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Research, Reports & Publications | Victoria's Secret

Victoria’s Secret & Co. Releases First Annual Women’s Impact Report Detailing Progress in Supporting Women All Over the World

Today, VS&Co published its first annual Women’s Impact Report demonstrating the progress we’ve made in supporting women and sharing our aspiration to be the most beloved and trusted brand for women around the world.

Research, Reports & Publications

New CARE Report Reveals 9x Return on Women’s Economic Investments

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How This Clorox Teammate Champions Mental Health

The Clorox Company

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Addressing Workplace Burnout Amidst the War for Talent

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Logitech G Unveils Its Lightest, Most Affordable, Sustainable Wireless Gaming Headset Yet

The development of G435 was guided by Logitech’s Design for Sustainability framework and resulted in an estimated 40% lower carbon impact than one of our best-selling headsets.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Dow Employee Resource Groups Stepped Up and Took Action in 2020

When the COVID-19 caused more than half of employees to move suddenly to remote work environments, our 10 Employee Resource Groups stepped up to address these new workplace challenges and found new ways to keep employees connected and supported in 2020.

Sustainable Development Goals

Workiva Director of Sales in France Reports on Company Expansion in the Region

Workiva Director of Sales in France reports on company expansion in the region.

Diversity & Inclusion

Comcast Rise Commits $11M In Grants to Small Business Owners of Color In Ongoing Effort to Advance Economic Mobility

Comcast announced a second round of cities to receive grants from Comcast RISE Investment Fund, providing $6 million additional dollars to small businesses owned by people of color, including Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and Asian American owners.

Energy

NRG Releases PositiveNRG Year in Review - Reflects on Impacts Made in 2020

PositiveNRG, NRG’s corporate social responsibility program and the center of our charitable giving initiatives, has always been the why behind our organization, giving us the opportunity to go beyond powering the everyday and toward powering purpose.

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Education

Nonprofit Uses Virtual Environment to Strengthen Students' Skills

For over 10 years, FedEx has supported FIRST competitions around the world. And through FedEx Cares, our team members volunteer at championship events in support of the next generation of STEM leaders.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

S&P Global on Pay Equity

S&P Global is committed to equitable pay. Our philosophy is to deliver competitive and fair compensation programs that motivate our people, drive performance and create shareholder value.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CSRHub's Cynthia Figge on Syndio's Fairness at Work Webinar

CSRHub's Cynthia Figge on Syndio's Fairness at Work Webinar Episode 13: How to Incorporate Pay Equity into your ESG Strategy.

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Education

Arrow Electronics Expands Internship Program to Mexico and Brazil

Arrow Electronics welcomed a pipeline of new collegiate talent to its offices this summer, hosting 62 interns in the United States – and for the first time – Mexico and Brazil.

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Environment

How Accelerating PFAS Regulations are Magnifying Your Business Risk

PFAS regulations are emerging quickly. It isn’t time to panic, but it’s time to plan. Here’s what every business needs to know about PFAS and how to prepare for the changes to come.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Building the Trade Workforce of the Future: Stanley Black & Decker Launches 5-Year, $25 Million Commitment to Train More Than 3 Million Skilled Trade Workers

Beginning Oct. 1, nonprofits can apply for grants as part of the “Empower Makers” Global Impact Challenge. The program is a critical component of Stanley Black & Decker’s CSR program that includes a goal to empower 10 million makers by 2030.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Black & Veatch Federal Services Group Wins Share of $800M USAID Worldwide Contract

Black & Veatch announces today that it has won a share of a seven-year, $800 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for architectural, engineering and other services to support the growing global mission of USAID.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Alternative Dairy Processing: Four Key Challenges

Alternative dairy is growing fast. To grow with it, manufacturers need to overcome four key challenges.

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Diversity & Inclusion

PNC Bank Launches Project 257: Accelerating Women's Financial Equality

PNC Bank announces the launch of Project 257: Accelerating Women's Financial Equality, an initiative designed to help close the 257-year economic gender gap and expand on PNC's decades-long track record of supporting female financial decision makers.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Verizon Response: Hurricane Ida

Verizon and our vendor partners were able to restore fiber to the Hammond area and deploy portable assets to the Raceland area, so at this time, there are no longer any significant gaps in service anywhere throughout the storm-impacted areas in Louisiana.

Environment

Inogen Alliance 20 Year Celebration: Interview With Andreas Kopton

In this second video we hear about how Inogen Alliance expanded in the beginning from Andreas Kopton, HPC AG - The Engineering Company in Germany.

Green Infrastructure

The Ultimate Flexible Building

Think of a building: how’s it doing in the pandemic? Has it adapted well to a change in circumstances? Can you see it remaining useful and relevant for the foreseeable future?

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

How Hank Aaron Helped Others Keep Swinging

While many know Hank Aaron’s public baseball life, it’s this other side of him that’s being celebrated by the Atlanta Braves and Truist for Hank Aaron Week.

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Environment

Insights on the Economics of Soil Health on 100 Farms

The Soil Health Institute (SHI), the non-profit charged with safeguarding and enhancing the vitality and productivity of soils, will release its comprehensive report on the Economics of Soil Health on 100 Farms

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Environment

Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens Hosts Roundtable Addressing Climate Crisis in Africa, & Calls on the Uk Government to Increase Support Ahead of Cop26

Ahead of COP26, The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens organized a virtual roundtable assembling key government and industry leaders to discuss adaptation in combating the climate crisis.

Environment

SC Johnson Invites Londoners to Walk Beneath the Ocean's Surface in The Blue Paradox - An Immersive Experience Exploring the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis

SC Johnson is launching The Blue Paradox, an immersive educational experience with 360-degree digital projections.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

HACR Releases Results of 2021 Corporate Inclusion Index

Hispanic inclusion in Corporate America stalled or reversed course during 2020, according to the 2021 HACR Corporate Inclusion Index (CII) released today.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Tokyo 2020 Legacy Highlights Social and Environmental Benefits Created by the Games

Increased sports participation, stronger engagement and initiatives to create a more sustainable city have been highlighted as part of a series of legacy case studies published by

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Innovation & Technology

Envisionit Deep AI: Meet the Team Democratizing Access to Healthcare

The intrepid Envisionit Deep AI team was awarded one of this year’s $50,000 USD Second Runner-Up Prizes. Their AI solution called RADIFY can be used as a clinical decision support tool to assist the diagnosis of diseases with medical imaging.

Education

LG and Discovery Education to Launch 'Happiness in Action' Virtual Field Trip

LG’s Life’s Good: Experience Happiness program, in collaboration with Discovery Education, is launching “Happiness in Action,” a no-cost Virtual Field Trip dedicated to teaching students how to put the Six Sustainable Happiness Skills.

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    CARE Women’s Economic Justice works to increase women’s wealth by changing the system.

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    The Verizon Foundation serves as an incubator for exploring how our technical and human resources can be applied in new ways to the practical concerns...