Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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2025 Principal® Charity Classic Raised Record $10.6 Million for Iowa Youth

The Principal Financial Group

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

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Software-Defined Vehicles: The Critical Road to a Secure Future

Keysight Technologies

Innovation & Technology

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Impact: Delivering Financial Security

Northwestern Mutual

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Health & Healthcare

SIM Inaugurates the First Post COVID-19 Care Clinic in Puerto Rico

The clinic will offer integrated and multidisciplinary services for the care of patients who have suffered from COVID-19.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Cisco Networking Academy's Learning Engineering Team Creates a Pathway to New Skills

The global Cisco Networking Academy program educates people in critical technology skills like computer networking, cybersecurity, and programming.

Research, Reports & Publications

Blackline Safety Releases First-Ever Environmental Social and Governance Report

Blackline Safety Corp. (“Blackline Safety”, the “Company” or “our”) (TSX: BLN), a global leader in connected safety technology with a Hardware-enabled Software-as-a-service (HeSaaS) business model, today announced the release of its inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Trane Technologies' Michelle Murphy and Maria Jackson Named 2021 STEP Ahead Award Honorees for Excellence in Manufacturing

Trane Technologies plc (NYSE:TT) announced today that vice president of diversity, inclusion and talent management Michelle Murphy and plant manager Maria Jackson are recipients of The Manufacturing Institute’s 2021 STEP Ahead Awards.

Innovation & Technology

The Clarivate Commitment to Safeguarding Personal Data

Our ongoing commitment to promoting responsible data use will help drive a more sustainable society. We’ve created a robust and effective data protection program that reflects principles of transparency, accountability and individual rights.

Diversity & Inclusion

A Racial Equity Program Meets the Moment

Truist Foundation leverages its long-standing relationship with Purpose Built Communities to boost a Racial Equity Ambassador program to provide guidance and tools to help neighborhood advocates learn and lead conversations around racial equity.

Innovation & Technology

Extending Healthcare Technology

Medtronic leverages local partnerships, physician training, patient education, and technological efficiencies to democratize healthcare and improve clinical and economic outcomes for all

Energy

Webinar: First Net Zero McDonald's Restaurant

A new McDonald’s restaurant was opened at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida that run 100% on renewable energy generated on site with a massive canopy of PV arrays.

Environment

Antea Group Publishes 2020 Sustainability Report

Antea Group is proud to announce the publication of our 2020 Sustainability Report. It includes our approach to sustainability, environmental impact, stakeholder engagement, our commitment to quality and continuous improvement, and more.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The 2030 Climate Change Imperative: Three Actions to Take Before Time Runs Out

Put another way, if we’re to take the objectives of the Paris Agreement seriously, then we need to get serious about making substantial progress by 2030.

Energy

Black & Veatch Guides Point-of-use Hydrogen Production for Vehicle Fuel Study

Artificial Intelligence business Empati has commissioned Black & Veatch to deliver a study into the feasibility of using distributed production of green hydrogen to fuel vehicle fleets.

Energy

Cummins Achieves Significant Environmental Benefits Through 2020 Sustainability Goals

Setting challenging goals, sharing them publicly and reporting on the company’s progress can drive environmental benefits. Global power leader Cummins achieved significant reductions in 2020 water and energy use, as well as waste production.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Franklin Templeton Celebrates 15th Global Month of Service

Every June, Franklin Templeton’s employees all over the world use their time and skills to make an impact in local communities during the firm’s global month of service, Impact Days.

Research, Reports & Publications

NRG Energy Reaches New Milestone Towards Emissions Goal Reducing Its Carbon Footprint by 55%

NRG Energy, Inc., North America’s leading integrated energy and home services company published its eleventh annual sustainability report. The company has reduced its carbon footprint by 55% from its 2014 baseline, exceeding its 50% reduction goal five years ahead of plan.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Giving Back to the Communities Where We Live and Work

With the Republic Services Charitable Foundation’s (Foundation) National Neighborhood Promise® program, we made the promise to help rebuild, revitalize and restore places and spaces in need, ultimately creating stronger neighborhoods in the communities we serve.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

International Paper Receives 2021 Friend of the Forest Award

The Arbor Day Foundation has awarded International Paper the prestigious 2021 Friend of the Forest Award. International Paper is among six individuals, nonprofits, and companies who received an Arbor Day Award in 2021.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Pandemic Prompts Rockwell Automation Employees to Form Parents and Caretakers Support Group

In January, Rockwell Automation employees launched a new Parents and Caretakers employee resource group to support employees who were balancing working long hours, parenting, helping with remote schooling, and potentially caring for older adults or other loved ones.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Verizon Teams up With NJ Brothers Walking Across America for Restaurant Workers

Verizon is supporting Aiden and Louis Ardine, two brothers from New Jersey, on their quest to walk across America to raise awareness and money for restaurant workers whose lives have been negatively impacted by the pandemic

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Fifth Third Bank eBus Returns to the Road; Financial Empowerment Tours to Boost Local Communities

The Fifth Third eBus is a key component of the Bank’s financial empowerment mobile strategy that seeks to address the gap caused by banking deserts and the lack of financial services for low- and moderate-income communities.

Events, Media & Communications

Event Highlights from The CIO Exchange: Workplace Evolution

To better outfit the office for collaboration under a hybrid model, Rich Gilbert, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer for Aflac, discussed the technology and tools he’s found most helpful and how Aflac is doing things differently.

Events, Media & Communications

Land Betterment Corporation Appoints Stephanie Conzelman to Assist With Strategic Communications

Land Betterment Corporation is pleased to announce that Stephanie Conzelman has joined Land Betterment as Stakeholder Engagement Director to assist with its strategic stakeholder communications and outreach.

Diversity & Inclusion

Many Voices, One Team

Many voices, one team is how we achieve more and show our commitment to our clients. Listen to members of team Invesco explain how our culture of teamwork makes us a great place to work.

Research, Reports & Publications

National Academy Publishes Study Showing How Georgia Could Halve Its Carbon Footprint

Georgia could reduce its carbon footprint by 50% by 2030 through the adoption of 20 high-impact climate solutions identified by the Drawdown Georgia research team

Green Infrastructure

Announcing Reimagining Green(er) Solutions to Hunger Challenge

PYXERA Global announces a new partnership with PIMCO and The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) to launch the Reimagining Green(er) Solutions to Hunger Challenge.

Health & Healthcare

Guide to Road Trips With Your Dog

Planning to hit the road with your furry friend in tow? Read our ultimate guide to road trips with dogs to stay safe and keep your pooch happy along the way!

Latest Campaigns

  1. Principal Financial Group: Financial Inclusion
    Helping individuals and businesses gain access to useful financial products and services to meet their needs—from savings, credit, and insurance to...
  2. Cascale Events
    Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
  3. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  4. Whole Planet
    Whole Planet, a pillar of Whole Foods Market Foundation, helps people living in poverty build long-term financial resilience through income growth...
  5. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  6. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...
  7. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  8. 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...
  9. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  10. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  11. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  12. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  13. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  14. SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights
    Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...
  15. TCS | goIT
    Tata Consultancy Services is proud to bring you goIT In 2009, TCS North America launched goIT, its signature community engagement initiative.The...