JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced $4 million to expand young people’s access to economic opportunity in Detroit. Building on the firm’s $100 million commitment to Detroit’s economic recovery, this three-year grant is designed to increase dramatically the number of young people graduating from the city’s high schools with opportunities to secure well-paying, high-demand jobs. JPMorgan Chase joins the Skillman Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Ford Motor Company Fund in this initiative to connect 10,000 Detroit high school students to career education and work experiences over the next three years.

Cox Enterprises today announced Andrea Lawson as vice president of talent and organization development, effective immediately. She reports to Charlene Binder, Cox Enterprises’ senior vice president of human resources.

CITGO Petroleum Corporation and the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) are celebrating a 30-year partnership that has raised nearly $200 million for the nonprofit health organization since the two began working together in January 1986. As MDA’s largest corporate sponsor, CITGO and its employees, along with its network of locally-owned Marketers and Retailers, will celebrate this milestone all year long through fundraisers and various community and employee events.

Renewable energy is poised for explosive growth. Utility-scale wind and solar installations, unsubsidized, provide cheaper energy than new fossil fuel generation. Meanwhile, distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar are already saving consumers money around the globe and will continue to gain traction as prices continue to fall.

The issue of pay and gender equality is high on the international news agenda.

Jeneria and Yesalai, two warriors from Kenya's Samburu tribe, visited more than 800 students at Alta Vista Elementary School in Redondo Beach, California, on May 19 as part of the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative Sister School Program (BCISSP). The program pairs American schools with African schools to help educators teach their students about the worldwide decline of lion, tiger, cheetah, and leopard populations, a trend that Jeneria and Yesalai are working with National Geographic to reverse. Alta Vista Elementary has participated in BCISSP for three consecutive years, and the students raised more than $4,500 for their African sister school, Remot Primary, this year alone.

The Novartis Foundation is gathering experts across the public and private sectors to discuss digital health as an enabler to improve the quality of healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and how to bring impactful digital health programs to scale.

Brendan Bechtel shares his concerns about the future of the global economy.