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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

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Addressing Workplace Burnout Amidst the War for Talent

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Innovation & Technology

Can We Reboot Office Buildings As Data Centers?

It is now almost universally accepted that we are not all going back to the office, at least not full time. So what does that mean for the proportion of commercial real estate that will be surplus to requirements?

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Owens Corning's Material Sustainability Topics

Our Material Topics represent our stakeholders’ priorities with consideration of our impacts, and they’re informed by the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Energy

Enbridge: Our Plan to Achieve Net Zero by 2050

At Enbridge, we encourage innovation at all levels of our organization, across and within all business units, through a structured framework that helps us gather and act on ideas.

Innovation & Technology

Cristiano Amon: 5G for a Digital and Sustainable Economy

For decades, Qualcomm has defined wireless innovation, creating fundamental inventions in many generations of mobile technologies and driving ever-improving speeds, security and latency.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Fifth Third Receives Energy Opportunist Award in Michigan for Environmental Sustainability Initiatives

The award recognized the results achieved from a significant energy reduction project at the Bank’s Corporate Service Center campus during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Grameen America Receives a $1.5 Million Grant From Truist Foundation to Empower Black Women Entrepreneurs

Grameen America, a nonprofit community development financial institution helping low-income women entrepreneurs build small businesses, announced today it has received a $1.5 million grant from Truist Foundation

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Events, Media & Communications

Land Betterment Corporation Attends Shaping Our Appalachia Region's 3rd Quarter Executive Meeting

Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”) announced that several team members attended Shaping Our Appalachia Region’s (SOAR) 3rd Quarter Executive Meeting on August 11t

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Environment

Faces of Acre - Working to protect our Oceans

In our latest Faces of Acre installment, we sat down with Jack Mulloy, Principal Consultant, Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing, to discuss his pro bono work as a business developer for the marine conservation charity Sea Shepherd.

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Diversity & Inclusion

M·A·C Cosmetics Tops Fashion Journal List of Makeup Brands With the Most Inclusive Foundation Shades

The human eye can see 10 million colours, But makeup brands are still trying to convince us that a foundation range of 25 shades is ‘diverse’.

Environment

SCE Funds New Academic Institute to Fight Wildfires

The western U.S. is in the throes of a severe drought as, more locally, California’s parched landscape finds residents bracing for another peak wildfire season.

Events, Media & Communications

ESG Fireside Chat: You, Me, and ESG - Uniting Sustainability and Finance

Sustainability leaders want to drive ESG reporting to meet stakeholder needs. Meanwhile, finance teams need to know that ESG data will be held to the same level of scrutiny as financial data in every disclosure.

Black & Veatch

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Black & Veatch Executive Jenn Shafer Named to Influential Kansas City Region Leadership Class

Jennifer “Jenn” Shafer, associate vice president and director of dispute resolution for Black & Veatch, has been named to the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City’s (CCGKC) latest “Kansas City Tomorrow” leadership class.

Health & Healthcare

Morgan Stanley Survey Reveals Nearly Half of U.S. Teens Are Concerned About Experiencing Anxiety in Returning to Regular Activities

Nearly half (48%) of U.S. teens are concerned about experiencing social anxiety in transitioning back to “normal” life, according to a new survey released today by the Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health (the “Alliance”).

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Principal Financial Group® Issues $600 Million Sustainability Bond

Principal Financial Group® issued its first sustainability bond on August 16 in the amount of $600 million as part of the company’s commitment to integrating and advancing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices and initiatives in its organization and operations.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Maybe One Day I Will Be a CEO - Natalia Liashenko

Natalia Liashenko, Director of the Home & Distribution department of Schneider Electric Ukraine, recounts her journey from daughter of two doctors in Ukraine to success at Schneider Electric.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

NRG Energy 2020 Sustainability Report: Employee Engagement

Building a culture of transparency by continuously engaging in dialogue between leaders and employees is important to us.

Green Infrastructure

All You Need to Know About Tokyo 2020 Sustainability

From the hydrogen-powered cauldron to medals made from recycled mobile phones, from gender balance to the first official Pride House, the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 are blazing a trail for the future. Here’s everything you need to know about how Tokyo 2020 is helping build a better, more sustainable world through sport.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Georgia-Pacific Employees Bike for Charity

Our GP employees "geared up" to participate in @VeloCityAtlanta to support @GradyHealth in the efforts to keep our Atlanta community strong.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Olivia Braga: Meet the Cisco Networking Academy Instructor Changing Lives in Brazil

There are those rare people you meet for the first time that you instantly know will touch your life. Olivia Braga is unequivocally one of those people.

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Research, Reports & Publications

onsemi Releases Annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report With an Expanded Triple Bottom Line Performance Summary

onsemi is proud to announce the release of its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, marking the eighth year of its publication.

Innovation & Technology

Celebrating 100 Inspiring Social Impact Stories With 100 GoodCarts Member Stores

“100 Stores, 100 Stories” highlights not just impact stores and their products, but the social issues each addresses as well as their one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial journeys. The stories go in-depth with videos, podcasts and advice for new founders.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Strengthening Resilience in Vulnerable Communities

Today, we're faced with the stark reality that natural disasters are more frequent and more devastating than ever, leaving many

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Franklin Templeton's Tom Deane, Recognized by Firm's Charity Partner As a 2021 Volunteer of the Year.

Congratulations to Franklin Templeton’s Tom Deane, who was recognized by Junior Achievement of Northern California (JA) as a 2021 Volunteer of the Year. The award recognizes contributions made to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

WSP USA's Tanya Adams Elected to COMTO National Board Chair

Tanya Adams, VP of inclusion & diversity at WSP USA, a leading engineering & professional services consultancy, has been elected chair of the National Board of Directors for the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO).

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Innovation & Technology

Rockwell Automation Advanced Tech Lead on Why Industrial Automation Matters for U.S. Economy

rom bottle manufacturing to machine repair, automation has made just about every industry more efficient and adaptive to consumer demands.

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