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3M Volunteers Advance Hands-On Stem Learning

As part of a continued effort to inspire the next generation of scientists, 3M is partnering with DoSomething and Amazon MGM Studios to launch Project STEM Heroes, a nationwide program encouraging young people to explore STEM careers and recognize the mentors who sparked them.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Engage for Good Recognizes the Leaders Shaping Corporate Social Impact

Engage for Good

Environment

Water Stewardship: Why Global Trade Must Invest in the World’s Most Critical Resource

DP World

Environment

Assurant and AT&T Tree for Trade‑In Program Supports Ongoing Reforestation in California Through the Arbor Day Foundation

Arbor Day Foundation

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Pricing Water Risk and Scaling Climate Resilience

NatureVest

Responsible Production & Consumption

Why Living Incomes Matter

Fairtrade America

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Empowered to Build Better: Meet Venelin Krastev

GoDaddy

Environment

The Continuing Evolution of ESG Due Diligence: Why There Are Always Risks to Be Managed and Value to Be Created

Inogen Alliance

Events, Media & Communications

Heart Water Earns Water Stewardship, Resiliency and Water Positive Certifications for Its Rainwater Capture Technology at Its Buda, TX Facility

SCS Global Services

Featured Brands

Hope on Wheels: FedEx Supports The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army’s canteen trucks—many of them donated by FedEx—play a vital role in supporting communities around the world. While these mobile units are best known for providing meals, water, and comfort during natural disasters and other emergencies

3M Volunteers Advance Hands-On Stem Learning

As part of a continued effort to inspire the next generation of scientists, 3M is partnering with DoSomething and Amazon MGM Studios to launch Project STEM Heroes, a nationwide program encouraging young people to explore STEM careers and recognize the mentors who sparked them.

How To Go ‘Beyond Words’ With Acts of Compassion and Kindness

“Beyond Words” is a story of kindness, empathy and friendship, teaching readers of all ages to express compassion without needing to say a word. The book follows Buddy as he discovers how to support a friend coming home from the hospital.

Gina Adams Honored by Dress for Success As Part of Women Who Inspire Campaign

Gina Adams, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary at FedEx, has been recognized by Dress for Success Worldwide as part of its annual Women Who Inspire global campaign.

Prosperity Now Receives $1 Million Wells Fargo Foundation Grant to Support VITA Organizations Nationwide

Prosperity Now receives a $1 million dollar Wells Fargo Foundation grant to support IRS-certified Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) organizations nationwide. Grant expands access to trusted, no-cost tax return preparation services.

PNC Announces New Initiatives to Inspire Outdoor Learning, Classroom Innovation Through PNC Grow Up Great

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., is kicking off Great Month, its annual celebration of PNC Grow Up Great® and high-quality early childhood education, by announcing new initiatives with two longtime collaborators.

Finding Courage in a Feathered Friend

But on that overwhelming day, Arlo was handed something unexpected: a small, soft feathered companion with a gentle heartbeat and a peaceful expression. It was My Special Aflac Duck®, a robotic comfort companion designed for children facing cancer and sickle cell disease.

Scaling Impact and Connectivity Through Technology Donations at Cisco

Through the Cisco Foundation and our corporate Social Impact Investments (SII), we support organizations that use technology in bold, innovative ways — from saving energy to saving lives. 

Medtronic Returns to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List for Second Year in a Row

Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, is proud to announce its inclusion in Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list of 2026. The company earned a spot for its BrainSense™ Adaptive DBS therapy for people with Parkinson’s, which was approved by the U.S.

Where Water Flows, Equality Grows: FedEx and Water Mission Bring Relief After Hurricane Melissa

When Hurricane Melissa made landfall on October 28, 2025, Jamaica faced one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic.

Recent Alerts

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Stepping Up Our Work on Circularity

The circular economy is a natural extension of Cisco’s own business transformation. As a company, we are moving from product upgrade cycles to recurring cloud computing and a software-subscription model.

Environment

Driven to Tears: Stefanie Lemcke + Jim Parry

Do you ever find yourself sitting stuck in traffic with your thoughts moving from benign irritation with the sheer number of cars on the road, to a fixation upon humanity’s encroaching doom?

Health & Healthcare

As Cancer in Older People Increases, so Do the Challenges to Help Them Live Longer, Fuller Lives

Our multiyear When Cancer Grows Old™ initiative is intended to address the challenges of cancer and aging by collaborating with the global cancer community of advocates, healthcare providers and policymakers around the world to find solutions.

Environment

Effort to Save Burrowing Owls Goes Underground in Chino

When Brian Bielfelt had an opportunity to help build artificial burrows in Chino for burrowing owls, he jumped at the chance. “I’ve loved burrowing owls for a long time — since I was in third grade in Florida,” said the SCE staff biologist

Responsible Production & Consumption

The Goodyear reCharge Concept – A Renewable, Sustainable and 100% Biodegradable Tire

The Goodyear reCharge is a revolutionary self-regenerating concept tire that can adapt and change to meet individual mobility and sustainability needs.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono in 2020 and Beyond

Taproot Foundation is committed to making certain that pro bono service is an accessible and valuable resource across sectors.

Education

New Content From Discovery Education Educates Students on the Coronavirus, Encourages Civic Participation, Unlocks the Periodic Table, and More

Discovery Education – the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms – today announced the addition of hundreds of new assets to its award-winning digital services.

Health & Healthcare

Podcast: How Intelligence at the Healthcare Edge Saves Lives

Listen to Rich Bird, World Wide Industry Marketing Manager for Healthcare and Life sciences at HPE to learn how hospital care providers are using a combination of edge computing, AI, and Wi-Fi data networks to rapidly treat sepsis infections.

Education

Nurturing the Next Generation of Engineers

100 girls and young women from 6th through 12th grades gathered Keysight’s Santa Rosa, CA headquarters hosted our annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day event for six hours of fun, team-based learning. Read Keysight CTO, Jay Alexander's takeaway.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Ecocentricity Blog: Trash Turned Into Treasure

After taking a deep breath she smelled…nothing. If anything, it smelled like crisp, fresh, unpolluted air. She didn’t detect any unpleasant odors that she would have previously associated with composting.

Sustainable Development Goals

Public Eye: Emerging Trends and Top Priorities in Inclusive Business

Why is it so important to include non-traditional development actors, such as the private sector, in efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs)? What can they offer that an organization like UNDP can’t?

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sodexo Named Top Company by the National Association for Female Executives on the Top 70 Companies for Executive Women List

Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company committed to improving Quality of Life, announced today that it has been named one of the 2020 NAFE Top Companies for Executive Women by the National Association for Female Executives.

Sustainable Development Goals

Aflac Incorporated Unveils New Environmental, Social and Governance Website, Including 2019 ESG Report

Aflac Incorporated today announced that it has unveiled a new environmental, social and governance website highlighting the company’s commitment to ESG initiatives important to investors, employees and consumers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Subaru Scores 100 Percent in 2020 Corporate Equality Index

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced that for the fourth year in a row, the automaker has received a perfect score of 100 percent on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI).

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Comprehensive ESG Backed by World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund

A report from Norges Bank Investment Management has called for businesses to improve metrics to ensure they disclose ‘relevant, quantitative and comparable information on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues’.

Sustainable Development Goals

Tetra Tech’s Lusaka Water Supply, Sanitation, and Drainage Project Team Wins Company’s 2019 Project Management Achievement Award

Tetra Tech believes in the loyalty, effort, and excellence of its employees and initiated its annual Excellence and Achievement Awards program to recognize individuals and teams for achievements that demonstrate best-in-class performance and service to the community.

Diversity & Inclusion

UPS Longitudes | Rethinking Supplier Diversity

This Longitudes blog post is an abridged Q&A with Kris Oswold, Director of Supplier Diversity at UPS and was originally featured in Business Equality Pride (BEQPride) magazine.

Events, Media & Communications

Ideagen February 2020 Catalyze Magazine - Global 100 Leaders and Launch of Ideagen® TV "Powered by Azure"

Download the February edition of Ideagen here

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Future of Print Is Seamless, Secure, and Better for the Planet

For printing to stay relevant to today’s hyper-mobile society, it has to evolve to do something more for people than simply getting their text and images from the digital world into the physical one. And HP knows how to do it.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

COVID-19⁠—Seven Things Philanthropy Can Do Now

As governments, businesses, and individuals scramble to respond to the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic, those of us who work in the social sector rightly ask what we can do to effectively contribute.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

UPS Infographic | A Smart & Sustainable Shipping Journey

Social Impact & Volunteering

Global Citizen's Action Taker of the Week: Davinia James-Stewart From Silver Spring

Global Citizen has helped to secure more than $48.4 billion in global commitments around the world connected to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, commitments that are set to affect the lives of 880 million people.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Waking Up to Follow a Dream

For World Wildlife Day, Cayla shares her story of checking off all the appropriate boxes for adulthood, but only being 'fine' with her career. Then, she decided to follow a dream which led her to Cisco and working with our Sustainable Impact Program.

Innovation & Technology

FPT Industrial Is Investigating Plant-Based Biofuels

FPT Industrial a global powertrain brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI/ MI: CNH), invested in a production plan and tests dedicated to exploring macaúba biodiesel, with a view to developing a potential new source of sustainable fuel.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Wastewater is a Source of Valuable Water, Energy and Nutrients: How Do We Recover It?

Tina Arrowood, a principal research scientist at DuPont Water Solutions, worked with the mill to innovate a new system that made more economic sense.

Latest Campaigns

GoDaddy | Microbusiness

They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...

PSEG Strength in Service, Sandy and Beyond

Ten years after Superstorm Sandy raged across the East Coast, PSE&G continues to protect customers’ utility service from the damaging impact of...

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...

KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service

KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...

Aflac Voices

Hear from Aflac’s senior leaders and subject matter experts about industry trends and more.

Local Communities

The principals of living and working in synergy with the communities in which we operate, as well as collaborating on projects that benefit those...

Climate Action & Environmental Management

Reach net-zero carbon in our own operations by 2030 and partner with suppliers to reduce their climate impact.

Financial health

At Wells Fargo, we're opening pathways to economic advancement for racially and ethnically diverse and low- and moderate-income individuals and...

Subaru Love Promise: Environment

Subaru works to reduce waste, safeguard resources for future generations, and preserve natural spaces – making real, meaningful commitments to these...

Community Impact

Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.