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Launch of the latest Finance Lab with Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester.

Education | Webster Bank

Webster Bank Celebrates Opening of Dorchester Finance Lab

In recognition of Financial Literacy Month, Webster Bank, together with Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester, Massachusetts, (BGCD) celebrated the opening of the Webster Bank Finance Lab, a program created to provide local students the skills needed for financial empowerment.
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Education

Alliance for Community Trees Mentor Exchange Program Connects Trees Forever and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful

This year, Alliance for Community Trees hosted a mentor exchange program for members through a grant from the U.S. Forest Service. The mentor exchange program paired smaller non-profit groups with larger groups and allowed them to learn by travelling to their location and doing a site visit. Guest post by Leslie Berckes, program manager and field coordinator, Trees Forever

Social Impact & Volunteering

Humana Charity Crafters Donate 500+ Handmade Items to Cancer Center in Phoenix

Have you ever knitted, crocheted or sewn a hat? How about hand-making more than 500 hats and then giving them to charity?

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CEOs Siemens, Hermes, Syngenta, ShareAction, Hermes, Alecta, and the Managing Director of WBCSD on the Need for Action and Business Leadership

The Responsible Business Summit, a global event Series aimed at shaping the future of responsible business, is hosting its 18th Annual European Summit in London on 13-14 June 2018. Building on the landmark success of the 2018 Summit, today the 2019 Summit launches with the largest and most senior launch speaker line-up to date.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Fair Trade USA Launches Record Number of Private Label Products

Fair Trade USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in North America, has collaborated with dozens of retailers across the industry (e-commerce, brick and mortar, and foodservice) to launch 176 Fair Trade Certified™ private label items to date in 2018.

Research, Reports & Publications

Is Your Business Ready for a Radically Different Future?

During times of rapid change, the greatest danger lies in being unable to imagine radically different futures. A new publication from BSR explores how to use scenarios to create more resilient business strategies.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sappi Teams Set New Safety Standard

We’re excited to report that 2017 was the best safety year in our recorded history, tied with 2013, and our most complex locations, the Somerset and Cloquet mills, clocked in with record-breaking safety performances.

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Lockheed Martin’s Sustainability Commitment

Lockheed Martin is committed to engineering solutions that enable safe, resilient, modern societies for generations to come.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Southern Poverty Law Center: Advocating for the Powerless

For nearly five decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been fighting hate and seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Scotiabank Named 2018 Bank of The Year by LatinFinance

Scotiabank is proud to have been named 2018 Bank of the Year by LatinFinance for excellence in retail, commercial and investment banking services for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Environment

3 Reasons Why Air Pollution Should be a Top Priority for Businesses

Leaders from pretty much every country in the world representing current and future customers attended the World Health Organization’s (WHO) inaugural Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health in Geneva last week, along with academics and nongovernmental organizations, but there were no corporate leaders in attendance.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Subaru’s Tom Easterday Awarded Sagamore of the Wabash and Marquis de Lafayette

At a recent community reception honoring his nearly 30 years of service to Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA), retiring top American executive Tom Easterday was presented with distinguished awards from the State of Indiana and the City of Lafayette.

"I'm equally honored and humbled by this recognition," said Easterday. "I've truly been blessed to have the opportunity to work with several outstanding individuals in serving Indiana, the greater Lafayette community and Subaru during my tenure at SIA."

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Hurricane Michael Highlighted the Growing Diversity of Corporate Responses to Natural Disasters

Arriving on the heels of Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Michael proved again that companies are making significant commitments to relief and recovery efforts in the wake of natural disasters. Our round-up of Hurricane Florence corporate response efforts covered some innovative ways that companies are reacting to disasters. Unfortunately, we’re already revisiting the topic with a snapshot of how companies reacted to Hurricane Michael, and why it’s increasingly critical for any company to have a disaster response strategy in place.

Innovation & Technology

Video | Urban Solutions for Sustainability: UPS Dublin Eco Hub

See one of the 30+ city solutions pilot projects that UPS has underway around the world.

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Media & Communications

Is the Movement to Achieve Greater Societal Sustainability Reaching the Consumer? One Consumer Marketers’ Story…

The story is being well told -– a growing number institutional shareowners and their global networks of asset managers steadily embrace ESG / sustainable investing approaches. Corporations of all sizes are adopting sustainability strategies and churning out sustainability and responsibility reports to tell the story of their sustainability journey. Many national, state and local governments are following through on their commitments made in Paris in 2015 (the Paris Accord on climate change). NGOs galore are focused on driving sustainability into all corners of human behavior.

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Environment

Finding Safe Harbor: How Leadership, Relationships, and Self-Care Sparked EHS Renewal at Symantec

Three core principles that helped a company renew its EHS system in the wake of tumultuous changes.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Albertsons Companies Announces Sustainability Highlights and Purchase of 10 Tesla All-Electric Semi Trucks

Albertsons Companies today released its 2018 Sustainability Update, highlighting successes in reducing waste, expanding organic offerings, leading in seafood sustainability, and supporting the causes customers care about most.

Health & Healthcare

Durkan Rolls Out the Pink Carpet for Susan G. Komen with Specify for a Cure

In addition to love, purity and longevity, our Camélia Rose carpet collection engenders hope. We partnered for this collection with Virginia Langley, a premier fashion textile designer who has done work for luxury homes and hotels around the world. She designed Camélia Rose in tribute to the countless courageous women who have battled breast cancer, and we designated her new collection to help support Susan G. Komen’s fight against breast cancer.

Durkan is deeply dedicated to the fight against breast cancer, and we’ve been a long-term partner of Susan G. Komen. In fact, since 2001, Mohawk has contributed more than $5.6 million on behalf of our customers and employees. We’re proud to help make a difference through our corporate donation program, Specify for a Cure.

Events, Media & Communications

“A Conversation of Consequence” at Illinois Gies College of Business with Connie Lindsey EVP of Northern Trust

This year’s Leighton Lecture will feature Connie Lindsey, Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Diversity & Inclusion at Northern Trust. The lecture titled “A Conversation of Consequence” will be presented on Wednesday, November 7 at 6pm and 7pm.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Walt Disney Company and Make-A-Wish® Invite Fans to “Share Your Ears” to Help Grant Wishes in Celebration of 90 Years of Mickey Mouse

The Walt Disney Company today launched its 2018 Share Your Ears campaign, benefiting Make-A-Wish. The campaign kicked off during Mickey’s 90th Spectacular on ABC tonight with a segment from Robin Roberts, award-winning broadcaster and co-anchor of ABC’s Good Morning America, on the significance of wish granting. The elegant affair featured star-studded musical performances and moving tributes in celebration of 90 years of Mickey Mouse.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Opinion: Sharing Knowledge and Resources to Train the Health Workforce of the Future

While we all can agree that health is at the heart of human progress, too many people around the world today are still unable to access even the most basic health care. Our world's gains in knowledge and innovation are compromised by the rising shortage of skilled health workers, and this shortage means that global targets for access to health care are in jeopardy.

Events, Media & Communications

SCS and SmartCert to Host FSC Trainings for Prospective Auditors and Certificate Holders

SCS Global Services and SmartCert are hosting a Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) training event in early December in Montreal. The training is for potential auditors, as well as stakeholders, certificate holders, or prospective certificate holders looking to strengthen their knowledge about FSC Forest Management, FSC Chain of Custody, and the principles of auditing from ISO 19011.

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Education

Arrow Electronics Sponsors Annual Cardboard Engineering Challenge

Arrow Electronics was the presenting sponsor of the Cherry Creek Schools Foundation’s Annual Cardboard Challenge for the sixth consecutive year. The STEM education competition for K-12 students featured a wide array of innovative creations – including a fully-functioning foosball table and robot replica – all crafted from cardboard and other recycled materials.

Research, Reports & Publications

Solar Turbines Remanufacturing

Solar Turbines supports their customers by providing high quality overhaul exchange turbine engines, built with a mixture of remanufactured and new components.

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Environment

Fox Continues Green Production Efforts on Season Two of “Legion,” Reduces the Show’s Carbon Footprint by Nearly 50%

As part of 21st Century Fox’s commitment to environmentally sustainable film and television production, the company recently led efforts to green the second season of Legion, Noah Hawley’s FX drama series set in the world of the X-Men. The first season, which premiered in March 2017, had already made strides in this arena, diverting more than 55% of its waste from landfill and avoiding 252 total metric tons of CO2 emissions. The production staff set out to top these numbers in the second season and after five months of shooting, they managed to increase the waste diversion rate to 75% and emit 45% fewer total metric tons of CO2 than during the production of the first season.

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Research, Reports & Publications

UN, L’Oréal, WBCSD, Unilever and Allianz Share Visions for Sustainable Business

Business and investors need to take the lead to deliver the innovations and strategies to drive the required systemic change. Central to this is ambitious leadership, creating partnerships to drive large scale change within business and industries.

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