Education

School’s in Session & Hundreds of High School Action Team Captains Are Set to Embark on Another Year of Helping Their Neighbors in Need

Now that Labor Day has come and gone, hundreds of Action Teams of student volunteers from high schools across the country are gearing up for another year of teaming with Major League baseball players and Volunteers of America to help train and inspire the next generation of volunteers.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Why Upskilling Our Employees is Essential For Our Business (and All Big Businesses)

Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. think tanks are not the only ones mulling over the future of our workforce. By 2020, the U.S. will have 85 million medium- and high-skilled job vacancies with not enough people qualified to fill them, according to McKinsey. And while solutions to this skills problem are coming from the startup world and the policy sphere, the country’s largest corporations also are playing a significant role in developing solutions.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Scentsy Announces Partnership with Habitat for Humanity

International fragrance company, Scentsy, Inc. is teaming up with Habitat for Humanity for a yearlong partnership to help create a world where more families will have a place to call home.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Duke Energy Named to Top Sustainability Index for 12th Straight Year

Continuing to build on a smarter and more sustainable energy future, Duke Energy today was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for North America for the 12th consecutive year.

CMT to Air Hurricane Harvey Relief Telethon On September 12
Hand in Hand is, at its heart, about unity. CMT will team up with other broadcast networks, including ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, to share the special with as many Americans as possible. The event will air from Los Angeles, with stages in New York, Nashville and San Antonio.
North Market is More Than a Grocery Store
General Mills’ $250,000 donation to Pillsbury United Communities toward the development of North Market aims to help provide access to healthy food in north Minneapolis.

The nonprofit grocery is expected to open this November. It will be the first full-service grocery store in North Minneapolis to open in more than 10 years.
McDonald’s USA Named National Sponsor of Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup
Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s iconic community improvement nonprofit organization, today announced McDonald’s has become a National Sponsor of Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup (GAC), the largest year-round community improvement program in the country. Efforts will get underway on Sept. 9, 2017 with National Planting Day, a fall initiative of the GAC. McDonald’s is the exclusive Presenting Sponsor of National Planting Day.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Weatherford Donates to Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts

Weatherford International plc (NYSE: WFT) pledged $25,000 to Feeding Texas, the Texas Food Bank Network, and $25,000 to J.J. Watt's Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund to support and assist in relief efforts across impacted areas. These funds will help provide immediate resources across the state of Texas including food, water, and cleaning supplies, and will aid in long-term rebuilding efforts.

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