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Darby Aono-Shek

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives | The Clorox Company

Clorox Equal Justice Works Fellow Spotlight: Supporting Older Incarcerated People Through the Parole Process

More than four years ago we made a commitment — through The Clorox Company Foundation — to help fight racism and inequality. Some of our financial commitment goes toward supporting Equal Justice Works fellows like Darby Aono-Shek.
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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Casa Bacardi Tour Guides Help at Puerto Rico Shelters

What have our tour guides been doing while the Casa Bacardi visitor center in Puerto Rico has been closed? They've been receiving visitors to the Emergency Stop & Go shelters as part of #BacardiContigo.

Environment

America Recycles Day Marks 20th Anniversary; Focuses Nation’s Attention on Recycling Every Day

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, America Recycles Day educates people about the importance of recycling to our economy and environmental well-being, and helps to motivate occasional recyclers to become everyday recyclers. A Keep America Beautiful national initiative, America Recycles Day takes place on and in the weeks leading into Nov. 15, and is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting recycling in the United States.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Consumers Energy Honored with Governor’s Energy Excellence Award

Consumers Energy has won the Governor’s Energy Excellence Award in the Best Communication or Education Program category for its work to help hundreds of nonprofits and houses of worship in Michigan to reduce their energy costs. The Nonprofit Energy Efficiency Program provides free or minimal-cost upgrades that have helped over 1,300 nonprofits lower their costs by $1.5 million a year since 2013.

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Events, Media & Communications

GreenBiz Announces Advisory Board for Hawaii Clean Energy Conference

GreenBiz Group has announced the advisory board for VERGE Hawaii 2018: Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit, returning to Honolulu, Hawaii, June 12-14, 2018.

Environment

Bonn, a Boon for Business? Top Ways Your Company Can Make the Most of COP23

Next week, thousands of delegates from government, international organizations, trade unions, business and civil society will gather in Bonn, Germany for the latest round of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This 23rd Conference of the Parties, COP23 as it’s known, will give Paris Agreement signatories the opportunity to assess their progress in implementing climate commitments. It will also enable them to create rules to ensure they’re adhering to the Agreement, while preparing the groundwork for all countries to increase ambitions under their national climate action plans.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CITGO Lemont Refinery Raises Funds to Find a Cure for Muscular Dystrophy

The CITGO Lemont Refinery is a committed partner of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and has raised more than $600,000 for the organization during 2017. Funds raised help underwrite clinical research, assist with medical and rehabilitation costs, and send children affected by neurological diseases to MDA Summer Camp in Hudson, Ill.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Declare Your Good: JetBlue Launches #CheckInForGood Contest to Celebrate Kindness in the Air and on the Ground

JetBlue today announced it will celebrate a month of kindness and good in November with JetBlue For Good Month. Throughout this month of philanthropy and giving, JetBlue is asking customers to #CheckInForGood and enter to win a complimentary trip to volunteer with some of the airline’s non-profit partners (a). The winners will participate in trips focusing on the three pillars of the JetBlue For Good platform: youth and education, community and the environment.

Events, Media & Communications

A Conversation With Michael Bloomberg and Norman Foster on the New Bloomberg London Building

Michael Bloomberg and Norman Foster discuss the thoughts behind making Bloomberg's new European headquarters in London.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

First Cohort of 2-Year Bank On Fellows Launches in Five Coaltions

The Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund) announced today the awarding of five 2-year fellowships to advance local Bank On coalition operations and generate best practices for coalitions across the country. Local Bank On coalitions across the country, led by or working closely with local government, work to expand access to safe and appropriate financial products and services to the over 65 million people outside of the mainstream financial system who rely on alternative, costly financial services. The Bank On Fellowship program is supported by Wells Fargo, whose $1 million investment supports Bank On Fellows work for 2 years, as well as providing broader support for Bank On efforts to connect residents to safe, appropriate accounts.

Health & Healthcare

#InspireCancerAwareness Challenge

At Hormel Foods, we’re proud of all of our work supporting cancer research and promoting cancer nutrition. Through The Hormel Foundation and The Hormel Institute, we are working every day to help move forward cancer research, education and awareness.

We’re challenging you to bring your teams together and create your own cancer awareness ribbon. Share your support and creation using #InspireCancerAwareness and let’s show the world we’re all in this together.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

History Wins: Partners in Preservation Awards $2 Million in Grants for Main Street Projects

American Express, The National Trust for Historic Preservation and Main Street America announced today the winners of the Partners in Preservation: Main Streets. The 11 winning historic sites, determined by popular vote, will receive a total of $1.5 million in grants to fund their respective preservation projects. An additional $500,000 in grants was provided to the nonprofit partners of the 25 main street communities that participated in the program at the outset of the campaign to help raise awareness about their preservation needs.

Diversity & Inclusion

LGBT Neighborhoods: Finding Community in Suburbia

Historically speaking, finding an LGBT-friendly neighborhood was easier to do in a city than it was in the suburbs. The Castro in San Francisco, Chelsea in New York City, and Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., are three of the most recognizable LGBT neighborhoods in the United States. Elsewhere in the world, there’s Chueca in Madrid, Nollendorfplatz in Berlin, and Le Marais in Paris, to name a few.

Today, the “gayborhood” is slowly making the move away from cities and into the suburbs.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Protecting Our Food Supply

Most people don't know that food packaging plays a vital role in reducing food waste. By embracing better food packaging best practices, we can help take action against hunger.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Merck Publishes Annual Corporate Responsibility Report

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today published its 2016/2017 Corporate Responsibility Report. The report reflects the company’s performance in the areas of Access to Health, Employees, Environmental Sustainability and Ethics & Transparency.

Environment

Domtar Sustainability: How Work Actually Gets Done

To make our facilities safer, we must understand how our employees actually do their work, not just how our written procedures state they should do their work.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity — A Business Imperative for Arrow Electronics

Last month, Arrow Electronics hosted several dozen undergraduate and graduate students from five Colorado universities to learn more about careers at the global technology-solutions provider.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Boeing Announces More Than $50 Million in Grants to Support Nonprofits Worldwide

Boeing today announced more than $50 million in grants to more than 500 nonprofit organizations across 50 countries globally. The annual contributions include a three-year commitment of more than $25 million in support of veterans’ recovery and rehabilitation programs and transition services. The charitable grants package will fund programs through 2018 and supplement an anticipated $117 million in company-wide business and employee contributions to similar causes—bringing Boeing’s total community investments to approximately $167 million this year alone.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Changing Lives, One Teenager at a Time

“You’re never too old for family” is a sentiment the Harris family takes to heart as they focus on fostering and adopting older youth. Dallas had been in foster care for five years, and joined her forever family at age 11. Soon after, The Harris family opened their home to another teen, Paula, who was in and out of foster care for nine years. She was adopted at age 14. Paula and Dallas are thriving with their forever family, and the Harris family continues to foster teens!

Events, Media & Communications

Morgan Stanley's Audrey Choi Talks Inclusive Growth at the BSR Conference 2017

In a plenary address at the BSR Conference 2017, Morgan Stanley Chief Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer Audrey Choi explored inclusive growth. Watch the full video here.

Education

PANDORA’S My School Project

In some areas of Thailand, especially rural areas, school buildings can still be run-down and filled with old equipment, which may lower the quality of education. PANDORA’s ‘My School Project’ gives its employees in Thailand a chance to give back to their local communities.

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Environment

VIDEO | HP Boise Reinvents Landscape for Sustainability

HP Boise’s landscaping project conserves water and wildlife, taking into consideration the local ecosystem and using local materials and plants. It is the first large corporate campus to earn a SITES certification in the state of Idaho, and the first corporate campus in the world to be certified using the SITES v2 rating system.This project is another example of how HP is reinventing for a more sustainable world.

PYXERA Global

Research, Reports & Publications

Announcing 2017 Global Pro Bono State of the Practice Benchmarking Survey, Released by PYXERA Global

Following the closing of Pro Bono Week 2017 (#celebrateprobono), PYXERA Global is pleased to announce the release of the 7th Global Pro Bono State of the Practice Benchmarking Survey, co-authored by Key Client Manager, Husna Ali-Khan and Program Coordinator, Marieka Walsh. The purpose of this survey is to help assess the state of the rapidly evolving Global Pro Bono practice across participating companies.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Wells Fargo Invests $9.7 Million to Boost Bay Area Homeownership

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), NeighborWorks® America and its network member, Community Housing Development Corporation (CHDC), today announced the NeighborhoodLIFT® program is coming to the San Francisco Bay Area with a $9.7 million commitment by Wells Fargo to boost homeownership in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, and Solano counties.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

VIDEO: How Alliance Data's $1 Million Nationwide Children's Gift Impacts Its Associates

Alliance Data's card services business builds on nearly two decades of Nationwide Children's Hospital support with $1 million gift to foundation. The hospital is nesteled in the heart Ohio near Alliance Data's card services business Columbus headquarters and has been a beacon of hope to many associates. Hear what those associates have to say about this Nationwide Hospital and the importance of this investment.

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Innovation & Technology

New Technology Adds Another Layer to Pipeline Leak Detection

From the highly-trained operators who work in our computerized control centres around the clock, to our detailed maintenance and inspection programs and the regular patrols we do on the ground and from the air, it's safe to say that there are a lot of eyes on our pipelines as they deliver the natural gas and oil that fuels our society.

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