Diversity & Inclusion

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Morgan Stanley

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Astia Is Transforming the Way We Fund Businesses

Cisco Systems Inc.

Northern Trust Asset Management Selects Eleven Firms for Minority Broker Program

Northern Trust Asset Management, consistent with its long-standing commitment to ensuring diversity and inclusion within the investment industry, has selected eleven minority-owned broker-dealers for its Minority Broker Program.

K-Tec Systems CEO Cathy Koch “Believed She Could, and So She Did”—with Help from wegg® and FedEx

“Every morning,” K-Tec Systems CEO Cathy Koch says, “I put on a bracelet that says: ‘She Believed She Could, and So She Did.’ I believe a woman must believe ‘she can’ from the day she opens her business.”

Whole Planet Foundation Launches Annual Poverty Is Unnecessary Project

This October, Whole Planet Foundation celebrates its global impact on poverty and the partners who further its mission.

Deeds Must Follow the Words of the Business Roundtable

Words are empty unless they are followed by deeds.

Infographic | Whole Planet Foundation and Partners Alleviating Global Poverty Through Microcredit

Learn more about Whole Planet Foundation microfinance partners and our global poverty alleviation in 75 countries and 17 U.S. cities in our 2018 Annual Report.

Prudential Financial Sustainability Report Details Financial Resilience, Responsible Impact

Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) released its 2018 sustainability report, detailing how the company supports its four building blocks of long-term vitality: financial sustainability, customer focus, investing in people and responsible impact.

The Nonprofit Unlocking Millions in Savings

Developed by EARN, a fintech focused on improving the financial health of working families, SaverLife helps Carolyn and thousands of others across America put a little money aside each month to prepare for life’s unexpected costs. By incentivizing people to regularly save a small amount of money, SaverLife sees people take their savings accounts from empty to a small cushion to protect them from car breakdown costs, medical expenses or overdue electricity bills.

People Power Microcredit: Whole Planet Foundation’s Daniel Zoltani

Each month, we will take you behind the scenes to introduce you to the teams that are dedicated to empowering the world’s poorest people to become entrepreneurs. You will meet Field Officers, volunteers, and Whole Planet Foundation staff. Through their stories you will get a glimpse into a day on the job—whether it is in Austin, Texas or Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

Front Line Financial Inclusion: Whole Planet Field Officer Appreciation Award – Asia/Pacific

WPF’s Field Officer Appreciation Award is an initiative to support our partners to recognize the hard work done by field staff on the front lines of microfinance. During quarter one, WPF disbursed prizes to the field officers who were nominated by our microfinance partners at the end of 2018. Here are some highlights from this group of nominees from the Asia/Pacific region and some lovely award ceremonies that our partners have shared. Even with personalized recognition, all the staff chose to share their prize with their colleagues and/or the clients they serve!

CECP's Strategic Investor Initiative Releases Framework for Companies Seeking to Develop Long-Term Plans

Wondering how to develop and communicate your company's long-term plan? Building on a significant body of original research and ongoing feedback from institutional investors, CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative (SII) has released a template for companies seeking to develop and communicate effective long-term strategic plans that help inform investment, voting, and engagement decisions. According to buy-side investors, the long-term should be described in terms of goals, metrics, and milestones, to enable a deeper understanding of the strategy and to track progress as it is implemented.

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