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Nielsen: Engaging Black Audiences

Research, Reports & Publications | Nielsen

SPOTLIGHT: Nielsen Study Connects Culture With the Bottom Line

A Nielsen study, which arrives just in time for Black History Month, serves as a reminder that Black history is being made every day. That’s increasingly true in the economic landscape, where Black America wields an outsized impact thanks to audiences that lead media engagement.

Diversity & Inclusion

Sands Hires Its First Corporate Team Member Through the Hiring Our Heroes Program

Las Vegas Sands

Research, Reports & Publications

Shareholder Activism: 2024 Year in Review

Nasdaq, Inc.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

PotlatchDeltic Contributes to Heyburn Elementary Playground

PotlatchDeltic

Health & Healthcare

Mohawk Group Achieves Well Health-safety Rating for All Showrooms and Design Studios

Mohawk Group has officially achieved the WELL Health-Safety Rating for all of its commercial showrooms and design studios through the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI).

Social Impact & Volunteering

Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital Launch Project to Build Infrastructure for Founders of Color

Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced Resource, the first-ever country-wide project in the United States to support entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by and focused on founders of color.

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Events, Media & Communications

Alkermes Celebrates World Health Day 2021

This year, World Health Day is focused on building a fairer, healthier world. We support the World Health Organization in its commitment to ensuring that everyone can realize the right to good health.

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Innovation & Technology

T‑Mobile’s Next Un‑carrier Move: #5GforAll

The Un-carrier plans to build hundreds of new retail stores in small towns all across America over the next two years. These new stores will create 5,000 direct new jobs, plus thousands more in construction and services to build and maintain them.

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Environment

World Water Day: On the Frontlines - France Guertin, Global Technical Leader for Nature-based Solutions

What does valuing water mean to you? We asked that question of Dow people who are on the frontlines of implementing the company’s water strategy. See what they had to say.

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Education

Empowering Students to Say Yes to Healthy Lifestyles and No to Underage Drinking During Alcohol Responsibility Month and Beyond

We all need some good news right now, especially related to education and student progress.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Fifth Third Bank, National Minority Development Council Launch Certificate Program for Small Businesses

The program will strengthen corporate supplier selection processes and help minority businesses compete in a global environment.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Valley Bank Releases 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Valley Bank issues Catalyst For Change Corporate Responsibility Report highlighting the bank's commitment to building strong communities and advance its mission to promote social and economic justice.

Education

College Board and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Help Students Reach Their College Dreams

The College Board and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises announced last week on Telemundo’s Hoy Día the scholarship recipients of the College Board and Telemundo Academy Triunfadores campaign

Environment

Dark Sky, Bright Lights: Protecting the Night Sky

Venture outside the city and you’ll see how beautifully dark the sky can get. But in metropolitan areas, the starry night sky is overpowered by the lights we use to illuminate our roads and pathways.

Health & Healthcare

Building a Fairer, and Healthier World

Today, in observance of World Health Day, Medtronic and the Medtronic Foundation are announcing several new financial commitments, partnerships, and other measures aimed at eliminating healthcare disparities around the globe.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

In Conversation: Faurecia and Schneider Electric CEOs Talk Carbon Neutrality

Schneider Electric CEO, Jean-Pascal Tricoire recently met with Patrick Koller, CEO of Faurecia, to discuss the challenges of climate change and the opportunities to accelerate corporate action towards decarbonization.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Yoplait Donates Refrigerated Truck To Help Feed Those in Need

Did you know dairy is one of the most requested but least donated items at food banks? Yoplait is on a mission to bridge that gap and make dairy more accessible through its support of Feeding America.

Diversity & Inclusion

How One Bus Ticket Changed Everything

When Irma Olguin was a child, she rolled raisins alongside her parents, aunts, uncles and cousins in the fruiting fields of Central California, supplier of 30% of the world’s food. “Coming from a place like that, growing up in that way and that’s all you know, that’s all that surrounds you, you don’t see things in front of you like starting a company or becoming a tech CEO or anything but that life that is laid out in front of you,” she says.

Health & Healthcare

Qualcomm Wireless Reach: Wireless-enabled Video Solutions for Tuberculosis Treatment

Using mobile technologies, Operation ASHA has developed a community-driven, patient-focused, scalable, and low-cost model for TB eradication, which has led to over 85 percent of patients successfully completing the treatment.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Cummins Joins Calls to Advance Voter Accessibility

Cummins has endorsed a recent Business Roundtable statement supporting efforts to advance voter accessibility in the United States, Chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger announced last week.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Building Blocks for an Inclusive Recovery

It’s been a year or more since people around the world first got acquainted with the words “stay at home order” and “social distancing.”

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Education

AccountAbility Principles Course Now Available on Earth Academy, Expanding Training on Principles-Based Sustainability Management to Practitioners Globally

Global consulting and standards firm, AccountAbility, and Amsterdam-based sustainability education platform, Earth Academy, have together launched a self-paced AccountAbility Principles course.

Environment

Ecocentricity Guest Blog - Environmental Justice and the Soul of America: A Conversation with Rev. Gerald Durley

“...The soul of America is the environment. If you destroy the soul, nothing else exists. If you destroy the air, the water, the wildlife, the plants...that's the soul of America.” - Rev. Gerald Durley

Health & Healthcare

O-I Foundation Gifts $50k to Facilitate COVID-19 Vaccine Access in the Region

O-I Glass, Inc. (NYSE: O-I) announced today that it has gifted $50k to the Victory Over COVID-19 Through Vaccination (VProject) through its O-I Charitable Foundation.

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Environment

Alabama River Cellulose: A Strong Presence in the Region

Since 1978, the Alabama River Cellulose (ARC) mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Awards $375,000 in Grants to South Carolina Tutoring Programs, Education Initiatives Impacted by Pandemic

Duke Energy announced the recipients of $375,000 in grants through the Duke Energy Foundation to South Carolina organizations that will fund tutoring and reading programs in underserved and minority communities.

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Research, Reports & Publications

In Full Transparency: A Year of CSR at Illumina

Illumina has always been committed to a more equitable and sustainable future, and the challenges of 2020 gave us myriad opportunities to demonstrate our shared values and global citizenship.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

How KeyBank Helps Communities - Including Buffalo

This week, I'm focusing on how KeyBank invests its resources. I'm joined by Kawanza Humphrey, KeyBank's regional corporate responsibility officer, to talk about a recent announcement...

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Mohawk Group's Fractal Flooring Receives Honorable Distinction, Relaxing Floors Line Featured in the Journal of Sustainability

Mohawk Group’s award-winning Relaxing Floors carpet line is featured in the Journal of Sustainability’s special issue, entitled “Architecture and Salutogenesis: Beyond Indoor Environmental Quality.”

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