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Discovery Education Sends Teachers and Students Nationwide Back to School With a Host of Free New Resources

Global edtech leader Discovery Education and a selection of partners are sending students across the country back to school with a host of new, free dynamic digital resources that nurture student curiosity and support student achievement.
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Environment

Sustainable Facilities at FedEx

We strive to sustainably operate our more than 5,000 air and ground hubs, local stations, freight service centers, and retail locations through continued investments in efficiency, renewable energy, and other energy management programs.

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Environment

Wild Bison Returns to UK for First Time in Thousands of Years

Wild bison have been released into the UK for the first time in thousands of years as part of a pioneering conservation project to slow the climate crisis.

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Events, Media & Communications

A Thousand Empty Plates Outside the U.N. Represent 50 Million Facing Starvation

Global Citizen has laid out 1000 empty plates opposite the United Nations headquarters in New York to draw urgent attention to the global food crisis, and call on world leaders to deliver the $33 billion needed to mitigate the emergency.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sappi CEO Steve Binnie Celebrates Company Achievements In a World Changed Forever by COVID-19

Nature reminds us that life always moves forward and finds a way to advance and thrive.

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Diversity & Inclusion

How to Inclusify

Strengthening diversity, equity and inclusion is an ongoing process. What often gets missed in the pursuit of greater diversity are the intentional actions needed to also make a workplace inclusive.

Social Impact & Volunteering

IOC Young Leaders Programme

The IOC Young Leaders programme, launched in 2016, empowers talents to leverage the power of sport to make a positive difference in their communities.

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Green Infrastructure

Southern Company Partners With General Services Administration To Reduce Energy Costs, Improve Sustainability at GSA's Georgia Federal Buildings

Innovative solutions will focus on lighting, HVAC, water conservation and more

Diversity & Inclusion

D&I Weekly News Round Up: Racism, Disability and More

The latest edition of our Diversity & Inclusion News Round Up. Today we are talking about heightism affecting careers, racial discrimination in the workplace, ID markers helping people with invisible disabilities, and an inspiring NASA engineer

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Environment

Know Before You Go: Key EHS Insights for Global Expansion

The world is a big place full of new and exciting opportunities just waiting for you to explore. We’re here to take you on a journey through the top EHS compliance considerations and obstacles for global expansion with some examples along the way.

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Sustainable Development Goals

New Study From FSG Examines the Essential Link Between ESG Targets and Financial Performance

Too many companies position sustainability as an afterthought. FSG's latest article in HBR provides six steps to fully integrate ESG targets into core business models.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Stuart Weitzman: Supporting Women Leaders

In FY2021, Stuart Weitzman created the Bold Moves Grant. Stuart Weitzman’s $200,000 donation will fund grants to help women leaders achieve their bold ideas to drive change in their communities.

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Innovation & Technology

'Invisibles' Making Koch Manufacturing Facilities 'Smarter'

On the surface, the small piece of tape looks like a simple adhesive strip, but it’s actually an Internet of Things-enabled device with a critical job – monitoring precious cargo and machinery.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Qurate Retail Group Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

Qurate Retail GroupSM today launched a range of National Hispanic Heritage Month initiatives across QVC®, HSN® and Zulily® to elevate Hispanic- and Latinx-owned businesses

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Gardens Bloom Again as Children Connect to Nature

Marathon’s Martinez Renewable Fuels facility gave a $10,000 grant to Holbrook for its community garden project where students learn to grow fruits, vegetables and flowers.

Diversity & Inclusion

ESG Talk Podcast: Dealing with Acronyms - Moving from Deflection to Determination

The focus of our chat today is acronyms. Every business has acronyms. The ESG acronym soup can be overwhelming and confusing, but do not let that deflect from your determination to learn.

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Environment

Ahead of Climate Week 2022, Ceres To Urge Investors, Companies, and Policymakers To Turn the Year’s Climate Victories Into Even More Ambitious Action

Climate Week 2022 provides an opportunity to celebrate and build upon historic U.S. climate action and investments, as private and public sector leaders raise ambition commitments and policies to capitalize on the opportunities of the net zero transition

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Education

Helping Communities Harness the Power of the Arts

The positive impacts of arts education for students of all ages have long been acknowledged—improved cognitive and critical thinking skills, higher test scores and graduation rates, and reduced disciplinary infractions, to name a few

Energy

NRG Energy 2021 Sustainability Report: Home Is the Hub

Intuitive technologies that save energy and maximize efficiency are transforming houses into smart homes.

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Health & Healthcare

Mentoring Mothers Living With HIV: Angelina's Story

“For me, meeting my peers, women who were living with HIV and who also had children – that was a turning point for me,” Angelina says. “I needed that kind of support. It really helped me to cope back then.”

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Five Years After Hurricane Maria, Home Depot Associate Coral Gonzalez Shares Seeds of Sustainability

Bridges and other infrastructure were wiped out. Debris from landslides blocked roads. Hurricane Maria, a powerful category 5 hurricane, made landfall as the strongest storm to impact Puerto Rico in over 90 years, devastating a significant portion of the island.

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Environment

Cummins Partners To Lead Decarbonization Effort in Agriculture

Global power leader Cummins Inc. is teaming up with a leading tractor manufacturer to integrate Cummins’ 15-liter hydrogen engines into farm equipment to lead the decarbonization of the agriculture market.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CyberGrants: How To Build Your Dream CSR Program: A Q&A With Darwin Pivot

As a social impact leader, building and scaling your corporate social responsibility program can be daunting. From leadership buy-in to impact reporting, there’s so much that goes into managing a successful program.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ESG Trendsetters: AmerisourceBergen's 3 Pillars Driving ESG Initiatives

Over the past several years, environmental, social and governance (ESG) has become more firmly integrated into investment strategies, and global regulators are increasingly scrutinizing corporate ESG disclosures.

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Environment

Wild Birds Unlimited Partners With the Arbor Day Foundation to Restore Migratory and Song Bird Habitats in North American Forests

The Arbor Day Foundation and Wild Birds Unlimited have partnered to plant trees in forests across the United States and Canada.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

The Life Science Business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany Named Standout in Sustainability Category for Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2022

The Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, which operates in the U.S. and Canada as MilliporeSigma, was named one of seven standouts in the Sustainability category for Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2022.

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