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Merck Expands Access to High-Quality Maternal Care for More Than 30 Million Women Worldwide Through Merck for Mothers

3BL Media

For example, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation, Merck for Mothers created the Hear Her campaign to disseminate critical information on pregnancy and childbirth-related complications, reaching more than 1.5 million people to date across the campaign’s website and social media channels. Rahway, N.J.,

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Konnected embraces crowdfunding for an equity raise

Stacey Higginbotham

Unlike the startup’s previous crowdfunding campaigns, which were designed to raise money for building new products, this is an equity raise, with supporters getting stock in the six-year-old company. “It would be a different vibe and different business model if [Konnected] were led by a VC.”

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

COVID-19 will definitely change the world, and I truly hope that this will bring a new priority for sustainability topics. We as human beings and our planet are all connected. We’ve been able to shift many environmental projects’ approaches to the home-scale, like home gardens, yard tree plantings and home recycling campaigns. .

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Wartime Digital Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation

By Gulsanna Mamediieva Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, technology was already a growing part of the Ukrainian economy and was central to the government’s vision to reimagine the way citizens and businesses interact with the state in the digital era: paperless, cashless, and without bureaucracy.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, where companies find ample forests, lax business regulations, and ports along the Atlantic coast.

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Divesting from Russian Investments

Chris Hall

It’s also important for them to investigate the web of companies connected to those investments in their supply chains to see if those firms are in fact more directly linked to the funding or prosecuting of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Another is establishing the liquidity levels of those investments which enable rapid divestment.

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State of Corporate Conservation 2023: The Journey Towards Nature Positivity

3BL Media

As the only international NGO focused exclusively on enabling private sector action for nature, WHC has convened professionals working at the intersection of business and nature since 1990. At COP13, the business representation was small — Toyota and GM were present, and CEMEX led the way on a global Business and Biodiversity pledge.