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Beneath the warm Mexican sun, the Invictus Foundation worked tirelessly to provide life-saving care to animals in desperate need. Among them were Simba and Hunter, two fragile lion cubs whose early lives were marked by severe malnutrition and neurological challenges, leaving their bodies weak and compromised. Nearby, Nala and Apollo, another pair of lion cubs, struggled with severe health issues that required specialized attention from the moment they were born.

Pakal, a resilient puma, bore the worst physical scars of this group, enduring catastrophic injuries to his pelvis, spine, and skull. Sheerkan and Corachi, two young tigers, carried visible reminders of their harrowing pasts. Sheerkan’s body told a story of unimaginable suffering, with a broken hip and fractures in all four legs. Balam and Bagheera, two striking jaguars, were left weakened by malnutrition and plagued with severe dental issues. The smallest of the group, Luna and Rufla, two frail bobcats, faced chronic kidney damage caused by prolonged dehydration and starvation.

In the face of such immense need, the Invictus Foundation, steadfast in its mission to rescue and rehabilitate wildlife, turned to The Wild Animal Sanctuary (TWAS) in Colorado. As the world’s largest carnivore sanctuary with 33,000 acres dedicated for animal sanctuary, TWAS offers unparalleled intensive veterinary care and expansive, natural habitats where animals can finally heal and thrive.

In an extraordinary collaboration, FedEx joined the mission, making it possible for these 11 remarkable survivors to reach their new home safely. Under the banner of its “Delivering for Good” initiative, FedEx leveraged its global logistics expertise to transport the animals and their dedicated care team from Toluca, Mexico, to Denver, Colorado.

As the FedEx plane took off, carefully carrying the animals toward a future filled with hope and security, the team at the Invictus Foundation felt a wave of relief knowing that upon arrival these animals would be embraced by the remarkable animal care team at The Wild Animal Sanctuary.  Thanks to this monumental partnership, Simba, Hunter, and their companions were embarking on a journey toward a life they had never known—one defined by compassion, care, and the freedom to simply be.

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AVALON, Australia, May 2, 2025 /3BL/ – Leidos Australia and RMIT University are proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Leidos Aviation Scholarship at Avalon Airshow, marking the second year of the program’s commitment to supporting aspiring pilots in their aviation careers.

This year, Leidos has expanded the program to offer more than $150,000 across six scholarships for final-year students completing a degree in Aviation at RMIT Aviation Academy. This follows the success of the program’s first year, which saw five scholarship recipients graduate and begin employment with Leidos.

Leidos Airborne Solutions Vice President James Woodhams expressed the company’s dedication to fostering the next generation of aviation professionals.

“The aviation industry continues to face critical workforce shortages, and we are proud to be playing an active role in addressing these challenges,” Woodhams said. “We recognise that the cost of flight training can be a major barrier to entry for aspiring pilots. By providing financial support and exposure to specialist aviation careers, we are helping to shape a pipeline of highly skilled pilots who can support vital national operations.”

The 2025 scholarship recipients were invited to Avalon Airshow to celebrate their achievements, providing them with a unique learning opportunity, valuable industry exposure and the opportunity to meet with a broad range of aviators.

RMIT Aviation Academy Director Lea Vesic highlighted the impact of the scholarship in preparing students for meaningful aviation careers.

“The Australian aviation industry has an ongoing demand for highly skilled pilots,” Vesic said. “Programs like the Leidos Aviation Scholarship are critical in ensuring we have a strong talent pipeline for the future — not just in the commercial passenger transport sector, but also in critical aviation services such as Search and Rescue operations.

“Our exclusive partnership with Leidos provides students with not just financial support, but access to specialised training that aligns with the unique operational needs of special mission aviation. We’re excited to see our scholarship recipients take the next step towards their careers.”

This scholarship program builds on the successful collaboration between Leidos and RMIT, strengthening pathways for students to enter and excel in the aviation industry. With the second year of the program now underway, both organisations remain committed to developing talent and ensuring Australia’s aviation sector remains strong for years to come.

Originally published in GoDaddy’s 2024 Sustainability Report

By Aman Bhutani 
Chief Executive Officer, GoDaddy

A Message From Our CEO

Our mission to empower entrepreneurs everywhere, making opportunity more inclusive for all is the driving force that brings us together. GoDaddy’s customers are microbusiness owners and most of them have fewer than 10 employees. According to our Venture Forward research, more than half of them are solopreneurs, both business owners and employees themselves. They are resilient and inspiring, making a difference for their families, with approximately one in three contributing 51% or more to their household income. In the U.S., they also elevate their local communities by adding seven jobs per microbusiness entrepreneur at the county level.

Customers & Communities 

We support our customers and foster inclusive entrepreneurship with innovative technology and best-in-class, human-centered guidance. In 2024, we took innovation for our customers to new heights with GoDaddy Airo^®. GoDaddy Airo helps our customers using AI technology to, with just a few prompts, find unique names for their businesses, automatically create website options, email addresses, social posts, and much more. It has never been easier for GoDaddy customers to get started with their ideas or grow their businesses. And, when our customers need help, our Guides are there to provide personalized guidance. In 2024, our team engaged with customers through nearly 12 million inbound contacts, striving to help them at every stage of their entrepreneurial journey.

People & Culture

At GoDaddy, we are very proud of our employees, their hard work, and execution, and I am confident in the opportunity in front of us, our talent, and our drive for continuous improvement. The GoDaddy Leadership Team is a dedicated group of leaders with unique expertise, points of view, and from different countries of origin, helping us effectively serve our customers globally. As a Leadership Team, we’re focused on providing our employees with opportunities to learn and develop in their careers to achieve their full potential.

GoDaddy also has a remarkable track record of paying people fairly based on the work that they perform regardless of who they are. 2024 marks GoDaddy’s tenth-consecutive year of sharing our gender pay data, and the eighth-consecutive year of ethnicity pay data in the U.S. As our business grows globally and our workforce also expands globally, we continue to prioritize fair employee compensation and invest in a workforce that reflects the various communities we serve.

Responsible Governance & Operations

Our integrated GoDaddy Software Platform drives innovation and growth for both our customers and us. We work to optimize AI, machine learning, monetization, experimentation, data collection, and storage using public and private cloud services to improve the velocity of our business and find savings opportunities. We’re committed to using AI responsibly and ethically, ensuring it advances our mission to empower entrepreneurs everywhere while creating meaningful value for their businesses. Our AI and Machine Learning Governance Council plays a key role in overseeing our use of AI, ensuring proper guardrails are in place for responsible and ethical AI use.

Environmental Impact

We set a new scope 1 and 2 emissions (market-based) reduction target
to reduce emissions by 90% by 2030 from a 2019 baseline after surpassing our initial target two years ahead of schedule. We believe that operating our business responsibly and complying with applicable laws while minimizing the environmental impact of our operations and supply chain is good for our customers, our business, and the planet.

With sustainability embedded in our strategy and aligned with our operations, our goal is to continue to make progress on our sustainability journey. Through innovation and discipline, GoDaddy team members will continue to create value for our customers, shareholders, employees, and communities.

To learn more, read our 2024 Sustainability Report.

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About This Report

This GoDaddy 2024 Sustainability Report details our progress toward our corporate sustainability goals, strategies, and initiatives in support of our overarching corporate mission and values. Unless otherwise noted, this report reflects our corporate sustainability performance across our global operations covering the fiscal year period from January 1 to December 31, 2024. To demonstrate our commitment to transparent communication regarding our sustainability progress, we routinely share updates through our website and our annual Sustainability Report. We welcome your questions, comments, and feedback on this report by contacting ESG@GoDaddy.com.

This report references the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, includes select Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) metrics for the Internet Media and Services sector, and the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). We also disclose our contributions and progress toward priority UN SDGs. For additional information on how we align with these frameworks and key indicators demonstrating our sustainability performance, please refer to the Frameworks & Metrics section.

Saint-Gobain’s Energy Management System Implementation Program has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Better Plants Program for enhancing energy usage and management by training more than 80 individuals, belonging to 14 different business units through training sessions across four sites in the United States. As a component of the DOE’s Better Buildings Initiative, the Better Plants program partners with top manufacturers and water and wastewater treatment organizations to enhance their competitiveness by increasing energy efficiency.

With a purpose of Making the World a Better Home and mission to be the leaders in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain developed and piloted an Energy Management System (EnMS) program across four sites in Faribault, Minnesota, Denver, Colorado, Little Rock, Arkansas and Portage, Wisconsin. Through this work, 82 individuals were trained to support the company’s sustainability goals through enhanced energy management knowledge, giving sites more detailed insights into specific energy usage beyond regular utility billing. The collaboration with the company’s process sustainability specialists, and the mobilization of engineers from Saint-Gobain’s innovative Essential of Manufacturing engineering development training program have been crucial in the success of this implementation, which is expected to be scaled further in 2025 and beyond.

“We are honored to be recognized with a 2025 Better Practice award by the U.S. Department of Energy in its Better Plants Program. This recognition shows, once again, our commitment to being leaders in light and sustainable construction and the importance we attach to becoming more energy efficient,” said Dennis Wilson, Vice President – ESG and General Manager of Circular Economy Solutions for Saint-Gobain North America. “I sincerely thank our Essentials of Manufacturing engineers, process sustainability specialists, and all the teams in our plants for their hard work that has made this pilot, a great success.”

This achievement is the latest Saint-Gobain North America has accomplished in recent months for its commitment to innovation in manufacturing:

• In April, Saint-Gobain announced that it was recognized as finalist for three 2025 Manufacturing Leadership Awards by the National Association of Manufacturers for its Circular Economy Solutions team, its ONE PRECISION ASSEMBLIES™ by CertainTeed, and CisLee Trost, Project Engineer for CertainTeed;
• In December, Saint-Gobain announced that it had achieved significant carbon emissions reductions in its Oxford, North Carolina roofing facility. Those reductions have been made possible through organizational changes and a data-led approach.
• In November, Saint-Gobain announced that its roofing facility in Shreveport, Louisiana, had achieved 49% waste reduction with enhanced recycling practices and the implementation of key measures to prevent cross-contamination.

With over 160 manufacturing locations in the United States and Canada, every current and future member of the company’s team plays a vital role in achieving its sustainability goals. A current list of job openings at all Saint-Gobain locations can be found on the company’s career website.

About Saint-Gobain

Worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and services for the construction and industrial markets. Its integrated solutions for the renovation of public and private buildings, light construction and the decarbonization of construction and industry are developed through a continuous innovation process and provide sustainability and performance. The Group, celebrating its 360th anniversary in 2025, remains more committed than ever to its purpose “MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME”.

€46.6 billion in sales in 2024
161,000 employees, locations in 80 countries
Committed to achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2050

For more information about Saint-Gobain, visit www.saint-gobain.com and follow us on Twitter @saintgobain

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Last Month, Paramount Global once again coordinated with the Partnership for New York City on Career Discovery Week. Career Discovery Week is part of NYC Public Schools Student Pathways, an expansion of career-connected learning that provides work-based learning opportunities and career exposure. More than 85 of the city’s major employers joined forces this year to help build a bridge from the city’s classrooms to the world of business. This year, Paramount partnered with students from Robert Goddard High School and Information Technology High School in Queens for a day full of career-focused workshops and employee-led sessions.

The morning kicked off at Paramount’s Times Square headquarters with a Paramount company overview presentation for the students showcasing the massive portfolio of brands and platforms. From there, Harold Anderson, Coordinator for Paramount’s Social Responsibility team, moderated a powerhouse executive Career Path Panel + Q&A featuring:

• Ashley Priest – Vice President of Corporate Communications, CBS & Paramount International Markets
• Regan Forman – Vice President of Global Franchise Strategy, Paramount Consumer Products and Experiences
• Colleen Reilly – Director Line Producer, Paramount Creative & Strategy
• Luke Kwon – Senior Financial Analyst, Paramount Tech Finance

— all of whom shared hugely inspirational advice and profound insights from their career!

The day culminated with two immersive creative workshops aimed at providing an opportunity to get immersed in different parts of the content creation cycle. The students began with a mobile content making workshop which tasked them with

creating short content reels using their mobile devices. The workshop was facilitated by Reel Works, a non-profit that mentors and empowers underserved NYC youth to share their stories through filmmaking, thus creating a springboard to successful careers in media and beyond. The students proceeded with a storytelling workshop utilizing storyboards to create a 30-second advertisement spot for Paramount using giant animation-inspired storyboard templates. Each team presented their work at the end of the activity, and the ideas shared were incredibly creative brand collaborations featuring their favorite characters from shows like SpongeBob and South Park.

The teachers and students at both schools expressed great appreciation for the opportunity. The teachers were impressed by how confidently the students presented their storyboards and engaged in insightful conversations with multiple Paramount teams. Dimitri McKetney, CTE Program Director at Robert Goddard High School, shared “The opportunity was truly inspiring. It was clear from [the students] engagement during the visit, after the visit, and even upon walking in and seeing their school’s name in bright lights on Broadway, that they learned a great deal and came away with a deeper understanding of the careers and opportunities within Paramount.”

Paramount looks forward to furthering our commitment to unleashing the power of content for good to inspire change. Our partnership with Career Discovery Week continues to serve as a great reminder of this commitment.

Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Whether they build policy or code, companies or communities, the 400 leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., this week for the 2025 Global Inclusive Growth Summit all shared a mission – to explore new ways to grow opportunities and build resilience for all.

“No one has a monopoly on good ideas,” said Shamina Singh, the founder and president of Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth, which hosted the annual gathering. “By taking pieces of everything from everywhere — mashing up the best ideas from the social sector leaders, private business, artists, futurists and historians — we arrive at answers, we show up, and then we move to action.”

Here are some of the insights shared over the course of the day, from the business case for inclusive growth to the need to fortify trust in the digital economy in the age of AI to the value of authenticity.

“These business models that Mastercard has is built on relatively small transactions but engaged many times by many tens or hundreds of millions of people. These are the business models that are owning the future. And so we should stop looking there and saying, ‘Oh, poverty, yuck,’ and start saying, look at those billions of emerging consumers and trillions of transactions. And as a result, trillions of dollars that can be made and the number of lives that can be changed.”

— Andy Kuper, founder and chief executive officer, LeapFrog Investments, on how to meet the demands of an economy being transformed by digitization.

“The beauty of this inflection point we’re in is that you have a willingness across an ecosystem to take the history, longevity and consistency of financial markets, marry it with modern-day tech and really get the best of both worlds. The scale and ubiquity and cross-border nature of the work that’s already been done to create our financial infrastructure can take a nascent currency and turn it on fire.”

— Linda Kirkpatrick, Americas president, Mastercard, on harnessing the potential of — and building trust in — digital assets and blockchain.

“Probably the number one question I get is, ‘What in the world can you do with $2,500 in the United States of America? You can start a business. We have 240,000 stories of people who’ve been able to have financial, not just stability, but mobility.”

— Andrea Jung, president and chief executive officer of Grameen America, challenging the belief that financial returns and social impact are mutually exclusive.

“It’s teaching them how to manage cyber risk like they would any other risk to their business … They can have an educated conversation with their accountant on their finances, but as soon as you start to talk to them about their use of technology, or you say the dreaded cyber word, then sometimes they can kind of glaze over. So we really hold their hand and walk them through it and help them work on a plan so that they’re resilient when something bad does happen.”

— Lisa Plaggemier, executive director of the National Cybersecurity Alliance, on helping small businesses protect themselves from the growing risk of cyberattacks. A new Mastercard study shows that 46% of small businesses surveyed have experienced a cyberattack on their current business, and nearly one in five that suffered an attack then filed for bankruptcy or closed their business.

The summit included the Mastercard Strive marketplace, which showcases micro and small businesses developing innovative digital and data-first solutions to help catalyze inclusive growth.

Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach, right, talks with Alissa “Dr. Jay” Abdullah, left, Mastercard’s deputy chief security officer, and Valdecy Urquiza, secretary general of INTERPOL, not pictured, about closing the cybersecurity divide.

Content creator Pat Smith, right, CEO of Pat Smith Enterprises, discusses the potential of the creator economy with summit co-host Ade Adepitan, left, and Christen Nino De Guzman, not pictured, CEO and founder of Clara for Creators.

“We’re putting ideas into action,” said Jon Huntsman, Mastercard’s vice chair and president, Strategic Growth. He interviewed Dina Powell McCormick, the vice chairman of BDT & MSD Partners and former U.S. deputy national security advisor, on the power of mentorship as well as James Mwangi, Group MD and CEO of Equity Group Holdings, on the digital finance revolution in Africa.

A conversation on rebuilding trust and designing a digital future rooted in agency, connection and shared purpose featured Kat Duffy, left, senior fellow for digital and cyberspace policy for CFR, Frank McCourt, center, executive chairman, McCourt Global, and founder, Project Liberty, and Eli Pariser, co-director of New_Public.

Summit co-host Andréa Vieira, left, founder and CEO of nailsaloon, spoke with Jenny Just, right, co-founder and managing partner of PEAK6 Investments, on how Just’s poker expertise lends itself to lessons in managing risk, making bold bets and playing the long game.

The summit included the Mastercard Strive marketplace, which showcases micro and small businesses developing innovative digital and data-first solutions to help catalyze inclusive growth.

Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach, right, talks with Alissa “Dr. Jay” Abdullah, left, Mastercard’s deputy chief security officer, and Valdecy Urquiza, secretary general of INTERPOL, not pictured, about closing the cybersecurity divide.

Content creator Pat Smith, right, CEO of Pat Smith Enterprises, discusses the potential of the creator economy with summit co-host Ade Adepitan, left, and Christen Nino De Guzman, not pictured, CEO and founder of Clara for Creators.

“We’re putting ideas into action,” said Jon Huntsman, Mastercard’s vice chair and president, Strategic Growth. He interviewed Dina Powell McCormick, the vice chairman of BDT & MSD Partners and former U.S. deputy national security advisor, on the power of mentorship as well as James Mwangi, Group MD and CEO of Equity Group Holdings, on the digital finance revolution in Africa.

A conversation on rebuilding trust and designing a digital future rooted in agency, connection and shared purpose featured Kat Duffy, left, senior fellow for digital and cyberspace policy for CFR, Frank McCourt, center, executive chairman, McCourt Global, and founder, Project Liberty, and Eli Pariser, co-director of New_Public.

Summit co-host Andréa Vieira, left, founder and CEO of nailsaloon, spoke with Jenny Just, right, co-founder and managing partner of PEAK6 Investments, on how Just’s poker expertise lends itself to lessons in managing risk, making bold bets and playing the long game.

The summit included the Mastercard Strive marketplace, which showcases micro and small businesses developing innovative digital and data-first solutions to help catalyze inclusive growth.

“We see so much of the internet’s data. We’re able to run it through our own machine learning systems, where our own AI tools are now identifying cybersecurity threats that no human had identified before, and that means that we’re going to be able to stop the bad guys more effectively … At the end of the day, whoever has the most data wins in the age of AI, and the good guys have more data than the bad guys.”

— Matthew Prince, co-founder and chief executive officer, Cloudflare, on why he’s optimistic about AI’s power as a shield in cybersecurity.

“Guardrails and governance are seen as dirty words, but I truly believe that it is absolutely essential to make all the use cases you’re talking about real. And so at the core of responsibility is trust. So when you think about all these amazing applications, whether it’s in agriculture or whether it’s in productivity, at the end of the day, we need to get to a place where not only humans can trust artificial intelligence, but with agentic AI, you can actually make sure that the AI agents are trusting other AI agents.”

— Navrina Singh, CEO and founder of Credo AI, on building AI systems that are transparent, equitable and aligned with human values.

“One of the biggest problems with the circular economy is people assume it’s about waste and trash, but actually it’s about upstream design, and how do we build [that] into the design of our products and our systems and the ways we think and our mindsets? And this is where AI is actually really useful right now, to retrain our workforce. How do we think about the second and third and fourth life of a product when we’re building it?”

— Danielle Holly, executive lead, North America, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, on building long-term business value through regenerative practices. For more on the circular economy, read the Mastercard Economic Institute’s new report on how secondhand clothing is gaining market share.

“When you’re looking at social media, it can be so intimidating, because now people are doing highly produced videos, and y’all, there’s a filter for everything, right? And so I don’t want people to be intimidated by that … I’d say, use what you got. I guarantee you there’s something that you have that somebody else needs.”

— Pat Smith, CEO, Pat Smith Enterprises, on the rise of the creator economy and how it is democratizing influence. 

“Good CEOs promote skepticism. They appreciate the people who challenge them, who ask hard questions, who you know don’t necessarily agree with an idea and explain why they don’t. Cynicism is corrosive. Cynicism is not that I disagree with what you’re doing, but I don’t trust your motives … Part of the way you build resilience is you earn trust, and you do it with authenticity.”

— Rich Lesser, global chair, Boston Consulting Group, on the evolution of leadership in a fast-changing world.

Originally published by Mastercard

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