Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Mixed-Use: Green Housing and Social Enterprise

GreenMoney Journal

Green Infrastructure

The Ray Unveils Digital Transformation To Fuel National Expansion

Ray C. Anderson Foundation

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Mastercard: The Power of Data To Unlock More Inclusive Financial Experiences

Mastercard

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Spreading Joy and Relief in Times of Need

Bath & Body Works

Events, Media & Communications

IOC Announces Winners of Climate Action Awards 2025

International Olympic Committee





Recent Alerts

Join Leaders From Google, Microsoft, REI & More at GreenBiz 26

Trellis Group

Events, Media & Communications

sustainability: 2025 Report - Rockwell Automation
Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

people in a boat
What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Education

AEG Teams Up with Read to a Child to Host Read Across America Day Celebration at 10th Street Elementary in Los Angeles

AEG volunteers spent the day visiting the 1st-5th grade students of sister-school Tenth Street Elementary on Friday February 22nd, in honor of Dr. Seuss’s Birthday. The Read Across America Day celebration consisted of volunteers being paired with children in small groups to read, laugh, and connect.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Papyrus-Recycled Paper Greetings Is #FundingHer Future Through Whole Planet Foundation

In the spirit of #FundHerFuture, the generosity of David and the Papyrus-Recycled Paper Greetings generosity has created 43,000 opportunities for women entrepreneurs and their family members to live a better life through entrepreneurship.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The UPS Approach to Giving After Disasters

President of The UPS Foundation Eduardo Martinez shares what UPS has learned from years of responding to disasters and building resilient communities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

3BL Media Celebrates Our Team on This Employee Appreciation Day

The first Friday of March marks Employee Appreciation Day, and 3BL Media would like to take this opportunity to celebrate the team who makes this great work happen every day.

Diversity & Inclusion

Connie Lindsey Named a Chicago’s Top Black Woman of Impact 2019

Social Impact & Volunteering

Activating Successfully Around Black History Month

Over the years, brands have leveraged Black History Month to create campaigns and activations that celebrate and honor the culture, history and successes of black people.

Education

LA Galaxy Hosts Read Across America Day Celebration at Dignity Health Sports Park

AEG’s LA Galaxy, alongside Dignity Health Sports Park ASCSC Community Foundation, Los Angeles Chargers and MLS WORKS hosted the third annual Read Across America Celebration at Dignity Health Sports Park yesterday for more than 200 elementary school students as part of a nation-wide celebration of children’s author Dr. Seuss.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

You Don’t Have to Have All the Answers to Be a Parent

Innovation & Technology

Cellulosic Sugars: The Latest Domtar Innovation

Wood — the building block of all Domtar products — is composed of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Cellulose and hemicellulose can be converted into cellulosic sugars. In our ongoing quest to find innovative ways to use every part of every tree we harvest, our R&D teams are looking for ways to turn those cellulosic sugars into a wide range of biomaterials and biochemicals. Cellulosic sugars can be made into a wide range of biomaterials that can help our partners reduce their use of fossil fuels and minimize their carbon footprints.

Environment

Michigan Ross Professor Testifies Before Congress on Climate Change, Says U.S. Infrastructure Is 'In Bad Shape'

Tom Lyon, professor of business economics and public policy and of environment and sustainability, spoke before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure this week about ways he believes infrastructure improvement, as well as the free market, can help lessen the impacts of climate change.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Hundreds March in Walk for Warmth

Hundreds of Consumers Energy employees, family and friends took part in the annual Walk for Warmth in Jackson on Thursday, raising funds to help community members in need with their energy bills. The Jackson event was one of many around the state in which company employees have participated this year.

Diversity & Inclusion

Positive Impact Give Event Professionals the Opportunity to Act on Gender Equality

Positive Impact’s Girls Creating Campaign exists to inspire girls to be limitless in the creation of their careers. According to a Unicef gender equality report ‘By the time children reach age 10, boys’ worlds often expand while girls’ worlds contract ’and Positive Impact is passionate about using the example of a female full event industry to address this.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CLP’s ESG Progress Recognised in Hong Kong and Beyond

CLP Holdings Limited (CLP) has again demonstrated its lead in sustainability management and reporting after winning top honours at the BDO ESG Awards in Hong Kong.

The awards, which recognise Hong Kong-listed companies for positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact, attracted entries from more than 60 businesses. CLP topped Hong Kong’s large-cap companies by sweeping the ESG Report of the Year, Best in ESG and Best in Reporting awards in the Large Market Capitalisation category. The contest was organised by BDO, one of the world’s largest accountancy networks, and co-organised by South China Morning Post.

Innovation & Technology

Black & Veatch Wins Innovation Award for Missouri 'Hyperloop' Study

As part of a coalition exploring a way to transform travel, Black & Veatch embraced the challenge to assess the viability of something seemingly ripped from a sci-fi novel: Zipping people and cargo at hundreds of miles an hour across Missouri – in pods, through a tube. Black & Veatch spent months on that feasibility study – the first examining a “hyperloop” system in the U.S.

Education

Call for Scholarship Applicants: Dave Donley Memorial Scholarship

The family of former Tetra Tech employee Dave Donley, Jr., has established a memorial scholarship for Canadian post-secondary information technology (IT) and computer studies students. The Dave Donley Memorial Scholarship is accepting applications through April 30, 2019.

Education

Taking a Medical Research Path to Entrepreneurship

In second grade, when asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, Timothy Day said: “a chemist who would try to cure cancer.” He wasn’t too far off the mark. Two decades later, with biochemistry, microbiology, and neuroscience degrees in hand, Amgen Scholar alumnus Day has started his own company to to develop gene therapies for intestinal and systemic diseases.

Education

Red Lake Partners to Achieve Research and Development Results

Goldcorp is embracing innovation to make our operations safer, more productive and to help reduce our impact on the environment. We partner with like-minded suppliers and organizations to find innovative solutions to some of the challenges our industry faces.

Energy

Morlais Tidal Energy Project Appoints Black & Veatch as Design Consultant

Support for the Morlais Demonstration Zone will help develop commercially viable tidal energy globally

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Foods Market, Amazon and Chase Launch Donation Campaign to Support Whole Planet Foundation

From March 1 to 14, Amazon and Chase will donate 2% of Whole Foods Market purchases made with an Amazon Rewards Visa Card to Whole Planet Foundation.

Events, Media & Communications

Making a Success of DJSI: Exclusive One-Day DJSI Training

We are delighted to announce an exclusive one-day training workshop for professionals who are responsible for and/or new to responding to the questionnaire. It is a unique opportunity to develop DJSI-knowledge, understanding, and skills to navigate through new methodology changes.

Sustainable Development Goals

UN Global Compact Bulletin (February 2019)

On 14 March, join the UN Global Compact, UN Women and the UN Office for Partnerships at the UN Headquarters in New York for the 2019 Women’s Empowerment Principles Forum. The WEPs Forum aims to accelerate the pace of progress on gender equality and inspire responsible businesses everywhere to empower women.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Smithfield Foods Donates More Than 37,000 Pounds of Protein To Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies

Today, Smithfield Foods, Inc. and Albertsons & Safeway joined forces to donate more than more than 37,000 pounds of protein to Wyoming Food Bank of The Rockies. Smithfield’s contribution was part of the company’s 2019 Helping Hungry Homes® donation tour. Helping Hungry Homes® is Smithfield’s signature hunger-relief initiative focused on alleviating hunger and helping Americans become more food secure. The donation, equivalent to more than 149,000 servings, will help families fight hunger across Wyoming.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Utilizing Micro-Enterprise to Sustain Safe Water

Safe Water Network, supported by funding from the Pentair Foundation, works with local entrepreneurs to manage filtration systems across India. These small enterprises allow low-income families access to safe water at a price which is affordable to them.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Fund Her Future: Erliana's Story

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Successful Workplace Giving = More Than Great Technology

Every year, American employees give to causes they care about through their employers, resulting in $5 billion for the nonprofits who are tackling tough issues and improving the world around us. American generosity has always been incredible, and when the economy does well, charitable giving only grows.

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