Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Mountain Mediation Receives $100,000 Wells Fargo Grant to Support Eviction Prevention

Wells Fargo & Company

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A Year in Stories: How Covia’s People Drove Progress in 2025

Covia

Education

Otis Expands Little Engineers STEM Program Globally

Otis Worldwide Corporation

Events, Media & Communications

Recognizing Nicolas Clerget, BIER’s 2025 Steering Committee Chair

Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable

Research, Reports & Publications

Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

Rockwell Automation

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

IOC Receives Low Carbon Award From Geneva Climate Network 2050Today

International Olympic Committee





Recent Alerts

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

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

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What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Health & Healthcare

Reimagining Community Health Systems Challenge to Deliver Telehealth to Underserved Areas Ends With Strategies for Expansion

PYXERA Global’s Reimagining Community Health Systems Challenge ended in September with U.S. Community Health Centers poised to play a stronger role in expanding telehealth services for 30 million low-income patients

Innovation & Technology

Cypris Materials Introduces Nature Inspired, Tunable, Structural Color Coating

Cypris Materials, Inc. has cracked nature's code on nanostructures by creating a new type of paint that can be used from cosmetics to the auto industry.

Diversity & Inclusion

Meet the Civil Rights Leaders Joining T‑Mobile’s External Diversity and Inclusion Council

The men and women of the council include some of America’s most accomplished civil rights leaders, representing a wide-range of underrepresented communities.

Energy

MetLife to Reduce Emissions by 30 Percent and Originate $20 Billion of New Green Investments by 2030

Over the next 10 years, MetLife, Inc. has committed to reduce its location-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent from 2019 levels, originate $20 billion in new MetLife Investment Management (MIM)–managed green investments, and allocate $5 million to develop products and partnerships that drive climate solutions.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Truist Donates $40 Million to Launch Innovative Nonprofit Fund Supporting Ethnically, Racially Diverse and Women-Owned Small Businesses

Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today announced a $40 million initial donation to help establish CornerSquare Community Capital, a new national nonprofit fund that will support selected community development financial institutions...

Responsible Production & Consumption

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health Commits $800 Million Through 2030 to Make Its Products More Sustainable for a Healthier Planet

As part of its new Healthy Lives Mission, the company's iconic consumer brands will aim to use 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable plastic packaging and certified/post-consumer recycled paper- and pulp-based packaging.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Making Our Operations Less Carbon Intensive

Products made by chemistry are vital to many low-carbon technologies, including the “built environment,” medicine and mobility. Yet the industrial processes to make these products are both energy and CO2-intensive.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bringing Healing and Justice to Portland's Black Community

As our biggest donor to date, Comcast's contribution to Brown Hope — now the Black Resilience Fund’s parent nonprofit — will provide real and tangible support to our Black neighbors.

Innovation & Technology

EarthX Leads Environmental Innovation With Entrepreneur-In-Residence Program

EarthX has announced it has launched a new Entrepreneur-in-Residence program, EarthX <EIR>, providing the world’s most talented thinkers the opportunity to incubate their ideas and spur innovation for environmental benefit. The program provides...

Sustainable Development Goals

UN Global Compact Water Resilience Coalition Partners With WaterAid to Call for Collective Action on Water Access

The Water Resilience Coalition, an industry-driven, CEO-led initiative of the United Nations Global Compact, has launched “Water is Resilience: A Call for Collective Action on Water Access” in partnership with WaterAid

Media & Communications

Lively Discussions: The Move Toward Harmonized Corporate ESG / Sustainability Reporting

There are lively discussions going on, centered on improving publicly-traded company disclosure and reporting – and especially ESG reporting…that is, storytelling about the company’s “non-financials” (in accounting-speak).

Environment

Considering Climate Change Root Cause During Climate Week 2020

With the increasing urgency of addressing the root cause of climate change, Keysight is committed to building a better planet with a “Think Future, Act Now” mentality.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Zero Waste to Landfill: The Why and How

With terms like “zero waste” flitting around the sustainability discussion, it can sometimes feel like companies are up against unachievable benchmarks. In this blog, Antea Group highlights “zero waste to landfill,” also known as “landfill-free”.

Events, Media & Communications

Five Ways to Network at BSR20, Plus ACLU and Unilever Join the Lineup

The networking opportunities at BSR Conference are unparalleled—we hear this every year, and BSR20 won’t be any different. Our top five ways to connect at BSR20 will help you make meaningful connections with our community of global leaders.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

NFTE World Series of Innovation Challenges Open to Young Social Entrepreneurs

The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) today announced that its World Series of Innovation is now open to teams of young social entrepreneurs to partake in any of the competition’s nine customized challenges, including two challenges from Moody’s.

Education

Join MilliporeSigma at SciFest, the Virtual Interactive STEM Expo

Join MilliporeSigma for SciFest All Access on September 26 – October 3, 2020. This event is brought to you by the USA Science & Engineering Festival and is open to all

Sustainable Development Goals

COVID-19 Private Sector Global Facility Announced at SDG Business Forum - UNDP, UN Global Compact and ICC Join Forces With DHL, Microsoft and PwC to Help Communities Recover Better From the Pandemic

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Global Compact (UN Global Compact) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) have established the COVID-19 Private Sector Global Facility

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

The foundational question is simple – what climate solutions have the greatest potential to reverse global warming in Georgia?

Environment

Beyond Climate Solutions: How Our Corporate Partners Invest in People, Nature, and Wildlife

It’s important to remember that trees are far more than just a carbon sink. Through high-impact strategic tree planting, our corporate partners drive sustainability efforts that do more than just improve our future climate outlook – they mitigate the immediate impacts of climate change for people, wildlife, and critical ecosystems around the globe.

Health & Healthcare

Grupo Gondi Helps Protect Forests While Protecting Its Network From COVID-19

Grupo Gondi, a leading paper packaging company in Mexico, has manufactured and distributed more than 7,000 face shields made with Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) certified paper fiber

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Koch Industries and Society for Human Resource Management are Maximizing Human Potential

Each of us has unique gifts and abilities to be discovered, developed and applied to make life better and work more meaningful.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Become an Impact Venture Capitalist Using Donor-Advised Funds

Donor-Advised Funds are a hot and controversial topic in the world of philanthropy and impact investing.

Research, Reports & Publications

Hormel Foods Achieves Packaging Reduction Goal, Continues its Food Journey Progress in 14th Annual Corporate Responsibility Report

Hormel Foods today announced the launch of its 14th annual corporate responsibility (CR) report. The report is available online at https://csr.hormelfoods.com/ and includes information about the company’s CR progress in fiscal 2019.

Sustainable Development Goals

Saving People and Mangroves on Sierra Leone's Coast

Tetra Tech’s David Goodman discusses how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change (WA BiCC) program aims to save both people and mangroves in the coastal landscape of Sierra Leone.

Responsible Production & Consumption

UPS Longitudes | Food Is the Best Antidote to Chaos

During my organization’s more than 50-year history, we have witnessed countless disasters and responded to famines, cyclones, earthquakes and wars that devastated communities and left trails of hunger and poverty in their wake.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Social Progress
    Social engagement has always been an integral part of our sense of responsibility as a company. We care and we act to do our part to improve the...
  2. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  3. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  4. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  5. Special Economic Zones
    Driving awareness of Special Economic Zones.
  6. Corporate Social Responsibility
    Whirlpool Corporation has several CSR partners including United Way, Habitat for Humanity International, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Consulada...
  7. FedEx Cares | Overall
    FedEx Cares is our global community engagement program and one way that we live out our purpose of connecting people and possibilities. Our goal is to...
  8. GoDaddy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
    Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...
  9. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  10. Cisco Purpose Report
    Cisco Purpose Report
  11. Making the World a Better Home | Our Commitment to a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
    We believe diversity strengthens us and the best ideas come from diverse teams working together. Creating a positive workplace for everyone means...
  12. Making the World a Better Home | Our Commitment to a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
    We believe diversity strengthens us and the best ideas come from diverse teams working together. Creating a positive workplace for everyone means...
  13. Cascale Events
    Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
  14. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  15. SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights
    Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...