3BL Media

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Fifth Third employee Robert Stewart, a financial center manager at the Turkey Lake branch, nominated Delight Nails & Spa by posting on his LinkedIn profile. Our list of firsts is extensive, and it’s one that continues to expand as we explore the intersection of tech-driven innovation, dedicated people and focused community impact.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 14, 2023

This year’s 2022 Global Commons Stewardship (GCS) Index (3 rd edition) provides the latest information on countries’ domestic and international spillover impacts on the Global Commons. Demand for clothing, textiles, and construction materials drives most greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions spillovers.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A key element of the strategy is the “Climate Impact Assessment and Monitoring Framework,” which ensures high transparency and targets direct CO2 savings of an estimated 10 million tons over the entire lifetime of the investments.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

We’ve put together a primer to explain how these changes may impact organizations and municipalities that require NPDES permits for stormwater discharge management. Impact on various entities Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) Permits These permits apply to certain municipal storm sewer systems.

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ESG Today

JUNE 5, 2023

Key sources of greenwashing risk identified by the regulators included claims about sustainability impact and company engagement made by asset managers, litigation risk related to misleading ESG claims made by banks, and misleading product claims by pension and insurance providers.

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3BL Media

JUNE 24, 2022

Public/private partnership expands access to comprehensive genomic profiling to improve patient care and advance drug discovery. We picked up many patients who had nowhere else to go for genomic profiling or clinical trials.”. SOURCE: Illumina. We also had a disproportionate number of pancreas, lung, and brain cancer patients.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 5, 2022

They come in common chip flavors like classic sea salt, BBQ, and salt & vinegar. 46% of US consumers say understanding how their purchase impacts the environment would encourage them to buy eco-friendly products. (Source: Datassential Fresh & Frozen foods at Retail). Source: GlobalData 2021 Q3 Consumer Survey Mexico, Canada).

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Fineberg of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation penned an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle, lamenting philanthropy’s inability to join forces to amplify and expedite impact. Users could see which Commons member submitted the opportunity and then be put in touch directly with the nonprofit.

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3BL Media

JULY 1, 2022

It’s a day to profile the best, brightest and bravest women in engineering—the inventors and innovators who dare to be part of the solution and are helping to build a brighter future in their roles as engineers. When I was getting my undergrad, it was very common to be one of the only ones, so I was used to it,” Tyler says.

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Cisco CSR

AUGUST 9, 2022

The purpose of this blog is to assist our IT based customers and partners with a concise and high level understanding of the FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool and derivative impacts on their current and future day to day operations. The inherent risk profile is an institution’s analysis of its key technologies and operations.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2022

Principles for banks and financial supervisors aim to strike balance between improving practices and providing common baseline. They should also consider adjusting their compensation policies to align with new strategies and capital planning needed to cope with climate change risks.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

About NMSDC Founded in 1972, NMSDC is the longest-operating business growth engine for the broadest group of systematically excluded communities of color (Asian-Indian, Asian-Pacific, Black, Hispanic, and Native American), and our impact goes far beyond the supply chain. Tracey Wallace, Profile Building Services. Brennon Smith Sr.,

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2022

Results highlight need for institutions to use common assumptions, refine analysis of individual companies and enhance methodologies. The exercise was conducted in cooperation with three major banks and three major non-life insurance groups, using scenarios published by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) as common scenarios.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Typos and misspelled words are common signs that an email could be a scam. The holiday season is a good time to revisit your security pins and passwords, not only for your financial accounts, but also any account or profile page containing your card or banking information. Watch out for text and phone scams. Secure your information.

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ESG Today

MARCH 14, 2023

The announcement follows the acquisition last year by Mirova of SunFunder , an emerging markets and blended finance-focused renewable energy finance provider and impact investor.

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Cisco CSR

APRIL 1, 2022

The table below shows some common resource types and the typical factors that affect pricing: Environments. The key to cloud cost optimization is to adopt a holistic view of your total application landscape to find the resources it needs and profile its usage patterns. Intersight streamlines deployments by using server profiles.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million students in its mission to support the next generation of diverse STEM solution-seekers, the Coalition presents a robust array of career profiles featuring diverse leaders across various industries and job roles. Building on the achievement of reaching 4.5

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This is just one sign of the impact COVID lockdowns had on low-income communities around the world — and it offers a glimpse into the coping strategies these vulnerable households must employ to respond to financial shocks. Plans to save more are more common among people with less than 10% probability of poverty.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Put another way, a company’s sustainability profile increasingly may be baked into its stock price and creditworthiness, possibly affecting the cost of capital it may need for growth. In other words, the leading edge of sustainable business is shifting from companies having inadvertently negative impacts to having deliberately positive ones.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Testing with PrismRA Scipher's PrismRA test analyzes RA patients' molecular profiles to identify those unlikely to respond to TNF inhibitors. This relationship will significantly expand the availability and make an impact on patients suffering from RA." Gardner, Senior Vice President, Molecular Genomics and Oncology, Quest Diagnostics.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It has a number of key pillars: leading in more sustainably-sourced key ingredients, pioneering approaches that holistically help tackle root issues, helping to drive sector-wide transformation through collaboration, and sharing and learning from impact data assessing the positive progress made by our programs.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Launched last year, CIDF aims to support sustainable low-carbon economic development in developing countries in South and Southeast Asia, offering grants to high-impact projects that can have direct and measurable positive climate-related outcomes, including both climate mitigation and adaptation.

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By Annie Neimand Organizations want to tell stories about their impact to ensure people understand what they do, why they do it, and why they should continue to be funded to do it. Instead, organizations sharing about their impact can feel like social change-y Mad Libs. “We

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Chris Hall

MAY 5, 2023

Despite regular calls for restraint by pension funds and investment managers , shareholder rebellions on pay are far from common in the UK – but not unheard of, as Pearson and Unilever can attest. Meanwhile, rumours abound of a further delay to the introduction – and possible reduction in scope – of US climate disclosure rules.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The FCA finalised the four new labels – focus, improvers, impact and mixed goals – for UK sustainability-focused funds last year as part of its work to limit greenwashing. It’s not easy to classify these strategies as either ‘impact’, ‘improver’ or ‘focus’ funds,” she told ESG Investor.

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is particularly important in social impact, where we need evidence to make decisions related to policy, funding, and programs, so we can solve intractable problems. This is the goal of a new field we call impact science. We set out to answer the following questions: What are the foundational principles of Impact Science?

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3BL Media

JUNE 15, 2022

From “she/her/hers” and “he/him/his” to the non-binary “they/them/theirs” and “ze/zir/zirs,” pronouns now appear on email signatures, Zoom screens, business cards, name tags, LinkedIn profiles, and more. To help get the discussions started, below are some common questions and expert feedback.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The next focused more deeply on the rising profile of social factors, driven partly by the development of the sustainable investment regulations and frameworks around the global. Similarly, the authors argued that the results achieved could be extrapolated to other sectors.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The most successful companies of the next decade may all share one common trait: a purpose, or reason for being, beyond profits, that is activated. And the companies and investment funds that already had strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) profiles outperformed the S&P 500 amidst COVID-19. school districts.

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Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Just as greenwashing can negatively impact reputation, consumers are also looking for sustainable practices that span all organizational operations. This means that technology manufacturers need to demonstrate ethical behavior throughout all their relationships, as well as developing products that minimize environmental impact.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The complexity of tracking and tracing all these ingredients can obscure detrimental environmental and social impacts, from pollution to bribery to slavery. It is also common in skincare products, particularly those marketed as brightening or illuminating, and is used as a bulking agent and to increase viscosity. "The

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3BL Media

MARCH 4, 2024

All impacted companies and organizations are expected to understand, have implemented, and be compliant with the SOE final rule by that date. Who is impacted? The USDA expects that the new SOE rule will impact all producers, processors, handlers of organic products, and all organic certifying agents and inspectors.

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B the Change

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2007, we knew about Ben & Jerry’s, Patagonia, and a handful of other high-profile companies that saw business as a tool for social and environmental change. Each and every B Corp leader I’ve met believes that they are making a positive impact with their business. There are a lot more of us than we thought.

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James Militzer

MARCH 30, 2022

But lately, its applications have been growing in the region, and there has been an increase in the use of behavioral science to address problems impacting financial inclusion and other social needs. We’ll explore this program and its impact – and share some lessons it has generated – below. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The way in which companies use fish feed and care for animals largely determines their ESG risk profile, according to Mosnier. “In Meanwhile, impact-focused investment management firm Snowball sees investment opportunities in data-driven aquaculture.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Grameen Bank and BRAC had in common a deep commitment to the very poor, especially women. For those who, like me, have long known the origins of Grameen Bank, the appeal of this book is in the people it profiles. The women profiled in “Small Loans, Big Dreams” show that they can.

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3BL Media

MARCH 7, 2022

AVNRT is one of the most common forms of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) and causes a very rapid and life-threatening abnormal heart rhythm. This poses a tremendous burden on a patient’s life and can impact cognitive and emotional development. “I That nurse will never know it, but he impacted who I wanted to be.”.

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