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Awards & Rankings | CSRHub

A New Data Set from Covalence Helps Monitor Corporate Norms

CSRHub has integrated Covalence's Norms-Based Exclusion Monitor into its Roadmap Report, giving investors a new tool to identify corporate norms violations across 15,000+ global companies.

Environment

Water Stewardship in the Beverage Industry: BIER’s 20-Year Foundation

Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable

Energy & Infrastructure

Comcast Beats Network Energy Efficiency Goal Five Years Early

Comcast

Environment

EPA's Superfund Cleanup Reforms: 3 Changes That Will Accelerate Timelines

Antea Group

Health & Healthcare

Check for Cancer Champion Brian Ryll Is a Fighter for Those Who Fight Fires

Aflac Incorporated

Corporate Responsibility

FedEx & Heart to Heart: Strengthening Disaster Response

FedEx

Corporate Responsibility

WK Kellogg Co Joins First-of-Its-Kind Good Food Coalition With Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA)

WK Kellogg Company

AI & Technology

Truist Patent Boom Fueled by AI & Machine Learning

Truist

Research & Reports

Half of Americans Have Little to No Knowledge of Grasslands, the Country’s Largest Natural Habitat

World Wildlife Fund

Featured Brands

Matching Grant Program Supports Homebuyer Education and Counseling

Wells Fargo and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines helped NeighborWorks Montana secure $685,952 through the Member Impact Fund to expand homebuyer education and counseling across Montana, supporting residents navigating housing affordability challenges. The grant builds on

Building a World-Class Employee Experience | Cisco FY25 Purpose Report

The world of work is changing faster than ever, but our greatest strength remains our Cisconians. They are the heart of our culture, the driving force behind our innovations, and a critical part of how we make a positive impact around the world.

Comcast Beats Network Energy Efficiency Goal Five Years Early

Connectivity is essential to our lives, whether it’s for work, school, or entertainment.

Guiding Stars: Men, Time to Meat Halfway?

Meat-eating has been connected with masculinity for a long time in Western countries. There are even studies on what drives the meat-masculinity link.

Home Field Advantage: Seizing Philadelphia’s Greatest Moments

Philadelphia holds a unique place in the American story. It is the city where the nation’s founding ideals were debated, defined, and declared—a place where history continues to inspire the future. And for those of us at Comcast, it’s more than a historic place. It’s home.

Check for Cancer Champion Brian Ryll Is a Fighter for Those Who Fight Fires

Firefighters accept extraordinary risk in the line of duty. But for Brian Ryll, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire, the most insidious threat is the one that often goes unseen: cancer.

FedEx & Heart to Heart: Strengthening Disaster Response

When we think of disaster relief, we often picture the immediate aftermath: delivering critical supplies and life-saving aid to affected communities. However, at FedEx, our Delivering for Good initiative goes far beyond responding after a crisis strikes.

Truist Patent Boom Fueled by AI & Machine Learning

Truist is accelerating how innovation is developed and deployed across the organization. More teammates are submitting ideas, which helped drive a 63% increase in patent application filings over the past year.

Skills-Based Volunteering for the AI Era: Inside Cisco’s First Tech for Social Good Hackathon

Many nonprofits know they need to embrace AI, and most are already feeling the pressure to move faster than their resources allow. AI is advancing at a speed that’s hard for them to keep pace with, let alone adopt responsibly.

Catherine Bessant Joins Truist Board of Directors

Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) announced that its board appointed Catherine Bessant to join as a director. Bessant will serve on the board's risk committee.

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Philanthropy

Double Play: T‑Mobile Increases Donations for MLB World Series Support for Little League

Parents and coaches share stories of how the T-Mobile Little League Call Up Grant Program helps kids in need.

Events

Land Betterment Corporation Hosting AgTech Stakeholder Day

Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”) today announced that it will host a regional AgTech Stakeholder Day on Thursday, November 5, 2020.

Volunteering & Community

Atlantic Canada Employee Volunteering Survey

The IMPACT2030 Workplace Volunteerism survey is part of a global initiative to harness the power of corporate volunteers.

Corporate Responsibility

Ørsted North America, Offshore Announces New Head of Project Development

Ørsted today announced Patricia DiOrio as the company’s new head of project development.

Health & Healthcare

Free & Fun Resources to Bust Vaping Myths

Do you know how to talk to your students about the dangers of e-cigarettes?

Environment

Ferrero Issues 11th Sustainability Report Announcing New 2030 Climate Goals

The Ferrero Group, a global leader in the Sweet Packaged Foods market, today has published its 11th Sustainability Report as the latest development in its commitment to “Care for the Better”.

Volunteering & Community

Building the Bridge to a Better Life

Close friends and coworkers know Gwen Boyd-Willis as a woman of faith. They call her “The Bridge” in her ministry because she's always there to connect people in their time of need.

Corporate Responsibility

How to Secure Partnerships for Action on the SDGs

How is COVID-19 impacting on efforts by companies and stakeholders to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

Events

Webcasts Focus on Role of Buildings, Communities and Organizations to Respond to Today's Global Health Challenges

With the gravity of the situation regarding COVID-19, today, more than ever, the spaces where we spend our time play a role in the future of protecting our families, our businesses and the public at large. Join IWBI and the WELL community...

Environment

Bacardi First in Fight Against Plastic Pollution With 100% Biodegradable Spirits Bottle

The new 100% biodegradable bottle will replace 80 million plastic bottles – 3,000 tons of plastic – currently produced by Bacardi across its portfolio of brands every year.

Research & Reports

Nonprofit Launches First-of-Its-Kind Database of Studies Documenting Harm from GMOs

GMO Free USA dba Toxin Free USA, a national 501(c)(3), has launched GMOResearch.org, the first-of-its-kind searchable science database of studies and reports on the safety and effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

Research & Reports

First Mine Audited Against World's Most Rigorous Mining Standard

Today the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) took a bold step toward increasing transparency in the mining sector.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

PepsiCo Provides Update on US$1 Billion Green Bond

PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP) released its 2020 Green Bond Report which provides an update on the allocation of the use of net proceeds from its first ever Green Bond, issued in October 2019 for $1 billion. As disclosed at issuance, the Green Bond's net proceeds are to be allocated to investments where PepsiCo believes it can make a lasting impact on priorities within its sustainability agenda, including packaging, decarbonization and water, while advancing several of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Inclusion & Opportunity

National Urban League Launches Black Restaurant Accelerator Program Powered by $10 Million Grant from PepsiCo Foundation

The National Urban League and PepsiCo joined forces to create the Black Restaurant Accelerator, which will boost approximately 500 Black-owned businesses over the next five years. The PepsiCo Foundation is providing a $10 million grant to fund the program, which will provide current and aspiring Black restaurateurs with access to capital, training, mentorship and other support services that are necessary for business success.

Events

EarthX Celebrates Half-Earth Day with Speaker Series and Gala

EarthX will celebrate Half-Earth Day on October 22, marking both the half-way point to the 51st Earth Day and a day to recognize our responsibility to conserve the Earth’s land and sea and thus protect future generations.

Philanthropy

A Wider Circle: Working to End Poverty

Support A Wider Circle through your employee giving program.

Philanthropy

Keeping Texans Healthy by Removing Barriers to Preventative Healthcare

The Caring Foundation of Texas has been committed to keeping Texans healthy by removing barriers to preventive healthcare since 1991. Many families in Texas cannot access various healthcare services because of financial restrictions, geographical obstacles, time limitations, and more.

Philanthropy

Melwood Employees on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Creating Safe Federal Workplaces and Providing Job Training for People of Differing Abilities

Melwood’s tagline is “your path awaits” because we strive to give the power of choice to people of differing abilities and injured veterans. Our goal is to help them choose their own path and provide them with the assistance necessary to make their journey successful.

Awards & Rankings

Cisco #3 Among 100 Most Sustainably Managed Companies in the World, According to The Wall Street Journal

Volunteering & Community

CASE Supports Team Rubicon in Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Delta Cleanup Operations

CASE Construction Equipment has provided equipment, service and support to Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster relief organization in Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Laura, which struck southwest Louisiana in August.

Education & Workforce Development

Driving Inclusive Education Through Blended Learning

Quality education is a fundamental human right and holds the power to create a more equitable society. That’s why we’re committed to enabling better learning outcomes for 100 million people by 2025.

Energy & Infrastructure

Mobilizing Our Resources: Partnering With Arbor Day Foundation for Community Resilience

See how our support of the Arbor Day Foundation’s Community Tree Recovery Program is making a difference in the lives of disaster victims in Orange, Texas.

Media & Communications

Celebrating G&A's Sustainability Highlights Issue #500 - And Unveiling a New Design

Welcome to Highlights issue #500 – a landmark, we will say, in this, the tenth anniversary year of publishing the G&A Institute’s weekly newsletter.

Media & Communications

5 Tips for a Green Halloween

We know Halloween can be a sweet holiday, as well as a frightfully wasteful one with all of the disposable decorations, packaging, and costumes that come with the season. But at Keep America Beautiful®, we know it doesn’t have to be that way!

Energy & Infrastructure

Medtronic: Saving Energy, Protecting the Planet

Medtronic has set a goal to become carbon neutral by 2030, using tools like virtual power purchase agreements to buy long-term supplies of clean energy to further reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

Latest Campaigns

Housing affordability

We drive solutions to enable people to open doors to a safe and affordable place to call home, the foundation for wellness, dignity, and economic...

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...

Guiding Stars blog: Health & Wellness

About the Guiding Stars Health & Wellness Blog The Guiding Stars Health & Wellness blog is your place for the latest in health and nutrition news...

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

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...

Profiles of Good Character and Inspiring Innovation

There are two pillars to CACl’s culture: character – our commitment to ethics and integrity in all we do, and innovation – our dedication to...

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...

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...

Kingfisher Around the World

The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...