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We're proud to have contributed to this milestone announced by the World Health Organization - marking the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) as a public health problem in Bangladesh.
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Gildan’s Approach to Worker Well-Being Beyond Occupational Health Safety Tue, 05/02/2023 - 10:30 Type of Content Article Layout Standard Format Body Leading apparel manufacturing company, Gildan, understands the responsibility that comes with taking care of its global workforce with over 50,000 employees. Ensuring safe working conditions for factory employees has been a longstanding priority at the Company, and a cornerstone of Gildan’s culture. In the garment industry, physical and workplace sa
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- Initiative brings together start-ups with world-leading manufacturers.
- Companies will be working on innovative ways to make low carbon concrete.
- Follows success of first Open Challenge which focused on carbon capture.
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In celebration of International Women’s Day, global education organization Room to Read today announced She Creates Change, the first nonprofit-led animation and live action film project to promote gender equality through the stories of young women around the world. The multi-media initiative — which in addition to a six-episode film series also includes books and audio stories — boldly aims to reach all 432 million adolescent girls (ages 12-18) in the world with content and educational curricul
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For a half century, a nonprofit in Santa Ana, California, has been working alongside people living in material poverty to effectively transform their communities. Concern America, established by volunteers, was initially focused on supporting food and education centers in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Since then, the organization has extended its mission of transforming need into self-sufficiency to other communities around the world. Today, Concern America works in isolated regions where civil w
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Gildan has extended its partnership with Room to Read in Bangladesh, an organization which aims to reduce the gender gap in education, and make literacy and education accessible to girls and young women.
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Amazon commits $53 million to accelerate women’s climate innovation and gender equity advancements
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Illumina and the Illumina Corporate Foundation have provided a grant to the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF), a Bangladeshi nonprofit that promotes public health and STEM education. The grant, worth over $300,000, includes cash and in-kind product.
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Companies Need To Invest in Water and Toilets To Drive Health, Wealth and Business Tue, 08/23/2022 - 16:20 Subheader WaterAid reveals the major benefits of investing in clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene in workplaces and employees’ communities Type of Content Press Release Layout Featured Media Body August 23, 2022 /3BL Media/ - First-of-its-kind research released today by WaterAid shows when companies invest in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for their employees, their business
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Armory Square Ventures, a technology venture capital firm operating across New York State, announced its launch today of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation. The new annual prize awards a talented literary translator with book publication. The winning manuscript, selected by a jury of peers, will be a translation of a literary work from one South Asian language into English. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire
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Gildan is pleased to share that the Company has signed an 18-month long partnership with World Vision Bangladesh representing an investment of US $52,000 to support the economic empowerment of women in the community.
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Eastman Exports, TTCU, AFWA, and GLJ – ILRF, along with H&M Group, announce the Dindigul Agreement to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence and Harassment.
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Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), announced today that it is honored to be joining Futures and Options for its 11th Annual Dream Big – A Celebration of Opportunity gala tonight. The Dream Big event will honor the nonprofit’s 2021 scholarship winners and finalists, as well as all of the New York City youth who have overcome barriers and gained firsthand workforce experience that will prepare them to pursue a higher education and future career. The event will also recognize Rodney O. Martin, Jr.,
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Released in Conjunction with #WorldFoodDay, Initiative’s Second Year Results Underscore Critical Need for Healthy Food Resources
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Over the past decade, Gildan’s vertically integrated facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh has been setting the bar in the region’s garment manufacturing industry.
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Room to Read mobilizes capital and resources in response to education crisis as latest wave of COVID-19 keeps kids from learning.
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New analysis by leading sustainability standards setter Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has found that sustainability reporting is on the rise in three South Asian countries – India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
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MetLife Foundation announced today that it is donating USD1.5 million to fund targeted support in India and Bangladesh as both countries struggle to cope with the devastating wave of COVID-19 cases.
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Facedrive Inc. (“Facedrive” or the “Company”) (TSXV:FD) (OTCQX:FDVRF), a Canadian “people-and-planet first” tech ecosystem is pleased to provide this general corporate update and growth report as at the completion of the first fiscal quarter of 2021. Facedrive is a multi-faceted “people-and-planet first” tech ecosystem offering socially-responsible services to local communities with a strong commitment to doing business fairly, equitably and sustainably. As part of this commitment, Facedrive’s v
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SOURCE: VF Corporation DESCRIPTION:VF’s extended supply chain supports the livelihood of more than six million people as part of the company’s commitment to enhance the ability of its workers to live their most fulfilling lives. With nearly one million people making, moving or selling VF products every day via a complex supply chain spanning across 40 countries worldwide, that commitment is, well…ambitious. Especially when you consider that many workers are located in countries where the laws, re
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Recap of CSR stories on Business Wire
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For the rest of 2021, $1 from every Facedrive TraceSCAN device purchase will contribute to Plan International Canada’s campaign to raise $900,000 with a 6:1 GAC matching for a total of $6.3M to end child marriage in Bangladesh
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The Better Life Farming Alliance (BLFA), Bayer’s global, multi-stakeholder partnership model that provides holistic and innovative solutions for smallholder farmers in developing economies, has launched in Bangladesh and Indonesia.
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Grants will support community-focused organizations in Bangladesh, Colombia, and Senegal
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New report shows continued global impact of social marketing in providing women and couples with access to high-quality contraceptives and family planning
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Atiqua Hashem Joins the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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CNH Industrial India has emerged as the first company in India to export 100 agricultural tractors to Bangladesh in an inaugural run of a freight train from the Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Dadri, India which started on September 2.
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In Bangladesh, there is a distinct disparity between girls and boys in the school system, which is why Gildan has leveraged its resources to support an important initiative that aims to help Bangladeshi girls get the education they need
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The Company Pledges $100,000 to The Hunger Project, Dedicated the Month of May to Women and Hunger
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The VF Foundation donation of $100,000 to garment workers in Bangladesh is providing a safety net for thousands of families affected by factory shutdowns precipitated by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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“The Humanity Fund contribution will make a huge difference in the lives of 750 families who will receive food packages and medical kits.”
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An engagement program with stock exchanges and regulators in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh is enabling GRI to support more listed companies to improve how they report on their sustainability impacts.
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The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation today announced plans to donate much-needed medical supplies to 10 more countries in Asia.
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Today, Lily shares the impact that one of Gildan’s professional development programs has had on her and discusses the importance of supporting women’s development in Bangladesh.\r
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In the HERfinance Digital Wages program in Bangladesh, a tangible connection was found between tailoring programs to women’s needs and an increase in women’s financial inclusion and empowerment.
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Herbalife Nutrition (NYSE: HLF), a premier global nutrition company, along with the Herbalife Nutrition Foundation (HNF), today announced that it has a new nonprofit partner, The Hunger Project, under its Nutrition for Zero Hunger (NFZH) initiative. The Foundation has made an initial donation of $30,000 to fund the organization’s women-centered, community-led development and educational programs. Together they will invest in rural communities around the world affected by food insecurity and maln
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Two winners were selected by a panel of experts that included Mr. Tommy Hilfiger, Daniel Grieder, CEO, Tommy Hilfiger Global and PVH Europe, and Noor Tagouri, Journalist, Activist and Speaker
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Tommy Hilfiger, which is owned by PVH Corp. [NYSE: PVH], announces the six finalists in the 2019 Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge. Now in its second year, the global program aims to support entrepreneurial start-up and scale-up businesses developing solutions that promote inclusive and positive change in fashion. The selection of finalists is a next step in the journey to identify and champion innovative opportunities that support the advancement of the industry. On February 13, 2020, t
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Led by the Zayed Sustainability Prize
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Advancing global progress towards the UN SDGs, a range of technologies and solutions will be deployed to empower vulnerable communities in 20 countries, by the end of 2020
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Aiming to widen the global reach and accessibility of impactful sustainability solutions and innovations, the collaborative initiative builds on the UAE’s leading global role in humanitarianism and sustainability, and champions the values of inclusiveness and compassion outlined in the UAE’s Year of Tolerance
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Solutions and technologies being donated, were developed by Zayed Sustainability Prize winners and finalists across its Health, Food, Energy and Water categories
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This funding has enabled Mercy Corps to address ongoing and urgent longer-term water and sanitation needs in Cox’s Bazaar going in to the most recent monsoon season, helping more than 20,000 people with improved water and hygiene access.
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This is Bank of America’s first locally denominated loan for commercial and industrial solar financing in India as part of its global Environmental Business Initiative, which will help expand Fourth Partner’s distributed solar impact
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New goals are part of the latest Made for Change Sustainability & Responsibility Report
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PVH continues to support early childhood development and early learning programs around the world
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Eurofins acquires AQM expanding its excellence in inspection and audits, Corporate Social Responsibility and brand protection.
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Takeda’s founding mission to serve patients, wherever they are, drives its increased commitments to disease prevention, capacity building, and access to healthcare in developing and emerging countries, in partnership with the global community.
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Through its annual Global CSR Program, approximately 20,000 employees worldwide cast their votes, selecting City Cancer Challenge, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), SeriousFun Children’s Network, UNICEF, and the UN Foundation as 2019 partners.
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With these programs, Takeda's contributions through its unique Global CSR Program total 10.5 billion yen for a total of 14 programs since its 2016 launch.
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Today, 2.3 billion people – or one in three people worldwide - still do not have access to basic sanitation. As a leading company in sanitary ware, LIXIL has incorporated design and technology to solve real consumer needs in all of its bathroom products, but it is also dedicated to improving accessibility to basic sanitation as an opportunity to solve one of the world’s greatest challenges, and to do so sustainably by helping to develop a future market. Establishing Global Sanitation & Hygien
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Gavi, NEC, and Simprints to deploy world’s first scalable child fingerprint identification solution to boost immunization in developing countries
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As Mother’s Day Approaches, ‘Save Our Moms’ Campaign Launches Across
MTV and MTV News on All Platforms
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According to Women’s World Banking, “Women in Bangladesh have the highest-ever rates of literacy and employment, and the country’s economy is growing. Financial inclusion now stands at more than 50 percent, nearly doubling in the past few years. But the financial inclusion gender gap is growing rapidly too, with fewer than half of women accessing or using formal financial services.”
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Inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance Report (ESG) outlines
how Walmart drives change in the industry and creates shared value
Retailer achieves significant progress in ESG efforts, including 93
million metric ton reduction of supplier emissionsi
and 6.1% reduction in Scopes 1 and 2 annual greenhouse gas emissions in
2017ii