Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Wells Fargo Donates Additional $7.9 Million for Small Business Growth

Wells Fargo announced another new boost to diverse small businesses today with $7.9 million in grants from its Diverse Community Capital program, which offers capital and technical assistance to minority-owned small businesses through Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). To date, the program has generated more than 103,000 jobs across the U.S.

Research, Reports & Publications

Let’s Embrace Distributed Infrastructure to Decrease Power Outages

Data Center operators and businesses need predictability in their power supplies. Their infrastructure has to operate regardless of grid stability, weather conditions and other factors that threaten their systems.

Events, Media & Communications

Martin Currie Rob Roy Challenge Celebrates Another Successful Year

Hundreds of people took to the Scottish Highlands for the Martin Currie Rob Roy Challenge, hiking and biking their way to raising thousands for charity. The event has been running since 2006 and has raised almost £4 million for good causes.

Sustainable Development Goals

Trane Unveils Building and Community Investments in Tyler to Deliver Environmental, Social and Business Benefits

Trane®, a leading global provider of indoor comfort solutions and services and a brand of Ingersoll Rand, held a celebration of its business, social and environmental sustainability on July 25.

Research, Reports & Publications

Environmental Sustainability at Intel

Our long-standing commitment to environmental leadership helps us achieve efficiency, reduce costs, and respond to the needs of our customers and community stakeholders. We invest in conservation projects and set company-wide environmental targets, seeking to drive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, water use, and waste generation. We also work with others to apply Intel® technology to environmental challenges such as climate change and water conservation.

Sustainable Development Goals

Cerro Verde, a Freeport-McMoRan Company, Graduates Women Entrepreneurs from the DreamBuilder Program

More than 300 entrepreneurs from Peru’s Arequipa region recently received their diplomas after finishing the DreamBuilder training program.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MetLife Named to FTSE4Good Index

MetLife, Inc. announced it has been named to the FTSE4Good Index, which highlights companies with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sappi Limited is Recognized as a Socially Responsible Investment 

Sappi Limited is proud to earn a spot in the FTSE/ JSE Responsible Investment Top 30 Index.

Diversity & Inclusion

Cracking the Code: Working Together to Engage and Empower Female Technologists at Bloomberg

To create products that serve increasingly diverse customers and solve a wider range of social problems, technology companies need women engineers.

Innovation & Technology

ON Semiconductor In The News: Dr. Chakraborty, A Brief History of Batteries and EV Projects

Read our roundup of news, announcements, and energy efficiency projects including an interview with Dr-Sudipta-Chakraborty (link to original article), a brief history of batteries and much more.

Environment

Why Are Bats Disappearing? Study Aims to Find Out

Bats are hard to find. They’re small (some weigh less than three pennies), they fly by night and hide during the day, but perhaps the most challenging part is that there are fewer of them than there used to be.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How to Start a Corporate Revolution

Interface’s story can not only inspire but also instruct us all in how a purposeless company can transform itself to become a vehicle for achieving something important for the world and improve its financial performance in the process.

Diversity & Inclusion

AEG Teams Up With Mayor Eric Garcetti to Boost Diversity in Entertainment Industry Through Evolve Entertainment Fund

AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company, recently teamed up with Mayor Eric Garcetti in Los Angeles to host the Evolve Entertainment Fund (EEF) 2019 Summer Kickoff at L.A. LIVE on June 15, 2019.

Environment

Hallmark Receives Distinguished Designation for Responsible Sourcing of Timber and Paper Products by WWF

Hallmark UK is delighted to have been awarded 3 Trees in the WWF-UK’s 2019 Timber Scorecard, an accolade that underlines Hallmark’s ongoing commitment to finding responsible and sustainable ways to reduce their impact on the environment.

Innovation & Technology

Taproot Foundation Launches Newly Transformed Matchmaking Platform Taproot Plus

Taproot Foundation is transforming how nonprofit and social change organizations access the pro bono support they need to achieve their missions by launching the newly redesigned matchmaking platform Taproot Plus at www.taprootplus.org.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck Recognized on PEOPLE’s 50 Companies That Care List

Merck was recognized on PEOPLE’s third annual 50 Companies That Care list for investing $500 million to reduce preventable maternal mortality across the globe with education, tools and technologies for health care providers and moms through its Merck for Mothers program.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Celebrate National Tequila Day by Learning How the Industry Is Becoming Sustainable

Plant-based resources often seem infinite until they are suddenly depleted, and because tequila comes from the agave plant - specifically the blue agave - it’s imperative to keep stocks maintained to ensure plentiful supply in the future. But part of maintaining these crops means being mindful of other components of sustainability: energy use, repurposing, and waste. For Patrón Tequila, this means overhauling their existing systems to be more environmentally friendly.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

PNC Issues First Social Impact Bond

For the past 15 years, Strong Beginnings, a program aiming to facilitate healthier pregnancies and births for families in Western Michigan, has been working to improve infant mortality rates for racial minority communities in the region. PNC Bank issued its first “pay-for-success” bond to Strong Beginnings to help continue the momentum of the program.

Green Infrastructure

Bridgestone Ready to Welcome the World to its Home City for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020

Bridgestone, the only Worldwide Olympic and Paralympic Partner with its global headquarters in Tokyo, is celebrating one year to go until the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 by inviting the world to follow its journey to the next Olympic Games and experience what it means to help people chase their dreams.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Hanesbrands Partners With Free The Girls to Support Women Rescued From Human Trafficking

More than 200 of the company’s retail outlets are collecting new and gently used bras to assist the nonprofit in helping women in Mozambique, El Salvador and Costa Rica become entrepreneurs in the secondhand apparel market

Social Impact & Volunteering

275 Volunteer Projects Completed During CIT Cares Month

CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) today announced the results of its annual employee volunteer initiative, CIT Cares Month. Throughout June, 275 community projects were completed by 1,700 CIT employees who contributed 6,400 volunteer hours nationwide to make a difference.

Diversity & Inclusion

Embracing Change: Our Associates Video

Our associates are the backbone of Alliance Data’s business. As employees increasingly seek a strong, purpose-driven culture, including open communication and fulfillment, we are adopting talent strategies that keep pace with these expectations – engaging associates through data-driven feedback, technology and customization, just as we’re doing for our clients and end-consumers.

Research, Reports & Publications

Black & Veatch: Insightful Charging Infrastructure Planning Critical to Enabling Cost-Effective Electric Fleets

Electric fleets require well-designed power delivery and charging facilities. Planning for charging now – with the understanding that it may take up to a year or two from plan to charge – sets electrification programs up for success. Black & Veatch’s latest free electronic book, Electric Fleets, outlines eight steps to guide the process, inform scheduling and plan for optimal charging facilities.

Environment

Dallas Zoo Partners with Kimberly-Clark Professional to Keep Nitrile Gloves out of Landfills

For staffers at the Dallas Zoo, nitrile gloves from Kimberly-Clark Professional help ensure quality and safety when they care and feed for more than 2,000 animals at the zoo. Through Kimberly-Clark’s RightCycle Program, the zoo also has expanded the overall impact of its sustainability efforts by providing a safe, renewable way to dispose of these gloves.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Mary Kay Ash Foundation: Creating a Safer, Healthier World for Women
    In the U.S. and around the world, Mary Kay remains steadfast in its commitment to ending the cycle of domestic violence and finding cures for cancers...
  2. Truist Championship
    The Truist Championship has been an official PGA TOUR event since 2003, contested annually at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. One of...
  3. 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...
  4. Medtronic Impact -- Reporting
    We know that every action we take impacts the future of our employees, our business, our communities, and our planet. We put people and the planet...
  5. Social Progress
    Social engagement has always been an integral part of our sense of responsibility as a company. We care and we act to do our part to improve the...
  6. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  7. Drawdown Georgia
    Informed by Project Drawdown, the world’s leading resource for climate solutions, Drawdown Georgia is the first state-centered effort to crowdsolve...
  8. 2024 Sustainability Report
    Chemours chemistry enables products that people rely on to live better and thrive. Our world-class portfolio drives innovation and enables high...
  9. Novata News
    Communicating key news and updates about Novata.
  10. KeyBank's Commitment to Diversity
    Promoting inclusive environments by employing systemic changes to improve the access of individuals of diverse backgrounds. Learn more about our...
  11. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  12. Corporate Social Responsibility
    Whirlpool Corporation has several CSR partners including United Way, Habitat for Humanity International, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Consulada...
  13. 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...
  14. TCS | goIT
    Tata Consultancy Services is proud to bring you goIT In 2009, TCS North America launched goIT, its signature community engagement initiative.The...
  15. 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...