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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Smithfield Foods Receives Virginia Values Veterans Awards for Veteran Support and Hiring Initiatives

The awards recognize Smithfield’s Operation 4000! hiring initiative — aimed at employing 4,000 veterans or 10% of the company’s U.S. workforce — and the company’s efforts to support veterans and military families in Virginia and across the country.

Sustainable Development Goals

Financial Literacy and Support - Aligning Community Impact With the Sustainable Development Goals

Financial stability for individuals and families is a key factor underpinning achievement of many of the Sustainable Development Goals including SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10.

Events, Media & Communications

Global Issues Demand a Global Response: How Inclusive Businesses Are Innovating and Collaborating to Drive Social and Environmental Impact

Overcoming global challenges such as poverty and climate change demand a collective effort – no longer can tackling these issues be considered just the domain of development actors.

Sustainable Development Goals

The Power of Sustainability Partnerships

The development of renewable energy is one of the most important goals of sustainability partnerships. In fact, it has prompted a global corporate leadership initiative called RE100.

Diversity & Inclusion

Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month at FedEx

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we asked several of our team members to share how they stay connected with their heritage and why they feel diversity & inclusion is important for FedEx.

Events, Media & Communications

[Webinar] “Owning” Your Most Significant Personal Information

Start October strong with Symantec and NCSAM partners, the National PTA, Connect Safety and the National Cyber Security Alliance, to learn how to protect the devices you use day to day.

Research, Reports & Publications

Process Improvements Lead to a Safer Workplace

Caterpillar employees at the Seguin, Texas, facility found a solution for unloading and packing finished engines onto shipping pallets – a process that previously presented safety and ergonomic issues.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Aligning Employee Purpose With Career Position

Creating a sustainable workforce can seem daunting, but Blackbaud breaks it down into 4 phases that will keep your employees feeling fulfilled and motivated.

Green Infrastructure

Millennium Challenge Corporation, Bechtel and Côte d’Ivoire Government Launch New Strategic Collaboration

“The Government of Côte d’Ivoire is looking forward to working with MCC and Bechtel as part of our continued efforts to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth and stability,” said Minister Patrick Achi.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Moody’s Ari Lehavi Speaks on Lending to Small Business Owners

Ari Lehavi, Executive Director at Moody’s Analytics, spoke on a panel at Aspen Network of Developing Entrepreneurs’ (ANDE’s) annual conference in September, on ways to support small and growing businesses in emerging markets.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Carnival Cruise Line Reaffirms Commitment to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, Increases Pledge to $33 Million by 2024

Reaffirming its longstanding commitment to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, Carnival Cruise Line has announced that it will raise its pledge to a total of $33 million by 2024.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Bridgestone to Supply Solar Car Tires Using Fuel-Efficient Tire Technology to 32 Teams Competing in the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge

Bridgestone Corporation (Bridgestone) will supply solar car tires using its fuel-efficient tire technology to 32 teams participating in the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC), for which Bridgestone is the naming rights sponsors.

Energy

Residents and Dignitaries Join ENGIE to Celebrate the Solomon Forks and East Fork Wind Projects in Kansas

Residents, business leaders, & government officials today joined ENGIE North America to mark the grand opening of the Solomon Forks Wind Project, as well as to celebrate the East Fork Wind Project scheduled to become operational in the spring of 2020

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Alliance Data Associates on the Frontline, Fighting Hunger Where It Lives

At Alliance Data, giving back to our communities is a common thread that connects and inspires us. Over the years, we’ve steadily increased our global community investment and volunteerism. Successful companies like ours must step up and use our expertise to strengthen communities and help create a future where our business and local economies can flourish.

Health & Healthcare

Diaper Need Awareness Week 2019

National Diaper Need Awareness Week draws attention to the issue of diaper poverty in the U.S.. The National Diaper Bank Network states one in three U.S. families struggles to provide enough diapers to keep their child clean, dry and healthy.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

A Dream Deferred

“Look at my choices Mija, and be sure to make better ones.” This is what my mother used to say to me when I was young. I was a happy & precocious child & my mother took great care of me. She made our home a place of love, laughter, learning, & music

Sustainable Development Goals

Towards Global Goal 4 - Quality Education

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), The Global Goals, often seem far way. Global can feel very much out of reach. 2030 can be perceived as far beyond tomorrow.

Research, Reports & Publications

Hormel Foods Achieves Nonrenewable Energy Use Reduction Goal and Has Record Year of Giving

Hormel Foods announced it has achieved its nonrenewable energy use reduction goal and had a record year of giving in its latest annual corporate responsibility report.

Events, Media & Communications

Tetra Tech Sponsored an Engineering News-Record Webinar on Optimizing Water Resources through Recycling

Around the world, we are facing a looming water crisis, pushing developers, builders, and engineers to develop innovative means of addressing water shortages.

Energy

Schneider Electric Cuts Five Years from its Carbon Neutrality Goal, Establishing Roadmap for the Carbon Neutral World

Schneider Electric announced today at Climate Week NYC 2019 that it is drastically stepping up its commitment to carbon neutrality with three new actions...

Environment

HP Partners with World Wildlife Fund on Forest Protection and Restoration

Partnering with World Wildlife Fund, HP is committing to the restoration, protection and conservation of 200,000 acres of forest, an area equal to the size of New York City.

Events, Media & Communications

There Is No ‘I' in Team: How Collaboration and Innovation Are Enabling Inclusive Businesses to Achieve Greater Social Impact

Over three centuries later, his recognition that nothing great is achieved in isolation is more relevant than ever. Would Steve Jobs have been able to transform his ideas into reality without a team around him?

Social Impact & Volunteering

As Diaper Need Awareness Grows, Kimberly-Clark and Huggies Applaud Efforts of Elected Leaders to Champion the Cause

One-in-three U.S. families struggle to provide clean, dry diapers for their baby, and Kimberly-Clark and its Huggies brand aren’t alone in asking Americans to join them during National Diaper Need Awareness Week, September 23-29, 2019.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  2. 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...
  3. Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator
    The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...
  4. Fifth Third's Commitment to Small Businesses
    Fifth Third believes that small businesses form the foundation of our communities – and when they succeed, we all succeed. Supporting them through...
  5. FedEx | Volunteer Campaigns
    Giving back is part of the FedEx culture. Team members support our charitable investments and local community needs by dedicating their time where...
  6. 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...
  7. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  8. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  9. Digital Safety
    We provide tools and guidance so people can manage digital content in a way that’s right for them and their families. Learn more >>
  10. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  11. Nutrition and Health
    Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
  12. Health and Safety by Antea Group
    Antea Group's health and safety consultants understand what it takes to help make a positive impact on safety culture. Read blogs, insights, and more...
  13. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  14. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  15. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)