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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

How Gildan is Managing and Minimizing Supply Chain Disruption During COVID-19

Everyday, we use and consume goods that have been made in many parts of the world; like the food we eat, the objects we use, and the clothes we wear.

Health & Healthcare

Keeping Kids Fed: Hershey's Partnerships With Feeding America and Food Banks Canada

Many kids don’t get the nutrition they need during summer vacations when school lunch programs are on a break. To help bridge this gap, Hershey continued its longtime partnerships with Feeding America® and Food Banks Canada.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Keeping the Line Moving in Supply Chain

Shidah Ahmad, Vice President and General Manager of Keysight Technologies in Malaysia, discusses her role at Keysight, developing talent locally in Penang and worldwide, diversity, and the company’s STEM education engagement efforts.

Education

“Road Trip” for 13,000 Kids Made Possible by FedEx

“FedEx’s distribution support is directly helping us bridge the digital divide so many are facing due to the pandemic, allowing us to bring no-tech educational resources to young people across the country,” said Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar, Acting Under Secretary for Education at the Smithsonian.

Research, Reports & Publications

Points of Light Releases the Civic 50 2020 Key Trends and Insights Report

Points of Light a global nonprofit that is dedicated to accelerating people-powered change, released The Civic 50 Report featuring key trends, benchmarking data and insights from the 2020 honorees.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Smithfield Foods Receives Best for Vets Employers Award for Second Consecutive Year

In addition to hiring and developing veterans, the company also has a long history of supporting veterans-related causes through its charitable giving and philanthropic efforts.

Media & Communications

Rising Heat & Humidity, Rising Sea Levels, Up & Down Shifts in Crop Yields, More Large Fires, Huge Human Migration Within the United States -- What We Are Learning Today

There is so much going on in the global sustainability space that we could draw an apt analogy – it’s “like drinking water not out of a straw but a fire hose!”

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Land Betterment Corporation Announces Its Entrepreneur Zone

Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the renovation and build-out of the Company’s Entrepreneur Zone.

Energy

Black & Veatch Joins Center for Hydrogen Safety to Help Accelerate Adoption of Low-Carbon Energy Source

Black & Veatch joins Center for Hydrogen Safety to help accelerate adoption of low-carbon energy sources, and advance safe handling and use of hydrogen across industrial and consumer applications.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Running Away With It

If the major economies of the world are in a race for the most robust and sustained economic growth, then China may have just broken from the pack.

Research, Reports & Publications

Yum! Brands Annual Global Citizenship & Sustainability Report Showcases Company's Strategic Investment in Socially Responsible Growth

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) today released its annual Global Citizenship & Sustainability Report, highlighting the Company’s strategic investment in socially responsible growth

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

New Sustainability Curriculum Launched by GRI

A suite of high-quality and globally applicable training courses for sustainability reporting specialists are available, following the launch of the GRI Professional Certification Program.

Innovation & Technology

CRB's SlateXpace™ Gives Cell and Gene Therapy Clients New Flexibility, Control Over Manufacturing Needs To Support Highly Complex Product Pipelines

Emerging health threats, uncured diseases and the need to deliver critical therapies to patients are driving biotech companies to search for ways to build flexibility into their complex product pipelines and deliver projects in record time. Today, a pioneering multi-modality manufacturing solution addresses that challenge: SlateXpace™.

Sustainable Development Goals

Opinion: Mobilizing Domestic Funds is Crucial for Sustainable Forest Management in Indonesia

Ufroz Ayyub, Tetra Tech’s environment sector specialist based in Indonesia, analyzes the role domestic funding plays in ensuring sustainable forest management in Indonesia.

Media & Communications

UPS Longitudes | Return to Sender: Navigating Reverse Logistics

In a traditional linear economy, we make goods, use them and dispose them. In a circular economy, by contrast, the end of a product’s life can be an opportunity for new value creation. But for the circular economy to work, materials must be in the right place at the right time.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Hormel Foods Achieves Packaging Reduction Goal, Continues Its Food Journey Progress in 14th Annual Corporate Responsibility Report

Hormel Foods Corporation today announced the launch of its 14th annual corporate responsibility (CR) report. The report is available online at https://csr.hormelfoods.com/ and includes information about the company’s CR progress in fiscal 2019.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

College Students Visit HanesBrands' El Salvador Apparel Plants in Episode 4 of “Crop to Campus” Documentary

The fourth episode of filmmaker Rod Murphy’s “Crop to Campus” minidocumentary, in which college students explore apparel sustainability, dropped today and features the students visiting HanesBrands’ textile fabric and sewing operations in El Salvador.

Diversity & Inclusion

Comerica Bank Takes Part in HACR Research Initiative Measuring Hispanic Inclusion in Corporate America

Comerica Bank announced its participation in the 2020 HACR Corporate Inclusion Index (CII), a research initiative conducted by the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) and the HACR Research Institute. The index benchmarks the status of Hispanic diversity and inclusion in corporate America.

Environment

New Holland North America Supports U.S. Beef Industry Through NCBA, CCA, Cattle Producer

New Holland knows beef. In the 1950s, the brand promoted its “Eat More Beef,” message throughout North America and has been dedicated to supporting beef producers by providing industry-leading hay and forage solutions ever since.

Environment

Three Futures of Company Climate Action

This year’s Climate Week NYC has advanced a shift from climate commitments to climate action. What will company climate action look like in this Decisive Decade? Three plausible futures for companies considering their climate strategy.

Environment

When Forests Thrive, People and Business Prosper, Too

In August, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and American Forests launched the United States chapter of 1t.org, the global initiative to plant one trillion new trees within the next 10 years, the UN’s Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating Merck's Global Diversity & Inclusion Experience Month

In January 2015, Celeste Warren, vice president and chief diversity officer, suggested during a team meeting that we need to celebrate the diversity of our employees and provide them with time to pause, learn and reflect.

Events, Media & Communications

CHLI to Honor Senator Roy Blunt and Congressman Pete Aguilar, Alongside Cuban Activist Rosa María Payá, on September 30th

The Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI) prepares, connects and honors leaders for their service. The global pandemic has altered the way we communicate, do business and celebrate. However, it is encouraging to see communities across our nation, and even around the world, coming together to support one another during this unprecedented global health crisis.

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    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
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  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...