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Innovation & Technology | Keysight Technologies

Collaborative Synergy: The Key to Unlocking 6G’s Potential

As we stand on the brink of the next phase in wireless technology evolution, 6G promises to transform how we connect the digital and physical worlds.

Research, Reports & Publications

Momentum Builds Towards Historic Dakar 2026 YOG

International Olympic Committee

Responsible Production & Consumption

Toxic Release Inventory Reporting: A Q&A With Kara and Friends

Antea Group

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Beets, Basketball and Mid-Bore Engines

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Environment

CSRHub and The National Wildlife Federation Announce Partnership

CSRHub is pleased to announce it has formed a partnership with The National Wildlife Federation (NWF). The NWF is the United States' largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization, with over six million supporters, and 51 state and territorial affiliated organizations (including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).

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Education

Verizon Innovative Learning Has Helped More Than a Million Kids Like Nakia

Verizon Innovative Learning has committed more than $400 million to provide free tech, access and innovative learning programs that transform schools and children's lives. This is Nakia's story.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

CMS Energy Becomes First U.S. Company to Enter Sustainability-Linked Loan

CMS Energy and its primary subsidiary, Consumers Energy (collectively “CMS”), announced they have entered the first syndicated sustainability-linked revolving credit facilities for a U.S. borrower. The aggregate $1.4 billion of new credit facilities allow CMS to reduce its interest rate by meeting targets related to environmental sustainability, specifically renewable energy generation.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Republic Services of Michigan Recognized for Recycling Program Excellence

Congratulations are in order for our Republic Services team in Michigan, which was recently recognized with the Michigan Recycling Coalition 2018 Award of Program Excellence!

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Education

Verizon Innovative Learning Is Helping Teachers Like Dawn Give Kids a Better Education

Millions of American students lack the access to technology and the skills they need to succeed in the digital world. Since 2012, Verizon has been working to help solve this problem holistically through a transformative program called Verizon Innovative Learning. Verizon Innovative Learning provides free technology, free internet access, and hands-on learning experiences to help give under-resourced students the education they deserve.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

He Simply Needed “Someone to Show Him He Was Worth Loving.”

Often, children in foster care act out because they don’t know who they can trust. The trauma they’ve experienced, the reason they are in foster care, can be difficult for them to process. It takes time and love for children to heal and to move forward.

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Environment

5 Steps to Reducing Utility Costs at Your Facilities

In assessing nearly 100 global facilities, the Antea Group team identified meaningful cost savings in every facility evaluated, without exception.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Schneider Electric WHITE PAPER | Business Resiliency Through Increased Circularity

Today, hundreds of companies, innovators, universities, cities, and affiliates — including Schneider Electric — have joined the MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Economy 100, which brings together stakeholders from across disciplines to develop collaborative solutions to pressing economic and resource constraints. In a circular economic model, systems, procedures, facilities, and practices are created and managed in such a way that they can continue indefinitely, without exhausting the natural resources upon which they depend.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Arrow Electronics Employees Go the Distance for Girls on the Run

This spring, Arrow Electronics employees in Denver, Reno and Columbus laced up their sneakers and hit the pavement for a good cause. Employees covered over 225 miles in support of local chapters of Girls on the Run.

Diversity & Inclusion

Patricia Stitzel Named Tupperware Brands First Female CEO

“I believe confidence is a journey," says Tricia Stitzel, Tupperware Brands' first female CEO.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces the American Cities Climate Challenge to Support Mayors Tackling Climate Change in the United States

On June 1, Mike Bloomberg, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Action and co-chair of America’s Pledge, announced the $70 million American Cities Climate Challenge, a major new effort to expedite progress in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while growing local economies during a time of inaction from the federal government.

Research, Reports & Publications

Delivering Constructive Change through CSR

It is gratifying to work for a company genuinely committed to the wellbeing of the world and its citizens. Part of my role at BNY Mellon is to help determine where we can use our resources for the most positive, tangible impact. We do this by studying global trends, responding through our CSR strategy and supporting achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals that aim to address the world’s most pressing needs. As you’ve can see in our 2017 CSR Report, we believe we can make a real difference by focusing on gender equality, climate change and the effects of technology, globalization and the changing workforce.

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Green Infrastructure

IWBI Launches WELL v2™

Launched worldwide and celebrated with fanfare in New York, Beijing, London and Sydney, the International WELL Building Institute™ (IWBI™) unveiled the WELL v2™ pilot, the next version of its pioneering WELL Building Standard™, the first rating system to focus exclusively on the impacts of buildings on human health and wellness.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Integrating Diversity and Inclusion Into Corporate Social Engagement

Over the course of the past year, CECP has, with support of the Walmart Foundation, led an inquiry into the role and current practice of companies integrating Diversity and Inclusion into their Corporate Social Engagement efforts. This effort has been propelled by a questioning of the role of companies in the midst of rising inequality, racial tensions, and social movements such as #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter, among others. The interest and engagement of CECP’s coalition in this research has been high; CECP has engaged over 50 companies in interviews, case study collection, quantitative survey, and discussion.

Research, Reports & Publications

Alliance Data Offers 2017 Corporate Responsibility Highlights Ahead of Report Launch

Alliance Data shares how disruptive technologies are reshaping the business and social landscape and creating unparalleled opportunities for the company in its 2017 Corporate Responsibility Report that will be out later this month. In advance of the full report, the abbreviated highlights report shares an overview of 2017, a year that allowed us to thrive and do what we do best - be innovative, smart, trusted, responsible, inclusive and generous.

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Innovation & Technology

Multipliers of Prosperity: Social Platforms, Social Change

Every month, Donna Bowen of Mattapan, Massachusetts, communicates with around 45 complete strangers. Some are looking for advice on saving or credit-building, while others want to compare notes on issues like housing or education. They come from all places: not just nearby Boston, but Detroit, Albuquerque and Oakland. Each has a personal goal in mind—like purchasing a home, getting out of debt or starting their own business—and whatever the case, wherever they are, Bowen is there to lend an open ear and a voice of experience. She’s a user of a platform called UpTogether, an online network connecting members of low- and moderate-income communities across the country.

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Education

New York City Department of Education ‘Lighthouse School’ M.S. 88 Integrates Computational Thinking Into Core Subjects to Prepare Students 21ST Century Careers

Through “Ignite My Future in School,” Tata Consultancy Services and Discovery Education, in Partnership with Cornell Tech, Deliver Digital Skills to Students and World-Class Professional Development to Educators in New York City

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

INFOGRAPHIC | A Look at the “eBay Economy” In the US

Commercial sellers and full-time entrepreneurs on the eBay platform are responsible for creating more than 690,000 jobs, and more than a third of our U.S. sellers come from small towns and rural areas.

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Events, Media & Communications

Calling All Authors and Subject Matter Experts: Submit Your Story by June 30!

PYXERA Global has an opportunity for you to contribute and inform the growing conversation around four solvable problems we are diving into at the Global Engagement Forum: Live conference this October 10–11. Our goal is to reveal the many facets of these complex global challenges to build a conceptual framework through which to propose collaborative solutions. To inform our work and broaden the conversation, we’ll share your valuable perspective on our publication, the Global Engagement Forum: Online this summer and fall, with the possibility of featuring it in our next print magazine.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Woman Driving Sustainable Finance at Barclays

“Someone said to me a little while ago that once you start immersing yourself and engaging yourself with climate change issues, it’s almost impossible to go back to anything else. You would have to wake up every morning and think: I’m using all my skills and abilities to help support a ‘six degree world’. So, I can’t go back. This is me for the next twenty years.”

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Research, Reports & Publications

Brands Taking Stands Newsletter, 6/6/18

“The Big Story” in this week’s edition of the Brands Taking Stands Newsletter focuses on how stands taken on principle by a business that already has a purpose-driven mission doubles down on the perception that that company is “better” than one that just does business-as-usual. New research shows positive benefits for firms promoting values as well as products and services.

Environment

Nestlé Waters to Certify All Its Sites to Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard by 2025

Nestlé Waters has today announced that it will extend its commitment to water stewardship by certifying all of its sites to the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard by 2025.

The global standard promotes responsible water use that benefits local communities socially and economically, while ensuring environmental sustainability of watersheds – all priorities for Nestlé. Since first committing to the AWS Standard in 2017, Nestlé Waters has already certified eight of its factories around the world, including in Pakistan, Canada and the United States.

Events, Media & Communications

Bechtel Podcast | Jim Nolan on Construction Management and Innovation

“We need to focus on training, we need to focus on safety, we need to focus on everything you can imagine to be able to even function. It’s a journey in culture really, and I like to start with safety,” stated Bechtel’s Jim Nolan, president of equipment operations on the challenges of merging construction management and innovation.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Follow the Money: How Sands Cares Assists WestCare

Through the implementation of the Fresh Start Mobile Showers, WestCare partnered with Sands Cares, Las Vegas Sands’ corporate giving program, as a local stop for providing the community’s homeless population with private showering facilities. As the mobile showers began to gain traction, WestCare has been an important partner in assisting those experiencing homelessness in the Las Vegas area.

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Research, Reports & Publications

M&S Publishes Its First Update on Plan A 2025 as Part of Its Business Transformation

M&S updates stakeholders on progress against its 100 new Plan A commitments launched last year. This year’s update comes as part of a wider business transformation programme.

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