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$1 Million Gift from KeyBank Foundation Supports Workforce Development at Albany Medical Center

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April 23, 2025 /3BL/ A $1 million gift from KeyBank Foundation will support recruitment, retention, and workforce development initiatives at Albany Medical Center. Funds will be used to develop the LEAP programLeading Employees to Advancement and em(P)owerment. ALBANY, N.Y., Albany Medical Centers LEAP program does just this.

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These 50 Canadian corporations are carving out a more sustainable future

Corporate Knights

The Best 50 ranking was first developed back in 2002 to track the sustainability journeys of Canada’s most environmentally and socially conscious companies. Look at Stantec (#2), for example. Not surprisingly, the industries most represented on the list are power-generation companies and power-transmission firms.

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Jimmy Carter and Southern Company: An Energized Bond

3BL Media

As Georgia governor, he played an instrumental role in the development of the Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act of 1973, which assigned territories for Georgia Power, co-ops and municipal utilities and established competition for major customers.

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

It also says it has installed capacity of around 28 megawatts of wind power and is developing photovoltaic plants with a planned capacity of approximately 58 MW. OeKB focuses on five service areas: export, capital markets, energy markets, development financing and tourism.

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Trade in Transition: South America Looks to Neutrality, Opportunity

3BL Media

Chinas Influence: A Double-Edged Sword Chinas economic footprint in South America has grown significantly, with bilateral trade increasing from $18 billion in 2002 to over $500 billion in 2024. This reflects the need for agility as global trade dynamics shift. Curious to learn more about South Americas trade dynamics?

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Productivity at the core: How COOs deliver strategy

McKinsey Sustainabilty

percent annually between 1997 and 2002 to 1.6 percent between 2002 and 2007. As with direct costs, foundational approaches to indirect-cost reduction center first on price or rate reduction, such as by developing preferred vendor relationships. Even before the crisis, advanced economies’ productivity growth receded from 2.2

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Reimagining Business Ownership in the Global South

Stanford Social Innovation

In Kenya, many decades of colonial exclusion of smallholder tea growers were reversed with the creation in the 1960s of what would become the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), the worlds second-largest tea exporter and one of Kenyas top foreign exchange earners, owned by over 600,000 tea growers.