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Sustainable Development Goals

Responsible Mica and Minerals Initiatives Collaborate to End Child Labor and Improve Working Conditions

The Responsible Mica Initiative and the Responsible Minerals Initiative have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work toward ending the use of child labor and to improve working conditions in mica industry supply chains globally.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Feed the Children: Making a Difference in the Fight Against Childhood Hunger

When the issue of childhood hunger is discussed, people usually imagine impoverished children in developing countries. But the truth of the matter is millions of children in America face food-insecurity. As you can imagine, hunger isn’t prejudiced.

Innovation & Technology

eGlobalTech, A Tetra Tech Company, Launches Auxilium AI Chatbot

eGlobalTech, A Tetra Tech Company (eGT), recently launched Auxilium, a high-end artificial intelligence (AI) solution.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Legg Mason is pleased to announce the launch of UNIDOS, the newest Employee Resource Group (ERG), which represents the Hispanic and Latino Community within our employee base, clientele and the communities where we do business.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Scotiabank Supports Employee Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

Scotiabank is adding two additional paid personal days for eligible Canadian employees in support of mental health and broader wellbeing.

Environment

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership In Turbulent Times

What makes a great leader? This week on Sea Change Radio, we are honored to have Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin here to give us her take on that question.

Events, Media & Communications

2019 Fall CSR Conference Lineup: Meet up with America's Charities at These Events

Can't attend one of these events, or want to meet with our team beforehand? Click here to request a call with our team.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Diversity Project

The Diversity Project aims to accelerate progress towards an inclusive culture in the investment industry. An inclusive culture supports more effective teamwork, gives wider perspectives, better investment decisions, better results for our clients and ultimately more sustainable businesses.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Impact of Design Through Social Good

For the past 19 years, Sappi has empowered great ideas by supporting designers that use their time and talent for good.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Join the Operation Warm Heroes for Warmth to Bring Confidence and Hope to More Children

Earlier this year we shared a story about a little girl who Operation Warm was trying to help by giving her a larger size coat. The coat she had fit ok, but was starting to get a little snug & this girl was growing & would soon need a larger size

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Give Kids The World Village Makes a Difference for the Bravest Kids and Their Families

Each year 27,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. For these children, simple surprises and joys of life are eclipsed by doctors’ visits, hospital stays, medical tests and treatments.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

SPLC: Upholding the Right to Due Process for Detained Immigrants Across the Southeast

Every day, people from across the world come to the United States hoping to find safety or a better life. Some travel for hundreds of miles, crossing through the borders of Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala before reaching the U.S.-Mexico border.

Social Impact & Volunteering

How to Build an Employee Volunteer Program That Makes an Impact

Thanks to a KaBOOM! project and 150 volunteers organized by Marriott International and America’s Charities’ member PHILLIPS Programs for Children and Families’ networks, a kid-designed, community planned playground was built in a single day.

Innovation & Technology

Reinforcing Our Responsibility to Sustainability

Everything we do today needs to harness the power of manufacturing to make a better tomorrow for everyone.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

The IVECO Plant in Sete Lagoas, Brazil Achieves Silver Level Designation in World Class Manufacturing

The IVECO commercial vehicles manufacturing facility in Sete Lagoas, Brazil, has attained silver status in the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) program.

Green Infrastructure

An Innovative Future Factory for S.Pellegrino

To celebrate the 120-year anniversary of S.Pellegrino, work has begun on the new production plant of one of the best-known and iconic Italian brands in the world.

Energy

National Grid Unveils New England’s Largest Battery Storage Facility, Back-up Energy Supply for Nantucket

National Grid today unveiled one of the largest battery energy storage resources in the Northeast United States.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Blue Buffalo Donates Truckload of Food for Pets Impacted by Hurricane Dorian

When Feeding America asked Blue Buffalo for support, the pet food company generously agreed to donate a truckload (38,000 pounds) of dog and cat food and treats to help the pets impacted by Hurricane Dorian.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

American Standard Wins 2019 WaterSense® Sustained Excellence Award

For the second consecutive year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized American Standard with a 2019 WaterSense Sustained Excellence Award for its heroic efforts to defeat water waste and promote WaterSense in 2018.

Research, Reports & Publications

Solar Turbines Welcomes an Untapped Source of Talent

When a team from Solar Turbines toured the National Foundation for Autism Research facility, they quickly realized the students could be an excellent fit for Solar.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Bridgestone Holds 10th Annual Bridgestone Group Global TQM Conference

Bridgestone Corporation held the 10th Bridgestone Group Global Total Quality Management (TQM) Conference on September 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States.

Media & Communications

The Young People Move to the Streets to Protest Slow or Lack of Action on Climate Change Challenges…

When young people take to the streets in significant number, there is usually a revolution of some type in store, history tells us. Revolutions belong to the young, we can say with some certainty if history is our guide.

Education

Nation’s Illiteracy Woes Won’t Be Solved by Government Alone

Through its Soar with Reading program, JetBlue has been tackling the issue of book availability in underserved communities since 2015. The program provides free children’s books through vending machines in a different city every summer.

Environment

Back to the Future

It has been a long, long time since automobile dashboards were made from wood. But your next may very well have a dashboard made, in part, from wood.

Environment

This GHG Measurement Model Could Be a Game-Changer for the Agriculture Industry

There is a good reason why Smithfield Foods was the first major protein company to measure its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The protein supply chain is front-loaded with GHGs long before livestock arrives at the processing facility.

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