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In honor of his outstanding volunteer work in 2022, Ryan Whitman, manager of our Smart Energy Network project, was one of three Atlantic City Electric employees who recently received Exelon’s Powering Communities Employee Volunteer Award.

This recognition is the company’s highest achievement for volunteerism and community involvement, and honored Ryan’s contributions to Operation Safe Haven, a nonprofit that provides resources and services to veterans and first responders in Southern New Jersey. Thanks to Ryan’s efforts, Operation Safe Haven received a $5,000 grant from Exelon to support its programing which includes housing, therapy, mental health services, and coaching.

As a combat veteran, Ryan understands the complexities that veterans face every day. He notes, “I understand what veterans struggle with when they come home from war, and how difficult it can be to restart your life when you feel like you don’t necessarily fit in.”

Ryan, who is the former president for our Exelon Militaries Actively Connected (EMAC) employee resource group, identified Operation Safe Haven while he was seeking out local nonprofits that support veterans—and he quickly became committed to serving the nonprofit through funding and volunteer events.

Ryan regularly brings together our employees and EMAC volunteers to work on important projects for Operation Save Haven, including electrical projects and building a laundry room for veterans. In total, Ryan spent more than 100 hours volunteering for the organization over the past year.

When asked about Ryan’s impact on Operation Safe Haven, founder Donnie Davis said, “Ryan has such passion for helping other veterans and law enforcement officers. It’s neat to have a leader who really cares and can bring together a group of volunteers.”

In 2022, Atlantic City Electric employees volunteered more than 10,000 hours – which is more than 1,250 workdays – to support 125 different events throughout South Jersey. This volunteerism is on top of approximately $1.2 million Atlantic City Electric contributed to local nonprofits.

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Atlantic City Electric is a unit of Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC), a Fortune 250 company and the nation’s largest utility company, serving more than 10 million customers. Atlantic City Electric provides clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy service to approximately 565,000 customers in southern New Jersey.

To learn more about Atlantic City Electric, visit The Source, Atlantic City Electric’s online newsroom. Find additional information by visiting atlanticcityelectric.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/AtlanticCityElectric, and on Twitter at twitter.com/AcEleCconnect. Atlantic City Electric’s mobile app is available at atlanticcityelectric.com/MobileApp.

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At Boston Children’s Hospital, CIO Heather Nelson said she has been working with T-Mobile to build a hybrid 5G environment, which would support both secure hospital traffic as well as general public connections, but with the idea that Wi-Fi would remain as a backup.

“We knew our current legacy systems couldn’t scale,” she said. With new technology coming, she added, “We knew that we needed to shift our clinical mobility strategies, why not do it and why not make sure that it’s scalable and that we can grow with it, and that it can grow with us.” She added that she’s had conversations with many medical device manufacturers that are embedding 5G capabilities in their products.

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WASHINGTON, February 7, 2024 /3BL/ – Today is Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Action Day and Pepco employees are on Capitol Hill to meet with representatives and advocates for policies that protect funding for LIHEAP and support vulnerable households in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

 LIHEAP is a federally funded program that helps limited-income households with their home energy bills. Customers should not wait for winter heating bills to arrive before applying for help – LIHEAP is a first come, first serve program and is only available until funding runs out. Grants are provided in varying amounts (up to $1,800 in the District of Columbia and $2,213 in Maryland), with no payback required. Requirements include a household’s income, type of fuel and type of dwelling. Homeowners, renters, roomers, and subsidized housing tenants may also be eligible. Customers do not have to be behind on their bills to receive a grant. 

Maryland customers can apply for LIHEAP energy assistance through the Department of Human Services website, or by calling the Maryland Department of Human Services Office of Home Energy Programs at 1-800-332-6347. District of Columbia residents can apply for assistance online through the Department of Energy and the Environment (DOEE) website or by calling 3-1-1. DOEE’s Utility Affordability Programs website provides further guidance on assistance programs available for residents who are facing financial challenges. As a reminder, District residents who have received LIHEAP assistance in the past must recertify their need for assistance this year. Enrollment does not roll over automatically. 

“LIHEAP provides critical support to individuals and families in need,” said Valencia McClure, Pepco Region President. “Our teams are advocating for continued funding of this vital program and we urge any of our customers who may qualify to reach out and take advantage of the support available as soon as possible. We can do so much more when customers reach out to us early, whether through programs like LIHEAP or other payment assistance we offer directly.” 

Pepco works hard to keep every customer connected by offering payment arrangements and helping customers secure grants and other support from several available energy assistance programs. In 2023, Pepco helped more than 35,000 customers secure more than $45.5 million in energy assistance, including more than $17.5 million in LIHEAP funding that helps pay customer energy bills and money that customers do not need to pay back. 

If customers do not meet LIHEAP requirements and are having difficulty paying their energy bills, Pepco Customer Care is also available to help by offering:  

Flexible payment arrangements that offer tailored payment plans Extending payment periods for balances  Connecting customers with energy assistance funds Budget Billing, which averages payments over a 12-month period and helps avoid seasonal spikes and provides a consistent monthly bill. 

Customers can contact Pepco Customer Care at 202-833-7500 or visit pepco.com/EnergyAssistance for more information. 

There are also additional energy assistance options that District residents and businesses may qualify for, including: 

The Residential Aid Discount (RAD) program, which provides energy assistance funding to income-qualified residential Pepco customers and now has a higher income eligibility limit. Eligible customers may receive a discount of up to $475 per year on their electric bill ($300 per year if non-electric heat). Customers can check program eligibility and apply by visiting the DOEE’s web portal at doee.dc.gov/udp. Customers participating in RAD can also participate in the Arrearage Management Program (AMP), which provides customers the option to reduce or eliminate outstanding balances of over $300 that have been past due for 60 days or more. Customers can enroll by calling 202-496-5830 or emailing EnergyAssistanceMailbox@pepco.com. 
 The Greater Washington Urban League provides up to $500 in assistance to eligible customers facing disconnection. Customers can call 202-792-2554 or visit https://www.gwul.org/emergency-services to learn more. 
 Commercial assistance programs for District small businesses, houses of worship and nonprofits are also now available, including options such as installment plans, deposits held applications, budget billing and bill deferral. Commercial customers can sign up for these programs by emailing BCSTPEPCO@exeloncorp.com or calling 833-504-8659. 

Other energy assistance for Maryland residents includes: 

The Electric Universal Service Program (EUSP), which assists eligible low-income customers with their electric bills, even if they are currently without service, and the Utility Service Protection Program (USPP), which protects low-income families from utility cut-offs and allows MEAP eligible households to enter into monthly payment programs. To apply for these programs, customers can contact the Office of Home Energy Programs in their area, call 1-800-332-6347 or visit dhs.maryland.gov/officeof-home-energy-programs/. 
 Interfaith Works provides emergency assistance to income eligible customers in Montgomery County. Customers can call 301-762-8682. 
 Mary’s Center also provides emergency assistance to income eligible customers in Prince George’s County. Customers can call 202-545-2024. 

LIHEAP Action Day is hosted by the National Energy and Utility Affordability Coalition (NEUAC) and connects advocates from across the country with policymakers on Capitol Hill to communicate the importance of the LIHEAP program. To learn more about LIHEAP Action Day, visit NEAUC.org. 

To learn more about Pepco, visit The Source, our online newsroom. Find additional information by visiting pepco.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/PepcoConnect and on X, formerly known as Twitter, at twitter.com/PepcoConnect. Pepco’s mobile app is available at pepco.com/MobileApp. 

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Pepco is a unit of Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC), a Fortune 250 company and the nation’s largest utility company, serving more than 10 million customers. Pepco provides safe and reliable energy service to approximately 944,000 customers in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

Contact: 
Chuck McDade 
Pepco Communications 
202-872-2680 (media hotline)

WASHINGTON, February 7, 2024 /3BL/ – Today is Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Action Day and Pepco employees are on Capitol Hill to meet with representatives and advocates for policies that protect funding for LIHEAP and support vulnerable households in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

 LIHEAP is a federally funded program that helps limited-income households with their home energy bills. Customers should not wait for winter heating bills to arrive before applying for help – LIHEAP is a first come, first serve program and is only available until funding runs out. Grants are provided in varying amounts (up to $1,800 in the District of Columbia and $2,213 in Maryland), with no payback required. Requirements include a household’s income, type of fuel and type of dwelling. Homeowners, renters, roomers, and subsidized housing tenants may also be eligible. Customers do not have to be behind on their bills to receive a grant. 

Maryland customers can apply for LIHEAP energy assistance through the Department of Human Services website, or by calling the Maryland Department of Human Services Office of Home Energy Programs at 1-800-332-6347. District of Columbia residents can apply for assistance online through the Department of Energy and the Environment (DOEE) website or by calling 3-1-1. DOEE’s Utility Affordability Programs website provides further guidance on assistance programs available for residents who are facing financial challenges. As a reminder, District residents who have received LIHEAP assistance in the past must recertify their need for assistance this year. Enrollment does not roll over automatically. 

“LIHEAP provides critical support to individuals and families in need,” said Valencia McClure, Pepco Region President. “Our teams are advocating for continued funding of this vital program and we urge any of our customers who may qualify to reach out and take advantage of the support available as soon as possible. We can do so much more when customers reach out to us early, whether through programs like LIHEAP or other payment assistance we offer directly.” 

Pepco works hard to keep every customer connected by offering payment arrangements and helping customers secure grants and other support from several available energy assistance programs. In 2023, Pepco helped more than 35,000 customers secure more than $45.5 million in energy assistance, including more than $17.5 million in LIHEAP funding that helps pay customer energy bills and money that customers do not need to pay back. 

If customers do not meet LIHEAP requirements and are having difficulty paying their energy bills, Pepco Customer Care is also available to help by offering:  

Flexible payment arrangements that offer tailored payment plans Extending payment periods for balances  Connecting customers with energy assistance funds Budget Billing, which averages payments over a 12-month period and helps avoid seasonal spikes and provides a consistent monthly bill. 

Customers can contact Pepco Customer Care at 202-833-7500 or visit pepco.com/EnergyAssistance for more information. 

There are also additional energy assistance options that District residents and businesses may qualify for, including: 

The Residential Aid Discount (RAD) program, which provides energy assistance funding to income-qualified residential Pepco customers and now has a higher income eligibility limit. Eligible customers may receive a discount of up to $475 per year on their electric bill ($300 per year if non-electric heat). Customers can check program eligibility and apply by visiting the DOEE’s web portal at doee.dc.gov/udp. Customers participating in RAD can also participate in the Arrearage Management Program (AMP), which provides customers the option to reduce or eliminate outstanding balances of over $300 that have been past due for 60 days or more. Customers can enroll by calling 202-496-5830 or emailing EnergyAssistanceMailbox@pepco.com. 
 The Greater Washington Urban League provides up to $500 in assistance to eligible customers facing disconnection. Customers can call 202-792-2554 or visit https://www.gwul.org/emergency-services to learn more. 
 Commercial assistance programs for District small businesses, houses of worship and nonprofits are also now available, including options such as installment plans, deposits held applications, budget billing and bill deferral. Commercial customers can sign up for these programs by emailing BCSTPEPCO@exeloncorp.com or calling 833-504-8659. 

Other energy assistance for Maryland residents includes: 

The Electric Universal Service Program (EUSP), which assists eligible low-income customers with their electric bills, even if they are currently without service, and the Utility Service Protection Program (USPP), which protects low-income families from utility cut-offs and allows MEAP eligible households to enter into monthly payment programs. To apply for these programs, customers can contact the Office of Home Energy Programs in their area, call 1-800-332-6347 or visit dhs.maryland.gov/officeof-home-energy-programs/. 
 Interfaith Works provides emergency assistance to income eligible customers in Montgomery County. Customers can call 301-762-8682. 
 Mary’s Center also provides emergency assistance to income eligible customers in Prince George’s County. Customers can call 202-545-2024. 

LIHEAP Action Day is hosted by the National Energy and Utility Affordability Coalition (NEUAC) and connects advocates from across the country with policymakers on Capitol Hill to communicate the importance of the LIHEAP program. To learn more about LIHEAP Action Day, visit NEAUC.org. 

To learn more about Pepco, visit The Source, our online newsroom. Find additional information by visiting pepco.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/PepcoConnect and on X, formerly known as Twitter, at twitter.com/PepcoConnect. Pepco’s mobile app is available at pepco.com/MobileApp. 

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Pepco is a unit of Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC), a Fortune 250 company and the nation’s largest utility company, serving more than 10 million customers. Pepco provides safe and reliable energy service to approximately 944,000 customers in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

Contact: 
Chuck McDade 
Pepco Communications 
202-872-2680 (media hotline)

This year, GRI North America is thrilled to play a key role at GreenBiz24 conference, seizing various opportunities to engage with North American attendees at an event that gathers approximately 2500 sustainability professionals every year. If you are attending the conference, don’t miss the opportunity to engage with GRI.

GRI side event: advancing sustainability reporting across landscapes and seascapes

One highlight of GRI’s agenda is the hosting of a side event, scheduled for Tuesday, February 13th, from 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM. This session begins with an introduction on the urgency of addressing sector challenges, followed by a conversation on the pivotal role of GRI’s Sector Standard on Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Fishing (GRI 13) and Forum for the Future’s Agriculture Toolkit. The highlight of this section is a dynamic panel discussion with experts from Forum for the Future, Rainforest Alliance, Corporate Reporters, BSR, and, of course, GRI. They will share their perspectives on the vital role of sustainability reporting in the sector. The event’s second part will highlight the new GRI Biodiversity Topic Standard, as well as the Climate Change exposure draft. There are limited seats to attend the event, so make sure to reserve your spot here: Event Registration Link

Panel session: thriving in the new ESG disclosure landscape

On the same day, from 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM, GRI’s Head of North America, Matthew Rusk, will moderate a session on how organizations can build effective ESG governance amidst rising investor, stakeholder, and regulatory expectations. Learn more here.

Panel session: getting ready for the new regulatory regime

Mark your calendar for Monday, February 12th, 2024, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, where GRI will participate in a session on the state of regulatory climate disclosure. Gain practical insights on how GRI Standards can help organizations meet evolving stakeholder expectations and prepare for jurisdictional mandates including the ESRS, climate and biodiversity disclosures.

Learn more here.

As it was reported in the recently released 2023 Be Well. Do Well. Progress Report, Aramark is committed to reducing food waste across its operations with the dual goals of conserving resources and minimizing the company’s environmental footprint.

Aramark minimizes waste through a holistic food management process from planning and purchasing, to production and service. Through innovative food ordering and preparation techniques, Aramark works with the Kansas City Chiefs to produce and prepare just enough food to feed the crowd based on ticket sales, promotions, and tickets scanned. 

Aramark and the Chiefs partner with local charity, Pete’s Garden, to redirect uneaten and untouched food to organizations throughout the Greater Kansas City area that serve families in need. 

Aramark Sports + Entertainment’s District Manager, Tim Witkowski, sits on the Food Waste Reduction Project Advisory Committee and works to publicize and deploy food waste reduction strategies to support the Kansas City Regional Food Loss and Waste Reduction Action Plan.

“Although our goal is always to eliminate food waste before it is generated, there may still be instances when we have excess safe-to-eat food available. Our food donation program provides this food to hunger relief agencies, like Pete’s Garden, who distribute meals to organizations that serve families with children,” said Witkowski. “We donate thousands of pounds of food each year, which helps feed families in the Kansas City community and keeps surplus prepared food out of landfills.”

Food donations don’t just come from meals that weren’t served inside GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, home to the Chiefs, Aramark also redirects surplus food from the player training meals. In 2023 alone, these food donations to Pete’s Garden totaled 5,938 pounds, or 5,000 meals to Kansas City area families.

“Aramark and the Chiefs appreciate that we can redirect surplus food from our player training meals to local families facing food insecurity. Chiefs players and staff know the importance of healthy eating. The families served by Pete’s Garden deserve healthy food too. We are pleased to support their efforts to get nutritious meals on more family dinner tables,” said Erin Wishon, Senior Executive Chef Aramark/Kansas City Chiefs.

These waste reduction efforts support the Chiefs’ “Extra Yard for the Environment” program, which encompasses several directives that each aim to make GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium and the University of Kansas Health System Training Complex as environmentally efficient and responsible as possible.

Aramark is a USDA Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champion and is committed to reducing food loss and waste in its U.S. operations 50% by 2030 from its 2015 baseline. For fiscal year 2023, pre-consumer food waste in U.S. food operations was 73% lower than the company’s 2015 baseline. In addition, Aramark has been a member of the Food Waste Reduction Alliance, an industry collaboration focused on reducing waste and finding ways to donate or recycle unavoidable food waste, for nearly a decade.

Originally published on HARMAN Newsroom

NOVI, Mich., February 7, 2024 /3BL/ – To shape the industry-wide effort to build a vendor-agnostic, open source ecosystem focused on creating the foundation for a new era in automotive, HARMAN announced it has joined the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group at The Eclipse Foundation.

The automotive industry is undergoing a profound shift towards a true SDV-driven design process. This transformative approach introduces a myriad of benefits, including faster time-to-market, new sources of revenue, and innovative service models. The Eclipse SDV Working Group is at the forefront of this evolution, providing a vendor-neutral forum for individuals and organizations to collaborate. Members are actively working together to create open-source software to support comprehensive in-vehicle and around-the-vehicle systems development, including immersive in-cabin experiences. The Eclipse SDV open-source foundation model offers flexibility, agility, and cost-savings in a collaborative environment, uniting a diverse set of leaders from the automotive, software, and cloud industries.

Backed by decades of experience in both the automotive and consumer tech spaces, HARMAN Automotive is uniquely positioned to foster this software-driven transformation. The introduction of cloud-native technologies to vehicles is a key milestone to shape a new era of Consumer Experiences. Automotive Grade. HARMAN, with its unique positioning in intelligent cockpit solutions, can play a key role in empowering industry leaders to adopt these technologies and sharing best practices within the Eclipse SDV Working Group. Initially, HARMAN will be contributing to various Eclipse SDV Working Group projects, like Eclipse Ibeji, which provides the capability to express a digital representation of a vehicle state through an extensible and dynamic architecture to model and access the vehicle hardware, sensors and capabilities. Furthermore, HARMAN is preparing to publish unique contributions like automotive-grade container runtimes and cloud services for connected experiences.

“We are thrilled to join The Eclipse Foundation’s SDV Working Group, which will play a key role in influencing the next generation of vehicles,” said Heiko Hüttel, Vice President of Software Products at HARMAN. “Thanks to our unmatched relationship with Samsung to develop the experiences consumers want from their vehicles, HARMAN is the only automotive technology company with the expertise to guide innovation and deliver consumer experiences at an automotive grade. Together, with the Eclipse Foundation and other participants, we look forward to collaborating across industries to accelerate the transformation of Software Defined Vehicles.”

“It’s difficult to overstate the industry momentum behind the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle Working Group,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director for the Eclipse Foundation. “The diversity of our members is a big part of our strength and lends itself to our capacity for delivering industry-wide innovation. Technology vendors, cloud providers, system integrators, and automotive giants are working together to transform how automotive software is built. HARMAN’s leadership in connected technologies will be critical in achieving our shared vision.”

With The Eclipse Foundation being at the forefront of open source-based developer experiences and playing a key role in shaping the unique opportunity with the SDV Working Group, HARMAN is committed to building world-class in-vehicle experiences and helping its customers to thrive in such ecosystems where collaboration is key to future success.

“As a founding member of the SDV working group, this is a full circle moment and an initiative that is close to my heart,” Hüttel added. “The Software Defined Vehicle is not a trend — it’s a reality — and HARMAN is positioned to lead the transformation of automotive software efforts forward.”

To learn more about HARMAN’s involvement with the Eclipse SDV Working Group, visit developer.harman.com.

ABOUT HARMAN

HARMAN (harman.com) designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson® and Revel®, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world. More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and connected car systems. Our software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In March 2017, HARMAN became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

ABOUT THE ECLIPSE FOUNDATION

The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organisations with a business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. We host the Eclipse IDE, Adoptium, Software Defined Vehicle, Jakarta EE, and over 410 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, specifications, and frameworks for cloud and edge applications, IoT, AI, automotive, systems engineering, open processor designs, and many others. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, the Eclipse Foundation is an international non-profit association supported by over 360 members. To learn more, follow us on social media @EclipseFdn, LinkedIn or visit eclipse.org.

For more information, contact:

Dawn Geary

Director, Global Communications – Automotive

Tel: +1 248-463-0921

Dawn.Geary@harman.com

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We’re thrilled to share that Tapestry has been named one of Fortune’s 2024 World’s Most Admired Companies for the first time! This annual list is considered one of the leading measures of corporate reputation among the world’s largest companies – rating organizations on a range of criteria from innovation to investment value and global competitiveness.

Our company is founded on the belief that by bringing together different people and ideas under one roof and giving them a place to grow, we stretch what’s possible for our brands, our consumers, our industry, and society. This ranking is a recognition of the 21,000 employees who are dedicated to the dream. Our teams think one step ahead, act on our curiosity, and never stop striving. To win in this environment requires continuous product innovation, exceptional omnichannel experiences, and an unmatched understanding of the consumer.

We’re proud of the culture we continue to build and know we owe it all to our passionate and dedicated teams around the world.

Learn more about our company: https://www.tapestry.com/. See what a career at Tapestry and our brands looks like: https://careers.tapestry.com/

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Version 3.1 of CSRHub’s Application Programming Interface (API) is now live. The CSRHub Specification for REST Access (CSRA) now has 213 separate calls, up from 125 in Version 2.8. The new calls allow users to request consensus ESG ratings on the 55,000 entities CSRHub covers. CSRA is already being used in applications such as:

Investor relations;Due diligence;Business process improvement;Supply chain analysis;Guiding consumer purchase;Monitoring regulatory complianceManaging advertising spend; andMarketing.

Users can:

Get ratings or rankings monthly for an entity at any one of three levels of granularity, for the past fifteen years.See which ratings sources track an entity and examine the types of data elements that each source generates.Look at average, maximum, or minimum ratings by geography (region, country, state, or city) or industry (industry group or industry). Users can do quick combined region/industry group or country/industry queries.Extract data one piece at a time from our MySQL repository, as JSON-formatted documents from our MongoDB repository, or as tables from our MonetDB repository. In parallel with releasing new features, CSRHub has strengthened its Amazon Cloud based delivery system so that users can call data on thousands of entities in under a minute.Search for matches on entities using their name (we store thousands of alternate names), their web URL, and other financial tags. Searches can be exact or “best fit” and can be conditioned to include or exclude different levels of rating strength.

CSRHub’s website has been built using CSRA. We’ve also integrated it into Excel and tools for studying and understanding ESG ratings. Our documentation for the API has now reached 56 pages—there are many optional parameters for each request domain.

Our 900+ sources of information have contributed more than 600 million data elements to our system. If you are trying to build an application that needs ESG data, we hope you will consider joining CSRHub’s developer program. As a B Corporation, our mission is to use transparent access to ESG data to help companies become more sustainable and to change the world. Our API is a vital part of this mission.

About CSRHub

CSRHub offers one of the world’s broadest and most consistent set of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings, covering 50,000 companies. Its Big Data algorithm combines millions of data points on ESG performance from hundreds of sources, including leading ESG analyst raters, to produce consensus scores on all aspects of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. CSRHub ratings help drive corporate, investor and consumer ESG decisions. For more information, visit www.CSRHub.com. CSRHub is a B Corporation.

Jeff Simmons, President and CEO of Elanco Animal Health, joined Jim Cramer on Mad Money to discuss Elanco’s exciting pipeline with six potential blockbuster products expected to launch in major markets over the next two years. The company recently launched the first and only USDA conditionally-approved therapeutic solution proven to treat canine parvovirus (parvo) — one of the most contagious and deadly viruses a dog can contract with a 91%1 mortality rate if not treated with supportive care.

In support of this cause, Elanco announced a first-of-its-kind, multi-year campaign to save 1 million puppies from unnecessary death from the highly contagious parvo: Defend Puppies. Defeat Parvo.  An estimated 900 dogs are diagnosed with parvo daily2 in the U.S. – mostly unvaccinated puppies. Yet Elanco research revealed only 44% of dog owners know what parvo is, with 20% having no knowledge of the disease.3 With dog owners being the first line of defense in protecting their puppies, there is need for more wide-spread education.  

With the introduction of the Defend Puppies. Defeat Parvo. mission, Elanco aims to increase education about this deadly disease, while increasing veterinarian’s access to the first and only U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conditionally approved treatment for parvo – Elanco’s Canine Parvovirus Monoclonal Antibody.

1 Sykes, JE. Canine Parvovirus Infections and Other Viral Enteritides. Canine and Feline Infectious Diseases. 2014:141-151
2 Elanco Animal Health. Data on File.
3 Elanco Animal Health. Market Data on File.