ESG News from Leading Brands

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Innovation & Technology | U.S. Soy

New Documentary Sheds Light on the Surprising Scope of Soy’s Sustainability Benefits

From food to fuel to plastic, soy is making the Earth more sustainable in thousands of surprising ways. In the years ahead, it might even do the same on Mars.
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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

How Opportunity International Empowers Financial Inclusion Through Digital Banking

Opportunity International’s (Opportunity) mission for over five decades has been to reach those living in poverty and offer them access to otherwise unavailable financial opportunities, like loans, savings accounts, and capacity-building services.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Supporting Women in Skilled Trades: Regions Foundation Announces $100,000 Grant for Moore Community House

The Regions Foundation announced a $100,000 grant to Moore Community House to support Moore’s Women in Construction (WinC) program that prepares women for lucrative careers in construction and advanced manufacturing.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

PepsiCo and N-Drip Partner to Provide Water-saving, Crop-enhancing Benefits to Farmers Around the World

PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) and N-Drip have announced a partnership to help farmers around the world adopt game-changing technology in water efficiency across 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres) by 2025.

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Health & Healthcare

SAIC Partners With Yale University School of Nursing on Research to Improve Pandemic Response in Underserved Communities

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has partnered with Yale School of Nursing to fund research and provide recommendations to improve access to resources such as vaccines during a national response to a crisis.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Enbridge to Receive Award for Improving Gender Representation

On March 17, Enbridge will be recognized by the global nonprofit Catalyst for its work increasing female representation across its workforce.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Climate Town

Climate Town is a YouTube channel produced by the comedian and climate expert Rollie Williams. He creates some of the best, and certainly the funniest, climate videos available.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Aflac Celebrates Sweet 16 on Ethisphere's World's Most Ethical Companies List

For the 16th year in a row, Ethisphere recognized Aflac Incorporated as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies. A leader in supplemental insurance, the Fortune 500 company is the only insurer around the globe to make the prestigious list since the recognition program began in 2007.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Tacoma Urban League Receives $75,000 Grant from KeyBank

Tacoma Urban League [today] announces a $75,000 donation from KeyBank to bolster its Small Business Navigator Program, which is designed to support Black entrepreneurs expand their businesses.

Research, Reports & Publications

ISSB: A “Badly Needed” Step in ESG Disclosure Push

The creation of the new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) was a major step in the effort to establish a global consensus for sustainability disclosures and simplify the complex landscape, according to industry participants.

Education

Inspiring the Next Generation of Young Innovators

To foster the next generation of innovators, AMD & the AMD Foundation make investments in STEM education programs to attract students to technology early & create awareness of educational/career opportunities they may not have known existed.

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Environment

Adam Sobel: A Climate Science Midlife Crisis

Imagine you go to graduate school for a bunch of years, conscientiously studying the nuanced interactions of the variables that underlie the globe's climate.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Two Women at Whirlpool Corporation's Findlay, Ohio Plant Honored by Manufacturing Institute With STEP Ahead Awards

The Manufacturing Institute announced that it has awarded Amy Doroff and Tyra Woodruff from Whirlpool Corp’s manufacturing facility in Findlay, Ohio, with Women in Manufacturing STEP Ahead Awards.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Dold Foods Donates $16,000 to Wichita YMCA for Summer Camp Meals

Dold Foods, the local manufacturing facility owned by Hormel Foods Corporation, announced a donation of $16,000 to the Greater Wichita YMCA to provide meals for youth in the Wichita, Kan., area.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Wrapping up the Third Edition of GoDaddy's New Roots: An Initiative to Empower Underserved Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship is an important pillar of the economy – not only because it has the power to drive innovation, but also due to the fact that it holds a great potential for advancing social inclusion by creating jobs and alternative opportunities of income.

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Diversity & Inclusion

#TtInspires: Jillian Jack Discusses Thriving in an Engineering Career as a Black STEM Professional

Jillian Jack has nearly 20 years of experience in the water and wastewater industry with expertise in project management, construction management, and design.

Education

Cadence 2021 Women in Technology Scholarships Winners Share Their Learnings

The Cadence 2021 Women in Technology Scholarship recipients have provided inspiring lessons for us all. We asked these talented women about their passions, vision for the future, and advice to underrepresented groups in technology.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Infinite Possibilities of Citizen Philanthropy: Pi Day and Every Day

At VMware, we have established an annual tradition of celebrating Pi Day each March 14 by embracing our core EPIC2 values and getting geeky about giving back.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Alnylam Issues 2021 Corporate Responsibility Report

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), the leading RNAi therapeutics company, today published its 2021 Corporate Responsibility Report.

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Events, Media & Communications

The Living Future 2022 Online Conference to Focus on Restoration + Justice

​The Living Future 2022 Online Conference to Focus on Restoration + Justice. The Digital Event - Sponsored by Google - Features Ten Days of Inspiring Keynotes and Plenaries, Networking and Educational Sessions for the Regenerative Building Movement

Energy

There Is Still Time - Customers Behind on Energy Bills Act Now to Prevent Disconnection

The winter moratorium on utility disconnections for non-payment is scheduled to end on March 15, 2022.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Looking Beyond the Horizon: How CIOs Can Embed DEI Into Succession Planning

As companies consider how to diversify their ranks in the context of leadership succession, it’s important to have transparency in the promotion process and clear expectations for incoming leaders.

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Environment

CNH Industrial Partners With Treedom to Plant Trees

CNH Industrial has partnered with Treedom, the first web platform that allows you to plant a tree remotely and follow the entire project online.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sustainable Palm Oil, a Perspective From an Independent Smallholder Farmer

Independent smallholder farmers manage over 40% or 4.2 million hectares of oil palm plantations in Indonesia.

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Diversity & Inclusion

HP, Utiva and Girl Rising Set to Move More Girls to Tech in Kenya

Historically, the positioning of technology and expertise has been an antithesis to women and girls and this is even worse felt in low and middle income communities.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Elevating, Celebrating and Uplifting Women and Girls Globally This International Women's Day

In honor of International Women’s Day, I’d like to share more about how we are elevating women and their voices through celebratory packaging, strategic partnerships and inspirational storytelling this month and beyond.

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