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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Supporting Texas Small Businesses Through Retail Revival

As the world struggles to cope with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, small business owners in particular are facing difficult and unprecedented challenges

Sustainable Development Goals

The School Fund of Minera El Abra, a Freeport-McMoRan Company, Funds Leadership Program for 600 Students and Teachers

The School of Leaders: Empodérate El Loa Program, a partnership of Emprende Joven and the Minera El Abra School Fund, promotes social-emotional skills for students and provides teacher training in the Calama region of Chile.

Innovation & Technology

Arrow Electronics Asia-Pacific Offices Host 20 Charity Events in Eight Countries

Arrow Electronics employees in the Asia-Pacific region made a significant contribution to the company’s global corporate sociality responsibility efforts in 2019, hosting 20 charity events in eight countries.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

T. Rowe Price Supports Coronavirus Relief Efforts With Charitable Grants and Donation of N95 Respirators

T. Rowe Price is providing wide-ranging support to address the gaps in community services and within the health care system as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The firm is donating:

Health & Healthcare

Northern Trust Announces COVID-19 Assistance

Northern Trust Corporation (Nasdaq: NTRS) announced on April 8, 2020 it is providing $3 million in philanthropic support to nonprofit organizations around the world, including those that provide healthcare, food and other humanitarian relief.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Les Canadiens Sont Appelés À S’engager Dans Un Mouvement International Pour La Prise En Compte De La Valeur Sociale

Social Value Canada (SVC) est fière d’annoncer le lancement de son système d’adhésion au réseau canadien de valeur sociale – une ressource essentielle pour l’avancement de la réflexion sur la valeur sociale parmi les grandes sociétés

Health & Healthcare

Merck Announces $3M Commitment to Address Critical Maternal Health Needs During COVID-19 Pandemic

Merck announced a commitment to strengthen health systems affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through Merck for Mothers, the company’s global initiative to help end preventable maternal deaths, the company will provide $3 million...

Responsible Production & Consumption

Sysco Launches “Sysco Knows Fresh” Campaign to Help Foodservice Operators Connect With Its Expansive Assortment of Fresh Products

The landscape of the foodservice industry might be changing, but Sysco’s fresh food products remain unmatched, and our operations uninterrupted. Learn more through the new Sysco Knows Fresh campaign.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Common Impact Connections: Supporting Our Communities During COVID-19

The latest Common Impact Connections newsletter details how companies and nonprofits can leverage virtual service and disaster resiliency to safely continue their skills-based volunteering during COVID-19, when communities need them most.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Kimberly-Clark Outlines Support for COVID-19 Global Relief Efforts

In response to the current health crisis, Kimberly-Clark and its trusted global brands have announced a series of cash and product donations through the Kimberly-Clark Foundation to help support COVID-19 relief efforts around the world.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Providing Critical Resources to HCPs in Time of Crisis

Today, the heroic healthcare professionals (HCPs) on the front lines of care in communities around the world need our support more than ever before.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Intel Commits $50 Million with Pandemic Response Technology Initiative to Combat Coronavirus

Intel pledges an additional $50 million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat COVID-19 through accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care, speeding scientific research and ensuring access to online learning.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Dow Thanks All Frontline Employees and Workers

This crisis has shattered so many hearts around the world and our thoughts & prayers are with those victims. We have a responsibility to support the people & supply chains that are vital to containing COVID-19 & maintaining our collective well-being.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Open Works Has Been in the Community, Helping to Build a Stable Foundation for Baltimore

One of Legg Mason’s newest partners, Open Works, is a 34,000-square-foot community makerspace in Baltimore, founded in 2016 to help rebuild Baltimore’s manufacturing economy.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Top 10 Finalists Announced by Toyota and Discovery Education in the 2020 TeenDrive365 Video Challenge

Nearly 1,000 teens produced their own public service announcement on safe driving as part of the Toyota and Discovery Education TeenDrive365 Video Challenge.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Koch is Fighting COVID-19

Let me begin by commending you for what you are accomplishing during these uncertain and challenging times.

Events, Media & Communications

T-Mobile Update on COVID-19 Response

Over the past few weeks, T-Mobile has been working on a response plan to mobilize every area of our business to support customers, employees and the community as we face the new challenges of COVID-19

Innovation & Technology

HPE Powers Small Businesses and Remote Office Locations With Monthly Subscription for Secure, Easy-to-use It Solutions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it is making it easier for small businesses to make the virtual switch to focus on driving growth and make digital transformation a reality with new technologies.

Innovation & Technology

COVID-19’s Helping Hand, Medical Ventilators, Require Semiconductor Components to Function

As I write this, I’m working in my home office sequestered like most of the world’s population. I take this time to write while it is quiet, as quietness has quickly become a rarity in this household.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

International Paper Provides Funding to American Red Cross

International Paper (NYSE: IP), the world’s leading producer of renewable, fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper, has made a $180,000 donation to the American Red Cross to support year-round humanitarian relief efforts.

Green Infrastructure

Knostrop Energy & Recycling Facility: Delivering Sustainability Throughout the Infrastructure Lifecycle

Sustainability is at the heart of Yorkshire Water’s £72 million Knostrop Energy & Recycling Facility generating enough electricity to power 7,600 homes. The project to create the facility was delivered on time & to budget

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Sustainability Teams Can Meet the Moment

It’s still too early to know the full human and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. But eventually, we will need to begin to ponder the question: how will we rebuild once the crisis has passed? What can sustainability teams in companies expect?

Social Impact & Volunteering

Canadians to Engage in International Social Value Movement

Social Value Canada (SVC) is proud to announce the launch of membership opportunities in the Canadian social value network – an essential resource in the advancement of social value thinking among leading corporations, government bodies, non-profits and charities.

Health & Healthcare

Athletes at the Forefront of the COVID-19 Response

At a time when populations are being asked to stay at home to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, athletes are not only setting examples on how to #StayActive and leverage physical activity to face this unprecedented situation.

Energy

Ecocentricity Blog: COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis, Part II

Michael Liebreich shares good examples of how longer-term stimulus can play out in various industries. As important as whether we will have any “green stimulus” is how those dollars will be utilized.

Latest Campaigns

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    Our neighbors depend on us, just as we depend on them, so we are committed to improving the quality of life in the communities in which we work. At...
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    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  3. Community Impact
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    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
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  6. KeyBank: Responsible Banking
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  7. 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...
  8. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
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    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
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  12. Integrated Tools
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  13. Local Communities
    The principals of living and working in synergy with the communities in which we operate, as well as collaborating on projects that benefit those...
  14. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
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    Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...