Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Empowerment Over Pressure: Meet Bhumi Patil

GoDaddy

Innovation & Technology

Mastercard: Six Payment Trends for 2026

Mastercard

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A New Year Perspective: Trusted Chemistry

Chemours

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Aflac Celebrates 70 Years of Innovation, Care and the Iconic Aflac Duck

Aflac Incorporated

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Gaziano Lineman Awards Finalists Announced

KeyBank





Recent Alerts

sustainability: 2025 Report - Rockwell Automation
Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

people in a boat
What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Social Impact & Volunteering

FCA Community: Teaching Boys to Break Free From the Hashtag and Take Action

The old saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child.

Unfortunately, Carlton Honey did not have a village growing up. His father worked four jobs and his mother was quite ill, and he made some poor decisions.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Cerro Negro Ignites the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Perito Moreno

In this series, we introduce you to the winners of Goldcorp’s Global Excellence Awards 2019. The Awards were launched in 2014 and are held every year to celebrate excellence and recognize achievements and successes made by individuals and teams across our organization who are thinking innovatively, finding ways to improve our business and supporting our vision of Together, Creating Sustainable Value.

Diversity & Inclusion

Franklin Templeton Earns Top Marks in 2019 Corporate Equality Index

Franklin Templeton is pleased to announce it has received a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The UPS Foundation Mobilizes Its Disaster Relief Network by Land, Sea and Air to Support Cyclone and Flooding Relief Efforts

The UPS Foundation is coordinating with United Nations partners to speed food and supplies to impacted communities in Mozambique and Malawi. In addition, efforts continue in collaboration with relief organizations to provide safe shelter, food and relief supplies to victims of the recent tornados and floods in the U.S. Midwest.

Environment

Los Angeles Convention Center Presented with Most Prestigious Sustainability Award in Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC), owned by the City of Los Angeles and managed by AEG Facilities, was recently honored with the Los Angeles Better Buildings Challenge (LABBC) Innovation Award for its significant energy savings.

Research, Reports & Publications

5 Things to Know About the 2018 Janssen U.S. Transparency Report

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Rethinking Sustainability Using Closed-Loop Manufacturing and Circular Economy Frameworks

There’s a tectonic shift taking place in the industrial world, as concerns about humankind’s impact on the environment drive companies to rethink fundamental aspects of how they do business. It’s no longer enough to pay mere lip service to sustainability. Forward-thinking leaders demand new strategic approaches that not only address environmental demands, but also position their organizations for future growth.

Innovation & Technology

Boeing and Discovery Education Launch New FUTURE U. Program to Inspire Student Careers in Aerospace Technology

Boeing and Discovery Education, the leading provider of standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms, today launched FUTURE U., a new innovative initiative to train the next generation of STEM professionals in aerospace exploration. The program will provide students with digitally immersive curriculum resources and experiences, including hands-on STEM activities, to help 6-12th grade students embrace their potential to make an impact on the future of aerospace.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Which Wich® Project PB&J® Partners with Hormel Foods and its SKIPPY® Brand for April “Spread The Love” Campaign to Help Fight Hunger

Which Wich’s philanthropic foundation, Project PB&J, was created five years ago with a vision of making the world a better place one PB&J sandwich at a time. This year, with National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day on Tuesday, April 2, Which Wich is teaming up with Hormel Foods and its SKIPPY® peanut butter brand to host a month-long virtual spreading party throughout April to benefit hunger relief efforts in local communities. Both companies are encouraging everyone to join the campaign by making PB&J sandwiches that can be donated to local hunger relief organizations. For every sandwich that is made and donated, Which Wich and Hormel Foods and its SKIPPY® brand, will donate a dollar up to $20,000 to hunger relief efforts nationally.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Perspectives Podcast: Episode 18 - Greg Baldwin, VolunteerMatch

Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly and VolunteerMatch CEO Greg Baldwin reflect on the advantages and challenges of living in an age of unprecedented volunteering opportunities. Greg reveals how VolunteerMatch is taking strategic risks in order to stay competitive in the digital age and elevate the value of service experiences, both for volunteers and the organizations they support.

Media & Communications

EDF Report Offers Perspectives on the Current State of Sustainability Ratings and Rankings and Suggestions for Improvement

Ratings, rankings, scores, best of lists – these are increasingly important to corporate issuers and for investors.

The popular CBS TV Network nighttime host David Letterman for many years provided us with periods of laughter with his well-known top 10 list segments. (Example: The Top 10 Stupid Things Americans Say to Brits.)

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Legg Mason Earns Top Marks in 2019 Corporate Equality Index

Legg Mason announced today that it has received a perfect score of 100 on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

Diversity & Inclusion

Consumers Energy Discusses How Work Life Has Changed for Women Leaders With Its First Woman Senior Executive

The challenges facing Consumers Energy's first woman senior executive Cathy Reynolds in the workplace might sound familiar to many women. CMS Energy President and CEO Patti Poppe sat down with Cathy, Consumers Energy’s first woman senior vice president, to talk about how work life has changed for women over the last 40 years.

Environment

Do You Really Need a Facility Response Plan?

If your facility stores over one million gallons of oil, do you need to develop a Facility Response Plan? Read Antea Group's blog and find out.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Smithfield Foods Donates More Than 35,000 Pounds of Protein to the Tarrant Area Food Bank

Smithfield Foods, Inc. and Kroger have joined forces to donate more than more than 35,000 pounds of protein to Tarrant Area Food Bank. Smithfield’s contribution was part of the company’s 2019 Helping Hungry Homes® donation tour.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Eat It, Just Eat It

What we eat matters. It impacts our health, our environment, and the economic opportunities for farmers around the globe.

Diversity & Inclusion

We See Equal - Women in STEM: Emily Hamlin

Environment

The World Is Getting Less Circular – Can Reporting Help?

In order to accelerate our shift to a circular economy, we need to rethink the way we see waste. At GRI, we see reporting playing an important role in that fundamental change.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Global Custodian Awards Lifetime Achievement Honour to Northern Trust’s Penelope Biggs

Northern Trust’s chief strategy officer for the corporate and institutional services (C&IS) business, and well-known securities services industry figure, Penelope Biggs, was the recipient of Global Custodian’s Lifetime Achievement award last night.

Diversity & Inclusion

Black & Veatch CEO’s Signature Cements Commitment to Workplace Diversity and Inclusion

Diverse and inclusive workplaces promote better decision making, economic growth and professional development. That’s why Black & Veatch announced today that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Edwards has joined the largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Clear The Financial Clutter

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Protecting Customer Privacy

We regularly review our Privacy Policy, which governs how we collect, use and protect personal data, and we recently updated it to satisfy requirements under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Diversity & Inclusion

From the Call Center to the C-Suite: HPE's Neri Talks Diversity, Latino Leadership

Antonio Neri, the only Latino to lead a Fortune 500 company in Silicon Valley, speaks about his personal "responsibility" to hire the right Latinos in tech and his ambitions for a people-focused legacy.

Education

Video | Arrow Electronics and Close the Gap Go on a Digital Training Tour through Kenya

The DigiTruck is a mobile, solar-powered classroom and enterprise incubator. The new unit serves the Kenyan capital of Nairobi - one of Africa’s commercial hubs and a portal for Africa’s development in the 21st Century.

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    Subaru is dedicated to supporting those who need it the most in our communities. From donating food to Feeding America, providing essential items to...
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    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...