Month: June 2024

MIDLAND, Mich., June 11, 2024 /3BL/ – Dow (NYSE: DOW) advanced to the #3 placement on the Fair360 2024 Top 50 Companies list and remains in the top 10 for the second consecutive year.

The Fair360, formerly DiversityInc, Top 50 Companies list has been the external validator for large U.S. employers that model fairness in their talent strategies, workplace and supplier diversity practices, and philanthropic engagement since 2001.

This ranking highlights the Company’s commitment in six key areas: leadership accountability, human capital diversity, talent programs, workplace practices, supplier diversity and philanthropy. This year, 160 employers, with approximately 7.3 million U.S. employees, submitted data and metrics.

“At Dow, we work to create a culture with equity and inclusion at its core,” said Jim Fitterling, Dow chair and CEO. “When we excel in the key areas Fair360 measures, we create an environment where Team Dow can thrive which leads to innovation and business success.”

Dow was also included on 12 of Fair360’s Specialty Lists: Top Companies for Executive Fairness Councils #1, Top Companies for Board of Directors #16, Top Companies for Environmental, Social & Governance #5, Top Companies for Philanthropy #5, Top Companies for Supplier Fairness #6, Top Companies for Employee Resource Groups #3, Top Companies for Mentoring #15, Top Companies for Sponsorship #4, Top Companies for People With Disabilities #2, Top Companies for Latino Executives #18, Top Companies for Asian American Executives #20 and Top Companies for LGBTQ+ Employees #17.

To create the 2024 specialty lists, survey submissions from employers with at least 750 employees in the U.S. were assessed within the context of their industries on verified policies, practices and procedures.

“Advancing to the #3 spot on the Top 50 Companies List and Specialty Lists is an honor and a testament to our consistent efforts to create a better Dow,” said Alveda J. Williams, Ph.D, Dow chief inclusion officer. “I extend a heartfelt thank you to our teams around the world who work hard every day to advance inclusion, diversity and equity at our Company.”

This Fair360 ranking is among other recent Dow recognitions including Great Place To Work® and Fortune‘s 100 Best Companies to Work For®, a top score in LGBTQ+ equality in Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index and a Leading Disability Employer Seal from the National Organization on Disability (NOD). Additionally, for the first time in 2023, Dow was named a Great Place To Work® and Fortune World’s Best Workplace.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.

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Inogen Alliance is thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of a new podcast, Rethinking EHS: Global Goals. Local Delivery.

The key to a sustainable future lies in our ability to coordinate global efforts built on the foundation of local expertise. So how can those of us passionate about protecting planet and people harness this knowledge and turn it into practical solutions on a worldwide scale?

On this podcast, we’ll traverse the globe to unearth the stories of EHS and sustainability communities making an impact on the ground. We’ll share compelling stories, expert insights, and diverse perspectives to highlight tangible solutions and share innovative strategies to drive change. Whether you’re an EHS practitioner, a sustainability specialist, or a leader striving to improve your organization, join us, as we explore the path forward and Rethink EHS.

Our Associate Sponsors of this podcast include: Anew Global Consulting Limited, ANTEA Brasil, Antea Group USA, Ayrton Group, Baden Consulting, denxpert EHS&S software , EnviroSolutions & Consulting , HPC AG, Sustainera Solutions and Tonkin + Taylor.

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The Food Is Medicine Coalition (FIMC) is a national collective of non-profit organizations across the United States that has provided medically tailored meal (MTM) and medically tailored grocery (MTG) services built on the power of food and community for almost 40 years. Grounded in the latest nutrition and medical science, FIMC agencies created the MTM intervention in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, recognizing the tailored nutrition needs of individuals experiencing chronic, severe, and life-threatening illness. Over nearly the past four decades, FIMC experienced unprecedented growth in the demand for MTM and a concurrent need for standardized best practices across the expanding MTM sector. As a coalition of leading MTM service providers in the nation, FIMC realized the urgency of defining their foundational intervention, which has been shown to improve client health outcomes and community resilience. With this in mind, FIMC set out to describe this life-saving service and, in the process, establish the standards necessary to spearhead a future of equity and quality for the MTM intervention.

The Challenge: The Need for Standardization in MTM

The concept of food is medicine has gained increasing attention over the past decade, based on compelling research conducted on the Coalition and by other scientists across the nation. This research, along with the unique challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and an ongoing domestic focus on healthcare reform, led FIMC to search for a way to codify the power of MTMs as a clinical health intervention.

Identifying and measuring the specific yet diverse functions, customized services, and components of care offered through FIMC agencies presented opportunities and challenges. With agencies spread across the United States — each of which grew organically to meet the precise needs of their communities — FIMC’s approach to standardization had to span differences in cultures, geography, agency size, staff capacity, and access to resources.

Further, as mission-based, non-profit organizations, FIMC agencies were focused on qualifying and quantifying the wrap around services that community-based organizations offer, which go beyond meal delivery. To address these variables, FIMC focused its standard development efforts on formalizing best practices across the MTM landscape — not only to maintain the integrity of this essential work, but also to ensure that meeting client clinical health needs and ensuring community responsiveness remain the primary focus of the intervention.

Solutions Provided

FIMC needed to standardize and make auditable the best practices and science- based guidelines that have served as the foundation of its agencies’ work. The most challenging piece was the need to define and transform an ethic of care into specific and measurable requirements. FIMC turned to SCS Standards (SCS) to support its client- and community-centered approach and to facilitate a process to drive standards development and implementation.

SCS facilitated iterative conversations that built trust, underscored FIMC authority, and honored the heart and mission of this vital work. Through these constructive discussions, SCS drafted a formalized standard — the FIMC Medically Tailored Meal Intervention Accreditation Criteria and Requirements (ACR) — and worked with the Coalition team, offering expert insights and facilitation, until a polished standard was finalized. This process resulted in a first-of-its-kind accreditation program that documents and standardizes an effective approach to MTM provision. The accreditation program guides MTM providers to implement requirements that elevate this intervention in ways that prioritize equity and client needs.

Key Outcomes

By providing the initial MTM framework, FIMC defined the baseline requirements all agencies must meet.The FIMC accreditation standard was established, focusing on the client experience and encompassing the full MTM intervention embedded in FIMC’s model.SCS’ process allowed FIMC to align, agree, and clarify methodologies, offering improved focus and strategies for adapting across agencies.Through the accreditation standard development process, member agencies strengthened relationships across diverse geographies and communities while centering client health and community needs.SCS facilitated deeper collaboration, including knowledge sharing sessions among agencies to determine the best possible practices to inform the standard requirements.SCS integrated FIMC’s core requirements, mission, and values to ensure all agencies operate consistently.SCS developed accompanying auditing protocols.After finalizing the accreditation standard, SCS trained FIMC staff to conduct accreditation audits and continues to support FIMC’s implementation of the accreditation program across FIMC membership.

“Throughout the process of developing the FIMC Medically Tailored Meal Intervention Accreditation Criteria and Requirements (ACR), SCS honored the work of individual, community-based organizations and placed them at the heart of the accreditation program we designed. The standard emphasizes client health and community needs and upholds our core values as a coalition. We simply could not have achieved these superlative outcomes without the expertise of the SCS Standards team.” – Alissa Wassung, Executive Director, Food is Medicine Coalition

“SCS’ expertise in standard writing and development far exceeded our expectations. The SCS team always guided our agencies and working groups to focus on the feasibility and auditability of our medically tailored meal provisioning requirements. We knew how important this process would be and engaged SCS for their expertise in demonstrating the value of quantifying and codifying our work. Our accreditation program is something we are remarkably proud of, and we have SCS to thank as a great partner.” – Karen Pearl, Chair, Food is Medicine Coalition and Special Advisor to the President & CEO, God’s Love We Deliver

Read and download this case study on the SCS Standards website here: Standardizing an Ethic of Care

For more information about Standards Development, please contact:

Victoria Norman

Executive Director, SCS Standards

v.norman@scsstandards.org

www.scsstandards.org

For more information about FIMC Accreditation, please contact:

Food Is Medicine Coalition

accreditation@fimcoalition.org

www.fimcoalition.org

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., June 11 2024 /3BL/ – As global engineering and construction leader Black & Veatch designs, builds and maintains increasingly more advanced sustainable infrastructure assets to enable businesses and communities to thrive, it also is generating and leveraging huge amounts of real-time data at a scale and intensity never experienced before. To accelerate the company’s innovation and technology strategy in this fast-expanding digital economy, Black & Veatch has named digital transformation expert Mike Adams to a newly formed role as its chief digital technology officer (CDTO).

Adams is tasked with driving leading-edge initiatives to research, validate and adopt emerging technologies that accelerate digital competitiveness across Black & Veatch’s global workforce, operations and diverse portfolio of client-centric solutions. Whether it’s digitally enabling worker productivity and safety, tracking carbon emissions or leveraging data-driven insights to create new sources of recurring revenue, the new CDTO’s mission is to ensure that the next generation of Black & Veatch solutions adapt technologies that are innovative and intuitive to use and aligned with creating quantifiable value for employees, clients and partners.

Mike Adams comes to Black & Veatch from Brunswick Corp., where he served as vice president, chief information officer and leader of a digital engineering consulting business. While with that multi-billion-dollar recreational marine company, he successfully guided a large-scale digital transformation that focused on customer experience key performance indicators, including engagement, lead conversion and digitally assisted sales. Before that, Adams served as a DuPont Corp. digital transformation leader accountable for enhancing end user experience, optimizing technology investment and improving service reliability and performance.

Black & Veatch Chairman and CEO Mario Azar said Adams’ deep digital expertise will be invaluable as clients entrust the company not only with their physical infrastructure assets but also more increasingly with their critical datasets across the whole lifecycle from design to build, operate and maintain.

“With our relentless focus on disruptive innovation, safety and project management, Mike will be instrumental in transforming our broad application of advanced technologies – from drones and machine vision to artificial intelligence, digital twins, geographic information systems (GIS) and industrial cybersecurity solutions, “Azar said. ”This evolution in role from chief information officer (CIO) to CDTO is a leap to change our view and adoption of technology from an IT tool to an integral part of how we run our business.”

“My mission has always been to strategically align and place the right bets on digital capability best able to advance and deliver transformational change and durable competitive advantage, and I am excited to bring that mindset to Black & Veatch and the clients and communities we serve,” Adams said. “Data is a critical ingredient to durable competitive advantage. It is essential that we both protect it and put it to work.”

Editor’s Notes:

For a high-resolution image of Mike Adams, click here.As Brunswick CIO, Adams was a finalist for the 2023 Chicago ORBIE Awards, which recognize technology executives for leadership, innovation and excellence in that rapidly growing, CIO-led national professional association.Adams earned a master’s degree of business administration in international business management from Drexel University in Philadelphia.

About Black & Veatch 
Black & Veatch is a 100-percent employee-owned global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company with a more than 100-year track record of innovation in sustainable infrastructure. Since 1915, we have helped our clients improve the lives of people around the world by addressing the resilience and reliability of our most important infrastructure assets. Follow us on www.bv.com and on social media.

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