Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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2025 Principal® Charity Classic Raised Record $10.6 Million for Iowa Youth

The Principal Financial Group

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

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Software-Defined Vehicles: The Critical Road to a Secure Future

Keysight Technologies

Innovation & Technology

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Impact: Delivering Financial Security

Northwestern Mutual

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Environment

From the Fifth Third Bancorp 2021 ESG Report: Climate Strategy

Fifth Third has been focused on three strategies since our first Environmental Sustainability Policy was approved by our Board of Directors in 2014.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Tapestry, Inc. Named to Forbes' “Best Employers for Women 2022” List

Tapestry, Inc. is proud to share that it was named to Forbes’ Best Employers for Women 2022. The Company joins the ranks of 400 other companies across 24 industries that are leading the way in supporting women inside and outside their workforces.

Environment

Advancing Environmental Sustainability in the Beverage Sector Through Collaboration

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) is a technical coalition formed in 2006. It is made up of leading global beverage companies working together to advance environmental sustainability within the beverage sector.

Events, Media & Communications

Snigdha Kumar Helps Digit & Oportun Make Financial Health Achievable

Congratulations, Snigdha for being included in the 2022 Forbes Business Council for Finance, and thank you for your dedication to our mission!

Health & Healthcare

Quest Diagnostics Supports Development of National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable's 2022 Messaging Guidebook

Only 65% of Black adults aged 50 and older are up-to-date with potentially life-saving colorectal cancer screening.

Education

STEM Education: Qualcomm Inspires the Next Generation of Inventors

Our 2025 goals serve as milestones to our long-term success, and STEM education is a key part of these efforts.

Research, Reports & Publications

Women's Foundation of the South Releases Insightful Infographic That Outlines Conditions for Womxn and Girls of Color in South

Women’s Foundation of the South exists to improve futures for women and girls of color in the South by supporting both women-of-color-led nonprofits who do the same and women-of color entrepreneurs.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Home Depot Joins Billion Dollar Roundtable, Continues To Expand Supplier Diversity Programs

The Home Depot joins the Billion Dollar Roundtable Inc. (BDR), a nonprofit organization that promotes supplier diversity excellence and best practices. The BDR consists of U.S.-based corporations that spend $1 billion or more annually with minority and woman-owned suppliers.

Health & Healthcare

Nutrition For Zero Hunger's Continued Impact

The Nutrition For Zero Hunger (NFZH) initiative aims to solve the immense challenges resulting from hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity, and it’s helping us make an impact.

Green Infrastructure

A Year After the Games, a New Life Begins for Tokyo 2020 Venues

From archery to canoeing, skateboarding to hockey, a year after the postponed Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo’s citizens are already enjoying a sporting and architectural legacy built on the principles of “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle”.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Keeping Community & Dreams Alive With BBQ | Icons of Cincinnati

Sweets & Meats owners Anton Gaffney and Kristen Bailey show us what it’s like to weave a deep-rooted community into their daily operations.

What started out as a regular cookout quickly turned into a BBQ business when friends started shelling out cash to get a plate of Kristen and Anton’s insanely delicious home cooking.

Sustainable Development Goals

AllianceBernstein Commits to Net Zero Pathway

AllianceBernstein L.P. has announced its commitment to achieve netzero emissions, working to align its business operations and a range of investment strategies with a 1.5-degree Celsius pathway by 2050, in support of the Paris Agreement.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

WestRock and Mattoni Partner To Improve Circularity in Czech Republic Beverage Industry

Customers in the Czech Republic can get ready to see their favorite Mattoni products developed and packaged more sustainably than ever.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Corp. Recognized as One of the 2022 Best Companies for Multicultural Women

Inclusion and Diversity is a core value at Whirlpool Corporation because we know that drawing from diverse points of view improves our products, services, our teams, and each other.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

New Benefits for Remote Workers Linked to Better Workplaces [Survey]

After surveying more than 1,000 employees across the U.S.—from executive through entry level—the team at Paychex has uncovered new insights into the remote employee benefit conundrum.

Health & Healthcare

Experts Discuss Importance of Cancer Screenings and Early Detection

In episode 5 of Teal Talks, Harris sits down with Dr. Laura Makaroff, SVP, prevention and early detection, American Cancer Society, and Merck’s Dr. Scot Ebbinghaus, and Steve Keefe, AVP, to discuss cancer prevention and advances in screening.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Economic Empowerment: Summer Teacher Institute Energizes Classroom Leaders

Education is a powerful tool and no one knows that more than teachers. That’s why their job never really ends, not even during the summer.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Indiana Transmission Towers Repurposed for Eagle Nesting Platforms at Wabashiki Fish & Wildlife Area in West Terre Haute

Duke Energy is converting two electric transmission towers that have reached the end of their useful service life into nesting platforms for bald eagles at the Wabashiki Fish & Wildlife Area in West Terre Haute, Ind.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Camden Dream Center Levels-Up Diversity in IT

This is where a program like Cisco Networking Academy shows its strength. A core value of Networking Academy is making technology education inclusive, and bridging that digital divide, regardless of learners’ backgrounds.

Health & Healthcare

Gilead's Hackathon Unearths Innovative Ways To Improve HIV Prevention

The goal of the hackathon was to identify innovative, digital solutions to help improve PrEP education, access and care services, particularly for the Black and Hispanic/Latinx communities in the Southern United States.

Innovation & Technology

Black & Veatch Completes World's First Commercial-Scale Alternative Animal Feed Production Facility

With demand for protein from the world’s rapidly growing population expected to rise, commissioning is now underway at the world’s first industrial-scale FeedKind® facility in Chongqing, China.

Responsible Production & Consumption

'Your Calling Is Calling': New Timberland Pro Campaign Celebrates Those Who Follow Their Passion and Find Purpose in the Skilled Trades

To help raise awareness for the skilled trades gap and to attract and inspire the next generation of skilled workers, Timberland PRO is celebrating those who follow their passion and find purpose in the skilled trades

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bringing New Digital Resources to Chicago's South Side and Beyond

We’re investing $500,000 over the next three years in the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, where we’re partnering to launch new targeted efforts to get and keep more Chicagoans connected and provide access to digital tools and skills training.

Diversity & Inclusion

Fifth Third Bank Hosts Sixth Supplier Diversity Summit To Educate and Connect Diverse Suppliers

Fifth Third Bank today hosted its sixth Supplier Diversity Summit, providing an opportunity for suppliers to explore innovative best practices, as well as connect with Fifth Third representatives and other corporate and community partners.

Education

The Future Faces of Tech: Meet Cadence's 2022 GEM Fellowship Interns

Cadence is honored to partner with The National Graduate Engineering Minorities Consortium as part of our mission to foster a diverse workforce in the STEM community.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Principal Financial Group: Financial Inclusion
    Helping individuals and businesses gain access to useful financial products and services to meet their needs—from savings, credit, and insurance to...
  2. 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...
  3. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  4. Whole Planet
    Whole Planet, a pillar of Whole Foods Market Foundation, helps people living in poverty build long-term financial resilience through income growth...
  5. Performance
    Prioritizing ethics, economic contribution, operational excellence, integrity, and accountability in all we do.
  6. 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...
  7. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...
  8. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  9. 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...
  10. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  11. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  12. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  13. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  14. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  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...