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12,000 Women Supported in Vietnam & Indonesia: WEAVE’s Achievements

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Together with USAID, Qualcomm Wireless Reach, Kinara Indonesia and WISE, we supported women's entrepreneurship development across the two countries.

Forbes Names Whirlpool Corporation One of ‘America’s Best Large Employers’

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) announced it has been named to Forbes’ 2023 list of the “America’s Best Large Employers.”

How To Measure the Impact of Corporate Volunteering

Social Impact & Volunteering

To measure the impact of corporate volunteering, you have to embrace the complexity. Here’s how.

Lenovo’s Service Supply Chain Wins Award for AI-Driven System To Increase Efficiency, Sustainability in Packaging

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Lenovo’s Service Supply Chain team recently developed a proprietary, AI-driven process to generate an alert, called the Intelligent Excessive Pre-alert, that identifies high-density packaging within the company’s worldwide distribution hub in Suzhou, China.

The Deployment of Canada’s First National 5G Standalone Network

Innovation & Technology

This is the story of how Rogers became the first operator to deploy 5G standalone services nationwide in Canada, as well as its first steps in commercializing network slicing based services.

United Names Oscar the Grouch As First Chief Trash Officer

Energy

United Airlines today named Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch as its first Chief Trash Officer as he and the airline celebrate his love of rubbish. United Airlines' new, consumer education campaign is designed to promote the expected benefit of using sustainable aviation fuel

Flower Power: Using Beneficial Plants To Combat Pests

Responsible Production & Consumption

While Valentine’s Day may be over, flowers are still “in season” across Musim Mas’ plantations because of their beneficial value to combat pests within oil palm plantations.

IBM's Lydia Logan at SXSW EDU: How to Build Meaningful Relationships with HBCUs

Events, Media & Communications

At SXSW 2023, Lydia Logan, VP of Global Education & Workforce Development at IBM, will explore how businesses and HBCUs can develop mutually beneficial alliances by sharing the work done by IBM, Jackson State University, and the CEO Action for Racial Equity Fellowship.

Pure Strategies Offers Nature Action Forum for Business

Environment

Pure Strategies’ Nature Action Forum is now accepting applications for a cohort of corporate sustainability professionals that will begin meeting in April 2023. This unique learning opportunity will help companies take steps toward a nature-positive future. Apply today!

How Do You Ignite Passion for Chemistry? Host an Olympiad for Future Innovators.

Education

As a high school student, my passion for Chemistry started almost 30 years ago. I remember my excitement when I placed first at the China Chemistry Olympiad (CChO). At the time, I could only imagine where my love of Chemistry would take me.

Cleaning Up Alaskan Coastlines Inspires Integration of Waste Project

Environment

Gulf of Alaska Keeper (GoAK) is a nonprofit formed to address conservation and environmental issues in Prince William Sound (PWS) and along the northern Gulf of Alaska (GOA) coast.

HARMAN and American Center for Mobility (ACM) Announce Strategic Collaboration at MWC 2023, Evaluating Road-Ready Connectivity Products to Enhance Road Safety

Innovation & Technology

HARMAN announced at MWC Barcelona 2023 a strategic collaboration with the American Center for Mobility (ACM) to test real-world use cases of road-ready technologies, including Vehicle to Everything (V2X) enabled by roadside infrastructure and edge computing using 5G cellular.

Suppliers Join Whole Planet Foundation With $25,000 Donations Totaling $150,000 for Global Poverty Alleviation During Women's History Month

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Planet Foundation is delighted to announce the first round of 2022 donors in the Poverty Is Unnecessary Fund, each donating $25,000 to alleviate poverty through microcredit: Lundberg Family Farms, MaryRuth’s, Schmidt’s Personal Care, SheaMoisture and So Delicious.

Healthcare Inequity: Heart Disease in Women

Health & Healthcare

Medtronic is diversifying the clinical research it does on its medical devices to be more inclusive. One such clinical study, involving heart valve replacement, is enrolling primarily women.

Black History Month Leadership Spotlight: Ola Duru, Common Impact

Diversity & Inclusion

Ola describes equity as her professional north star. Driven by a passion for creating equitable spaces and opportunities for marginalized people, specifically Black and brown communities, Ola has dedicated much of her career to operational excellence in supporting those

Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Opens New Round of Grant Funding

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Verizon announced that a new grant funding opportunity for small businesses, totaling $500,000, is now available via Verizon Small Business Digital Ready.

Bread Financial™ Included in 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for Fifth Consecutive Year

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bread Financial, a tech-forward financial services company that provides simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions, today announced that it joins 483 other public companies as a member of the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index.

From Wasted Food to Carbon-Neutral Fuel

Responsible Production & Consumption

The numbers are concerning, if not staggering.

From Release to Redemption

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Regions supports LISC Central Illinois and its nonprofit community partners as they reach people who are underserved and connect them with career development, financial coaching and more.

Gilead Foundation Donating $1 Million for Relief Efforts in Türkiye and Syria

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

As a way to support those impacted by Monday’s devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria, the Gilead Foundation is donating $1 million for on-the-ground relief efforts.

Women Entrepreneurs Pave the Way to Success: Advice for the Next Generation from Empower by GoDaddy Alumni

Diversity & Inclusion

Women entrepreneurs are breaking down barriers and succeeding in business, all while boosting their local economies and paving the way for others to do the same. According to GoDaddy’s Venture Forward research initiative, there has been a 26% shift in the share of startups toward

Quest Provides No-Cost Laboratory Testing to Underserved Communities in Dallas

Health & Healthcare

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) teamed up with Remote Area Medical (RAM) to host a pop-up clinic in Dallas, Texas, in December.

Mortgage Loan Originator Trainee Focused on Advancing Black Homeownership

Diversity & Inclusion

Tracy Egerson saw a pattern emerge when she and some of her fellow U.S. Bank colleagues recently represented the bank’s mortgage business at an event in Milwaukee focused on advancing Black homeownership.

A New Genomic Atlas Could Help Save Endangered Elephants

Environment

Herds of woolly mammoth once roamed the span of the Northern Hemisphere, from the British Isles across the Bering land bridge to the eastern shores of North America. Then, about 4000 years ago, the last mammoth died.

CACI Named a Fortune World’s Most Admired Company for 6th Consecutive Year

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CACI International Inc announced that Fortune magazine has recognized it as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for 2023 commemorating CACI’s 6th consecutive year on the list and its 12th appearance since the list’s inception.