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At a Glance:

• AMD has exceeded its 30×25 goal, achieving a 38x increase in node-level energy efficiency for AI-training and HPC, which equates to a 97% reduction in energy for the same performance compared to systems from just five years ago.
• AMD has set a new 2030 goal to deliver a 20x increase in rack-scale energy efficiency from a 2024 base year, enabling a typical AI model that today requires more than 275 racks to be trained in under one rack by 2030, using 95% less electricity.
• Combined with software and algorithmic advances, the new goal could enable up to a 100x improvement in overall energy efficiency

At AMD, energy efficiency has long been a guiding core design principle aligned to our roadmap and product strategy. For more than a decade, we’ve set public, time-bound goals to dramatically increase the energy efficiency of our products and have consistently met and exceeded those targets. Today, I’m proud to share that we’ve done it again, and we’re setting the next five-year vision for energy efficient design.

Today at Advancing AI, we announced that AMD has surpassed our 30×25 goal, which we set in 2021 to improve the energy efficiency of AI-training and high-performance computing (HPC) nodes by 30x from 2020 to 2025.¹ This was an ambitious goal, and we’re proud to have exceeded it, but we’re not stopping here.

As AI continues to scale, and as we move toward true end-to-end design of full AI systems, it’s more important than ever for us to continue our leadership in energy– efficient design work. That’s why today, we’re also setting our sights on a bold new target: a 20x improvement in rack-scale energy efficiency for AI training and inference by 2030, from a 2024 base year.²

Building on a Decade of Leadership 

This marks the third major milestone in a multi-decade effort to advance efficiency across our computing platforms. In 2020, we exceeded our 25×20 goal by improving the energy efficiency of AMD mobile processors 25-fold in just six years.³ The 30×25 goal built on that momentum, targeting AI and HPC workloads in accelerated nodes. And now, the 20x by 2030 rack-scale goal reflects the next frontier, not just focused on chips, but smarter and more efficient systems, from silicon to full rack integration to address data center level power requirements.

Surpassing 30×25

Our 30×25 goal was rooted in a clear benchmark, to improve the energy efficiency of our accelerated compute nodes by 30x compared to a 2020 base year. This goal represented more than a 2.5x acceleration over industry trends from the previous five years (2015-2020). As of mid-2025, we’ve gone beyond that, achieving a 38x gain over the base system using a current configuration of four AMD Instinct™ MI355X GPUs and one AMD EPYC™ 5th Gen CPU.⁴ That equates to a 97% reduction in energy for the same performance compared to systems from just five years ago.

We achieved this through deep architectural innovations, aggressive optimization of performance-per-watt, and relentless engineering across our CPU and GPU product lines.

A New Goal for the AI Era

As workloads scale and demand continues to rise, node-level efficiency gains won’t keep pace. The most significant efficiency impact can be realized at the system level, where our 2030 goal is focused.

We believe we can achieve 20x increase in rack-scale energy efficiency for AI training and inference from 2024 by 2030, which AMD estimates exceeds the industry improvement trend from 2018 to 2025 by almost 3x. This reflects performance-per-watt improvements across the entire rack, including CPUs, GPUs, memory, networking, storage and hardware-software co-design, based on our latest designs and roadmap projections. This shift from node to rack is made possible by our rapidly evolving end-to-end AI strategy and is key to scaling datacenter AI in a more sustainable way.

What This Means in Practice

A 20x rack-scale efficiency improvement at nearly 3x the prior industry rate has major implications. Using training for a typical AI model in 2025 as a benchmark, the gains could enable:⁵

• Rack consolidation from more than 275 racks to <1 fully utilized rack
• More than a 95% reduction in operational electricity use
• Carbon emission reduction from approximately 3,000 to 100 metric tCO2 for model training

These projections are based on AMD silicon and system design roadmap and a measurement methodology validated by energy-efficiency expert Dr. Jonathan Koomey.

“By grounding the 2030 target in system-level metrics and transparent methodology, AMD is raising the bar for the industry,” Dr. Koomey said. “The target gains in rack-scale efficiency will enable others across the ecosystem, from model developers to cloud providers, to scale AI compute more sustainably and cost-effectively.”

Looking Beyond Hardware

Our 20x goal reflects what we control directly: hardware and system-level design. But we know that even greater delivered AI model efficiency gains will be possible, of up to 5x over the goal period, as software developers discover smarter algorithms and continue innovating with lower-precision approaches at current rates. When those factors are included, overall energy efficiency for training a typical AI model could improve by as much as 100x by 2030.⁶

While AMD is not claiming that full multiplier in our own goal, we’re proud to provide the hardware foundation that enables it — and to support the open ecosystem and developer community working to unlock those gains. Whether through open standards, our open software approach with AMD ROCm™, or our close collaboration with our partners, AMD remains committed to helping innovators everywhere scale AI more efficiently.

What Comes Next

As we close one chapter with 30×25 and open the next with this new rack-scale goal, we remain committed to transparency, accountability, and measurable progress. This approach sets AMD apart and is necessary as we advance how the industry approaches efficiency as demand and deployment of AI continues to expand.

We’re excited to keep pushing the limits, not just of performance, but also what’s possible when efficiency leads the way. As the goal progresses, we will continue to share updates on our progress and the effects these gains are enabling across the ecosystem.

Footnotes

1. Includes high-performance CPU and GPU accelerators used for AI training and High-Performance Computing in a 4-Accelerator, CPU hosted configuration. Goal calculations are based on performance scores as measured by standard performance metrics (HPC: Linpack DGEMM kernel FLOPS with 4k matrix size; AI training: lower precision training-focused floating-point math GEMM kernels operating on 4k matrices) divided by the rated power consumption of a representative accelerated compute node including the CPU host + memory, and 4 GPU accelerators.
2. AMD based advanced racks for AI training/inference in each year (2024 to 2030) based on AMD roadmaps, also examining historical trends to inform rack design choices and technology improvements to align projected goals and historical trends. The 2024 rack is based on the MI300X node, which is comparable to the Nvidia H100 and reflects current common practice in AI deployments in 2024/2025 timeframe. The 2030 rack is based on an AMD system and silicon design expectations for that time frame. In each case, AMD specified components like GPUs, CPUs, DRAM, storage, cooling, and communications, tracking component and defined rack characteristics for power and performance. Calculations do not include power used for cooling air or water supply outside the racks but do include power for fans and pumps internal to the racks.Performance improvements are estimated based on progress in compute output (delivered, sustained, not peak FLOPS), memory (HBM) bandwidth, and network (scale-up) bandwidth, expressed as indices and weighted by the following factors for training and inference.

	FLOPS	HBM BW	Scale-up BW
Training	70.0%	10.0%	20.0%
Inference	45.0%	32.5%	22.5%

3. Performance and power use per rack together imply trends in performance per watt over time for training and inference, then indices for progress in training and inference are weighted 50:50 to get the final estimate of AMD projected progress by 2030 (20x). The performance number assumes continued AI model progress in exploiting lower precision math formats for both training and inference which results in both an increase in effective FLOPS and a reduction in required bandwidth per FLOP.
4. https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-6-25-amd-exceeds-six-year-goal-to-deliver-unprecedented.html
5. EPYC-030a: Calculation includes 1) base case kWhr use projections in 2025 conducted with Koomey Analytics based on available research and data that includes segment specific projected 2025 deployment volumes and data center power utilization effectiveness (PUE) including GPU HPC and machine learning (ML) installations and 2) AMD CPU and GPU node power consumptions incorporating segment-specific utilization (active vs. idle) percentages and multiplied by PUE to determine actual total energy use for calculation of the performance per Watt. 38x is calculated using the following formula: (base case HPC node kWhr use projection in 2025 * AMD 2025 perf/Watt improvement using DGEMM and TEC +Base case ML node kWhr use projection in 2025 *AMD 2025 perf/Watt improvement using ML math and TEC) /(Base case projected kWhr usage in 2025). For more information, https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/corporate-responsibility/data-center-sustainability.html.
6. AMD estimated the number of racks to train a typical notable AI model based on EPOCH AI data (https://epoch.ai). For this calculation we assume, based on these data, that a typical model takes 10²⁵ floating point operations to train (based on the median of 2025 data), and that this training takes place over 1 month. FLOPs needed = 10^25 FLOPs/(seconds/month)/Model FLOPs utilization (MFU) = 10^25/(2.6298*10^6)/0.6. Racks = FLOPs needed/(FLOPS/rack in 2024 and 2030). The compute performance estimates from the AMD roadmap suggests that approximately 276 racks would be needed in 2025 to train a typical model over one month using the MI300X product (assuming 22.656 PFLOPS/rack with 60% MFU) and <1 fully utilized rack would be needed to train the same model in 2030 using a rack configuration based on an AMD roadmap projection. These calculations imply a >276-fold reduction in the number of racks to train the same model over this six-year period. Electricity use for a MI300X system to completely train a defined 2025 AI model using a 2024 rack is calculated at ~7GWh, whereas the future 2030 AMD system could train the same model using ~350 MWh, a 95% reduction. AMD then applied carbon intensities per kWh from the International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2024 [https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2024]. IEA’s stated policy case gives carbon intensities for 2023 and 2030. We determined the average annual change in intensity from 2023 to 2030 and applied that to the 2023 intensity to get 2024 intensity (434 CO2 g/kWh) versus the 2030 intensity (312 CO2 g/kWh). Emissions for the 2024 baseline scenario of 7 GWh x 434 CO2 g/kWh equates to approximately 3000 metric tC02, versus the future 2030 scenario of 350 MWh x 312 CO₂ g/kWh equates to around 100 metric tCO2.
7. Regression analysis of achieved accuracy/parameter across a selection of model benchmarks, such as MMLU, HellaSwag, and ARC Challenge, show that improving efficiency of ML model architectures through novel algorithmic techniques, such as Mixture of Experts and State Space Models for example, can improve their efficiency by roughly 5x during the goal period. Similar numbers are quoted in Patterson, D., J. Gonzalez, U. Hölzle, Q. Le, C. Liang, L. M. Munguia, D. Rothchild, D. R. So, M. Texier, and J. Dean. 2022. “The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink.” Computer. vol. 55, no. 7. pp. 18-28.” Therefore, assuming innovation continues at the current pace, a 20x hardware and system design goal amplified by a 5x software and algorithm advancements can lead to a 100x total gain by 2030.

An innovation from CNH uniting real time crop analysis and automated spraying now comes built-in for its Case IH, New Holland and Miller brands’ sprayer portfolio.

Machine learning and camera sensing technology are proving how powerfully AI supports agriculture by boosting efficiency, reducing input costs, and helping farmers grow more sustainably.

This smart sprayer precision tech detects green on brown (weeds on soil) and then delivers the precise application of inputs such as water, herbicides and fertilizers – saving on resources and cutting down chemical use, resulting in more productive acres.

The latest installment in CNH’s ‘A Sustainable Year’ series delves into the technology behind this breakthrough and talks to an American farming family tending to 40,000 acres about the benefits they’re already seeing on the ground.

Read the full story at: publications.cnhindustrial.com/a-sustainable-year-2024-2025/senseapply-technology

Originally published on DICK’S Sporting Goods Sideline Report

June 11 marked a historic first for DICK’S Sporting Goods and The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation. Twenty DICK’S House of Sport locations nationwide came alive with energy, excitement and sport for the inaugural “Sports Matter Day of Play”. As part of the festivities The DICK’S Foundation invited youth organizations from communities across the country to participate in a day dedicated to celebrating play, access and opportunity in sports at their local DICK’S House of Sport location.

This first-of-its-kind event was designed to give young athletes the chance to explore and experience new sports. From soccer drills in Boston to softball swings in Miami, each House of Sport became a vibrant, hands-on arena where kids could discover the joy of play. Designed to be inclusive and engaging, the activities encouraged curiosity and confidence in a variety of sports. For many, it was their very first time holding a lacrosse stick, swinging a golf club or rock climbing with encouragement from local coaches and mentors.

“There is nothing better than seeing kids light up when they get to play a sport for the first time,” said Rick Jordan, VP of The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation. “Thats what the day was all about, getting to create those moments and showing young athletes that they belong on the field, the court or wherever their passion leads them.”

In addition to a fun day of play at House of Sport, participating organizations also received a Sports Matter grant from The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation, to help ensure that their vital work in the community can continue to thrive. The grants underscore The Foundation’s ongoing mission to provide access and equity in youth sports, one athlete at a time. Since 2014, DICK’S Sporting Goods and The DICK’S Foundation has helped over 3 million kids and committed over $100 million to support young athletes with equipment, registration fees, league costs and playing fields through its Sports Matter Program.

“To have our organization recognized and supported today means a lot to us,” said Jamaal Wornum, CEO and Founder of One Love Sports Academy in Boston. “The kids had a blast trying new sports and events like these are a game-changer for our program that will keep more kids doing what they love.”

The Full List of Participating Organizations and DICK’S House of Sport Locations includes:

• Flyght Academy (Dayton, OH)
• Boys & Girls Club of SEVA (Chesapeake, VA)
• We ALL-EN Foundation and Pitreboyz Foundation (Katy, TX)
• Tulsa Dream Center (Tulsa, OK)
• Boston SCORES and One Love Sports Academy (Boston, MA)
• Bolder Options and Girl’s On The Run (Minnetonka, MN)
• Emerald Youth Foundation (Knoxville, TN)
• Houston reVision (Baybrook, TX)
• Rochester City Soccer (Victor, NY)
• Play Ball Foundation (Salem, MA)
• Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma and Oklahoma Adaptive Sports Association (Oklahoma City, OK)
• Boys & Girls Club Capital Region (Latham, NY)
• Friendly House (Davenport, IA)
• Sulfur Springs YMCA (Tampa, FL)
• Champaign Parks District (Champaign, IL)
• Pembroke Pines YMCA (Miami, FL)
• Rodney Street Tennis (Brandywine, PA)
• Boys & Girls Club of Binghamton and Police Athletic League of Binghamton (Johnson City, NY)
• Girls on the Run (Scranton, PA)
• Primetime Elite Bulldogs and Two-Six Elite (Fayetteville, NC)

Written by Peyton Moriarity

Yum! Brands

At Yum!, we operate close to 61,000 restaurants in 155-plus countries and territories. One key to our success? Maximizing franchise operating capability.

Watch the latest episode of “Quick Bite,” the series that brings you Yum! news in about a minute, to learn what we look for in our partners and how we work together to build the world’s most loved, most trusted and fastest-growing restaurant brands.

On June 5, 2025, AEG Presents and Goldenvoice brought together aspiring entertainment professionals for an unforgettable experience at the Cali Vibes College Connection Program at the Long Beach Convention Center. This immersive event, which was part of the lead-up to the Cali Vibes Festival, offered college students and young adults a rare behind-the-scenes look at the live music industry.

The program welcomed a select group of participants for a day-long exploration of careers in live entertainment, including a guided tour of the Cali Vibes Festival site before it opened to the public. Attendees engaged in a panel discussion with industry veterans, gaining insights into event production, operations, artist relations, and more.

“The College Connection Program at Cali Vibes is about more than just access, it’s about possibility. We created this experience to show students that there’s space for them in the live music industry, not just as fans, but as future leader,” said Twana Simmons, DEI Business Partner, AEG Presents. “Watching them engage, ask questions, and light up throughout the day reminded all of us why this work matters. We’re proud to provide hands-on experiences that open doors, build confidence, and show students that there’s a place for them in this industry.”

Participants also had the opportunity to network with professionals, explore entry-level job opportunities, and receive mentorship from seasoned experts. The initiative emphasized diversity and inclusion, encouraging students from all backgrounds to pursue careers in entertainment.

Held just days before the Cali Vibes Festival (June 7–8 at Marina Green Park), the College Connection Program reflects AEG’s broader commitment to education, community engagement, and workforce development in the arts.

To learn more about AEG, AEG Presents and Goldenvoice please click here.

“Gen is purpose-driven and committed to making a positive global impact. We anchor our corporate responsibility strategy in our business priorities and people’s needs — helping individuals, families and educators thrive by using technology safely. We believe our approach to corporate responsibility helps manage risks and maximize opportunities for success. We seek to make a positive impact on both our business and society by helping people build digital skills, creating pathways into technology careers for more people, limiting our environmental impacts and bettering the world through digital safety access and education. We believe what we do leads back to Powering Digital Freedom.”

Kim Allman – Head of CR and Government Affairs at Gen 

Today, Gen™ (NASDAQ: GEN) releases its 2025 Social Impact Report. At Gen, our mission is to create innovative and easy to-use technology solutions that help people grow, manage, and secure their digital and financial lives. Dual headquartered in Tempe, Arizona (USA) and Prague, Czech Republic, Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more. There’s a new generation, and it’s not Gen X, Y, or Z. It’s Gen D: Generation Digital. Our family of consumer brands is rooted in providing financial empowerment and cyber safety for the first digital generations. Today, Gen empowers people to live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently for generations to come. Gen brings award-winning products and services in cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.

The Company’s latest Social Impact Report demonstrates how it brings together the teams’ passions and technology to support people and communities, making the world a better, safer place. 

The Gen social impact strategy allows the Company to reach youth, families and educators with the digital education and training they need to navigate their digital lives. In addition to cultivating a culture of giving, the Company builds products that help protect the privacy and personal data of its customers and takes steps to help protect the planet. 

Some highlights from the 2025¹ report include:

• Gen reached more than 5.4 million people through its digital education and training programs, up from 2.8 million in 2023.

• 67% of Gen employees participated in its volunteering and giving programs, far surpassing the Company’s expectations. 

• The Company contributed $4.5 million in charitable giving, including $1.87 million in product donations to more than 8,700 nonprofits.

• Globally, 35% of the Gen global workforce and 40% of the Board of Directors self-identified as women.

• Gen achieved a 12% reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions.

• The Sustainable Home Improvement Program, an employee benefit providing cash incentives for home improvement projects that reduce environmental impacts, has helped employees complete more than 2,000 green home projects in 2025.

Gen was recognized with numerous social impact awards in 2025, including Newsweek’s Most Responsible Companies, America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women. We were also listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI). Learn more about how Gen is protecting and empowering people in the digital world in its 2025 Social Impact Report.

About Gen

Gen (NASDAQ: GEN) is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more. The Gen family of consumer brands is rooted in providing financial empowerment and cyber safety for the first digital generations. Today, Gen empowers people to live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently for generations to come. Gen brings award-winning products and services in cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries. Learn more at GenDigital.com.

¹Refers to Gen’s fiscal year ending March 2025

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Gildan is embracing technological advancements and bolstering worker safety by modernizing its approach towards product transportation in its Eden, North Carolina distribution centre. Recently, the Company implemented approximately 19 putaway and picking robots on site to assist with transportation of full product cases, minimizing the need for workers to manually move product throughout the warehouse and therefore enhancing worker safety.

“I’m excited for our Distribution teams to engage with this new automation technology,” says Bill Griffin, Director of Distribution Operations. “In addition to improving operator and facility safety, this technology is expected to improve efficiency and quality of the workflow, firmly supporting the Gildan Sustainable Growth strategy’s three pillars of capacity-driven growth, innovation, and ESG.”

Quiet and efficient, the robots can lift payloads of up to 600 lbs, and will work collaboratively with operators to physically move cases between carts and designated locations for processing. “Robot-assisted transportation is an important step towards digitizing, innovating, and optimizing certain components of our distribution processes, enabling us to expand our capabilities and better service our customers,” says Tripp Parks, Director of Process Improvement, and project team member of the robotics initiative.

While the robots offer a significant opportunity for the Company’s distribution centres, they also open new paths for growth and career development for employees, who are offered training and equipped with the skillset required to engage with the new technology. With its two-pronged benefits for both the supply chain and for Gildan’s people, this innovation will continue to better position the Company for growth. 

To learn more about Gildan, click here.

Originally published on Aflac Newsroom

Ryan Zimmerman began his life with cancer. When he was born, his doctors discovered that he had a rare form of the disease — fibrosarcoma, a connective tissue cancer that primarily occurs in adults — and amputated his leg up to the hip. Despite it spreading to his lung, Ryan eventually became a survivor of his type of cancer.

Being a kid looked no different for Ryan, who spent his childhood years playing soccer and music, as well as skateboarding — in fact, Ryan learned to skateboard before he learned to walk.

“Growing up, I spent a lot of time at the children’s hospital with an incredible care team and a lot of play therapy,” said Ryan. “Now, as an adult, I realize that play is something that never really goes away, and it has helped me develop a creative mind.”

It’s that mindset that drove Ryan to go back to school to pursue a degree in computer science.

“Honestly, I didn’t think I’d be around to build a career,” said Ryan. “But after getting married and realizing that I just may have a very full life ahead, I wanted to put my drive for innovation to use.”

During his studies, Ryan became the vice president of the Association for Computing Machinery club, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. At one of their breakfast events, someone from Aflac’s IT team spoke about the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in her presentation, and he was instantly amazed.

“As a childhood cancer survivor, I was in awe of the work done at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center,” said Ryan. “After researching their programs and Aflac itself, I realized I had just found the perfect place where I can combine my technical interests with my core values and desire to give back to the medical community that enabled me to claim the title of ‘survivor.’”

This year — while juggling a master’s degree program at Georgia Institute of Technology — Ryan joined the Aflac flock as an IT apprentice. “I’ve always felt that if you don’t lose track of time while you’re doing something, maybe it’s not your passion,” said Ryan. “I love that I can be completely absorbed in what I do every day, and I get to do work that has a big impact.”

This article is for informational purposes only and is not a solicitation for insurance.

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BALTIMORE, June 12, 2025 /3BL/ – The T. Rowe Price Foundation announces its launch of the East Side Impact Grant, a $1.25 million investment over three years aimed at strengthening eight community-based organizations and neighborhood associations in East Baltimore. This initiative is part of the Foundation’s broader $6.5 million grant program, which helps address gaps in Baltimore’s nonprofit sector and represents the Foundation’s largest commitment to date. 

“We pride ourselves on supporting the communities where associates live and work,” said Raymone Jackson, head of Community Affairs and president of the T. Rowe Price Foundation. “With our new headquarters at Harbor Point, we wanted to further support the East Baltimore community through these impact grants.” 

With this support of neighborhood associations and nonprofit organizations that serve East Baltimore families and commitment to education, T. Rowe Price associates also can engage directly with grantee organizations, contributing through volunteer service and personal donations to further support the grant initiatives. 

Grant recipients include:

Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation, Inc. (The Door)

Grant amount: $125,000

Through collaborative partnerships, direct service, and resource development, The Door focuses on youth leadership, family strengthening, and community building to address real challenges. 

Banner Neighborhoods Community Corporation 

Grant amount: $125,000

Banner provides vital services like home repairs and social support for seniors, as well as neighborhood improvement and educational and job-readiness programs for youth.

Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition (HEBCAC)

Grant amount: $125,000

HEBCAC supports strong, diverse neighborhoods that respect their history while building a brighter future, offering resources that promote economic self-sufficiency and enhance livability. 

Living Classrooms Foundation

Grant amount: $150,000

Living Classrooms inspires children, youth, and adults to achieve their potential through hands-on education, workforce development, health and wellness, and community safety programs that use urban, natural, and maritime resources as “living classrooms.”

Global Refuge (formerly Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service)

Grant amount: $125,000

Global Refuge offers resettlement, legal services, mental health support, and crisis response to newcomers, providing essential resources and advocacy for those seeking refuge. 

McKim Community Association 

Grant amount: $125,000

Through its McKim Center and “Free School,” the nonprofit has enriched the lives of youth and families through programs focused on athletics, academics, and neighborhood safety.

The Southeast Community Development Corporation (CDC)

Grant amount: $125,000

The Southeast CDC partners with residents, organizations, and local institutions to revitalize neighborhoods, support homeownership, and improve family stability.

Waterfront Partnership

Grant amount: $350,000

Waterfront Partnership supports efforts to enhance and promote Baltimore’s waterfront district, parks, and public spaces and acknowledges and educates visitors of the indigenous history of Point Park.

Since its establishment in 1981, the T. Rowe Price Foundation has provided more than $194 million in grants to community-based organizations. Learn more about the T. Rowe Price Foundation.

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ABOUT T. ROWE PRICE FOUNDATION
Headquartered in Baltimore, T. Rowe Price helps individuals and institutions around the world achieve their long-term investment goals. As a large global asset management company known for investment excellence, retirement leadership, and independent proprietary research, the firm is built on a culture of integrity that puts client interests first. Through its philanthropic arm, the T. Rowe Price Foundation, the firm has been committed to supporting the local nonprofit community and has given more than $194 million USD in direct grants since inception in 1981. For more information, visit troweprice.com/foundation.

T. ROWE PRICE CONTACT 
Tiane Harrison
410-577-2216
Tiane.Harrison@troweprice.com

Originally published on Ragan
By Ashleigh Pollart

Hershey’s rich legacy stretching back to 1894 doesn’t make our workforce immune to modern challenges. Employees must navigate competing priorities, not having enough hours in the day, delivering results in a changing marketplace, and evolving with ever-shifting consumer behaviors and industry trends.

I stepped into employee communications in early 2024 after focusing on external channels and audiences. Hershey Communications is a team of innovative, top-of-their-game professionals with a strong external perspective and a deep understanding of employee needs. Combined with my focus on data-driven insights, we dove into what our employees were saying – either directly or more discreetly. At the same time, we were also becoming a new kind of company. With the integration of salty snacks brands, Hershey was no longer solely a candy maker, but a multi-category snacking company. Meaning we had to navigate operational changes, including organizational structure, on top of shifting external factors.

Continue reading here.