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Environment | Medtronic

Healing People and Planet: 3 Things You Need to Know About This Shared Innovation Challenge

When you think about healthcare technology, you may imagine the pacemaker assisting your dad’s ailing heart or the pulse oximeter placed on your finger during your annual physical exam. You probably don’t think about the energy or resources required to manufacture those products.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

ScottsMiracle-Gro 2024 Corporate Responsibility Report: Giving Waste New Life

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Research, Reports & Publications

American Workforce Burnout Reaches Tipping Point

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Events, Media & Communications

An Actionable Roadmap To Streamline Your Sustainability Strategy Webinar Series

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

U.S. Bank Foundation Distributes $15 Million in Opportunity Fund Grants

The U.S. Bank Foundation recently distributed $15 million in grants from the U.S. Bank Foundation Opportunity Fund* to increase wealth-building opportunities for low- to moderate-income (LMI) communities, including rural and Native American communities and communities of color.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Empowering Our Communities: How Webster Bank Is Supporting Financial Literacy

Webster Bank has long supported the communities we serve by providing loans, investments, technical assistance, and financial services to individuals and small businesses in low- to moderate-income (LMI) areas.

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Energy

Asia Pacific Needs to Scale Low-Carbon Technologies Rapidly to Reduce Carbon Emissions: Black & Veatch

Asia Pacific must rapidly identify and adopt the next generation of low-carbon and scalable infrastructure to accelerate its decarbonization progress, says Black & Veatch, a global leader in critical infrastructure solutions.

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Education

Baker Tilly’s Insights on the Intentional AI and Data Analytics in Higher Education

With expenditures for artificial intelligence (AI) by schools globally expected to grow from $2.13 billion in 2022 to $25.77 billion in 2030, AI in higher education is becoming increasingly more prevalent across all departments with the push towards a data-driven future.

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Innovation & Technology

DoorDash and Walgreens Launch Unprecedented Access for SNAP Customers

DoorDash, the local commerce platform, and Walgreens, a trusted, neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day, announced a new collaboration to offer SNAP/EBT payment at nearly 7,800 Walgreens stores across the country.

Health & Healthcare

Medtronic: Managing Her Diabetes ‘Runner’s High’

High blood sugar, called hyperglycemia, occurs in people with diabetes when there is not enough insulin to regulate the amount of glucose in the blood.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Cascale Offers Insights at ITMAconnect Innovator Xchange

Joyce Tsoi, senior director of the Decarbonization Program at Cascale, joined a panel on "Sustainability and Finance in the World of Textiles'' at the ITMAconnect Innovator Xchange Virtual Edition last month.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Climate Proofing the Supply Chain: DP World Addresses Climate Adaptation

Global climate change is not a future issue; it’s a present reality reshaping our world. In 2022 alone, over $81 billion worth of global trade and at least $122 billion of economic activity were threatened by extreme weather disruptions at ports and terminals.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Columbus Urban League Receives $300,000 Grant from KeyBank to Tackle Central Ohio Housing Instability Issues

KeyBank and the KeyBank Foundation announced an investment of $300,000 in the Columbus Urban League (CUL), aimed at bolstering its innovative Housing Accelerator Program (HAP).

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Atlantic City Electric’s Grant Program Focused on Environmental Sustainability Now Open

Atlantic City Electric is powering local communities in ways that go beyond reliable energy service though environmental stewardship and resiliency grants for South Jersey municipalities.

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Education

Entergy IT Announces Three New Orleans Students as Recipients of Its Technology College Scholarship

Entergy’s information technology department announces its second cohort of scholarship recipients of the Entergy Technology Scholarship for the 2024-25 academic year. 

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Research, Reports & Publications

Vancity in 2023

In a challenging economic year, Vancity stayed focused on its vision of driving meaningful social and systemic change. Vancity continues to demonstrate that a financial institution can be an agent of positive change.

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Energy

Vanguard Renewables: A Circular Solution

Vanguard Renewables partners with leading food and beverage companies to recycle food and beverage waste on multi-generational dairy farms across the country to make renewable gas via anaerobic digestion.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Farming: A Family Affair in the Mississippi Delta

Rather than having Thomas work for him on the family farm, Rives Neblett turned to his longtime Regions Agriculture Banking Leader Alan Sims.

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Innovation & Technology

Science and Entrepreneurship

In this episode, entrepreneurs David Roubach and Felix Bobbink share their sustainability innovations within the plastics industry and how they are revolutionizing plastics at both consumer and industrial levels.

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Events, Media & Communications

IWBI Launches the International Healthy Building Accord With Support From Public Health Luminaries, Dozens of WELL APs and Other Healthy Building Champions

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), in collaboration with renowned health luminaries, building science experts and industry leaders, today announced the launch of the International Healthy Building Accord.

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Education

FedEx and Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Help Children of Veterans

FedEx has been a longtime supporter of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation (MCSF), providing annual support to the organization through scholarships to military veteran’s children. This year FedEx provided scholarships to 22 students through MCSF.

Innovation & Technology

How Edge Devices Can Help Mitigate the Global Environmental Cost of Generative AI

It is imperative to find ways to make AI processing more energy efficient and sustainable. But most reports focus almost entirely on the energy used by AI in the cloud and in data centers.

Diversity & Inclusion

Comcast’s Black Experience on Xfinity Announces Premiere of Powerful Documentary ‘Bad River’ From Filmmakers Mary Mazzio and Grant Hill

Comcast NBCUniversal’s Black Experience on Xfinity teams up with award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio (A Most Beautiful Thing, I Am Jane Doe) and executive producer and NBA Hall of Famer Grant Hill, to premiere Bad River.

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Health & Healthcare

Helping To Change Perceptions of Bloodwork by Being ‘Phenomenal’

The idea of getting a blood draw can produce a variety of feelings for many patients at Quest. For one patient in New Jersey, the experience of visiting a Patient Service Center (PSC) has turned into one they felt the need to share for good reason!

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

HUD’s RAD for Section 202 PRAC Program: A Vital Initiative for Elderly Affordable Housing

Ensuring affordable housing for the elderly population is critical in today’s housing marketplace. The Section 202 Project Rental Assistance Contract Program (PRAC) through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides rental assistance to elderly residents.

Innovation & Technology

Longhorn Electric Racing Is Building the Future of Electric Vehicles With Cadence Tools

Longhorn Racing is a student-run racing team at the University of Texas at Austin. Not only are they building the best race cars, but they’re also building the future generation of engineers.

Diversity & Inclusion

Northern Trust India Observes Neurodiversity Awareness Month

Neurodiversity Awareness Month was recently observed at our offices in India. Our employee led Abilities Business Resource Council organized several events and initiatives locally to raise employee awareness about neurodiversity.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Case Study: Recycling Pilot for Non-Hazardous Medical Plastic Waste

The goal of the pilot was to identify barriers to increasing nonhazardous medical plastic recycling rates at health care providers by instituting a collection and processing program aligned with the quality requirements of an advanced plastics recycler in the region.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

‘Nature Will Come to You’: Native Plants Take Root in Suburban Chicago

Since the spring of 2022, we’ve awarded the Nature Foundation and its sister organization, the Forest Preserve District of Will County, Fueling Futures grants totaling $37,500 in support of both native plant initiatives and community programming.

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    Chemours chemistry is essential to our daily lives, global commerce, and the future. Our commitment to product sustainability drives us to innovate...

  10. Housing affordability
    We drive solutions to enable people to open doors to a safe and affordable place to call home, the foundation for wellness, dignity, and economic...

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