities, Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf). The property has been privileged to support the association’s Sign Language Interpretation Fund, helping to triple the number of sign language interpreters that serve the deaf community.

Data Centers: Planning for the Edge

Innovation & Technology

Massive projected surges in data transmission are expected to challenge current network capabilities in the U.S., making where analytics and compute take place increasingly important. With network data expected to grow from 1 trillion gigabytes (1 zettabyte) in 2016 to 180 zettabytes in 2025, what are the implications for data centers and their future infrastructure requirements?