Month: April 2023

Up to 12 candidates pursuing associate or bachelor’s degrees in engineering to receive as much as $10k in scholarship funding and a paid summer internship with National Grid’s MA or NY businesses.Launched in 2022 to advance skill training opportunities and a clear pathway to employment in energy for underrepresented talent.Applications for the 2023-2024 academic year will be accepted from April 25 to May 22, 2023.

WALTHAM, MA and BROOKLYN, NY, April 25, 2023 /3BL Media/– Applications are now being accepted for National Grid’s “Charging Our Future” Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Engineering Scholarship Program for high school seniors and college students interested in pursuing engineering degrees and exploring rewarding careers in energy, the company announced today.

Now in its second year, the program has expanded to support more students from low- and moderate-income communities, awarding up to twelve candidates for the 2023-2024 academic year. Each selected candidate will receive as much as $10,000 in scholarship funding and a paid summer internship at one of National Grid’s Massachusetts or New York business locations.

“I’m proud that we continue to live our values at National Grid by expanding our DEI Engineering Scholarship Program to reach more aspiring engineers with better opportunities to drive innovation,” said Natalie Edwards, Chief Diversity Officer, National Grid. “To deliver a clean energy future for all, we must ensure our workforce represents the communities we serve and empower the leaders of tomorrow to bring new ideas and perspectives to the table. Reaching critical net zero goals requires an inclusive workforce that strongly values fresh approaches to ongoing challenges.”

Leading the transition to a clean, fair, and affordable energy future, National Grid is dedicated to investing in the next generation of industry professionals, providing individuals—particularly those from lower-income communities—with pathways to meaningful careers. The company places diversity, equity, and inclusion at the center of its operations, with a commitment to achieving 50% diversity in its senior leadership team and new talent programs by 2025, as outlined in its Responsible Business Charter.

DEI Engineering Scholarships were awarded to five students in 2022. Recipients are now gearing up for Summer 2023 internships—part of National Grid’s annual Gridtern Program—where they will put their education into practice on the job, network with peers, and volunteer in the local community. 

College freshman Miguel Leonarte says the program will enable him to apply new skills in a diverse, collaborative work environment.

“Coming from a small Latino community, I want to see more representation in the engineering field. The National Grid scholarship caught my attention because it’s oriented toward increasing diversity in engineering across Massachusetts,” said Leonarte. “While the monetary award reduces the financial burden of attending college, the internship program gives me the opportunity to receive hands-on experience alongside others in my field and get involved in projects that matter.”

National Grid is driving the clean energy transition in the Northeast U.S.—building a smarter, stronger, cleaner energy system by accelerating renewable generation, advancing fossil-free heating, and readying the transmission grid for a highly electrified future for all customers.

To be eligible for National Grid’s “Charging Our Future” DEI Engineering Scholarship Program, applicants must:

Come from a home with a household income of less than 80% of the HUD medianBe high school seniors or college students residing and attending school in Massachusetts or New YorkPlan to enroll or be enrolled in full-time undergraduate study at an accredited two- or four-year college or university for the entire 2023-2024 academic yearMajor in an engineering disciplineMaintain a cumulative GPA of 2.8 or aboveAccept a paid summer internship with National Grid in the summer of 2024

Awards are renewable for up to three additional years or until an undergraduate degree is earned, based on academic performance, full-time enrollment in an eligible major, and the completion of the summer internship program.

The deadline for applications is May 22, 2023. The program is administered by Scholarship America. Applications may be submitted at: https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/ng-chargingourfuture

About National Grid

National Grid (NYSE: NGG) is an electricity, natural gas, and clean energy delivery company serving more than 20 million people through our networks in New York and Massachusetts. National Grid is focused on building a path to a more affordable, reliable clean energy future through our fossil-free vision. National Grid is transforming our electricity and natural gas networks with smarter, cleaner, and more resilient energy solutions to meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 

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MIDLAND, Mich., April 25, 2023 /3BL Media/ – Dow (NYSE: DOW) has earned a place on the Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for the third consecutive year, moving up ten places from #99 last year to #89.

Dow is also the only materials science company to be recognized and one of only three manufacturing and production companies to make the list.

To determine the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Great Place To Work analyzed the anonymous survey responses of more than half a million employees from Great Place To Work Certified™ companies with at least 1,000 employees. Companies also submitted essays describing their efforts to offer generous and innovative support for their people, which were validated against employee survey responses.

“We are proud of this recognition which is based on direct feedback from our employees” said Jim Fitterling, Dow chairman and chief executive officer. “Being recognized again as a Great Place to Work is also an opportunity to continue to reflect on the responsibility we have to our people and our culture going forward, and ensuring we continue to raise the bar on enabling the best possible employee experience at Dow – which in turn enables better outcomes for all our stakeholders.”

Making the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list is highly competitive. Survey responses reflect a comprehensive picture of the workplace experience. Honorees were selected based on their ability to offer positive outcomes for employees regardless of job role, race, gender, sexual orientation, work status, or other demographic identifiers.

“This recognition is proof of the commitment from Team Dow to establish a workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all,” said Alveda Williams, Dow chief inclusion officer. “Our Company thrives because of Team Dow, and in order to realize our ambition, it is necessary to cultivate a culture where everyone can contribute their utmost potential.”

Dow has also been recognized by Great Place to Work® with certifications in several other countries around the world including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.

Additionally, Dow was named one of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” by FORTUNE in 2023, named “2022 PEOPLE Companies that Care®” for the 3rd consecutive year by Great Place to Work® and PEOPLE, and one of the “Best Workplaces in Manufacturing & Production™” by Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE in 2022.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth; asset integration and scale; focused innovation and materials science expertise; leading business positions; and environmental, social and governance leadership to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. The Company’s ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world. Dow’s portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated, science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Dow operates manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 37,800 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $57 billion in 2022. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.

About Great Place To Work®

Great Place To Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, we have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Our employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting, and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything we do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work for all.

Learn more at greatplacetowork.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

About Fortune

The Fortune mission is to change the world by making business better. We achieve that by providing trusted information, telling great stories, and building world-class communities. We measure performance by rigorous benchmarks. And we hold companies accountable. Our goal is to make Fortune a force for good through its second century and beyond. For more information, visit www.fortune.com.

For further information, please contact:

Kyle Bandlow
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kbandlow@dow.com

Nasdaq

After environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has moved into the mainstream over the past couple of years, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) is launching the WFE Green Equity Principles, a global framework for identifying and appointing shares as green. Nasdaq collaborated closely with the WFE and contributed to the development of this global framework from Nasdaq’s own Green Designations, a marker for equity issuers in our European markets to increase visibility and transparency toward investors looking for sustainable investments.

The WFE Green Equity Principles will enable exchanges to promote access to capital for issuers with primarily green activities, provide investors with more information to help in their investment decision-making, allow issuers to raise their profile among investors committed to sustainability and increase visibility of issuers’ green credentials and commitment to the green economy.

To qualify for the WFE Green Classification, issuers must meet certain criteria that falls under a definition based on five overarching pillars: 

RevenuesTaxonomyGovernanceAssessmentDisclosure

The criteria attached to these principles aim to counter greenwashing and support the flow of funding towards more sustainable economies.

Two years before the WFE established its Green Equity Principles, Nasdaq was ahead of the curve, launching its own Green Designations in 2021. While WFE’s Green Equity Principles are aligned with Nasdaq’s Green Designations, there are a few key differences.

The Nasdaq standard is slightly more rigorous as it also encourages companies to keep an elevated level of green investments. For its two designations, Nasdaq also has exclusion criteria for revenue from fossil fuels.  

Nasdaq’s Green Designations make space for companies in transition, currently investing to become green with the Green Equity Transition Designation.

Green Designations is just one of Nasdaq’s ESG offerings as Nasdaq has expanded its suite of solutions over the past few years, establishing itself as an active partner in every stage of our clients’ ESG journey.

In addition to Green Designations, Nasdaq provides an ESG advisory program for companies looking to create a defined, future forward ESG strategy, and software solutions that help companies parse through the many frameworks required to report out ESG initiatives to stakeholders, such as Nasdaq OneReport and our recent acquisition of Metrio. Nasdaq also owns a majority stake in Puro.earth, the world’s leading crediting platform for engineered carbon removal.

WFE’s work to bring a global minimum standard to green equity issuers addresses a critical demand in the ESG space, and Nasdaq believes market standardization will battle greenwashing while advancing the global effort toward green markets.