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Newmont Completes $20 Million Global Community Support Fund, Partnering with Communities for Greater Resilience Post-Pandemic

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Friday, April 5, 2024
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The objective of this fund was to provide critical financial resources to host communities where Newmont operates, targeting funds to address immediate impacts of the global pandemic while catalyzing long-term resiliency and future community development.

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  • The objective of this fund was to provide critical financial resources to host communities where Newmont operates, targeting funds to address immediate impacts of the global pandemic while catalyzing long-term resiliency and future community development.
  • $500,000 donation matched by the Colorado Health Foundation resulting in a $1 million total donation to the Colorado Community Support Fund to support community health and prevention for underserved populations in the state.
  • $300,000 donated to the American Red Cross Global Disaster Preparedness Center to support research and local-level grants for emergency response community resilience.
  • Crown Agents is proud to collaborate with Newmont and the Ministry of Health to contribute to the health and resilience of Suriname."

Citi Foundation Announces Inaugural Global Innovation Challenge To Empower Nonprofits Improving Food Security Around The World

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
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The Citi Foundation (the “Foundation”) today announced its first-ever Global Innovation Challenge to help scale the impact of nonprofits around the world that are developing innovative solutions to improve food security.

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  • The Citi Foundation (the “Foundation”) today announced its first-ever Global Innovation Challenge to help scale the impact of nonprofits around the world that are developing innovative solutions to improve food security.
  • With 770 million people suffering from some form of malnutrition around the world, food insecurity is one of today’s top global crises.
  • Affordability: Improve food affordability through community finance efforts that help reduce the financial burden placed on low-income communities.
  • "The food security crisis is one of the most urgent issues our world is facing today,” said Liza Henshaw, President, Global Citizen.

Rockley Photonics’ CEO Andrew Rickman to Speak at the Commonwealth Trade and Investment Summit 2022

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Monday, December 5, 2022
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Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited (NYSE: RKLY), a global medical technology company focused on delivering leading edge silicon photonics-based biosensing solutions by targeting a portfolio of biomarkers, today announced that Dr. Andrew Rickman, OBE, will join heads of government, senior ministers, and business leaders from across the Commonwealth to participate in the Commonwealth Trade and Investment Summit 2022.

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  • Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited (NYSE: RKLY), a global medical technology company focused on delivering leading edge silicon photonics-based biosensing solutions by targeting a portfolio of biomarkers, today announced that Dr. Andrew Rickman, OBE, will join heads of government, senior ministers, and business leaders from across the Commonwealth to participate in the Commonwealth Trade and Investment Summit 2022.
  • Dr. Rickman, chairman and CEO of Rockley Photonics, will participate in a panel entitled Global Pandemic Preparedness.
  • He will join fellow session participants Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general, World Health Organisation, via pre-recorded video; Sir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser, UK Government; and Fergus Drake, CEO, Crown Agents.
  • The Company plans to provide access to a live webcast of the session from the investor relations page of the Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited website at https://investors.rockleyphotonics.com .