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Entergy Tribal Scholarship Empowers American Indian Students Through Higher Education

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During a special event held at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Entergy partnered with the American Indian College Fund, or AICF, to award a grant in support of higher education for Native American students. Entergy's vision "We Power Life," extends beyond delivering essential energy service to our customers.

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Fitch Incorporates Low-Carbon Transition Risks Into Credit Scores

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In developing the assigned scores, Fitch is now incorporating its view of the creditworthiness impact on sectors, companies, and debt securities as the global society transitions to a lower-carbon economy between 2025 and 2050. The PRI launched the “Inevitable Policy Response” initiative in 2018. Click here to view the full issue.

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Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19

GreenBiz

I recently spoke with Richard Ellis, vice president of corporate social responsibility (CSR) at WBA, via Zoom. He noted that the virtual release event had the potential to reach the 450,000 people that the company employs, much more than was typical at in-person releases in the before times. How are you all doing that?

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CECP Summit: Purpose + Persistence

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Luis Cortés, Founder / CEO, Esperanza Kim Rice, Community Engagement Manager, Exelon Justin Joyner, Sustainability Lead, Freshpet Victoria Glazar, Managing Director, GE HealthCare Foundation Heidi Magyar, Executive Director of Corporate Giving, General Motors Lori Lampman, Chief Human Resources Officer, HARMAN International James D.

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MENTOR Announces the 2022 National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll

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Barb Short, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Sanofi US , said, “ At Sanofi, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive: to be healthy, to be an innovator, and to be part of a flourishing community. This work has helped inspire us to join the National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll.”.

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As corporate leaders pledge to embrace purpose beyond profit, are business schools keeping up?

Corporate Knights

Last fall, led by freshman dean Dana Brown, the Sprott School of Business at Ottawa’s Carleton University released a five-point plan for curricula upgrades, expanded research, and new partnerships with under-represented groups by 2025 to deliver “business for a better world.”.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. Rose Stuckey Kirk, Senior Vice President, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon. If we don’t work on both, we will succeed at neither." .