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3M Volunteers Advance Hands-On Stem Learning

As part of a continued effort to inspire the next generation of scientists, 3M is partnering with DoSomething and Amazon MGM Studios to launch Project STEM Heroes, a nationwide program encouraging young people to explore STEM careers and recognize the mentors who sparked them.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Engage for Good Recognizes the Leaders Shaping Corporate Social Impact

Engage for Good

Environment

Water Stewardship: Why Global Trade Must Invest in the World’s Most Critical Resource

DP World

Environment

Assurant and AT&T Tree for Trade‑In Program Supports Ongoing Reforestation in California Through the Arbor Day Foundation

Arbor Day Foundation

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Pricing Water Risk and Scaling Climate Resilience

NatureVest

Responsible Production & Consumption

Why Living Incomes Matter

Fairtrade America

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Empowered to Build Better: Meet Venelin Krastev

GoDaddy

Environment

The Continuing Evolution of ESG Due Diligence: Why There Are Always Risks to Be Managed and Value to Be Created

Inogen Alliance

Events, Media & Communications

Heart Water Earns Water Stewardship, Resiliency and Water Positive Certifications for Its Rainwater Capture Technology at Its Buda, TX Facility

SCS Global Services

Featured Brands

Hope on Wheels: FedEx Supports The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army’s canteen trucks—many of them donated by FedEx—play a vital role in supporting communities around the world. While these mobile units are best known for providing meals, water, and comfort during natural disasters and other emergencies

3M Volunteers Advance Hands-On Stem Learning

As part of a continued effort to inspire the next generation of scientists, 3M is partnering with DoSomething and Amazon MGM Studios to launch Project STEM Heroes, a nationwide program encouraging young people to explore STEM careers and recognize the mentors who sparked them.

How To Go ‘Beyond Words’ With Acts of Compassion and Kindness

“Beyond Words” is a story of kindness, empathy and friendship, teaching readers of all ages to express compassion without needing to say a word. The book follows Buddy as he discovers how to support a friend coming home from the hospital.

Gina Adams Honored by Dress for Success As Part of Women Who Inspire Campaign

Gina Adams, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary at FedEx, has been recognized by Dress for Success Worldwide as part of its annual Women Who Inspire global campaign.

Prosperity Now Receives $1 Million Wells Fargo Foundation Grant to Support VITA Organizations Nationwide

Prosperity Now receives a $1 million dollar Wells Fargo Foundation grant to support IRS-certified Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) organizations nationwide. Grant expands access to trusted, no-cost tax return preparation services.

PNC Announces New Initiatives to Inspire Outdoor Learning, Classroom Innovation Through PNC Grow Up Great

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., is kicking off Great Month, its annual celebration of PNC Grow Up Great® and high-quality early childhood education, by announcing new initiatives with two longtime collaborators.

Finding Courage in a Feathered Friend

But on that overwhelming day, Arlo was handed something unexpected: a small, soft feathered companion with a gentle heartbeat and a peaceful expression. It was My Special Aflac Duck®, a robotic comfort companion designed for children facing cancer and sickle cell disease.

Scaling Impact and Connectivity Through Technology Donations at Cisco

Through the Cisco Foundation and our corporate Social Impact Investments (SII), we support organizations that use technology in bold, innovative ways — from saving energy to saving lives. 

Medtronic Returns to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List for Second Year in a Row

Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, is proud to announce its inclusion in Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list of 2026. The company earned a spot for its BrainSense™ Adaptive DBS therapy for people with Parkinson’s, which was approved by the U.S.

Where Water Flows, Equality Grows: FedEx and Water Mission Bring Relief After Hurricane Melissa

When Hurricane Melissa made landfall on October 28, 2025, Jamaica faced one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic.

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Innovation & Technology

Enbridge Innovation in Action: Efficiency Highlights

At Enbridge, we deliver the energy people need safely and reliably. We also strive to deliver it in the most efficient way possible, reducing the energy demands of delivery and the environmental impacts of operations.

Health & Healthcare

Alkermes: How Substance Use Disorder Changes the Brain

Substance Use Disorder is associated with changes in the brain that can occur with repeated use of alcohol or drugs.

Events, Media & Communications

Organizations in the Region Will Be Able to Learn About Alternatives for Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability at La Red Grand Summit

La Red de Innovación e impacto (La Red) will hold its annual meeting entitled: “Gran Summit: Reinventándose con Innovación e Impacto” [Grand Summit: Reimagining with Innovation and Impact].

Events, Media & Communications

Organizaciones de la región podrán conocer oportunidades para innovar, crecer y ser sostenibles durante encuentro virtual La Red Gran Summit

La Red de Innovación e impacto llevará a cabo su encuentro anual denominado: “Grand Summit: Reinventándose con Innovación e Impacto”.

Events, Media & Communications

WSP USA Corporate Resilience Leader Joins RNPN Resilience Exchange Panel

On March 24, Emily Wasley, corporate climate resilience practice leader at WSP USA, will join a panel of experts for the upcoming Resilience Exchange session to discuss the topic, Impact Investing for Resilience.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A Hershey Food Scientist on Being a Foodie, Creating Candy and on Representation in the Food Industry

I have always been fascinated by food. Smells, textures, and of course, tastes. I would consider myself a lifelong foodie! My relationship with food changed after reading the acclaimed novel “Fast Food Nation” for AP English in high school.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Nonprofit Partner Spotlight: Atlanta Habitat for Humanity

The Home Depot Foundation is shining a light on organizations and leaders they work with who are creating more equitable futures for those in underserved communities.

Diversity & Inclusion

Take Action for Equality

NortonLifeLock is celebrating Women’s History Month by volunteering with organizations that support women throughout the month, inspiring action to promote change.

Energy

Vistra's Dynegy Selected to Power Chicago's McCormick Place With Renewable Energy

Vistra's Dynegy today announced that it has entered into a three-year partnership with Chicago’s Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority to provide 100% renewable electricity to McCormick Place, the premier convention facility in North America.

Diversity & Inclusion

Promoting Patent Diversity

As part of our efforts to grow the innovation economy, we’re creating a pipeline of diverse inventors and patent holders.

Innovation & Technology

Goodyear and TNO to Demonstrate an Intelligent Brake System

Education

MilliporeSigma Partnership Spotlight: Swiss Science Center Technorama

MilliporeSigma sat down with Roy Schedler, head of marketing and partnership at Swiss Science Center Technorama, to highlight how Technorama is helping visitors of all ages and backgrounds become familiar with natural phenomena.

Events, Media & Communications

Just Launched Delivering Net Zero Week: Creating the Roadmap and Action for Delivery

2021 is set to be a critical year in our space with the UN’s CBD COP 15 and COP26 creating two landmark dates. The challenge with meeting the Net Zero target is it relies on investments and innovations not seen in a number of decades.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Q&A with Keysight's Crisis Incident Commander — Response Efforts Are Part Preparation, Action, and Learning

Since the beginning of 2020, Claire McCarthy's team has not only managed the COVID-19 pandemic across Keysight’s more than 130 sites in 30 countries, but also addressed regional wildfire impacts, power outages, and social unrest events.

Diversity & Inclusion

Miriam Lewis: Up for the Next Bold Challenge with Principal

When Miriam Lewis considered the job offer to become chief inclusion officer with Principal Financial Group, she had a few questions. Where, in relation to her then-home in Atlanta, was Des Moines?

Diversity & Inclusion

Siebert Williams Shank Affiliated Clear Vision Impact Fund Announces Its First Closing With Support of Several of the Nation's Largest Corporations

Clear Vision obtained capital commitments of more than $100 million of the planned $250 million impact loan fund.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

T. Rowe Price Launches First Impact Fund

T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ-GS: TROW) today launched its first product giving investors the opportunity to simultaneously pursue their financial goals and to have a positive impact on the global environment and social equity issues.

Diversity & Inclusion

6 Women in Leadership at Duke Energy Share Career Advice

March is Women’s History Month, so we asked women at Duke Energy what they wanted to know about how to advance their careers.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Mondelez CEO on Strategizing for the Future: 'We Will Need To Be a Very Different Company'

Dirk Van de Put leads one of the world’s biggest snack food companies. With consumer priorities shifting over the past year during to the coronavirus pandemic and social unrest, he’s started to view his leadership position differently.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Introducing the MarkMonitor Domains for Good program

Clarivate is excited to announce our new MarkMonitor Domains for Good program, developed specifically for nonprofits and other mission-driven, for-good organizations.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

What the Automaker That Makes Subaru Forester Is Doing to Help the Most Vulnerable

Tom Doll, President, and CEO, Subaru of America, says, "Subaru believes in being more than a car company for the communities where we live and work," but what is the automaker that makes the 2021 Subaru Forester compact SUV doing about it?

Education

STEM for Girls: Shaping Women's Education and Careers in India

IBM has joined forces with partners Quest Alliance and American Indian Foundation Trust to take this program to government schools in select cities. In the last two years, IBM has reached over 140,000 students through 1,200 schools.

Media & Communications

The United States of America Moves Forward with the Biden-Harris “Climate Crisis Agenda” for Federal Government Actions

As he assumed the post of the highest elected public officer of the United States, President Joseph Biden characterized his [as the] “Climate Administration” and immediately (the fabled Day One actions) set out a very ambitious “climate crisis”...

Green Infrastructure

Goodyear, EASE Logistics and the City of Dublin, Ohio to Collaborate on Connected Mobility Pilot

The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, EASE Logistics and the City of Dublin today announced a pilot as part of the Smart Columbus initiative to advance connected mobility.

Diversity & Inclusion

When Women Succeed, We All Succeed

International Women’s Day, annually held on the 8th March, is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, but the day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

Latest Campaigns

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...

PSEG Strength in Service, Sandy and Beyond

Ten years after Superstorm Sandy raged across the East Coast, PSE&G continues to protect customers’ utility service from the damaging impact of...

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...

KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service

KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...

Aflac Voices

Hear from Aflac’s senior leaders and subject matter experts about industry trends and more.

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...

Climate Action & Environmental Management

Reach net-zero carbon in our own operations by 2030 and partner with suppliers to reduce their climate impact.

Financial health

At Wells Fargo, we're opening pathways to economic advancement for racially and ethnically diverse and low- and moderate-income individuals and...

Subaru Love Promise: Environment

Subaru works to reduce waste, safeguard resources for future generations, and preserve natural spaces – making real, meaningful commitments to these...

Community Impact

Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.