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The face of corporate social responsibility and philanthropy is quickly evolving, and many companies are stepping back to refresh and redefine their social impact strategies.

When we look at recent CSR efforts, we see several habits that corporations should double down on to maximize societal impact and business value: agility, responsiveness, and above all, a clear tie to corporate goals. 

In this piece, we share three simple and effective tools to help your company stay ahead of the curve in an ever-changing world.

Step 1: Confirm why your company engages in corporate philanthropy and CSR (intent matrix)

Step 2: Refine your key issues and what you focus on based on the evolving context of your company’s operating environment (issue monitor)

Step 3: Revisit your impact model and how it should evolve in support of the above (impact models)

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About FSG 
FSG is a global, nonprofit consulting firm that partners with foundations and corporations to create equitable systems change. Through customized consulting services, innovative thought leadership, and learning communities, we’re working to create a world where everyone can live up to their full potential.

Learn more at www.fsg.org.

Water quality is a core tenet of the evidenced-backed WELL Building Standard. Through the Water concept, WELL features aim to reduce health risks due to contaminated water, as well as provide guidance on better building infrastructure design and operational strategies to maintain water quality.

For World Water Day, we turned the tap to IWBI’s Water concept lead, Rodolfo Perez, Ph.D., to help spotlight the importance of clean water.

Tell us a bit about the state of water quality today.

You may have read the news, and it’s not great. While water is the most abundant component of the body and is needed to maintain cell integrity and health, eliminate body waste, regulate body temperature, lubricate joints and carry nutrients and oxygen to cells, access to clean water is a major issue.

A staggering 2.2 billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water, according to estimates from the United Nations. Reuters recently showcased the perennial struggle to improve public drinking water supplies worldwide, leading individuals to turn to bottled water, typically from plastic vessels.

Globally, research shows that we’re in a tenuous state with our clean water supply–from misuse to its pollution. Safe drinking water—free from or low in contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), otherwise known as “forever chemicals”–also lacks cohesive standards globally and nationally. Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first standards to address these very chemicals, to protect the public from their presence in drinking water.

What strategies does the Water concept address? How is this beneficial to organizations? 

The health benefits of access to and consumption of clean drinking water are virtually endless.

In addition to strategies that can increase access and help ensure clean drinking water within buildings and organizations, WELL also emphasizes drinking more water as a way to encourage healthy hydration, while also minimizing the consumption of less-healthy beverages.

To proactively address what runs from the taps, WELL includes several prerequisites that require projects to provide drinking water that has been tested to meet thresholds on chemicals as published by research and regulatory organizations. Much of the WELL Water concept also focuses on the management of water quality, requirements for pre-testing of water quality parameters to determine treatment needs, monitoring at a more frequent interval and disclosure of water results. Altogether, this fosters openness and transparency in order to improve water quality.

Where do we see opportunities for tackling the water crisis?

Staying vigilant regarding standards and protecting drinking water is key. WELL includes strategies to help limit chemical use, including a feature that incentivizes projects to select building products and furniture that do not contain PFAS.

Even if we stop all PFAS production today, they’re difficult to break down, which means they’ll be around for a while. Technologies commonly used in municipal drinking water treatment and in at-home filters can remove some PFAS from water, and are getting better. More and more governments are exploring or adopting PFAS regulations to safeguard drinking water.

Tap water is the cheapest and the least resource-intensive way to get hydrated. If you’re in doubt about the safety of your tap water, test it. It’s the duty of your municipalities or local governments to provide safe water. Request and read your water quality reports and see how your municipality is addressing this challenge.

Overall, learning about your tap water is the best recipe to keep your hydration decisions healthier and more sustainable. Drinking tap water and demanding proper maintenance of your drinking water supply are vital for sustaining a healthy community.

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NEW YORK, March 22, 2023 /3BL Media/ – Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, which reaches over 150 million children across more than 150 countries, today announced new resources addressing health and well-being inequities among young children, particularly in low-income, rural, and marginalized communities. These resources are made possible through a grant from Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services.

The pandemic has had wide-ranging and lingering effects on children’s health, causing many to miss routine and preventive healthcare check-ups. Preventive health care for children is critical to address physical, mental, and emotional conditions and is essential for providing routine vaccinations, tracking developmental milestones, treating identified health concerns, and providing support to families.

These new bilingual resources, available in English and Spanish, are designed to connect and support parents, caregivers, and healthcare providers as partners in children’s healthcare by promoting whole child well-being, focusing on forming a healthy team, and building on families’ strengths. Each family has their own unique strengths, and many of those strengths are related to their culture. The resources include:

“I’m Listening,” a new video featuring Rosita and her abuela (grandmother) visiting their pediatrician for Rosita’s 5-year-old well visit. This fun and engaging video reminds us that well-child visits are a great time to communicate. Good communication among family, healthcare providers, and children leads to trusting relationships and inspires healthy habits. Rosita also talks about dancing with her extended family at parties and falling asleep to her Abuela’s lullabies; a helpful reminder that families culture and traditions play an important role in wellness too. 
 Elmo and Abby’s Check-up Play Date, an interactive role-playing game where Elmo and Abby pretend they’re doctors! Make-believe play builds a variety of helpful skills. Children can “act out” familiar scenes and work through their emotions. When they’re playing the doctor, children feel more in control and less nervous about the unknown. 
 “Hooray for Healthy Teams!” is a digital storybook for parents and caregivers to read together with children about their “healthy team”—parents, extended family, caregivers, teachers, doctors, nurses, and themselves. In this storybook, Wes and his dad Elijah talk about Wes’s healthy team—the important people who help keep his body and brain healthy, strong, and safe. 
 A printable activity book for caregivers and children to prepare for doctor visits, with tips for before, during, and after a visit and activities and games to help children feel comfortable and calm. Also available are printable guides to help prepare for, and make the most of, children’s well-visits and printable posters for healthcare providers.

“We’re proud to work with Quest in creating resources that empower our ‘healthy teams’ with a common language that highlights the unique strengths of families and communities,” said Jeanette Betancourt, Sesame Workshop’s Senior Vice President of U.S. Social Impact. “Completing that circle of care, especially for those most marginalized communities, is essential to ensure our young ones are on track to grow and thrive.”

Quest has teamed up with Sesame Workshop as part of Quest for Health Equity (Q4HE), a multi-year initiative formed with its Quest Diagnostics Foundation, which is focused on providing a combination of donated testing services, educational programs and funding to support initiatives working to close the gap in healthcare disparities in underserved communities across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

“Teaming up with Sesame Workshop to support these resources will ensure children everywhere have access to health resources that they can understand,” said Michael Floyd, Senior Director and leader of Quest for Health Equity. “Supporting underserved communities is integral to our mission at Q4HE, and Sesame Workshop’s work to address the health and wellness needs of children in these communities is something we are both inspired by and humbled to be part of.”

The new resources will be available in English at sesame.org/healthyteam and in Spanish at sesame.org/equipodesalud and are being implemented with national partners—the Council on Black Health, National Alliance for Hispanic Health, National Association of Community Health Centers, and The Center for Indigenous Health.

Additionally, they are being distributed through the Sesame Street in Communities program, an initiative for community providers who serve families and help children face challenges big and small. Teachers, healthcare professionals, social workers—any providers working with families and children—are invited to use and share Sesame Workshop’s large and growing library of bilingual resources and professional development tools, created to support them in their vital work.

About Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, the pioneering television show that has been reaching and teaching children since 1969. Today, Sesame Workshop is an innovative force for change, with a mission to help kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. We’re present in more than 150 countries, serving vulnerable children through a wide range of media, formal education, and philanthropically funded social impact programs, each grounded in rigorous research and tailored to the needs and cultures of the communities we serve. Learn more at www.sesameworkshop.org and follow Sesame Workshop on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok.

About Quest Diagnostics

Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world’s largest database of clinical lab results, Quest’s diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest Diagnostics annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our nearly 50,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives. www.QuestDiagnostics.com.

About Quest for Health Equity

Quest for Health Equity is an initiative of Quest Diagnostics and the Quest Diagnostics Foundation focused on providing resources, funding, testing services and education to address health disparities in underserved communities across the U.S.

Contact:

Laura Rigby

Sesame Workshop

Laura.Rigby@sesame.org

BELLEVUE, Wash., March 22, 2023 /3BL Media/ – Today T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) announced a $1 million contribution toward the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s new upcoming Cellphone: Unseen Connections exhibition to share the journey and impact of wireless connectivity – past to present – and inspire tomorrow’s innovators to think about what’s possible into the future.

From the first brick-style devices and flip phones to the smartphones we all rely on today, cell phones and wireless networks have revolutionized the ways we communicate and interact. And the mobile revolution has just begun. The Smithsonian’s new exhibit will share the technological, environmental and cultural impact of wireless connectivity, showcasing leaders who built the industry and the technology and infrastructure that make mobile devices work. T-Mobile, an industry leader in providing wireless and broadband connectivity to customers on America’s leading 5G network, is one of two key supporters of the exhibit that will open for visitors on June 23 in Washington, D.C.

“I love that T-Mobile is helping bring the dynamic story of how wireless connectivity has changed the ways we work and live to life through this new Smithsonian exhibit,” said Callie Field, President, T-Mobile Business Group. “Our hope is that the rich history in this exhibit will not only educate those who visit and further their understanding of the power of technology today, but also inspire the next generation of leaders who will be the innovators of tomorrow!”

T-Mobile’s contribution to the Smithsonian complements the Un-carrier’s ongoing initiatives to use its network, scale and resources for good to connect people to the possibilities that technology enables. These include:

Project 10Million, a $10.7 billion program aimed at closing the education gap by providing free wireless hotspots and connectivity to millions of underserved students across the country.Changemaker Challenge, a nationwide contest that gives young leaders ages 13 to 18 in the U.S. and Puerto Rico the opportunity to bring their innovative ideas to life to change their communities for good.Hometown Grants, a five-year, $25 million program for small town grants that fund community projects and spur economic development.Support for higher education through a donation to University of Washington’s Interdisciplinary Engineering Building.Support for minority entrepreneurs and owned businesses through T-Mobile for Business’ Magenta Edge along with educational workshops and events with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency.Digital literacy programs with Unidos US and LULAC and donations of connected devices and 5G hotspots to public libraries in rural and urban communities.

About the Cellphone: Unseen Connections Exhibit

Through a focus on cultural objects and the raw materials, human labor, technology and infrastructure that makes our devices work, the exhibition tells the global story of cellphones that helped usher in the means to both sustain cultural traditions and create new ones globally. Educational programming and outreach — including an after-hours opening celebration, ongoing workshops and games within the exhibit along with field trip, after-school and drop-in programs — will further complement exhibition content to inspire and educate the public around the nation.

For more information, go to Cellphone: Unseen Connections.

Follow T-Mobile’s Official Twitter Newsroom @TMobileNews to stay up to date with the latest company news.

About T-Mobile US, Inc. 

T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is America’s supercharged Un-carrier, delivering an advanced 4G LTE and transformative nationwide 5G network that will offer reliable connectivity for all. T-Mobile’s customers benefit from its unmatched combination of value and quality, unwavering obsession with offering them the best possible service experience and undisputable drive for disruption that creates competition and innovation in wireless and beyond. Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile provides services through its subsidiaries and operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile and Sprint. For more information please visit: https://www.t-mobile.com.

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Originally published in Cintas 2022 ESG Report

Water is a central resource to our business at Cintas and it is a necessary input in one of our key business services. As we celebrate World Water Day, we believe Cintas has a profound responsibility to be mindful, considerate, and deliberate in our interactions with this vital natural resource.

As a company, we recognize that water is already a scarce resource, so we strive to be a responsible community leader and respect our communities’ right to water.

To strengthen our resolve as a water consumer, we continue to explore opportunities that help lessen our water consumption. And as a responsible water steward, we continuously monitor our operations and processes, so we discharge water back to our local communities in a sustainable, responsible manner.

WATER MANAGEMENT POSITION 

Our Water Position outlines how we work to evolve our business practices that involve water, and informs our efforts to conserve water and minimize our water draw.

These opportunities include:

Identifying further process efficiencies and water utilization methodsTreating wastewater in compliance with prevailing regulationsUtilizing appropriate reuse technologies when ableEngaging in cooperative relationships with our vendors, suppliers, and customers to identify opportunities and incorporate innovations to help manage water more responsibly throughout our value chain

These ambitions – added to our existing laundering processes, which require less water (and energy) than both traditional at-home laundering and our industry peers – help us maintain an acute perspective on our water stewardship activities.

Further, our Water Position motivates us to identify and innovate even greater efficiencies that help maximize our achievements across our company’s scale, even as our business continues to grow.

CINTAS’ WATER JOURNEY 

We take pride in our water-conservation efforts to date. In addition to our ongoing efforts to minimize water requirements and maximize water conservation throughout our company, we are placing focused attention on increasing our water-reuse efforts. For instance, we are seeking to build on the success that our production facilities around the Great Lakes have had in expanding their water reuse.

As we aim to prioritize higher water reuse in areas of significant need, specific challenges presented by our locations in water-stressed regions provide us with opportunities to test and pilot programs. These areas include Arizona, California, Colorado, and Nevada.

The majority of our FY’22 water withdrawal originates from 14 major water basins.

APPROACH AND STRATEGY 

Cintas’ efforts to increase water conservation go back decades. Decreasing our dependence on freshwater has been an ongoing focus of our engineering efforts.

These efforts have also produced sound business practices by reducing our production costs and costs passed on to customers through our pricing models. The less water we use, the lower our costs – especially in areas where water prices are at a premium because of local restrictions or regulations, decreasing water availability, and/or localized conservation programming.

Our water stewardship strategy has three main components:

Conservation and minimization of the water we withdrawIdentification and implementation of process technologies and efficiencies that help further reduce our water useImplementation of water-reuse technologies

Throughout our water journey, we’ve fostered a culture of innovation among our employee-partners and vendors and have challenged them to modernize the commercial laundry industry.

At Cintas, we’ve led the way by:

Testing, refining, and installing capital equipment systems that help us conserve waterUtilizing evolving wash chemistry technologies and optimizing wash chemistry formulasAdopting common-sense behaviors that, taken together, have helped significantly reduce our costs and water consumptionExploring and installing broader water-reuse technologies

Water Conservation 

We’re proud of our legacy of water-conservation efforts, and we know our ongoing commitment has produced a positive ripple effect throughout our industry. Throughout the last few decades, we’ve focused conservation efforts on minimizing our draw from freshwater sources and reducing our overall water needs.

We’ve made significant strides in lowering the amount of water required to wash a pound of laundry without compromising our ability to meet hygienically clean certification standards (where applicable), which is critical to our customers.

We continue to seek opportunities that will help us further reduce our water consumption. Our current initiatives highlight two key areas of ongoing opportunity: process efficiency improvements and wash chemistry. We work collaboratively with our capital equipment manufacturers and our wash chemistry partners to improve our operational footprint, and to realize the combined impacts of engineering efficiencies and chemical improvements on our water requirements.

Water Reuse 

We are continuing to identify ways to increase water-reuse rates throughout our production facilities. We have seen impressive reuse capabilities at a number of our facilities with full reuse technology and complete monitoring systems.

Taking the cues and learnings from these locations, we anticipate identifying the start of a more expansive enterprise-wide reuse strategy in future years. Our ability to expand and monitor our water-reuse capabilities at all our locations is an important step in our ongoing work to lessen our freshwater withdrawal and lower our overall water consumption.

WATER RISK ASSESSMENT AND WATER-STRESSED REGIONS

With our operational footprint stretching from coast to coast across the United States and Canada, we draw water from a variety of sources, including water-stressed regions. The majority our FY’22 water withdrawal originated in 14 major water basins, with 82% of our water drawn from five sources: the Mississippi–Missouri river system (35%), the Gulf of Mexico (14%), the St. Lawrence River (17%), the North Atlantic Coast (9%), and the state of California (7%).

An FY’22 water risk assessment identified 40 Rental plants that operate in water-stressed regions of the United States and Canada, where they are experiencing high to extremely high water stress. Of our 40 processing plants located in current water-stressed regions, 17 are in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Nevada, states which have been severely impacted by historic droughts and declining water tables. At operations in these states and other water-stressed regions, we are emphasizing water-reuse technologies. As good environmental stewards, increasing our reuse efforts will also be important to help supplement our ongoing water-conservation efforts.

In the western region, legacy systems currently installed at our Las Vegas and Denver-area locations have provided contextual examples of how expanded reuse capabilities can positively affect water consumption.

As various reuse opportunities and technologies emerge and evolve, we expect to prioritize the expansion of water-reuse capabilities in water-stressed regions and identify and apply appropriate technologies in these vital areas.

MANAGING WASTEWATER AND EFFLUENTS 

Both our Environmental Compliance policy and our Water Management Position outline our expectation that our field locations treat and process wastewater as necessary to comply with their specific local, state, and federal regulatory requirements.

Our wastewater treatment strategy has three main components:

Approved chemical suppliers and wastewater-treatment equipmentProper maintenance of all wastewater-treatment equipmentWastewater testing and reporting

We have also implemented consistent treatment systems at our facilities to help our locations return wastewater to the local municipality according to all local regulations.

THE WASTEWATERTREATMENT PROCESS 

Our wastewater-treatment process is consistent throughout all processing plants in our company. It begins with the removal of lint and other solids from wastewater after a wash cycle, which generates non-toxic waste that is disposed of in landfills.

At facilities that require wastewater to be treated before it is discharged, the effluent-free wastewater is routed through an equalization tank for homogenization. It then flows through a dissolved air flotation (DAF) system for additional filtration and treatment.

Once wastewater has cycled through the DAF system and has been treated, it is discharged back to the municipal water supply. However, if the location has reuse technology installed, the treated wastewater may also be recirculated for reuse.

WATER PERFORMANCE AND DATA 

Our Rental business is the overwhelming driver of our company’s water interactions. Our ongoing operational review has helped us more fully identify opportunities for how we work with water. The water data in this year’s report includes all of our Rental processing locations in the United States and Canada.

Water Intensity Decreases Since FY’19 As our business has continued to grow and we’ve processed more product volume, we’ve significantly invested in decreasing our business’s water requirements.

With the increase in output at our processing locations, we continue to realize the impact of our efforts to reduce our overall water needs. Since FY’19, we have lowered our water intensity by almost 21% – even as revenues have grown by almost 14%.

Lowering Water Requirements 

Our ongoing efforts to innovate, increase efficiency, and explore reuse opportunities have resulted in significant reductions in our water needs.

Our Operational Excellence and Reliability initiatives have helped our machines work more efficiently. With wash chemistry programmed to meet specific product load weights, our washers and dryers are more efficient – requiring less water and energy and fewer chemicals to clean, and less energy to dry. Our employee-partners continue to work with our wash chemistry and equipment vendors to target optimal product load sizes.

Since FY’19, we have lowered our water withdrawal by 9.1%, our water discharge by 9.8%, and our total water consumed by 2.8%. We’re using the water we draw in more effectively and increasing the amount we return to local municipal water systems.

We expect our efforts to increase water-reuse opportunities will bear additional impact in coming years, further helping to lower our overall water withdrawal and consumption.

Water-Stressed Regions 

We put significant attention on our water stewardship in areas experiencing water stress. Since FY’19, we’ve lessened our water withdrawn in these regions by 11.7%. In FY’22, our business withdrew 18.7% of our total water withdrawal in stressed regions, but only consumed 13.9% of our total water consumption in the same areas.

As a company, we discharge 88.9% of the water we withdraw back to municipalities, but in water-stressed regions that total is up to 91.8%.

Overall we consume 11.1% of the total water we withdraw as a company, but that total is even lower in water-stressed regions, at 8.2%.

Our efforts to optimize existing water-reuse systems and explore further reuse opportunities in water-stressed regions are contributing to our lower water requirements in these important areas.

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Internships are all about experience and learning. At Koch companies, one of those opportunities comes directly from Charles Koch, chairman and CEO of Koch Industries, and Chase Koch, CEO of Koch Disruptive Technologies, when they sit down for the annual Koch Intern Q&A. Charles and Chase offered words of advice and encouragement on how to have a successful and meaningful career.

Find your gift and where you can create the most value – and design your role around it 

“The worst disaster for people is going after the shiny object,” Charles told the crowd of more than 100 interns. “They say, ‘I want to be a supervisor, or I want to be a leader,’ and they’d be terrible at it when they were great individual performers.”

Chase suggested asking yourself three questions:

Where is your comparative advantage?What are you passionate about?Where’s the big market opportunity that aligns your passion and your gift?

Charles said over the years he learned a lot of things he wasn’t good at, but that by applying those questions he learned where he could contribute the most and feel good about himself.

The value of hard work 

One of the stories Chase shared with the interns was about his first experience working at Koch Industries. One summer when he was 15 years old, his father sent him to work at a feedlot in Syracuse, Kansas. He worked long, hard days shoveling manure and doing other manual labor tasks around the lot.

While it wasn’t what he would consider enjoyable, he later realized that it was good for him. Chase said he had learned the value and accomplishment of hard work.

“I hope that you all feel that this summer – that you’ve come in, you’ve learned, you’ve accomplished something and you’ve improved yourself,” he said.

Develop lasting partnerships 

Charles emphasized the importance of creating mutually beneficial partnerships. He shared three keys to finding good partners:

Share a vision.Share values.Leverage complementary capabilities to help each other and the greater goal.

Continuously improve yourself 

Charles also told the interns that once you’ve found some success, you can’t stop. You must keep improving by finding out what you lack and working to fill the gap.

“To the extent we’re closed, we’re satisfied with what we are doing, we don’t need input from the outside, we don’t need to use the knowledge of our people and so on – when we let that happen at any level, we decline,” he said.

Find meaning 

Much of the advice was ultimately aimed at helping the interns learn how to find meaning in what they do, no matter where their careers take them. Charles said the principles he tries to live every day can help people realize their full potential no matter what they’re doing.

“We want you to be happy,” he said. “We want you to have a life of meaning.”

See more about Koch careers.

Originally published on GoDaddy Life

Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do at GoDaddy?

I’ve been with GoDaddy for about eight and a half years! I started out as a Guide taking customer phone calls on third shift. I eventually made my way to the Digital Care Organization in August 2018, and I’m now the lead writer for all domains articles in the Help Center. I’m responsible for making sure our domain articles are helpful and accurate, so our customers and Guides have the right information available to guide them through using GoDaddy’s domain products. About two years ago, I started using words to help design domain product experiences, also known as Content Design or UX Writing, and I’ve been having a blast working in that space. Most of my days include some kind of writing, whether it’s creating a brand-new help article to support a new product feature, updating an existing article to match an improved product experience, or using content to help design product experiences. I work very closely with our UX designers, product managers, developers, channel management and ATS. I would not be able to do my job without the support of all the amazing humans around me. When I’m not working, you can probably find me reading (Brandon Sanderson, Sarah J Maas, and Anne Zoelle are some of my favorites), playing video games with my husband (Grounded, RimWorld, and Total War: Warhammer III are my top picks), or playing with our dogs (basset hound, Bahn and greyhound, Rin). We recently moved to Colorado and there are so many places around the state for us to explore and experience (paddle boarding, anyone)?!

How did you get into tech?

Before GoDaddy, I was working in retail, had a degree in philosophy, and had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up! My now-husband was working at GoDaddy and he suggested I apply to a Customer Support role. Even though I was convinced the Internet worked off magic and rainbows, I somehow convinced the recruiters that I knew what I was doing and was ultimately hired as a Guide. It took a lot of time and effort to really learn not just our product offerings, but how the Internet actually worked (I was deeply disappointed to discover it’s through DNS, not magic and rainbows). It didn’t take very long to realize I was not good at sales, but I was really good at solving problems and finding solutions. That’s what ultimately led me to join our Advanced Technical Support team for three years, then made my way into my current role.

Explain a challenging or exciting project that you’ve had the opportunity to work on and success you’ve seen from the work since then.

Lately, I’ve been working very closely with one of our product managers, Pooja Shah, exploring some different approaches on how to tell customers about our domain protection offerings. We’ve been doing that through experimentation! We’ve looked at different ways to show information, how to guide customers to said information, and to use language to connect with our customers. It’s been quite exciting to explore this space and try new things. We’ve learned a ton about how our customers interact with our protection options. The more we learn, the more excited I get! We’re constantly going back and rethinking the process. Even if an experiment is not an official winner, we’re still seeing success through learning and iteration. It’s exhilarating, challenging, frustrating, and exciting — all at the same time!

What motivates you at work?

My team and the folks I work with every day inspire and motivate me at every turn. Seeing their awesome work gets me pumped to try and achieve something even half as incredible! The talent and creativity on my team and the entire Digital Care Organization is honestly unbelievable! It’s a little intimidating to be standing next to folks who are exploring AI, integrating with new content delivery methods, and reshaping how we use words across the different GoDaddy surfaces. But that intimidation is exceptionally motivating and the fact that my teammates are all beyond kind and generous makes it exciting to come to work each day.

What is your personal advice for women who are interested in your profession? How should they proceed and what should they learn?

I’m a writer, so my number one piece of advice for anyone wanting to pursue a career in writing (regardless of the industry) is to write. It sounds a bit cheeky and cliché to say, but it’s super important to get comfortable with writing. I’m also a huge fan of building your network on LinkedIn — not to necessarily look for new opportunities, but to connect with other humans in the industry. The talent and willingness from others to help is extraordinary across the writing network on LinkedIn — whether it’s creative, screenplay, UX, or technical writing. I also recommend finding a mentor. Look for individuals who have already been doing what you want to do. They are full of advice, can offer feedback on current projects, and even commiserate with you if you’re struggling with something (and when you’re ready, they’ll help you find a solution). I would also recommend learning about voice and tone, especially for writing in the tech industry. Every company has a specific voice, or personality, and that voice is always consistent — but you can use tone to convey that voice in different ways. Nailing that difference and being able to “flex your tone” is a foundational skill that will set you up for success.

What important traits or values did you build over your career and how?

Flexibility and collaboration are two things I’ve really worked on during my time with GoDaddy. These traits have helped me explore and embrace inclusivity. I’ve always been very structured in my life. I was used to doing things how I wanted to. Well, that doesn’t always work when you are so closely involved with other teams. So, I had to tone down my more rigid instincts and accept that my way isn’t always the only way. Working on that helped improve my collaboration with all the unique and wonderful humans across different teams at GoDaddy. That collaboration highlighted the wonderfully different personalities, communication styles, comfort levels, strengths and struggles of everyone around me — including our customers. So, I tried to be more mindful and inclusive in my work by focusing on how to say something that would work for all (or at least most) of the folks in my audience. I extensively researched how to be more inclusive in my writing, and I’m still learning new ways each and every day.

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As published in Qualcomm’s 2022 Corporate Responsibility Report

Our Qualcomm Women Employee Network (Qualcomm Women) has grown to nearly 10,000 members in 25 chapters around the world — representing approximately 20 percent of our global workforce.

Qualcomm Women focuses on promoting inclusion of our Company’s women across the globe, increasing their representation, voice and perspectives; encouraging mentorship, leadership opportunities and career development for them; collaborating with other internal groups to further promote their perspectives; and engaging in community outreach initiatives to foster the interests of women and girls in STEM careers.

Qualcomm Women is governed by a Board of employee volunteers and is championed by executive sponsors. Qualcomm Women offerings include mentorship programs at all levels, peer groups, executive talks, Lean-In Circles and outreach initiatives. Qualcomm Women also piloted the Male Allyship program to engage men as advocates and champions of gender inclusion.

One of the signature programs of Qualcomm Women is peer groups, a collective of action oriented employees within the same department or same function, who work together towards the common goal of promoting gender diversity and inclusion opportunities within their specific organizations. The collective is designed to serve a multi-fold purpose, such as providing speakership opportunities for women within an organization and give women an opportunity to network, build their skill sets and connect in areas that are unique to their immediate roles. As of 2022, Qualcomm Women’s 15 Peer Groups comprised more than 1,000 employees and had organized more than 600 events.

Qualcomm Women is a strong network where employees feel a sense of community and can get peer support on facing unique challenges and developing themselves and their careers.

Learn more in Qualcomm’s 2022 Corporate Responsibility Report

MIAMI, March 22, 2023 /3BL Media/ – In celebration of Women’s History Month, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises unveiled a powerful new campaign titled “Change the Game” (Cambia el Juego), under the company’s award-winning corporate social responsibility initiative, Unstoppable Women (Mujeres Imparables).

The new multiplatform initiative seeks to inspire, inform, and ignite a community of unstoppable Latino women to shift their perspective and “change the game” of life. Activations will take place throughout the month on broadcast and digital channels and in a series of community events across the nation leading to the countdown of the highly anticipated FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™, airing on Telemundo and Peacock this summer.

“Telemundo celebrates women every day of the year and this month we’re inviting all Latinas to unleash their confidence and the immense influence they have to shape their future,” said Mónica Gil, Chief Administrative and Marketing Officer for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.

This new campaign recognizes and salutes powerful Latinas from all walks of life to ignite and embrace their ability to be unstoppable at anything they do.

MÓNICA GIL

Chief Administrative and Marketing Officer for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises

To view and download “Change the Game” PSA, click here.

Telemundo’s Change the Game (Cambia el Juego) initiative encompasses an array of programming, community activations and employee experiences:

Last weekend, Telemundo Deportes streamed the Chivas Femenil vs. Atlas Feminil match, featuring commentary by Telemundo’s Ana Jurka and Aranzta Fernandez.Collaboration with the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles for Girls Empowerment Day, bringing over 2,000 girls to the Dignity Health Sports Park for a day of fun, inspiration, and motivation, with clinics, workshops, and more.Telemundo talent will join the 5th annual LATINAFest: Sembrando and Cultivating our Future, the largest outdoor festival on the West Coast celebrating all things Latina, including an Unstoppable Women and Women’s World Cup activation.Telemundo will host an executive panel at its headquarters titled “Changing the Game Together” featuring unstoppable women and executives in the world of sports who have scored big goals and impressive records.Extensive employee activations including a “Las Mujeres Imparables de Telemundo” branded photo shoot for all women at Telemundo to celebrate their power within the company, inspire passion as we countdown to the Women’s World Cup, and together #changethegame across social media platforms on International Women’s Day.Cambio de Juego, a webisode series dedicated to highlighting the impact of women in sports through discussions, debate and analysis, will feature a month-long celebration highlighting women’s growth and influence in sports, hosted by Telemundo Deportes’ Ana Jurka.Zona Mixta, Telemundo Deportes’ leading late-night weekend sports studio show, will highlight a variety of topics around women in sports. The program is hosted by Ana Jurka with a roster of correspondents and sports professionals, including Veronica Rodriguez, Arantza Fernandez and Daniella Lopez Guajardo as well as experts like Claudia Trejos who covers boxing.Next month, Telemundo continues building the excitement on the road to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, airing the U.S. Women’s National Team’s upcoming “friendlies” against the Republic of Ireland on April 8 and April 11 on Universo and Peacock.

Since its inception, Unstoppable Women (Mujeres Imparables) has created a diverse community of women with inspiring life stories, shared educational resources about Latinas, and aligned with community partners on key national initiatives. Mujeres Imparables is part of Telemundo’s El Poder En Ti community outreach program and seeks to advance Latinas in the workplace and beyond.

To learn more about the Mujeres Imparables initiative, please visit “Mujeres Imparables” on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, and connect with Telemundo on Facebook and Twitter.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 22, 2023 /3BL Media/ – Today is the , a day to recognize water’s vital role in supporting economic, social and human development. We demonstrate our commitment to water stewardship by improving our operations and engaging our communities to address water-related issues.

Water is essential in almost every step of our product making process, and so, we work to return more than 90 percent of the water we use in operations back to the environment after treatment. This year’s World Water Day theme is accelerating change.

As we look toward 2030 and beyond, we seek to accelerate change by improving the long-term sustainability of water resources where we live and work. Our Springfield, Ore. Containerboard Mill is working to do just that and reduced their mill water consumption by 7.5% in 2022, surpassing their planned reduction, as part of their Water Wise target, of 4%.

The Springfield mill planned and implemented many non-capital projects to aide in their 7.5% water reduction, and incorporated daily discussions of the mill’s river water intake levels against the daily target, investigating any abnormalities in water usage, and troubleshooting if levels are high.

By giving water usage increased visibility, Springfield is able to control its consumption and aim to exceed its water reduction goals each year working towards the company’s Vision 2030 water reduction target of 25%. Springfield plans for more water reduction projects to be executed in 2023.

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