Thirty-nine employees from the CITGO Lemont Refinery raised approximately $35,000 in the annual Bike MS: Tour de Farms, a two-day bike ride to raise money and awareness for those affected by multiple sclerosis (MS).
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have made a commitment to provide support through cash and in-kind donations of $500,000 to organizations helping with relief efforts for those affected by the floods in Louisiana.
The newspaper company teamed up with Kimberly Clark and Aldeas Infantiles SOS Peru to grant food for recycling paper.
To celebrate their two year anniversary, the newspaper Publimetro,with the help of Kimberly-Clark Peru and the NGO Aldeas Infantiles SOS Peru, will launched a big recycling campaign to help needy children around the country.
Mark Lewis, Managing Director in European Equity Research – Utilities at Barclays, was asked to join former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure earlier this year.
What is the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure?
In honor of VM Summit 16, which is all about corporate/ nonprofit collaboration, this series of volunteerism-related blog posts will take one topic and explain how it’s relevant to both groups.
Water and wastewater utilities in the U.S. have high aspirations for energy reduction goals, or even moving toward energy neutral operations, but barriers are plentiful. Fortunately, approaches are being developed that can help system operators make significant progress in overcoming these obstacles.
Namaste! My name is Claudia Reid and this summer I was given the life-changing opportunity to travel to Nepal with National Geographic Student Expeditions. I spent 18 days in this beautiful country learning the history of Kathmandu, serving in a children’s home in the Talamarang village and seeing firsthand the damages from the 2015 earthquake. I even had the chance to ride an elephant through the jungle in Chitwan! Through it all, I was given an incredible new perspective on a country 8,000 miles away from my own, and a newfound respect and admiration for its people.
Today is National Relaxation Day. While we can all agree that relaxation is a good thing, it might seem hard to live up to the spirit of the holiday on a work day—especially a Monday.
