Month: December 2025

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., December 29, 2025 /3BL/ – During this season of giving, Entergy Arkansas is doing more than powering communities across its 63-county service area, the company is empowering its employees to make a direct difference in those communities throughout Arkansas for neighbors facing hardship. In the past month alone, Entergy Arkansas has directed $30,000 to hunger-relief efforts statewide at the request of employees who saw needs in their communities.

Drew County effort delivers support through February
In Drew County, a local food program that serves 156 senior citizens and disabled residents was temporarily paused due to relocation of a distribution site during the recent federal government shutdown. When Customer Service Manager Amanda Killingsworth, a lifelong Drew County resident, learned of the issue, she quickly mobilized support. She reached out to co-workers and more than 2,600 people on Facebook to sponsor a month of food for $60 per recipient.

Two weeks later, she and colleagues were shopping in bulk, assembling meals with volunteers and delivering boxes by Entergy truck and trailer.

“Entergy truly loves the communities it serves,” Killingsworth said. “When your company president, vice president, managers and co-workers ask, ‘What can we do?’ you realize you’re surrounded by people who believe in service just as much as you do.”

With Entergy Arkansas’s support and donations Killingsworth helped raise, every program participant — and several additional residents in need — received food boxes with enough supplies to last through February.

Hunger Relief Alliance strengthens statewide food access
Statewide, the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance has also been working to keep shelves stocked at its six regional food banks and more than 500 community partners during the months when many Arkansans were not receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Entergy Arkansas provided a $20,000 grant to support that effort.

Entergy Arkansas Director of Public Affairs John Bethel, who serves as president of the Alliance board, said the grant filled a critical gap.

“This support helped the Alliance provide food to food banks and pantries across the state, helping fight food insecurity and meet the critical needs of our neighbors,” Bethel said.

Alliance CEO Sylvia Blain said Entergy’s partnership strengthens hunger-relief work across Arkansas.

“Entergy’s investment strengthens our statewide network and ensures rural communities, seniors, and families have access to healthy food and emergency support,” Blain said. “We are grateful for Entergy’s continued leadership through John Bethel. His advocacy and service have strengthened hunger-relief efforts statewide and helped connect Entergy employees to the needs of local food pantries.”

Entergy Arkansas employees connect nonprofits to resources

In Malvern, Ashley Selph, network administrative assistant, knew Revive Community Outreach’s pantry was serving more families than ever. She contacted Revive Director Courtney McKinney and encouraged her to apply for an Entergy Arkansas grant. For McKinney — who grew up with Selph — the outreach itself was just as meaningful as the financial support.

“Having community members who work for Entergy advocate for our nonprofit means everything to us,” McKinney said. “It shows how deeply our neighbors care and how willing they are to use their resources to uplift local families.”

Grant helps Sulphur Rock students through holiday breaks
Across the state in Independence County, Vegetation Operations Coordinator Chris Millay was visiting his children at Sulphur Rock Elementary when Principal Tina Baker mentioned an urgent need. The school, which provides weekly food boxes to 52 students, lacked funds to purchase food for the upcoming holiday breaks. Millay immediately relayed the request, and by the next morning Entergy Arkansas confirmed a grant to cover the need.

“Sulphur Rock Elementary is grateful for Entergy employees who go beyond their workplace to advocate for our students,” Baker said. “Grants like these directly support our efforts to ensure every child has what they need to learn, grow and thrive.”

Nearly $1M, 30K volunteer hours invested in communities in 2025
In 2025, Entergy Arkansas awarded nearly $1 million in grants, including more than $125,000 for hunger-relief programs. Employees are also on track to complete over 30,000 volunteer hours with nonprofits and schools across the state.

“We invest in solutions and partner with organizations that share our commitment to improving quality of life in Arkansas,” said Brandi Hinkle, senior representative for Entergy Corporate Social Responsibility. “Our employees do the same — giving their time and resources to help those who are disadvantaged.”

Volunteers continue giving spirit through December
Throughout December, Entergy Arkansas employees will continue serving communities by collecting toys for Arkansas Children’s Hospital families, ringing bells for the Salvation Army, distributing coats to elementary students and assembling pantry boxes for those facing food insecurity.

To learn more about the Entergy Charitable Foundation and Entergy Arkansas Corporate Social Responsibility, visit entergy.com/csr/giving. 

About Entergy Arkansas
Entergy Arkansas provides electricity to approximately 735,000 customers in 63 counties. Entergy Arkansas is a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR). Entergy produces, transmits and distributes electricity to power life for 3 million customers through our operating companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. We’re investing for growth and improved reliability and resilience of our energy system while working to keep energy rates affordable for our customers. We’re also investing in cleaner energy generation like modern natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy. A nationally recognized leader in sustainability and corporate citizenship, we deliver more than $100 million in economic benefits each year to the communities we serve through philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy. Entergy is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has approximately 12,000 employees. Learn more at EntergyArkansas.com and connect with @EntergyARK on social media. 

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Originally published on GoDaddy

TEMPE, Ariz., December 29, 2025 /3BL/ — GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) announced the next phase of its Agent Name Service (ANS), unveiling the new ANS Marketplace at www.GoDaddy.com/ANS – along with a set of new AI agents people can try today. The ANS Marketplace gives entrepreneurs, developers and platforms a way to discover ANS-verified agents, understand how they work and see ANS trust signals in action.

ANS is GoDaddy’s trusted identity naming system for AI agents, designed to help keep the internet and people safe from rogue AI agents. ANS builds trust and security with agentic agents by pairing human-readable names with a cryptographically verifiable identity so that agents can be discovered, verified and governed across ecosystems. It builds on GoDaddy’s decades of experience as a leader in domain names, Domain Name System (DNS) and certificate infrastructure.

“ANS is about making AI agents as discoverable and trustworthy as domains and websites,” said Travis Muhlestein, GoDaddy chief technology officer for product & AI. “With the ANS Marketplace, we’re showing people what trusted agents can do and giving a clear, ANS-backed standard for what ‘trustworthy agents’ actually means.”

ANS Marketplace launches with early test agents
The new marketplace site at www.GoDaddy.com/ANS features a curated set of AI agents that demonstrate practical use cases for small businesses and developers. They include:

• Brand Advisor – Suggests business and domain names based on a business description, checks domain availability and can generate logo and banner concepts.
• Home Page Advisor – Analyzes a website’s home page, suggests improvements and checks basic SEO signals for the page.
• Place Reviews Analyzer – Reads public Google Maps reviews for a business, such as a restaurant or hotel, and summarizes overall sentiment and key takeaways.
• Social Media Post Generator – Uses a provided webpage as input to generate an Instagram-style post, including a title, summarized caption and image concept.
• Business Information Snoopy – Checks whether a business’s core details are consistent across popular online services, including Google Maps, Yelp, Foursquare, Bing, Apple Maps and OpenStreetMap.

These agents are designed to help people understand how ANS-named agents can support real-world business workflows while remaining verifiable and accountable.

20 WooCommerce agents join the ANS ecosystem
GoDaddy also launched 20 AI agents generated from WordPress WooCommerce stores hosted on the GoDaddy platform. These agents are derived from real storefronts and product data, demonstrating how merchant-specific agents can help answer customer questions, surface catalog information and support shopping journeys in a trusted way.

By connecting WooCommerce stores to ANS, GoDaddy is showcasing how existing online businesses can extend their presence in an “agentic” world while maintaining clear identity and control.

New ANS-verified badges signal trusted agents
To make it easier to recognize trusted agents that are enrolled through ANS, GoDaddy has introduced new ANS-verified badges, which indicate:

• The agent is named and registered through ANS
• Its identity can be checked cryptographically
• Its status and policy can be inspected before agents exchange data or take action

These visual signals are designed to help users quickly distinguish ANS-approved agents from unverified or potentially malicious ones, aligning with GoDaddy’s broader mission to bring internet-scale trust to the growing agent ecosystem.

Get started
Developers and interested partners can explore the ANS Marketplace and interact with agents at www.GoDaddy.com/ans. Those who want to go deeper with integrations and standards can review the ANS API and specification via the ANS Standards and developer resources previously announced.

by Jackie VanderBrug, Head of Sustainability Strategy at Putnam Investments

The headlines suggest we’re on the edge. Markets wobble. Technology flirts between hype and backlash. Heat waves and floods test our sense of control. Yet the greater uncertainty isn’t in the markets or the weather — it’s in us. Will we build toward belonging or retreat into division? Look closer, and you can see a quieter shift taking shape — one that suggests we might yet turn this turbulence into collective opportunity. 

I’ve had the privilege to collaborate with two women who have helped spark that shift: Mary Ellen Iskenderian at Women’s World Banking and Suzanne Biegel at Heading for Change. Mary Ellen has built a global network dedicated to giving low-income women access to financial tools — and by doing so, making them powerful economic actors. Suzanne, in her last months, asked me to steward the next phase of her gender-smart climate work: she didn’t want a memorial; she wanted momentum.

What unites them is the belief that investing in, by and with women isn’t a sideline, it’s a frontier; that inclusion isn’t a concession, it’s an advantage. And that managing capital wisely, deploying it at scale, and connecting innovation with purpose are the way forward. This belief is translating into investable opportunities today and revealing what could lie ahead: new markets, new technologies, and new systems where women are not just included — they are leading.

Read Jackie’s full article here – https://greenmoney.com/turbulence-or-transformation-capital-inclusive-innovation

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Originally published on PSEG ENERGIZE!

We value the strong partnerships we have forged with communities across our service territory, working collaboratively to build energy infrastructure that delivers reliable power to our customers while also revitalizing and enhancing the neighborhoods where our facilities are located.  

In numerous towns throughout the region, we’ve joined with local officials, citizens, arts groups and other stakeholders to develop electric substations and other critical energy infrastructure that integrate design elements – including murals, art walls and other artistic features –  creating buildings that not only electrify but also brighten the surrounding area.  

Beyond providing predictable energy supply that meets the growing needs of our customers, these projects have provided residents with a meaningful role in improving their hometowns, showcased the work of local artists and truly transformed neighborhoods. As a company committed to corporate citizenship, we’re honored to work hand-in-hand with local partners to re-imagine what energy infrastructure looks like and to help spark civic pride.  

Newark’s art wall 

Our first community art infrastructure project began in Newark with the Fairmount Heights Switching Station, energized in March 2018. A new switching station was needed to relieve projected transmission overloads, provide emergency backup to the nearby Newark Switching Station and improve electric system resilience in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. 

Although initial concerns were raised about its fit within a residential neighborhood, the project ultimately became an example of what’s possible when a company partners with a community. Inviting residents into the planning process resulted in the region’s first-ever “art wall” on a substation. The 48,000-square-foot, 30-foot-high wall now features work by 14 ethnically diverse artists, including six from Newark. More than just beautification, the project created local jobs and served as a catalyst for community pride. 

This public-private collaboration led the way for future PSE&G projects, showcasing the power of collaboration, and how energy infrastructure improvement and community identity can thrive together. 

A colorful display of history and art in Irvington 

A stretch of Nye Avenue in Irvington has been transformed by the colorful portraits that line the concrete walls surrounding our electric substation. Created by nine artists, the Legends Way collection features portraits of important places, moments and prominent citizens that are part of the township’s story. 

Built to replace aging equipment, enhance reliability and increase power capacity, approximately 14,500 Irvington customers are electrically powered from the station. The project does more than electrify the neighborhood, it has sparked community pride.

During the ceremony to unveil the artwork in August 2025, Mayor Tony Vauss said the portraits were a tribute to the visionaries who had shaped the community.

A neighborhood landmark in Orange 

A new substation was needed in Orange to replace an aging substation that was prone to flooding during severe weather events – including Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Irene – endangering critical equipment and leaving nearly 9,000 homes and businesses at risk of outages. 

The previous station, located across the street from the new Orange Heights Switching Station, also no longer met the demands of a growing, modernizing grid. But the new design goes far beyond technical upgrades. 

Working closely with township officials, residents and the local Valley Arts District, we co-hosted public workshops to gather community input. The result? A new station designed with a perimeter wall that resembles a city block – complete with doors and windows, illuminated signage, landscaping, seating area and a striking abstract mural that was inspired by the connections found in the electrical grid.   

The enhanced landscaping and pedestrian-friendly layout aren’t just nice touches – they’re a testament to the power of private and civic collaboration when constructing vital energy infrastructure.  

Projects like these really illustrate PSE&G’s strategy to work with local stakeholders to improve communities we serve. These working partnerships can strengthen neighborhoods and create economic opportunities for residents and businesses.” 

– Rick Thigpen, PSEG Senior Vice President for Corporate Citizenship 

Community partnerships: At the heart of our mission 

At PSE&G, we believe that the strongest projects are built on collaboration, creativity and community pride. As we continue to modernize and expand the energy grid, we remain committed to ensuring our work not only powers our community members’ lives with safe, reliable service but provides a sense of place, purpose and pride in the communities that we serve. 

This interview is part of Takeda’s Access to Medicine Report. Read the full interview here.

In February 2024, Takeda entered into a partnership with CARE, a global leader in the fight against poverty, providing financial support for the She Heals the World initiative in the Philippines.

This partnership aims to equip 1,500 frontline community health workers in the Philippines with a comprehensive digital professional development platform by the end of 2026. By blending CARE’s local expertise, data and community relationships with Takeda’s resources and experience, together we are enabling community health workers to have access to the resources they need to deliver the care that is needed.

Takeda sat down with Joyce Sepenoo, senior director of health, equity and rights, and Emily Janoch, associate vice president for thought leadership and design from CARE, to explore how CARE aligns priorities and mobilizes partners, like Takeda, to create societal value.

CARE’s health strategy aims to impact 50 million people by 2030. From a health equity perspective, what does “impact” mean for CARE, and how do you translate that into action on the ground?

For us, impact means more than just reaching people with information or services, it’s about ensuring sustainable life-changing outcomes, especially for women and families. We take a localized approach, drawing on data and multi-stakeholder partnerships, including like the one we have with Takeda in the Philippines, to address the specific access challenges that health care systems and individuals face. Central to this is engaging with and listening to communities.

Through engaging with women’s groups, youth-led groups, community leaders, government officials, and of course health workers, we are able to understand the health needs and health behaviors of different groups in local settings. This allows our programs not only to reach them, but to drive impact. Take, for example, pregnant women looking for antenatal care, we want to ensure they not only know how to access health facilities or professionals, but that they are taking the steps to do so to support a safe and supportive delivery environment.

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CARE

Founded in 1945 with the creation of the CARE PACKAGE® box, CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside women and girls. Equipped with the proper resources, women and girls have the power to lift whole families and entire communities out of poverty. In 2025, CARE worked in 121 countries, reaching 58.7 million people through 1,467 projects. To learn more, visit www.care.org.

DP World has reached a significant milestone in sustainable port design with the completion of the first phase of its Living Seawalls installation at Jebel Ali Port in Dubai, UAE. The company deployed 1,000 eco-engineered panels that transform traditional flat seawall surfaces into vibrant marine habitats where biodiversity can flourish.

Developed in partnership with Living Seawalls, a science-led program of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, each panel features varied shapes and textures that mimic natural rock formations – creating new opportunities for marine species to attach, grow, and thrive in coastal areas historically limited in habitat value.

Once fully scaled to 6,000 panels by 2028, the project will form the region’s longest continuous waterfront structure dedicated to supporting functioning ecosystems while maintaining operational efficiency.

“Ports play a critical role in coastal resilience,” said Abdulla Bin Damithan, CEO and Managing Director, DP World in the GCC region. “This program shows how infrastructure can support trade while restoring natural habitats.”

Biodiversity monitoring is scheduled to begin in 2026 to contribute to global knowledge on how ports can support ecological resilience – an important step in DP World’s Ocean Strategy and support of global biodiversity targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Building on Global Success, Including in the Americas

The Jebel Ali initiative builds on DP World’s global Living Seawalls portfolio, which includes impactful projects across the Americas.

In Ecuador’s deep-water terminal at Posorja, DP World has begun installing eco-engineered pilings as part of its deep-water port expansion. These Living Seawalls panels are designed to mimic natural marine environments such as rock pools and mangrove roots, providing new habitats for marine species and advancing ecological restoration alongside economic development.

By the end of 2025, a total of 21 pilings at Posorja will be equipped with Living Seawalls panels, complemented by robust biological monitoring to generate scientific data on the relationship between hydraulic infrastructure and marine biodiversity.

“The installation of the Living Seawalls at Posorja represents a significant advancement in our sustainability journey,” said Carlos Merino, CEO of DP World in Colombia, Ecuador, and Perú. “It’s helping to set new standards for responsible port development that support both marine life and global trade.”

DP World’s Living Seawalls work in the Americas builds on earlier successes in Peru – where a pilot at the Port of Callao recorded dozens of marine species within a year – and reinforces how nature-inspired engineering can drive measurable environmental benefits while enhancing long-term coastal resilience.

Leading Sustainable Port Innovation

At DP World, sustainability and trade go hand-in-hand. Through initiatives like Living Seawalls, the company is demonstrating how modern port infrastructure can simultaneously support global commerce and restore ocean health. From the UAE to Latin America, DP World continues to pioneer nature-positive solutions that help ports become part of the solution to ecological challenges.

Learn more about DP World’s global sustainability work here.