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Innovation & Technology | SAP

3 Ways AI Accelerates Sustainability Efforts

While climate risk, social equity and ethical governance used to be peripheral concerns, they are now central to long-term business success.
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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Lenovo’s Service Supply Chain Wins Award for AI-Driven System To Increase Efficiency, Sustainability in Packaging

Lenovo’s Service Supply Chain team recently developed a proprietary, AI-driven process to generate an alert, called the Intelligent Excessive Pre-alert, that identifies high-density packaging within the company’s worldwide distribution hub in Suzhou, China.

Energy

United Names Oscar the Grouch As First Chief Trash Officer

United Airlines today named Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch as its first Chief Trash Officer as he and the airline celebrate his love of rubbish. United Airlines' new, consumer education campaign is designed to promote the expected benefit of using sustainable aviation fuel

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Flower Power: Using Beneficial Plants To Combat Pests

While Valentine’s Day may be over, flowers are still “in season” across Musim Mas’ plantations because of their beneficial value to combat pests within oil palm plantations.

Events, Media & Communications

IBM's Lydia Logan at SXSW EDU: How to Build Meaningful Relationships with HBCUs

At SXSW 2023, Lydia Logan, VP of Global Education & Workforce Development at IBM, will explore how businesses and HBCUs can develop mutually beneficial alliances by sharing the work done by IBM, Jackson State University, and the CEO Action for Racial Equity Fellowship.

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Environment

Pure Strategies Offers Nature Action Forum for Business

Pure Strategies’ Nature Action Forum is now accepting applications for a cohort of corporate sustainability professionals that will begin meeting in April 2023. This unique learning opportunity will help companies take steps toward a nature-positive future. Apply today!

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Education

How Do You Ignite Passion for Chemistry? Host an Olympiad for Future Innovators.

As a high school student, my passion for Chemistry started almost 30 years ago. I remember my excitement when I placed first at the China Chemistry Olympiad (CChO). At the time, I could only imagine where my love of Chemistry would take me.

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Environment

Cleaning Up Alaskan Coastlines Inspires Integration of Waste Project

Gulf of Alaska Keeper (GoAK) is a nonprofit formed to address conservation and environmental issues in Prince William Sound (PWS) and along the northern Gulf of Alaska (GOA) coast.

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Innovation & Technology

HARMAN and American Center for Mobility (ACM) Announce Strategic Collaboration at MWC 2023, Evaluating Road-Ready Connectivity Products to Enhance Road Safety

HARMAN announced at MWC Barcelona 2023 a strategic collaboration with the American Center for Mobility (ACM) to test real-world use cases of road-ready technologies, including Vehicle to Everything (V2X) enabled by roadside infrastructure and edge computing using 5G cellular.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Suppliers Join Whole Planet Foundation With $25,000 Donations Totaling $150,000 for Global Poverty Alleviation During Women's History Month

Whole Planet Foundation is delighted to announce the first round of 2022 donors in the Poverty Is Unnecessary Fund, each donating $25,000 to alleviate poverty through microcredit: Lundberg Family Farms, MaryRuth’s, Schmidt’s Personal Care, SheaMoisture and So Delicious.

Health & Healthcare

Healthcare Inequity: Heart Disease in Women

Medtronic is diversifying the clinical research it does on its medical devices to be more inclusive. One such clinical study, involving heart valve replacement, is enrolling primarily women.

Diversity & Inclusion

Black History Month Leadership Spotlight: Ola Duru, Common Impact

Ola describes equity as her professional north star. Driven by a passion for creating equitable spaces and opportunities for marginalized people, specifically Black and brown communities, Ola has dedicated much of her career to operational excellence in supporting those

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Opens New Round of Grant Funding

Verizon announced that a new grant funding opportunity for small businesses, totaling $500,000, is now available via Verizon Small Business Digital Ready.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bread Financial™ Included in 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for Fifth Consecutive Year

Bread Financial, a tech-forward financial services company that provides simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions, today announced that it joins 483 other public companies as a member of the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index.

Responsible Production & Consumption

From Wasted Food to Carbon-Neutral Fuel

The numbers are concerning, if not staggering.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

From Release to Redemption

Regions supports LISC Central Illinois and its nonprofit community partners as they reach people who are underserved and connect them with career development, financial coaching and more.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Gilead Foundation Donating $1 Million for Relief Efforts in Türkiye and Syria

As a way to support those impacted by Monday’s devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria, the Gilead Foundation is donating $1 million for on-the-ground relief efforts.

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Health & Healthcare

Quest Provides No-Cost Laboratory Testing to Underserved Communities in Dallas

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) teamed up with Remote Area Medical (RAM) to host a pop-up clinic in Dallas, Texas, in December.

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Environment

A New Genomic Atlas Could Help Save Endangered Elephants

Herds of woolly mammoth once roamed the span of the Northern Hemisphere, from the British Isles across the Bering land bridge to the eastern shores of North America. Then, about 4000 years ago, the last mammoth died.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Mortgage Loan Originator Trainee Focused on Advancing Black Homeownership

Tracy Egerson saw a pattern emerge when she and some of her fellow U.S. Bank colleagues recently represented the bank’s mortgage business at an event in Milwaukee focused on advancing Black homeownership.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Women Entrepreneurs Pave the Way to Success: Advice for the Next Generation from Empower by GoDaddy Alumni

Women entrepreneurs are breaking down barriers and succeeding in business, all while boosting their local economies and paving the way for others to do the same. According to GoDaddy’s Venture Forward research initiative, there has been a 26% shift in the share of startups toward

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CACI Named a Fortune World’s Most Admired Company for 6th Consecutive Year

CACI International Inc announced that Fortune magazine has recognized it as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for 2023 commemorating CACI’s 6th consecutive year on the list and its 12th appearance since the list’s inception.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Data Science and Data Privacy Work Hand-in-Hand To Improve the World

International Data Corporation forecasts that by 2025 the global datasphere will be 163 zettabytes, up from 16.1 zettabytes in 2016, and that the average connected person will interact with connected devices nearly 4,800 times a day.

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Energy

Duke: A New Way for Companies in Indiana To Cut Carbon Emissions

The Blue River Solar Facility is the first in Duke Energy Indiana’s pilot solar program, which makes it easier for businesses, schools and nonprofits to use clean, renewable energy.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

KeyBank Named to Mentor New York’s 2023 Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll

KeyBank has been named to Mentor New York’s 2023 Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll. The New York State Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll is a network of community-minded businesses that believe in the power of mentoring and the mission of MENTOR New York.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Foundation Awards $750,000 Grant to LifeBUILDERS for Continued Revitalization of Detroit’s Regent Park Neighborhood

The Fifth Third Foundation has awarded a $750,000 recoverable grant to LifeBUILDERS to support the organization’s continued revitalization work in Detroit’s Regent Park neighborhood.

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