Comerica Incorporated (NYSE:CMA) is honored to receive a second consecutive Climate Leadership Award from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and The Climate Registry (TCR). Held in Baltimore, MD, The Climate Leadership Awards brought together forward-thinking leaders from business, government, academia, and the non-profit community to address climate change. Specifically, Comerica was recognized with an Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management Award for setting third generation greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals after achieving its first and second generation GHG reduction goals ahead of schedule.
Karisa Barlow has always loved to read. So when she learned about an opportunity to advocate for literacy in Philadelphia and help kids discover their passion for reading, she jumped at the opportunity.
Brianna has big dreams about a career as an artist, but she didn’t always think that way.
Two years ago, the now 18-year-old high school senior from Queens, N.Y., arrived at a new school in Westchester on the bank of the Hudson River, equipped with state-of-the-art educational technology in the classroom, something that was lacking at her previous school. Studying at the Martin Luther King Jr. High School, which is part of the Greenburgh-Graham school district for students who are at-risk or have special needs in Hastings-on-Hudson, has changed the way she thinks about the future — her future.
Las Vegas Sands has always focused on making its communities better places to live through Sands Cares and Project Protect, which promote a strong quality of life and foster a positive environment. Through its Responsible Gaming Ambassador program, the company has dedicated itself to educating its Team Members on how to create a positive environment at all of its properties worldwide. Hotel Manager Kai Shield became a responsible gaming ambassador in 2017 after seeing his assistant director go through the training, making him eager to participate.
Verizon, Getty Images and the National Disability Leadership Alliance are creating The Disability Collection, a growing collection of stock images that break stereotypes and authentically portray people with disabilities in everyday life.
For Women’s History Month, JetBlue and the JetBlue Foundation are teaming up to profile some of the airline’s amazing female crewmembers with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) backgrounds who are leaving their mark on the industry. In this spotlight, we are highlighting Alexandra Panova, Manager Administrative International.
From the first time he set foot in a fire station, David Budd felt like he was home. As a boy, he had fallen in love with the idea of being a firefighter and spent years working to become one. It was a proud moment when he eventually landed a full-time job as a first responder.
Margarita, Plant Manager at Gildan shares with us the joy of coming back to work in her native country and her sudden rise to leadership. Here is her story:
US food producer General Mills plans to equip its supply chain farmers with the knowledge and tools to move from practices that mitigate environmental degradation to regenerative approaches. https://bit.ly/2FHmGB5
Nespresso today issued an invitation to other portioned coffee manufacturers to join its recycling program, paving the way for a global recycling scheme for aluminium coffee capsules. With this initiative, Nespresso hopes to improve the accessibility and convenience of aluminium capsule recycling.
The Smithfield Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Smithfield Foods, Inc., announced today a donation of $50,000 to the Foundation for Meat and Poultry Research and Education, a non-profit research, education, and information foundation established to identify strategies that enable the meat and poultry industry to produce better, safer products, and to operate more efficiently.
For Women’s History Month, JetBlue and the JetBlue Foundation are teaming up to profile some of the airline’s amazing female crewmembers with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) backgrounds who are leaving their mark on the industry. In this spotlight, we are highlighting Gisselle Sanchez, International Finance Compliance Manager.
With the scale and reach of its agricultural sourcing, PepsiCo wants to help farmers across its global supply chain become more sustainable. This is especially true of female farmers, who face significant barriers in what is increasingly being called the “crop gap.”
Comerica Incorporated (NYSE:CMA) proudly announced today that for the sixth consecutive year, it received a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. Comerica joins the ranks of more than 560 major U.S. businesses that also earned top marks this year.
Based in Bulgaria, ProsFit uses HP Jet Fusion 3D printing technology to transform the prosthetic fitting and manufacturing process, designing customized sockets for a more comfortable and faster fit. These prosthetics that fit more precisely, are custom-designed for the wearer and are more affordable, without requiring the physical presence of a prosthetist.
In this episode, Atlanta McIlwraith talks about engaging a global workforce to give back to local communities, and how those efforts are guiding the company to create a more sustainable future.
I had the great opportunity to host a roundtable discussion on setting science-based targets at Sustainable Brands’ 2018 New Metrics conference in Philadelphia in October. Science-based targets (SBTs) have received a growing amount of research interest and company attention over the past five years. Currently, 515 companies worldwide are engaged in setting and validating SBTs through the Science Based Targets Initiative—a steep increase from the 14 companies who were engaged in this process four years ago.
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) received a perfect score of 100 percent for the sixth consecutive year on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality. With its high score in the CEI, administered by the Human Rights Campaign, CBRE is recognized as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.
eBay will launch Retail Revival in its fifth partner city: Greensboro, North Carolina. With its rich history as a textiles manufacturing hub and a pioneer in the Civil Rights movement, Greensboro offered the perfect balance of grit and vision to make this program a success.
Since being elected to her position in 2016, Catherine Hendrian and her team of about 220 serve 8,500 Consumers Energy employees.
She leads the utility’s traditional HR functions and its Learning & Development and Strategy Mobilization teams and has ability to create a holistic experience that provides employees with the tools to deliver.
For the fifth consecutive year, Astellas has achieved a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's (HRC) annual Corporate Equality Index (the Index).
CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) is committed to investing in and developing a full range of alternative fuel vehicles. The GX437 fully electric city bus from Heuliez Bus is a direct result of this extensive research and development program.
The GX437 was chosen by QBUZZ for its low emissions thanks to its unique Lithium-ion NMC battery system.
In 2016, we set a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from our offices, data centers and small vehicle fleet (otherwise known as scope 1 and 2 emissions) by 30 percent by 2025. By focusing investments on energy conservation and more efficient use of space, Symantec achieved a 32 percent reduction in just three years, surpassing our goal seven years early.
Building on our success, we are participating in the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The SBTi, a collaboration between CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), the UN Global Compact, World Resources Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund, champions science-based target setting as a powerful way of boosting companies’ competitive advantage in the transition to the low-carbon economy.
