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Hormel Foods to Host Live Virtual Concert Starring NBC’s The Voice Runner-Up Chris Kroeze, Minnesota Native and Nashville Recording Artist Natalie Murphy & Multitalented Singer-Songwriter and TV Personality Nick Hoffman

In addition to the virtual live concert, Hormel Foods is honoring its production professionals through its commitment of more than $4 million to be used for a bonus for our plant team members.

MetLife Foundation Donates $100,000 to Tampa Food Bank to Help Those Impacted by Coronavirus

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MetLife Foundation announced today that it is donating $100,000 to Feeding Tampa Bay to help deal with increased demand for their services as a result of coronavirus.

Scaling Regenerative Agriculture: What We Can Learn From Innovative Beverage Companies

Environment

Grow smarter, not harder. That’s regenerative agriculture in a nutshell. It’s a back-to-nature approach to growing that not only aims to do no environmental harm but also progressively improve ecosystems.

Building a Sustainable Mung Bean Farming System in Bangladesh

Responsible Production & Consumption

Japanese company euglena Co. has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to contract more than 10,000 farmers in Bangladesh through Grameen euglena, a joint venture with the Grameen Krishi Foundation in Bangladesh

How ViacomCBS Is Connecting to Fans During the Coronavirus Crisis

Health & Healthcare

Behind the camera, news crews are working amid unprecedented conditions to deliver constant updates, and late night shows known for slick in-studio productions are now finding creative ways to give fans daily boosts.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle at Cass Middle School

Education

Thanks to the company’s recycling and sustainability efforts, Mohawk’s Material Recovery Team helped Cass Middle School in Georgia become one step closer to county STEM certification.

CIT Financing Speeds Protective N95 Masks to Healthcare Workers

CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) has provided critical financing for its client Aria Designs to help it procure millions of advanced N95 surgical masks that will protect medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic.

04/02 Update: The Biggest Names in Entertainment Are Helping the Smallest Names in Business

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Verizon Business honors small businesses helping frontline healthcare workers in New York City.

Every Website Can Now Be a COVID-19 Volunteering Outpost

Social Impact & Volunteering

VolunteerMatch, the world’s largest volunteer engagement network, has launched VolunteerMatch Connect, a free product that enables everyone to turn their website into a volunteer action hub with a simple copy and paste code snippet.

With Black & Veatch, Memphis Sees Sewer Program As Unfolding Opportunity

Environment

Memphis’ sewerage assets aren’t much different in scale with other metropolitan areas, and often they’re similarly old, with some pipes dating back a century.

Atonix Digital, RoviSys Team up to Extend Asset Performance Management Software’s Reach

Innovation & Technology

Atonix Digital has partnered with Ohio-based RoviSys to deliver Atonix Digital’s line of asset performance management (APM) solutions powered by the ASSET360® analytics platform.

National Grid Appoints President of US Business and Managing Director of National Grid Ventures

Events, Media & Communications

Badar Khan has been appointed President of the US Business, following the departure of Dean Seavers at the end of 2019. Badar has been acting as interim President since November 2019.

CSR-related Crisis Response -- Plan Ahead, But Expect Unique Challenges

Michele Robinson-Pontbriand, Director of CSR at Keysight, knows that the COVID-19 crisis has changed the world drastically, but the tenants of CSR-related efforts are similar. Strong policies must be trusted when unique challenges are anticipated.

COVID-19 Brings Policy Responses, Risks to Emerging Markets, and Hoarding

This month’s consequences from the COVID-19 virus have been substantial. Apart from the impact on public health, equity indices have corrected with considerable speed amid a massive shift away from risk assets.

Electrolux Highlights Lower Emissions and Introduces New Framework in 2019 Sustainability Report

Research, Reports & Publications

Electrolux, a sustainability leader in the appliance industry, reports a 75% reduction in CO2 emissions from its operations since 2005. To reflect the Group’s new commitment to become climate neutral across the supply chain by 2050, and its increasingly holistic approach to sustainability, the overall sustainability framework has also been updated.

It's April - and That Means It's Keep America Beautiful Month

Social Impact & Volunteering

As communities across the country practice social distancing, there are still ways to join the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization and make an impact in your community – virtually. Here are 10 ways to #DoBeautifulThings while keeping yourself and your neighbors healthy and safe during Keep America Beautiful Month.

Merck earns 2020 Energy Star Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck received the 2020 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award for continued leadership and superior contributions to ENERGY STAR. Merck has been named a Partner of the Year for 15 years in a row...

A Role for Technology in Helping Find Missing Children

Innovation & Technology

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was founded in 1984, following several cases of child abduction that caught the nation’s attention.

ON Semiconductor Funds Local High School’s Global Initiative Microbiology Research

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

As Nelson Mandela says, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Education is the key to eliminating gender inequality, to reducing poverty, to creating a sustainable planet, to preventing needless deaths and illness, and to fostering peace.

Media Advisory: New Leadership For A Global Crisis

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

The UN Global Compact has shared a special appeal for a corporate response to the COVID-19 pandemic: for all companies to take collective action to stem the outbreak through implementing our Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

The Urgency of a New Social Contract

The COVID-19 crisis makes one thing abundantly clear: the social contract between government, business, employees, and people is not working as it should. What steps can businesses take to remake the social contract and build for a better future?

BCtA Companies at the Forefront of Response to COVID-19

COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), with over 250,000 infected across the globe. UNDP will support countries to set up a multisectoral whole-of-society approach to face the challenges beyond the health sector

Chinese Air Quality + Ekoru Search Engine

Environment

Looking for some good news as we enter yet another week of sheltering-in-place? Perhaps you feel like doing a Google search to discover an upside to the slow down?

Announcing Ceres 2020 Digital Program for April and May!

Environment

Earlier in March, we announced that the Ceres 2020 in New York in-person event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, we’ve been working hard to reimagine how we can deliver the content we planned that aims to address the challenges investors, companies and policymakers alike face when it comes to sustainability.

SCE Helps Fairplex Sheraton Open to Quarantined COVID-19 Patients

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

On March 15, as COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County began to mount, Southern California Edison learned that the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center at the LA County Fairgrounds in Pomona was under consideration as a possible quarantine site.