Month: August 2023

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Now in its third year, Comcast RISE celebrates providing more than $125 million in total monetary, marketing, and technology grants to strengthen and empower small businesses.In 2023, 500 small Businesses in Baltimore, Detroit, Memphis, Philadelphia, and Portland, OR were awarded comprehensive grant packages.

NEW YORK, August 31, 2023 /3BL/ – Comcast announced 500 additional small business recipients that will receive comprehensive grant packages that include business consultation services, educational resources, a $5,000 monetary grant, creative production, media schedule, and a technology makeover.

The distribution of these grants in five new cities is part of Comcast’s ongoing commitment to supporting the growth of all small businesses, while advancing the objectives of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and community investment. Comcast RISE was created to help businesses and their communities thrive, with a focus on economic growth.

The cities in this round included Baltimore, Detroit, Memphis, Philadelphia, and Portland, OR. A total of 100 grants per city, or 500 grants overall, were announced today and will be awarded in September 2023, bringing the total number of recipients to date to 13,500.

“During the past two and a half years, we have listened to feedback and taken the learnings from this program and have found new ways to further empower and strengthen even more small businesses and entrepreneurs, who are the backbone of our economy and local communities,” said Loren Hudson, SVP and Chief Diversity Officer for Comcast Cable.

By offering grant packages that include complimentary marketing, technology, financial grants, business consulting, entrepreneurship training, we can further our efforts to positively impact small businesses, into 2024 and beyond, and help them to shift from pandemic recovery to long-term growth.

LOREN HUDSON

SVP and Chief Diversity Officer for Comcast Cable

Comcast RISE stands for Representation, Investment, Strength, and Empowerment. Comcast RISE was created in November 2020 to help small businesses hardest hit by COVID-19, from bakeries and barber shops to childcare centers and cleaning services, by providing the grants needed to survive and recover. The program has evolved from helping businesses survive the pandemic, to helping businesses and their communities achieve stronger economic growth.

The grant packages include:

CONSULTATION – Assessment of business and tactical planning; business to business coaching; and mentorship to advise on how to grow business.EDUCATION RESOURCES – Educational content and resources tailored specifically for entrepreneurs.MONETARY GRANT – $5,000 monetary grant to invest in growth and sustainability.CREATIVE PRODUCTION & MEDIA – Production of a 30-second TV commercial, plus a media strategy consultation and a 180-day media placement schedule.TECHNOLOGY MAKEOVER – Computer equipment and Internet, Voice and Cybersecurity services for 12 months.

In addition, any small business owner can visit the Comcast RISE destination on the X1 platform featuring aggregated small business news, tips, insights, and more. Just say “Comcast RISE” into the X1 voice remote.

Comcast RISE is part of Project UP, the company’s comprehensive initiative to advance digital equity and help build a future of unlimited possibilities.

More information is available at www.ComcastRISE.com.

August 31, 2023 /3BL/ – Clarion Partners is proud to announce we have committed to the voluntary CFA Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Code for Investment Professionals in the United States and Canada (“DEI Code”). Launched in February 2022, the DEI Code provides investment industry organizations with an action-oriented and principles-based framework through which to drive measurable and meaningful change concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion within organizations.

As a DEI Code signatory, Clarion Partners commits to six Principles that seek to drive DEI progress as it relates to the talent pipeline, staff acquisition, promotion and retention, leadership, influence, and measurement. In addition, signatories commit to accelerating and amplifying the impact of their commitment by making the economic, business, and moral case for DEI within the investment industry.

David Gilbert, CEO of Clarion Partners, comments: “At Clarion Partners, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral to our success. Our endorsement of the CFA DEI Code serves as a public affirmation of our dedication to accountability and progress. We are not only building a stronger Firm but also supporting broader evolution in the commercial real estate industry.”

Sarah Maynard, ASIP, Global Head of External Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at the CFA Institute comments: “In working together to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the investment industry, signatory organizations are making clear their public commitment to delivering on the work and change that they need to do to participate meaningfully in this effort. I’m delighted to welcome Clarion Partners to the growing number of organizations committed to the principles of the DEI Code.”

To view the DEI Code for the Investment Profession and accompanying materials, visit: cfainstitute.org/deicode.

About Clarion Partners, LLC 

Clarion Partners, LLC, has been a leading real estate investment manager for over 40 years. Headquartered in New York, the firm maintains strategically located offices across the United States and Europe. With more than $81.6 billion in total real estate and debt assets under management, Clarion Partners offers a broad range of real estate strategies across the risk/return spectrum to approximately 500 institutional investors across the globe. Clarion Partners is an independent subsidiary of Franklin Templeton. More information about the firm is available at www.clarionpartners.com.

About Franklin Templeton 
Franklin Resources, Inc. [NYSE:BEN] is a global investment management organization with subsidiaries operating as Franklin Templeton and serving clients in over 150 countries. Franklin Templeton’s mission is to help clients achieve better outcomes through investment management expertise, wealth management and technology solutions. Through its specialist investment managers, the company offers specialization on a global scale, bringing extensive capabilities in fixed income, equity, alternatives and multi-asset solutions. With more than 1,300 investment professionals, and offices in major financial markets around the world, the California-based company has over 75 years of investment experience and over $1.4 trillion in assets under management as of July 31, 2023. For more information, please visit franklintempleton.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Originally published on GoDaddy Life

What’s your story? Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do here at GoDaddy.

My name is Daniel Shafer and I am currently residing in Boise, Idaho. I have a strong passion for computers, and I am also a single dad to a sixteen year old, daughter. I have three cats, and one grand-pup. I started at GoDaddy on July 13th, 2020. I am currently a Site Reliability Engineer Supervisor for the DRI (Domains Registrar and Investors) organization. I manage a team of SREs that support the infrastructure for almost all of the domains organization. I bought myself a 2022 Chevrolet Camaro 2SS Convertible when I got promoted to Supervisor as a gift for myself!

You’ve wanted to work at GoDaddy since you were sixteen! How did this dream originate?

I have been interested in computers since I was about eight years old. In 2002, I took a web design course in high school which sparked my interested in web hosting companies. I was only sixteen at the time. This led me down a path of learning Unix based operating systems, web languages, and different domain and hosting providers. My first order on my personal GoDaddy account shows 7/22/2004, which is when I was just eighteen. Before then, my orders were with a parent owned account! Over time, I learned to idolize the company. I loved the brand, the mission, and the technology used. I just felt it would be a fun company to work for. I never imagined I’d actually work for GoDaddy, let alone be a Supervisor to a team!

What’s the most challenging yet rewarding thing that you’ve worked on at GoDaddy?

My current project has been the most challenging and rewarding, honestly. I am currently working on standing up a whole new monitoring system for all of DRI’s services and infrastructure. I’ve had to present to senior leadership, write a lot of automation and code, and delegate and plan tasks for my team related to it. It’s been a few months in the making, but we are getting to the point of wrapping things up. I am very proud of myself for this project, as it has challenged me to think different than I normally would and find better solutions for problems we were facing.

Do you have any advise for someone who is interested in a career at GoDaddy?

Being someone who has interviewed a lot of people, don’t try and pretend — just be who are you. Continue to grow your experiences. Whatever you do, do not doubt yourself. I suffer from strong imposter syndrome. I doubt myself all the time. However, with everything I’ve done for the company and my team, I do hold a lot of pride for my work. I got hired as a contractor after a single fifteen minute interview, and one a half years later, was converted to a full-time employee. Recently, I celebrated three years with the company.

What’s your personal mantra?

I believe in choosing a career that you have a passion in. This allows you to really take pride, dedication, and care for the work that you do.

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Cummins

COLUMBUS, Ind., August 31, 2023 /3BL/ – Cummins Inc. has posted its 20th annual Sustainability Progress Report, disclosing reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and water consumption while establishing the foundation for progress on other 2030 environmental goals.

In addition, the global power technology leader reported steady progress on the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, including a program addressing systemic discrimination against the Black community in the United States. The report also details the promising start to an initiative addressing the global water crisis, and the continued rebound in employee volunteerism since the outset of the global covid-19 pandemic.

Cummins made these advances, and more, while also achieving record revenues of $28.1 billion in 2022, and completing the acquisition of Meritor Inc., the largest acquisition in company history. Cummins also concluded the transition from former Chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger to Cummins’ first female chief executive, Chair and CEO Jennifer Rumsey, earlier this year.

“I believe there is no company better positioned than Cummins to make a lasting positive impact on our world,” Rumsey says in concluding her essay that opens the 2022-2023 report.

Cummins powers some of the world’s most demanding and economically vital applications, from trucks, trains, and buses to agricultural and construction equipment, watercraft, and generators providing emergency power to hospitals, data centers and more.

The company has vowed to be a leader on climate action and considers the effort to decarbonize the global commercial power industry a growth opportunity. The technology leader believes diversity, equity and inclusion is critical to establishing the right work environment for success.

Cummins’ report, which is divided into three sections covering the Environment, Social, and Governance and Economics, is available in Cummins’ Sustainability Document Archive.

Visitors can also find the company’s 2023 Human Capital Management Report, its 2023 report to the framework established by the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, and assurance statements on key environmental, social and governance data in the company’s 2022-2023 report.