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Direct Relief CEO Byron Scott (left) receives the Seoul Peace Prize from Jaeho Yeom, Chairman of the Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation, at an awards ceremony in Seoul on April 28, 2025.

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Direct Relief Accepts 2025 Seoul Peace Prize for Global Humanitarian Impact

Direct Relief today formally accepted the 2025 Seoul Peace Prize, one of the world’s most distinguished honors for humanitarian achievement, in recognition of the organization’s unwavering commitment to aiding people affected by poverty, disasters, and conflict.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Two Months Without Aid

Action Against Hunger

Events, Media & Communications

AB, EMIA and Societe Generale Host the Impact and Blended Finance Conference

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Innovation & Technology

Ready for Anything: T‑Mobile Strengthens Powerful Technology Arsenal for Hurricane and Wildfire Seasons

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SkysTheLimit.org Recognized Among Top Organizations on Charity Navigator

SkysTheLimit.org, a leading innovative digital platform committed to fostering the growth of historically excluded entrepreneurs, announces its inclusion among the top organizations featured on Charity Navigator's Feedback Excellence best charities page.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Mastercard: Empowering Small Businesses Across Europe To Thrive

Across Europe, small businesses are a powerhouse of entrepreneurial spirit and resilience, weathering the many challenges of recent years.

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Health & Healthcare

IP Empowers Women and Girls With 30,000 Period Product Kits in 2023

With localized impacts from a global program, IP has made a significant difference in the fight to end Period Poverty.

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Health & Healthcare

Universal DX Announces Strategic Collaboration With Quest Diagnostics To Bring Advanced Colorectal Cancer Screening Blood Test to Patients and Providers in the United States

Signal-C® uses next generation sequencing (NGS) and bioinformatics to identify methylated DNA patterns and fragments shed by colorectal cancer tumors circulating in the blood stream.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Sometimes It’s Who You Know: St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic School Gets a Lighting Upgrade

CS Koida suggested that St. Mary replace the older lights in its building with brighter, more energy-efficient alternatives and introduced the school’s administrators to Pepco’s cost-covering grant program for financial support.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Covia Honored With 2023 Pillar Award for Community Service – Northeast Ohio

Covia’s leadership believes that when communities thrive, everyone benefits from a brighter, more prosperous future.

Responsible Production & Consumption

O-I Glass is "Driving" Sustainability by Leveraging Biofuels

O-I’s Reims, France, plant is delivering champagne bottles to nearby customers with trucks powered by grapeseed and fryer oil.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Antea Group Sponsors 2024 AWS Global Water Stewardship Forum Through Inogen Alliance

Antea Group is proud to announce that through Inogen Alliance, we will be a sponsor of the ninth annual Global Water Stewardship Forum with the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) for the second year in a row. The forum will take place June 5-6, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland. 

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Hormel Foods Earns Perfect Score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2023–24 Corporate Equality Index

Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), a Fortune 500 global branded food company, received a perfect score of 100 on the 2023–24 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

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Events, Media & Communications

Kendrick Lamar and ‘Move Afrika: Rwanda’ Light Up Kigali With Sold Out Show, Launching the First Pan-African Touring Circuit Headlined by International Artists

The first ever Move Afrika event, held tonight in Kigali, was unlike any live show Rwanda has seen before.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Resourcefulness in Evolving Global Solutions: Bi-Annual Meeting Insights From 2024

Inogen Alliance recently concluded our second bi-annual Associate meeting for 2023 in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Kohler’s 2022 Believing in Better Report: Enhancing Quality of Life at Kohler

A career at Kohler is more than a job. To support this, we look holistically at what helps our associates show up at their best to do their best. It’s more than creating career opportunities where they can learn, grow, and achieve their full potential.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Maximus Staff Show Their Generosity by Supporting Food & Friends

The DC Job Placement and FRSP staff joined to participate in a community service activity at the Food & Friends Program.

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Green Infrastructure

Electrification 101: Getting the Grid Ready for an EV Revolution

As more and more electric cars and trucks hit the road, utilities need to prepare the infrastructure to charge them. That’s where planning tools like GridUp come in.

Innovation & Technology

Leading University in Vigo, Spain Collaborates With Qualcomm To Offer Its Students 5G Training & Certification

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announces its collaboration with the Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación de la Universidade de Vigo to provide 5G training courses.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Microbusiness Owners Invest in Their Website First

Investing in a website pays off for entrepreneurs. According to GoDaddy’s Venture Forward research initiative, the most popular way *microbusiness owners spend their first dollars is by creating a website (28%), and it pays off.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Henkel Relaunches Its Bonding and Sealing Portfolio With Recycled Cartridges Across Europe

As a global leading supplier of adhesives, sealants and functional coatings Henkel is continuously driving sustainability across markets.

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Education

GoldieBlox and Discovery Education Partner To Bring Chemistry to High School Classrooms Nationwide With New Immersive Learning Experience on Roblox

GoldieBlox and Discovery Education today announced a new education initiative – Maker High.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Awards $53,000 Grant to Delight Nails & Spa

For two weeks in November, Fifth Third employees across northern Florida and the Bank’s footprint showed their love for local small businesses by entering them in a sweepstakes to win a $53,000 grant. The Bank is pleased to announce one of the winners is Delight Nails & Spa.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Natural History Museum and Bloomberg Team Up To Make the Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index Available to Financial Markets for the First Time

The Natural History Museum, London, and Bloomberg announced a collaboration to make the Museum’s Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) data available to the investment community for the first time through Bloomberg, a global leader in business and financial information.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

New Academy Aims To Be a Hub for Change, Opportunity on Chicago’s Southwest Side

When you walk through the main doors at the Academy for Global Citizenship’s new building on Chicago’s southwest side, you know immediately it’s no ordinary school. The first room you enter has two-story windows, walls painted in shades of green and seedlings growing.

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Innovation & Technology

ekō Solutions Expands Sustainable Accommodations With ekō Outpost on Airbnb

ekō Solutions expands it’s sustainable up-cycled shipping container glamping units for rent through Airbnb in the ekō Outpost Village located at Poplar Point Lakeside Park in Athens, Alabama

Environment

The Bronx Development at the Intersection of Sustainability and Affordable Housing

Completed in 2019, Cooper Gardens is a $156 million, 450,000-square-foot, multi-building, mixed-use project at the intersection of housing affordability and sustainability.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MAC Cosmetics and Community Healthcare Network Partner for HIV Testing Activation on World AIDS Day

On Friday, December 1st, M·A·C Cosmetics was proud to partner with nonprofit organization Community Healthcare Network (CHN) on an HIV testing activation in New York City to encourage the community to “know your status” in honour of World AIDS Day.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Revolutionizing the Cold Chain: The ‘-15°C Initiative’ and Its Global Impact on Sustainability

As the world grapples with the escalating food security crisis exacerbated by climate change, a groundbreaking initiative is emerging. At the forefront of this transformative journey is the “Join the Move to -15°C” campaign, announced and launched by DP World at COP28.

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  10. Building a Sustainable Future | Decarbonizing the Built Environment
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