Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Research & Reports

Employee Pride: Corporate Responsibility's Greatest Reward

By now, we all know that consumers are influenced by more than just a company’s product – they also want to know that they’re making purchases from brands that are environmentally conscious or give back to the community too. Well, guess who else wants this? Employees.

Awards & Rankings

Ecolab Named to 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index

Ecolab Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technology and services, has been named to the 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) North America index.

Volunteering & Community

The CSR Scoop - 9/11/2015

This week’s Scoop is inspired by the back-to-school buzz in the air! We explore new models of purpose based learning, building systems and skill sets for change, and the way skills-based volunteering taps into the core motivations of corporate employees. All of our authors this week articulate the need for significant change in our current way of doing business - whether it’s in academia, business or the social sector. Our pencils are sharpened, our notebooks are fresh and we’re ready to dive in!

Awards & Rankings

BNY Mellon Named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for Second Consecutive Year

For the second consecutive year, BNY Mellon, a global leader in investment management and investment services, has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) and, for the third consecutive year, to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI North America).

Energy & Infrastructure

National Grid on Creating an Ecosystem: A Connect21 Video

Inclusion & Opportunity

Bloomberg LP: The Balancing Act: Working While Parenting or Parenting While Working?

With last week’s announcement that their employees will be offered unlimited maternity and paternity leave, Netflix became the latest company to address parents’ increasingly vocal desire to strike a better balance between work and family life. It’s a win for growing families everywhere. Earlier this year, Bloomberg responded to similar feedback from our employees and updated our parental leave policy to allow primary caregivers 18 weeks of fully-paid leave. But the balancing act doesn’t end there.

Volunteering & Community

Celebrating Charity: TechSoup Global’s Partnership with Symantec

Awards & Rankings

TransCanada Recognized for Efforts to Improve Air Quality

TransCanada has once again been recognized for its efforts in contributing to cleaner air.

Research & Reports

How Domtar Manages it's Forestry and Fiber

Events

Mining the Disclosures: An Investor Guide to Conflict Minerals Reporting In Year Two

Mining the Disclosures 2015: An Investor Guide to Conflict Minerals Reporting In Year Two by Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) will be a much-anticipated deep analysis of 155 companies that filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) per a mandate on whether their products contain materials from war-torn areas of Africa.

Education & Workforce Development

BJ’s Wholesale Club Partners with More Than 200 Schools to Help Students Thrive

BJ’s Wholesale Club today announced partnerships with 213 schools through the organization’s Adopt-A-School program. At the beginning of each school year, every BJ’s Wholesale Club and Distribution Center partners with a local school to help enhance existing programs and curriculum objectives. Since 1996, the program has contributed $1.9 million in funding to thousands of schools across BJ’s 15-state footprint.

Volunteering & Community

Pro Bono Perspectives: Brian Glaser

Common Impact is excited to launch Pro Bono Perspectives, a series of profiles – people like you – who took a leap into skills-based volunteering. From intrapreneurs, to entrepreneurs, to nonprofit executives, to corporate leaders – these individuals all have their own stories to tell, successes to share, lessons they’ve learned and tools they’ve used.

Awards & Rankings

Cox and The Trust for Public Land Name Marilyn Hanson as Arizona’s 2015 Cox Conserves Hero

Cox Communications and The Trust for Public Land today named Marilyn Hanson as Arizona’s 2015 Cox Conserves Hero. Hanson’s nonprofit of choice, Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center, will receive $10,000 on her behalf. The three finalists were chosen by a judging panel and then competed in an online public vote to be named Arizona’s Cox Conserves Hero.

Awards & Rankings

Ingersoll Rand Selected for the 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indices for Fifth Consecutive Year

Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) has been named to the 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indices (DJSI) for the fifth consecutive year. Placement on this index series further solidifies this global company's position as an economic, environmental and social leader in its industries.

Events

Be Your Company's Go-To Pro on These Critical Issues

The world has many multifaceted challenges that require complex solutions. This is no easy task. No cure-all or one-size-fits-all solution exists, but there are innovations, partnerships, and strategies that create a lasting impact for communities around the world.

Volunteering & Community

Wounded Veterans to Summit Gannett Peak, WY on 9/11

Events

WestRock Talks Consumer Perspectives on Paper-Based Packaging

What do consumers want in packaging? Erin Weinland of WestRock has answers.

Awards & Rankings

Novo Nordisk Remains in Top of 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index

Novo Nordisk stays in top of the pharmaceutical sector on the 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index with a score of 81 out of a possible 100. The company’s overall score falls 3 points from 2014 and is 7 points behind Roche, the 2015 industry leader.

Energy & Infrastructure

Join National Grid to Celebrate National Drive Electric Week

Inclusion & Opportunity

Winning Over Millennials in the Workplace

In our continually growing and evolving global environment, Millennials have a unique perspective as a result of being raised during an era of incredible social and technological change. According to a May 2015 TIME report, the 53.5 million millennials (aged 18-34) now constitute the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. In fact, Pew Research, estimates Millennials represent one in three American workers. While there are many opinions, positive and negative, on the Millennial generation’s dependence on technology, we cannot ignore the fact that these digitally-oriented, social networking savvy future leaders are rapidly changing what work looks like and how it gets done.

Health & Healthcare

Astellas Launches Cancer Challenge Social Media Campaign

Corporate Responsibility

2015 Corporate Volunteer Awards: A Look at Finalist Old National Bank

Old National Bank’s program is called ONe Community (capital ON stands for Old National). The volunteer program is structured to balance the needs of the company’s communities and the engagement and development of its associates, with its core competency of financial literacy.

Education & Workforce Development

Can Management Education Change the Culture of Business?

It was the work of organizations like the UN, AACSB International, EFMD, the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, EABIS, GMAC, GRLI, and Net Impact that led to the recognition by the United Nations of the need for a focus on the leadership being taught in higher education institutions—and in particular in management education. The PRME initiative (Principles for Responsible Management Education) was developed to fill this role eight years ago by the UN Global Compact, deans, university presidents, and representatives of business schools.

Philanthropy

Astellas Employees Award $200,000 in Grants to Advance Global Access to Health, Community Development

Astellas Pharma today announced that it has awarded $100,000 grants each to the American Red Cross and Stop Hunger Now in support of their efforts to advance access to healthcare and expand community development around the world.

Philanthropy

Players Trust to Participate in 2015 Cantor Fitzgerald Charity Day

On Friday, September 11, New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez will do some trading of his own – but not the baseball variety – when he represents the Players Trust at Cantor Fitzgerald’s annual Charity Day.

Latest Campaigns

Accelerating access to healthcare technology

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KeyBank: Responsible Banking

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Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

Greener Products and Solutions

We actively integrate sustainability into the product development process and look at all phases of the product life cycle for opportunities to...

Special Economic Zones

Driving awareness of Special Economic Zones.

Integrated Tools

Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...

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...

Wells Fargo Social Impact and Sustainability

Wells Fargo & Company is a leading financial services company that has approximately $1.9 trillion in assets and proudly serves one in three U.S...

Small Business Growth

We strengthen communities and help create local jobs by investing in underserved small business owners. We fund nonprofits that are focused on...

PSEG Environmental Stewardship

PSEG’s environmental stewardship is evident in programs and strategies that reflect our commitment to clean air, clean water and waste management...