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CSB and Mother Cabrini Health Foundation partnership featured in Inside Philanthropy

Inside Philathropy featured Invest NYC SDG's $2 million grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation in a piece titled A New York Health Funder Looks to Small and Urban Farms as a Solution to Hunger.

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NYU Stern and Cornell Launch FoodMap NY Research Program to Identify Barriers and Solutions to Food and Nutrition Insecurity

NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business Receives $2M From Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to Develop Long-Term Solutions to Food Insecurity with Cornell’s FIG Lab.

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Bloomberg recognizes CSB's Equitable Commute Project in trend piece on urban transportation innovation

The Equitable Commute Project, proudly co-founded by NYU Stern CSB, is featured in Bloomberg's coverage of e-bikes transforming transportation in New York City.

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INSDIER Intelligence Draws Insights from CSB's Tensie Whelan in New Report on Sustainable Technologies

In a new report from INSIDER Intelligence, Technologies to Drive Sustainability, Tensie Whelan shares business strategies that make a tangible environmental impact while also driving financial value.

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The Equitable Commute Project Selected as a Finalist for NYSERDA’s $7 Million Clean Transportation Prize

The COVID pandemic put a spotlight on a growing transportation problem: over 250,000 essential working New Yorkers are lower income, largely people of color, who live in transportation deserts, who cannot work remotely, and travel long distances in often convoluted, time consuming routes in their co

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Essential Workers in the Bronx Are Getting an E-Bike Boost

In the article Essential Workers in the Bronx Are Getting an E-Bike Boost, Next City discusses the city's challenges to transportation justice, how COVID exacerbated the issue for low-income f

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CSB Research Highlighted in Forbes Investigation of Corporate Sustainability

The push for corporate sustainability has seen rapid growth in recent years, but an article recently published in Forbes asks whether companies sho

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Invest NYC SDG Initiative Receives $2M from Mother Cabrini Health Foundation To Develop Long-Term Solutions to Food Insecurity

CSB's Invest NYC SDG Initiative was awarded a $2 million grant by the Mother Cabrini Health Foundatio

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Bloomberg Quint Article Highlights CSB Director Tensie Whelan’s Research on the Lack of ESG Credentials on Fortune 100 Boards

As an increasing number of companies include terms like “sustainability” and “climate change” in their filings, presentations, and earnings calls, keeping them accountable for their promises is a difficult task. 

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CSB Director Tensie Whelan Discusses How to Govern, Monitor, and Measure Sustainability


Social investing and sustainability-as-strategy are more widespread than they have ever been. As such, many corporate boards are giving increased attention to sustainability’s role in M&A, capital allocation, and capital raising.