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KeyBank Annual Super Refund Saturday Helping Eligible Families and Individuals File for the Earned Income Tax Credit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Starting Saturday February 4th, 2023, KeyBank is partnering with local agencies and organizations across several states to host its annual Super Refund Saturday events. In many communities, KeyBank employees will work alongside volunteers.

Cintas Honored Among FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Cintas Corporation has been honored as one of FORTUNE’S 2023 World’s Most Admired Companies. This is the 15th time that Cintas has been recognized by FORTUNE among its Most Admired Companies surveys.

Aflac Incorporated Honored for Performance and Purpose

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Demonstrating remarkable consistency in performance and gender equality Aflac Incorporated has been named to Fortune Magazine's list of World's Most Admired Companies for the 22nd time and Bloomberg's Gender Equality Index for the fourth consecutive year.

Glow Expands Into US Market With ESG Focused Consumer Insights Product

Research, Reports & Publications

Market research technology company Glow has launched in the US with an ESG focused consumer insights product. The company has appointed ex NielsenIQ executive Chrissie Brogan in the newly created role of Director of Market Development.

Gilead Sciences: Toward Health Equity for Black People Impacted by TNBC

Diversity & Inclusion

Gilead awarded $5.7M in grants to 21 U.S. organizations for programs working to advance health equity for Black people impacted by TNBC.

This HBCU Is Showing Students New Career Paths at Utilities

Diversity & Inclusion

Duke Energy supports 22 lineworker training programs in the six states it serves, and Denmark Technical College is the first to be a historically black college (HBCU).

Whirlpool Corporation Named One of America’s Most JUST Companies for 2023

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Corp. has been recognized as one of America’s Most JUST Companies in the annual rankings published today by CNBC and JUST Capital.

Philip Jacobson: The Fight To Stop Shark Finning

Environment

If you were a kid in the 1970s, you undoubtedly were at least a little terrified of going into the ocean – a fear placed squarely in your subconscious by the Jaws movies.

Virent Bio-Based Fuel Used in Third Milestone Demonstration Flight Powered With 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Energy

Virent, a Marathon Petroleum Corp. subsidiary, used its BioForming® process to produce the synthesized aromatic kerosene (SAK), a critical component that made the 100% SAF possible.

International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) Kicks Off Global Awareness Push: Investing in Health Pays Back

Health & Healthcare

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), the world’s leading organization focused on deploying people-first places to advance a global culture of health, announced today the launch of a yearlong awareness effort designed to help arm advocates and practitioners alike.

Cintas Corporation Releases Its 2022 ESG Report

Research, Reports & Publications

Cintas Corporation has published its 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, which details the company’s ESG Journey, performance and initiatives from the last fiscal year.

Inside the World of CSR Leaders: Sam Caplan, Vice President of Social Impact at Submittable

We’re profiling CSR and social impact leaders to engage their insights into how CSR is transforming and what inspired them to follow this path.

UN Global Compact Network USA Helps US Companies Elevate Their Sustainable Development Goals Agenda

Sustainable Development Goals

The US private sector is critical for generating much-needed solutions globally. Agenda 2030 envisions a secure world free of poverty, hunger and an end to environmental degradation, and achieving this will require companies to increase their ambition on the SDGs.

Principal® Foundation To Sponsor EVERFI Black History Month Challenge

Diversity & Inclusion

Principal® Foundation is inviting high school students across the U.S. to participate in the Black History Month Challenge for a chance to win a college scholarship. The challenge was created by EVERFI, an innovator in digital social impact education.

Paychex Named Among FORTUNE’s Most Admired Companies in 2023

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of integrated human capital management software solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services, has again been named one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE® magazine.

Mastercard Launches She Runs This Program Celebrating Entrepreneurship for Black Women in Business and Hip-Hop During GRAMMY® Week

Events, Media & Communications

Today, Mastercard announced it will host She Runs This: Celebrating Entrepreneurship in Business and Hip-Hop, a three-day event in partnership with Femme It Forward, honoring the genre’s 50th anniversary as part of the brand’s programming during GRAMMY® Week.

Purpose 360: A Force for Good and Growth With Procter & Gamble

We invited Damon Jones, Chief Communications Officer at Procter & Gamble, back to Purpose 360 to talk about how P&G leverages storytelling to drive change for the environment and society.

Is landscape Approach the Way Forward for Sustainable Agriculture?

Environment

Sustainable landscape management or Landscape Approach has been a major topic of national and international policy discourse in recent years.

element6 Dynamics and Ingram Content Group Announce Strategic Supplier Relationship for Industrial Hemp-Based Paper

element6 Dynamics today announced that Ingram Content CEO and President Shawn Morin has been appointed to the element6 Dynamics Board of Directors.

Medtronic Continues To Make Significant Advances as an Inclusion, Diversity & Equity Leader

Diversity & Inclusion

Medtronic named to the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) the same week the company publishes its Global Inclusion, Diversity & Equity 2022 Annual Report

Illumina Named to Bloomberg Gender Equality Index for Fifth Consecutive Year

Health & Healthcare

Illumina has been included in the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the fifth consecutive year. The distinguished index rates over 11,000 public companies and selects the top 500 committed to supporting gender equality in the workplace.

Sustainability Trends 2023: Goodbye Greenwashing, Hello Business Results

Environment

This year’s forecast of sustainability trends looks like the perfect storm (in a good way) of purpose-minded, yet business opportunity-led progress.

Whole Kids Foundation 2023 Garden Grant Application Window Open Now

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Kids Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to improving children’s nutrition and wellness, has opened its annual Garden Grant window to offer financial support to schools that wish to start or expand edible education spaces.

Herbalife Nutrition Foundation Launches First Casa in Mongolia; Donates $15,000 to Veloo Foundation

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Herbalife Nutrition Foundation (HNF) launched its first Casa in Mongolia and donated $15,000 USD to Veloo Foundation’s “Children of the Peak” Kindergarten, the new Casa Herbalife Nutrition Partner.

Wesco Is Ranked Among America’s Best-Managed Companies

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Wesco was ranked #173 on the Top 250 Best-Managed Companies of 2022, as selected by The Drucker Institute and published in The Wall Street Journal. Our ranking climbed 8.9 points over last year and was the largest gain within the Industrial Goods sector.