The U.S. Bank Foundation recently distributed $15 million in grants from the U.S. Bank Foundation Opportunity Fund* to increase wealth-building opportunities for low- to moderate-income (LMI) communities, including rural and Native American communities and communities of color.
Global climate change is not a future issue; it’s a present reality reshaping our world. In 2022 alone, over $81 billion worth of global trade and at least $122 billion of economic activity were threatened by extreme weather disruptions at ports and terminals.
KeyBank and the KeyBank Foundation announced an investment of $300,000 in the Columbus Urban League (CUL), aimed at bolstering its innovative Housing Accelerator Program (HAP).
Webster Bank has long supported the communities we serve by providing loans, investments, technical assistance, and financial services to individuals and small businesses in low- to moderate-income (LMI) areas.
Asia Pacific must rapidly identify and adopt the next generation of low-carbon and scalable infrastructure to accelerate its decarbonization progress, says Black & Veatch, a global leader in critical infrastructure solutions.
With expenditures for artificial intelligence (AI) by schools globally expected to grow from $2.13 billion in 2022 to $25.77 billion in 2030, AI in higher education is becoming increasingly more prevalent across all departments with the push towards a data-driven future.
High blood sugar, called hyperglycemia, occurs in people with diabetes when there is not enough insulin to regulate the amount of glucose in the blood.
Joyce Tsoi, senior director of the Decarbonization Program at Cascale, joined a panel on "Sustainability and Finance in the World of Textiles'' at the ITMAconnect Innovator Xchange Virtual Edition last month.
DoorDash, the local commerce platform, and Walgreens, a trusted, neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day, announced a new collaboration to offer SNAP/EBT payment at nearly 7,800 Walgreens stores across the country.
Atlantic City Electric is powering local communities in ways that go beyond reliable energy service though environmental stewardship and resiliency grants for South Jersey municipalities.
Entergy’s information technology department announces its second cohort of scholarship recipients of the Entergy Technology Scholarship for the 2024-25 academic year.
In a challenging economic year, Vancity stayed focused on its vision of driving meaningful social and systemic change. Vancity continues to demonstrate that a financial institution can be an agent of positive change.
Vanguard Renewables partners with leading food and beverage companies to recycle food and beverage waste on multi-generational dairy farms across the country to make renewable gas via anaerobic digestion.
In this episode, entrepreneurs David Roubach and Felix Bobbink share their sustainability innovations within the plastics industry and how they are revolutionizing plastics at both consumer and industrial levels.
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), in collaboration with renowned health luminaries, building science experts and industry leaders, today announced the launch of the International Healthy Building Accord.
FedEx has been a longtime supporter of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation (MCSF), providing annual support to the organization through scholarships to military veteran’s children. This year FedEx provided scholarships to 22 students through MCSF.
It is imperative to find ways to make AI processing more energy efficient and sustainable. But most reports focus almost entirely on the energy used by AI in the cloud and in data centers.
Comcast NBCUniversal’s Black Experience on Xfinity teams up with award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio (A Most Beautiful Thing, I Am Jane Doe) and executive producer and NBA Hall of Famer Grant Hill, to premiere Bad River.
The idea of getting a blood draw can produce a variety of feelings for many patients at Quest. For one patient in New Jersey, the experience of visiting a Patient Service Center (PSC) has turned into one they felt the need to share for good reason!
Ensuring affordable housing for the elderly population is critical in today’s housing marketplace. The Section 202 Project Rental Assistance Contract Program (PRAC) through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides rental assistance to elderly residents.
Longhorn Racing is a student-run racing team at the University of Texas at Austin. Not only are they building the best race cars, but they’re also building the future generation of engineers.
Neurodiversity Awareness Month was recently observed at our offices in India. Our employee led Abilities Business Resource Council organized several events and initiatives locally to raise employee awareness about neurodiversity.
The goal of the pilot was to identify barriers to increasing nonhazardous medical plastic recycling rates at health care providers by instituting a collection and processing program aligned with the quality requirements of an advanced plastics recycler in the region.
Since the spring of 2022, we’ve awarded the Nature Foundation and its sister organization, the Forest Preserve District of Will County, Fueling Futures grants totaling $37,500 in support of both native plant initiatives and community programming.
