Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Empowerment Over Pressure: Meet Bhumi Patil

GoDaddy

Innovation & Technology

Mastercard: Six Payment Trends for 2026

Mastercard

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A New Year Perspective: Trusted Chemistry

Chemours

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Aflac Celebrates 70 Years of Innovation, Care and the Iconic Aflac Duck

Aflac Incorporated

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Gaziano Lineman Awards Finalists Announced

KeyBank





Recent Alerts

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

Energy

Energy-Efficient Design Helps California Town Boost Water Resources

Since 1991, Visalia’s City Council has enforced water restrictions. And for decades, water from the regional aquifer has been depleted faster than it can be replenished.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Hurricane Katrina Showed Us We Can Do Better

Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the US Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1,300 people dead, forcing one million people from their homes and leaving 372,000 children without schools. Nobody was prepared for such devastation. In fact, it took seven months to reunite the last child with her family after thousands of children were reported missing. It was a true wake-up call for disaster preparedness and disaster relief across the US. At GSK, we realized there were things we could do to be better prepared.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Ram Truck Brand Creates ‘Ram Nation’ Volunteer Corps to Mobilize Truck Owners to Help Others When Need Arises

Tapping into the natural instinct of truck owners to lend a helping hand to family, friends and neighbors when a need arises, Ram Truck has launched “Ram Nation” to help its owners and dealers come together for disaster relief and community service initiatives.

Research, Reports & Publications

Sharpening our Focus: Bombardier’s Stakeholder Engagement and Materiality

Stakeholder engagement helps us develop and continuously evolve our business strategy. By engaging a broad spectrum of stakeholders around their interests, motivations and perceptions, we can develop a more integrated view of the issues that impact our business. These insights ultimately inform the programs and initiatives we put in place to achieve our enterprise-wide vision as well as our external reporting priorities.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Carnival Cruise Line Presents $20,000 Check to Frisco RoughRiders Representing Proceeds from Season-Long 'Pass The Boot' Promotion

Carnival Cruise Line - Texas' largest cruise operator - presented a $20,000 check to the Frisco RoughRiders, the Double A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, representing proceeds from the "Pass the Boot" promotion at this season's home games at Dr. Pepper Park.

Diversity & Inclusion

Should You Sit or Stand at Your Desk? The Right Answer is “Both”!

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Cox Employee Relief Fund Reaches $4 Million Giving Milestone

The Cox Employee Relief Fund (CERF), established hours after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina by members of the Cox family and the James M. Cox Foundation, announced today that it has surpassed $4 million in employee grants. More than 1,700 employees have received direct financial assistance from the fund since its inception a decade ago.

Research, Reports & Publications

How Domtar Creates Value in Local Communities

Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide variety of fiber-based products, including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers, and absorbent hygiene products. The foundation of our business is a network of world-class wood fiber-converting assets that produce papergrade, fluff and specialty pulp. The majority of our pulp production is consumed internally to manufacture paper and consumer products

Events, Media & Communications

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Environment

Environmental Innovation Restores Wildhorse Creek

TransCanada employees saw Wildhorse Creek restoration as an opportunity to try something new and different in environmental stewardship.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Tianjin Citizens Suffering In The Aftermath of Explosion

Citizens of the port city of Tianjin are growing more concerned in the aftermath of the chemical warehouse explosion that left over 100 people dead. As the investigation into the causes behind the explosions continue to unfold, it is becoming apparent that the warehouse in question was one of many that violated safety regulations. According to satellite images and a probe into public records, many buildings across China store toxic chemicals too close residential areas and majors roads.

Health & Healthcare

Novartis Continues Commitment to go the Last Mile in Effort to Eliminate Leprosy

Novartis has renewed its pledge with the World Health Organization (WHO) to work to end leprosy by extending its donation of multidrug therapy (MDT) medicines to treat leprosy through the year 2020. This five-year agreement includes treatments worth more than USD 40 million and up to USD 2.5 million to support the WHO in handling the donation and logistics. Overall it is expected that the program will reach an estimated 1.3 million patients during the next five years. This is part of the company’s commitment in 2012 to the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Research, Reports & Publications

Learn About Grupo Financiero Banorte’s Social Performance in its 2014 Annual Report

“It is important to Grupo Financiero Banorte to listen to and maintain an open dialogue with its stakeholders,” stated Mayra Hernández, Executive Director of Social Responsibility. That is why we seek a positive impact with each one of our decisions, decisions that we have transformed into various actions and initiatives in response to social issues relevant to our stakeholders.

Research, Reports & Publications

Small to Medium Sized Enterprises. Why Dealing With Compliance Is Harder

Intuitively, companies often are on a growth plan to exceed their expectations for the year. This often comes when ant sized organization/enterprise has a desire to expand into global markets and have a broader reach to its potential consumers.

Research, Reports & Publications

Conoce el desempeño social de Grupo Financiero Banorte en su Informe Anual 2014

Para Grupo Financiero Banorte es de suma importancia escuchar y mantener un diálogo abierto con sus grupos de interés dijo Mayra Hernández, Directora Ejecutiva de Responsabilidad Social. Por ello buscamos impactar de manera positiva con cada una de nuestras decisiones, mismas que hemos transformado en diversas acciones e iniciativas, en respuesta a los temas sociales relevantes para nuestros grupos de interés.

Education

T. Rowe Price: Kids Who Get An Allowance Are More Money Savvy Than Those Who Do Not

T. Rowe Price's Parents, Kids & Money survey revealed that kids who get an allowance are more money savvy than those who do not. The single biggest factor associated with financially knowledgeable kids, however, is whether their parents talk to them about money matters. Money lessons can be most powerful when parents combine conversations with experiences.

Environment

7 Upgrades For Your Sustainable Living Space

With the kids heading back to school it may be time to make some footprint-reducing home improvements before the winter months settle in. Whether you’re painting a bedroom, installing landscaping, or building a brand new wing, make sure you take sustainable principles, including the ones below, into account.

Innovation & Technology

Investing in a Cleaner Future

Finding solutions to some of the tough environmental issues facing the aerospace industry isn’t easy or fast. But Jill Seebergh and a team of engineers and scientists in Boeing’s Chemical Technology Group aren’t daunted by the long lead times in research and development.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Biomimicry--A Growing Movement in the Marketplace

Biomimicry is a hot topic...providing breakthrough, sustainable solutions at a time when our world desperately needs them.

Education

Grassroots Sustainability Education for Children in Mexico

A large ceiba tree shades the center courtyard of the Ceiba Pentandra Park in Mérida, Mexico. The Mayans called the ceiba tree Yaaxché, and believed that it connected the underworld, the earthly realm, and the skies. Today, the site of this particular ceiba connects children to the unique environmental heritage of the state of Yucatán, as well as to a sense of sustainability awareness.

Research, Reports & Publications

Grupo Financiero Banorte se pone a la vanguardia al incorporar en su Informe Anual 2014 el modelo propuesto por The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)

La tendencia de reporteo integrado, surge a nivel mundial en respuesta a que cada vez un mayor número de legislaciones requieren, por parte de las empresas, un desglose más exhaustivo de varios indicadores extra financieros, así como un nivel superior de transparencia en el manejo de la información. Como resultado, en la actualidad diversos indicadores intangibles como lo son el capital humano, el capital intelectual y el capital natural, empiezan a cobrar considerable relevancia en la valuación de las compañías.

Research, Reports & Publications

Grupo Financiero Banorte is at the Forefront by Incorporating the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) model into its 2014 Annual Report

The trend of integrated reporting emerges on a global scale in response to a growing number of regulations required by firms, a more comprehensive breakdown of various non-financial indicators, as well as a higher level of transparency in the handling of information. As a result, nowadays, intangible indicators such as human resources, intellectual and natural capital, begin to have considerable relevance in the valuation of companies.

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    Subaru is dedicated to supporting those who need it the most in our communities. From donating food to Feeding America, providing essential items to...
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