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LinkedIn Top Companies 2017: Where the U.S. Wants to Work Now

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Comcast NBCUniversal has spent $8 billion with minority and woman-owned suppliers since 2011, making it the only media and technology company in the Billion Dollar Roundtable.

Sustainable Brands ’17 Detroit - New Metrics

Environment

While societal actions are shifting to integrate sustainability with business value creation, the pace of change in the next 10 years will be far more rapid than in the previous decade.

Avnet Helps Guide Makers’ Technology Ideas to Production at Maker Faire

Events, Media & Communications

Avnet, a leading global technology distributor, today announced its activities as a presenting sponsor at Maker Faire Bay Area beginning tomorrow at the San Mateo County Event Center.

The Future of Business is About Being Regenerative

In the conference halls, corporate boardrooms and corridors of power that I walk, I sense winds of change. There is a metamorphic shift unfolding in terms of how we view our organisations – in terms of ‘how’ they operate and in terms of ‘why’ they operation.

Take the Chance - Opportunities Await Outside Your Comfort Zone

Diversity & Inclusion

This month, we are featuring Peggy Abkemeier Alford as part of our Women Leaders of PayPal series. Peggy is PayPal’s Global Head of Cross-Border Trade and was recently named SVP, Human Resources – People Operations.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Lyft Join Forces to Increase Access to Health Care in Communities with Transportation Deserts

Health & Healthcare

In an effort to address the community effects of social determinants of health, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) today announced a first nationwide partnership with Lyft to ensure Americans are not missing vital health care appointments simply because they lack reliable transportation.

Transformative Employee Volunteering with Chris Jarvis & Angela Parker, Realized Worth Co-Founders

Social Impact & Volunteering

In this episode of the Champions for Social Good Podcast, Jamie Serino speaks with Chris Jarvis and Angela Parker, Co-Founders of Realized Worth, a consulting firm focused on the design and implementation of employee volunteering programs

Sustainability Reporting with the GRI Standards

What is sustainability reporting and how does the practice benefit organizations and stakeholders? This animation answers these questions and more. Visit the GRI website to download the first global Sustainability Reporting Standards, and make an important contribution towards a more sustainable world.

Artists Announced for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

New Contemporaries is pleased to announce this year's selected artists with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies. The panel of guest selectors comprising Caroline Achaintre, Elizabeth Price and George Shaw has chosen 47 artists for the annual open submission exhibition.

Inclusion Works — Opportunities for Those with Disabilities

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Internally, we create job opportunities and promote inclusion through frameworks like the Reaching Blue Heights talent pipeline program, Disability Career Fairs, and Disability Mentoring Day (DMD). Out in the world, we show up and speak out.

3 Reasons to Say Yes to the Upcoming AIHce 2017 Conference and Expo in Seattle

Events, Media & Communications

This year's AIHce Conference and Expo is being held at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle on June 4-7, 2017. Antea Group offers 3 great reasons why you should attend the conference.

MetLife Foundation and Sesame Workshop Launch “Dream, Save, Do” in Egypt

MetLife Foundation and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educa- tional organization behind Alam Simsim, launched a new multimedia global initiative today called “Dream, Save, Do: Financial Empowerment for Families.”

FIRST Robotics & NRG Energy: Featuring the Brains Behind the Bots

Innovation & Technology

The students of FIRST Robotics are creative, energetic, ambitious, and ready to take the #STEM world by storm. Learn more: nrg.com/first

Voya Financial: A Culture of Inclusion and Giving

Diversity & Inclusion

As a Senior IT Release Manager for Voya Financial, Erin Andrews coordinates and manages the work of business analysts, developers, and quality assurance analysts from start to implementation to delivery of technical changes across a range of applications for the company.

Igniting Opportunity for Cape Town’s Youth

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

South Africa is home to some of the world’s best universities, but the average young South African likely won’t step foot on any of the country’s prestigious campuses. The legacy of apartheid has perpetuated an economic and education system inaccessible to the vast majority of youth. According to the Public Council of Higher Education in South Africa, only 16 percent of black South Africans go to college—the country is 80 percent black. Access to tertiary education has emerged as a common issue of discourse in South Africa’s political and social landscape as students across the country protest rising tuition costs and unequal access.

Infrastructure Week 2017: Keys to Digital Grid Strategy

Green Infrastructure

Infrastructure Week allows us to reflect on the modernization needed to drive the new digital grid. A comprehensive view of the infrastructure elements needed to create a more efficient and sustainable energy landscape should include communications networks and embedded computing. Utilities, technology vendors and community leaders will need to work in collaboration to ensure all elements are considered for the digital grid to thrive.

Colorado Dam Expansion to Substantially Improve Water Supply, Reliability

Energy

Black & Veatch has been selected to provide program management services to Denver Water on the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project.

The project is a major component of the utility’s comprehensive strategy to deliver safe, reliable water service and provide resilience to its system in the face of future threats including floods, wildfires and the potential impacts of climate change. The expansion will more than double current reservoir capacity and improve water supply dependability for the 1.4 million people Denver Water serves in the metro area.

PepsiCo Embraces Science-based Targets in the Fight Against Climate Change

Environment

PepsiCo has confirmed that its ambitious new target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction has been verified and approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative as being in line with what climate science says is necessary to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius. The global food and beverage company has committed to work to reduce absolute GHG emissions across its value chain by at least 20 percent by 2030.

Michigan Theatre to Save $20,000 a Year Via Consumers Energy Help

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

While maintaining its historic feel, the Michigan Theatre of Jackson is embracing a flair for the future.Consumers Energy has donated more than $230,000 in energy efficiency products since 2013, including replacing the theater's boiler for $195,000 in 2016.

Cargill and Heineken Employees Give Up Their Saturday to Help Litter-pick

Environment

A group of Cargill employees collected 20 bags of litter from the brook near their place of work. The Big Tidy Up took place along Yazor Brook in Hereford and then continued on to Red Barn Drive, Grandstand Road, Widemarsh Common, Yazor Brook cycle path and Yazor Road.They also put up bird and bat boxes, sparrow houses and bee shelters and sowed wild flower seeds.

HP Australia Achieves Significant Recycling Milestone

Sustainable Development Goals

HP Australia has become the first organisation in the country to have recycled 10 million print cartridges via its partnership with Cartridges for Planet Ark. Cartridges for Planet Ark’ (C4PA) is an innovative recycling program that provides Australians with a free, easy-to-use and environmentally-accredited way to recycle their printer cartridges with a zero waste to landfill commitment. HP is a founding member of C4PA, which was created in 2003.

Unreasonable Impact | Water Scarcity, Micro-Entrepreneurship, and War: Q&A with Desolenator

Sustainable Development Goals

Among the many crises bearing down on our collective horizon, perhaps none is so uniquely threatening to populations worldwide as that of water scarcity. Tomorrow morning, more than one billion people will wake up without access to clean water, a number that is only expected to quadruple by 2030.

Advice for Women Going into Mining, from De Beers Group's Liezl Maritz

Diversity & Inclusion

Environmentalist Liezl Maritz explains why she works at Namdeb and offers advice for women going into mining…

Leonardo Sustainability and Innovation Report 2016, a Commitment to a Responsible Business Conduct

Research, Reports & Publications

Leonardo, formerly known as Finmeccanica, top player in Aerospace, Defence and Security, releases the 2016 Sustainability and Innovation Report, the first with the new brand.