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Environment

This Is How the IOC and the Olympic Games Are Addressing Climate Change

Here's how the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Games are addressing climate change.

Social Impact & Volunteering

The City of Detroit and FCA Seek Artists to Paint One of the Largest Municipal Art Installations in Detroit's History

This Valentine’s Day, FCA will join Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship and City Walls Detroit murals program in showing the city some love.

Energy

Wide Bandgap Technology Enables Future Solar Power Solutions

However, without appropriate technology that is able to deliver energy efficiently and at a comparable price point to existing technology, many government-backed initiatives to promote solar power are unlikely to be wholly successful.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Schneider Electric's Commitment to Sustainability Recognized at Davos

Schneider Electric was ranked among the “Global 100” most sustainable companies by Corporate Knights for the seventh year running, coming 29th overall and first in its category.

Education

"You’ve Got to See It, to Be It.” Bristol-Myers Squibb Partners with W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars Institute

"You’ve got to see it, to be it.” This quote by American activist Marian Wright Edelman embodies the personal and professional philosophy of Charlotte Jones-Burton , M.D., M.S, Cardiovascular Development Team Lead, Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Adobe Partners With Teach for America to Bring Creativity to Classrooms

At Adobe we believe that everyone is creative. Creativity is not exclusive or a special gift endowed only upon a lucky few.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Helping Connect Rural Communities in Argentina

The rural town of Tandil relies on its road network to not only enable people to keep in touch with one another, but also to ensure these rural, and sometimes remote businesses, are able to bring their products to market.

Education

APIA Scholars Rings in Lunar New Year With $1.2 Million Donation From Wells Fargo

Asian & Pacific Islander American (APIA) Scholars, the nation’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to the higher education needs of the APIA community, is ringing in the Lunar New Year with a $1.2 million grant from Wells Fargo.

Health & Healthcare

International Paper Addresses Period Poverty in Video Submitted to Corporate Citizenship Film Festival

International Paper’s new video “Fighting Period Poverty in Our Own Backyards” has been entered in the 2020 Corporate Citizenship Film Festival, hosted by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.

Education

Cisco Networking Academy Creates a Much-Needed Skills-to-Job Pathway for Diverse Midwest Students

Characterized as a ‘job machine,’ the US economy has had several years of prosperity and solid job growth. But this doesn’t mean that it’s prosperous for all Americans and all job sectors.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

PNC Helps Children and Communities Grow Up Great

Now in its 15th year, PNC’s Grow Up Great has served more than 5 million children in the U.S. through early childhood education grant-funded programs, educational materials and mobile engagement tours.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Who Do You Trust? It Might Depend on Your Generation

In a collection of essays called Trust, Inc., business school professors James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner write: “The truth is that trust rules. Trust rules relationships. Trust rules your influence. Trust rules you team’s cohesiveness.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bacardi Launches Shake Your Future in Spain, a Training Program in the Art of Cocktails to Address Youth Unemployment

With a high rate of youth unemployment, which in Spain is around 32%, and a significant shortage of skilled workers in the industry, this project aims to address both challenges, helping young people have better prospects for the future.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Protein Saves the Day

Shelf-stable protein is essential during disasters. Victims and aid workers need long-lasting nourishment and most protein sources spoil quickly when the power is out.

Research, Reports & Publications

Porter Novelli Featured in IPR Top 14 PR Research Insights

We are thrilled to share that Porter Novelli was featured in IPR's Top 14 Public Relations Research Insights of 2019!

Media & Communications

Best of Super Bowl Ads Feature Inclusive Messages, Highlight Sustainability Practices and Urge Us to Donate

Take a look at our roundup of Purpose-driven Super Bowl campaigns that caught our eye.

Education

Reduce Barriers to College Entry With Scholarship Support for Your Students

Scholarships are a valuable resource that can help ease the path to higher education. The scholarship application process is critical, but may be unfamiliar to students and their families.

Media & Communications

Activated and Engaged: How to Grow and Retain Your Workforce by Sharing Purpose

Coming off another year when job growth outpaced national unemployment totals, companies looking to recruit top talent have never been under more pressure to differentiate themselves.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Video: Hershey's Almond Story

"We want this land to stay good, strong, and viable." Watch this video about the full cycle of the California almonds used in Hershey Chocolate.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru of America Helps Find Homes for Pets in Need at 2020 Chicago Auto Show

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced it will continue its mission to unite pets with loving homes by hosting adoption events during the 2020 Chicago Auto Show.

Events, Media & Communications

Transparency That Drives Impact – Where Next for GRI

GRI continues to deliver the most effective global sustainability standards, while it is focused on doing even more to support companies to provide high quality, accessible and impactful reporting.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Tetra Tech Receives Three Industry Awards from Environmental Business Journal

In January 2020, Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) recognized Tetra Tech with three industry awards for the company’s work during 2019: Business Achievement—Large Firms, Business Achievement—Mergers & Acquisitions, and a Technology Merit

Green Infrastructure

VIDEO | Mohawk Group’s Owls: Seeking the Essence of Nature

Designed by Jason F. McLennan in collaboration with Mohawk Group, the Owls collection reinterprets the essence of these North American birds of prey into the manufacturer’s latest Living Product collection through color and patterning.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

How a Nonprofit Partner Supports Social Enterprises so Individuals Can Gain Relevant Skills

According to a report by the International Labour Organization, 1.4 billion people globally are in vulnerable employment. This means they don’t earn enough money to support their families and often don’t have access to social safety net programs.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Maintaining Climate Leadership

We are proud to maintain our leadership score and of the areas in which we received an A—Governance, Opportunity Disclosure, Risk Disclosure, and Scope 3 Emissions; as well as the initiatives that helped us acquire this level of environmental impact.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Sustainability Insights
    General sustainability insights.
  2. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  3. Scotts Miracle-Gro | Environment Improvement
    Earth's beauty and resources should be appreciated now and preserved for generations to come. Discover the stewardship initiatives underway to protect...
  4. Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
    Vision of Milano Cortina 2026 The Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 is the first Olympic winter Games planned and organised under Olympic...
  5. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...
  6. Environmental Sustainability
    Cisco is working not only for a more inclusive future, but a more environmentally sustainable one as well. Environmental issues like climate change...
  7. Employee and Community Engagement
    At MilliporeSigma, we look for opportunities to use employee and community engagement to spark scientific curiosity and breakthroughs. We know that...
  8. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  9. Green Mountain Energy Sun Club
    Since its founding in 2002, the Green Mountain Energy Sun Club has donated more than $4 million to solar and sustainability projects focusing on...
  10. 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...
  11. Emergency Response
    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  12. CARE Corporate Partnerships
    CARE works with corporate partners globally to invest in innovative, scalable, impactful, community-based solutions.
  13. LATAM Growth
    DP World is significantly expanding its operations in Latin America, focusing on enhancing port infrastructure and increasing cargo handling...
  14. 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...
  15. IWBI | WELL Building Standard
    Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...