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KKR Appoints Dane E. Holmes as Chief Administrative Officer

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Thursday, December 14, 2023
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KKR today announced the appointment of Dane E. Holmes as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), effective December 29, 2023.

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  • KKR today announced the appointment of Dane E. Holmes as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), effective December 29, 2023.
  • Mr. Holmes assumes the CAO position after having been a member of KKR’s Board of Directors since March 2021.
  • Concurrent with this appointment, Mr. Holmes is resigning from his Board position to transition into the new role.
  • Mr. Holmes joins KKR from Eskalera Inc., an enterprise software company focused on employee engagement and productivity that he co-founded and has led as Chairman and CEO since 2020.

Audrey Choi elected to 3M Board of Directors

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Friday, August 11, 2023
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 3M (NYSE: MMM) announced today that Audrey Choi, retired Chief Sustainability Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, Morgan Stanley, has been elected to 3M's Board of Directors, effective August 9, 2023.

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  • ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 3M (NYSE: MMM) announced today that Audrey Choi, retired Chief Sustainability Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, Morgan Stanley, has been elected to 3M's Board of Directors, effective August 9, 2023.
  • In connection with Ms. Choi's election, the Board of Directors increased its size from 10 to 11 members.
  • Ms. Choi was Morgan Stanley's first Chief Sustainability Officer and a member of the firm's Management Committee from 2017-2022, overseeing sustainability for a global financial services firm with offices in 41 countries.
  • Ms. Choi earned her bachelor's degree from Harvard College and master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

The Vonage Foundation Honored With 2023 Tech Cares Award

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Thursday, August 10, 2023
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HOLMDEL, N.J., Aug. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, has been honored with a 2023 TrustRadius Tech Cares Award in recognition of The Vonage Foundation and its mission to help bridge the digital divide by making communications technology more accessible to all.

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  • Award Recognizes Commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility, Closing Digital Divide
    HOLMDEL, N.J., Aug. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Von age , a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, has been honored with a 2023 TrustRadius Tech Cares Award in recognition of The Vonage Foundation and its mission to help bridge the digital divide by making communications technology more accessible to all.
  • "The Vonage Foundation has been honored with a 2023 Tech Cares award, recognizing their unwavering commitment to corporate social responsibility," said Megan Headley, VP of Research at TrustRadius.
  • The Vonage Foundation partners with organizations to help support its mission for education, telehealth, connected world, and crisis response.
  • "We are very proud to be recognized for the work of The Vonage Foundation," said Joy Corso, Chief Marketing Officer for Vonage.

The Vonage Foundation Expands Partnership With StoryCorps, Powering Connections for More Than 36,000 Individuals

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023
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HOLMDEL, N.J., Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, continues to expand its partnership with StoryCorps, the national non-profit organization dedicated to recording, preserving, and sharing the stories of people of all backgrounds and beliefs. Since launching StoryCorps Connect in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, an initiative to engage Americans in StoryCorps interviews conducted and recorded remotely, The Vonage Foundation has provided in-kind support to help the organization to connect more than 36,000 people across all 50 states, counteracting the isolating effects of social distancing.

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  • Since joining forces with Vonage, we have leveraged technology to make a lasting impact on more than 36,000 lives.
  • Since joining forces with the Vonage Foundation back in 2020, we have leveraged technology and the virtual connections it enables to make a lasting and meaningful impact on more than 36,000 individuals' lives."
  • The Vonage Foundation supports initiatives like StoryCorps Connect that are dedicated to bringing technology access to communities through partnerships, charitable contributions and donations of services for nonprofits.
  • Bakari Foundation - making it possible for grieving families from Austin and San Antonio to honor lost loved ones with memories recorded comfortably from their own homes.

Rivian Hires Sarah O’Brien as Chief Communications Officer

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Friday, June 30, 2023
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Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIVN) today announced it has hired Sarah O’Brien as its Chief Communications Officer.

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  • Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIVN) today announced it has hired Sarah O’Brien as its Chief Communications Officer.
  • O’Brien is joining Rivian from Meta, where she spent more than four years as Vice President of Executive and Product Communications.
  • O’Brien starts at Rivian today and will report directly to Rivian Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe.
  • At Rivian, O’Brien will oversee the company’s communications function, which includes product, consumer, internal and corporate communications.

Medicine meets microphones - Lessons in listening from StoryCorps and Providence Institute for Human Caring

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Thursday, August 4, 2022
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SEATTLE and NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Providence Institute for Human Caring in collaboration with StoryCorps invites you to a free one-hour presentation on the healing benefits of storytelling and listening.

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  • SEATTLE and NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Providence Institute for Human Caring in collaboration with StoryCorps invites you to a free one-hour presentation on the healing benefits of storytelling and listening.
  • For patients, storytelling and listening can help relieve stress, build resiliency, and offer a source of empowerment.
  • For health care professionals, storytelling and listening can enhance empathy, improve cultural literacy, and can ease moral duress.
  • The Institute for Human Caring is an innovation and culture-change agent of Providence, dedicated to making caring for whole persons the new normal.

Deaf cancer patient stars in 500th Hear Me Now recording

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Thursday, June 30, 2022
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LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Christine Kostrubala, who is deaf and survived breast cancer, recently participated in the 500th recording for Hear Me Now™, a storytelling and listening program at Providence.

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  • In this milestone audio/visual recording, Kostrubala of Bremerton, Wash., shares challenges she's faced with healthcare outside of Providence, including a doctor who assumed she was intellectually disabled because she's deaf.
  • When it comes to accommodating deaf people, "the whole profession has a long way to go," Kostrubala said, through interpreter Sarah Rasmussen.
  • Kostrubala noted that inviting patients and providers to share their stories through Hear Me Now offers an innovative way to improve understanding and quality of care.
  • Hear Me Now offers a safe place to record stories, and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion to promote trust, understanding and healing.

Building Off Juneteenth Momentum, Second Annual Civic Season Launches and Inspires Gen Z to Engage in History, Civic Participation

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Thursday, June 23, 2022
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WASHINGTON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, three hundred cultural and civic institutions across the country kicked off the second annual Civic Season, a new summer tradition for learning and action co-designed with Gen Z. Anchored by Juneteenth and Independence Day - two dates that highlight the gap between our nation's promises and practices - Civic Season is about welcoming the future inheritors of the United States to learn about our nation's history so they can use it to inform and inspire civic participation for generations to come.

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  • "Civic Season is about young people engaging with our past so they can help write our future," said Caroline Klibanoff, managing director of Made By Us at the National Museum of American History.
  • "With hundreds of events and activities nationwide, the Civic Season is a new kind of American tradition where we come together to build a democracy powered by all of us."
  • More than 750 activities and resources are available at TheCivicSeason.com including podcasts, walking tours, how-to guides, in-person programs, simulations and videos.
  • Civic Season has been developed by Made By Us, an unparalleled collaboration of more than 130 of the nation's history museums to better engage Millennials and Gen-Z with American history to inspire, inform and empower civic participation.

connectRN Launches in Tennessee; Sees Unprecedented Yearly Growth

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022
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WALTHAM, Mass., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- connectRN, the leading platform connecting nurses and CNAs to opportunities and each other to build a supportive and thriving network, is proud to announce the expansion of its services to Tennessee, with its third corporate office to open in Nashville in August. Home to more than 500 healthcare companies, Nashville is the heartbeat of the healthcare industry, generating more than $95 billion in revenue and creating more than 500,000 jobs, and is an organic next step as connectRN continues to focus on delivering better work solutions for nurses everywhere. In recent months the company expanded its services to Colorado, Texas, and Georgia, with plans to launch in California by the end of Q4, and be in all 50 states by the end of the year. The company has also seen 250% revenue growth year over year.

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  • The raise also coincided with incredible growth in December and January; connectRN's revenue run rate doubled.
  • "We've experienced tremendous growth in the first half of the year and expect to continue the trend as we move into the H2.
  • By leveraging technology, connectRN connects the nursing community to flexible work opportunities and each other to build a supportive and thriving network.
  • connectRN is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts and serves clinicians across the U.S. To learn more about connectRN, please please visit www.connectrn.com .

connectRN and StoryCorps Collaborate to Tell the Stories of Nurses Two Years into the Pandemic

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
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CHICAGO, March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- connectRN, the leading platform connecting nurses to opportunities and each other, to build a supportive and thriving network, is pleased to announce a collaboration with StoryCorps, the non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share humanity's stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. In Chicago on April 15th and 16th, nurses and their families are invited to participate in recording sessions that, with permission, will be preserved in StoryCorps' archive at the Library of Congress, the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.

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  • "We are honored to work with StoryCorps to amplify the voices of nurses who are the backbone of the healthcare system," said Ted Jeanloz, CEO of connectRN.
  • Every day, the connectRN platform helps thousands of nurses and aides find opportunities and share their stories with one another.
  • With connectRN, nurses are able to choose locations and shifts that work for them and their families.
  • "StoryCorps is excited to work with connectRN to honor the experiences of nurses during this unprecedented moment in history," said Alissa Pelc, Managing Director, Corporate Partnerships at StoryCorps.