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HPRC Impact Report

Health & Healthcare | Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council

HPRC Publishes Inaugural Impact Report: Paving the Way for Sustainable Healthcare Plastics

The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) is thrilled to announce the publication of its inaugural Impact Report for 2024.
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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Europe Leads the Way on Scope 3 Emissions: What Investors and Companies Need To Know

CSRHub

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Cocoa Market Turmoil: How Hershey Is Innovating Through Unprecedented Challenges

The Hershey Company

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sustainable Strategies for Grocery Growth

Tetra Pak

Energy

Stop Buying Energy Infrastructure. Start Buying Results.

Veolia North America

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Why Sustainability Is the Smartest Investment in an Uncertain Trade Landscape

DP World

Energy

Energy for a Better Future: Entergy’s Growth and Resiliency Strategy

Entergy Corporation

Energy

AllianceBernstein: Power Play: How To Invest Smarter in the Race for Electrification

AllianceBernstein

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sysco 2024 Sustainability Report: At the Heart of One Planet One Table

Sysco Corporation

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

People Behind Purpose at Cisco: How a Life-Long Love for Animals Led to a Career in Sustainability

Meet Jutta Graefensteiner, Director for CDA, Sustainability and the Country Plan in Germany. She shares more about her early connection with nature, the evolution of her career at Cisco over the past 20 years, and how digitization can go hand-in-hand with sustainability.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SEE Recognized by USPS for Providing Critical Packaging Materials for COVID Test Kits

Packaging solutions provider SEE (formerly Sealed Air) was recognized by the U.S. Postal Service for its ability to meet the challenge of providing more than 23 million shipping mailers to the USPS for COVID-19 test kits in 2022.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

National Grid Launches The Grid Collective To Boost Green Businesses and Job Opportunities

The Grid Collective aims to grow green businesses and job opportunities in New York by providing weatherization and energy efficiency training to both vendor and individual workers.

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Environment

GP’s Director of Stewardship Strategy David Brabham Discusses Stewardship on the Green and Growing Podcast

David Brabham, GP’s director of stewardship strategy, joined host Ashley Frasca on the Green and Growing podcast to connect GP’s stewardship commitment to the household products you use everyday.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Paychex Charitable Foundation Commits $1 Million to Junior Achievement USA®

Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of integrated human capital management software solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services, today announced that Junior Achievement USA® will receive a $1 million grant from the Paychex Charitable Foundation.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Duke Energy Delivers Sustainable Value As It Responsibly Navigates Clean Energy Transition, CEO Tells Shareholders at Annual Meeting

In 2022, Duke Energy continued to make significant progress on its strategic goals, managed through headwinds with great agility and delivered constructive outcomes across its jurisdictions.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

KeyBank Employees Ready To Support Communities Through Neighbors Make the Difference Day

On Tuesday June 13, 2023, thousands of KeyBank teammates across the country will leave their bank offices to volunteer for various local community organizations, projects, and causes for Neighbors Make the Difference Day.

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Innovation & Technology

CNH Industrial Awards Sustainability Innovation Grants to Startups Blixify Meraque and Sofien

CNH Industrial has awarded innovation grants to start-ups Blixify Meraque and Sofien for their outstanding zero waste solutions as part of Enterprise Singapore’s Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge 2022.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MARTINI Archive Partners With Italgas Heritage Lab in Photograph Digitization Project

The MARTINI Archives has partnered with Italgas Heritage Lab, specializing in digitization techniques, to digitize images of Terrazza MARTINI Milan.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Focus on Philanthropy: Where Aflac Employees and Corporate Donations Are Making an Impact

Since the start of 2023, Aflac has given over $3.3 million to help support the needs of children with cancer and blood disorders and to improve communities and the lives of others through nonprofit funding.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

National Grid Appoints U.S. Head of Corporate Affairs

National Grid has appointed Jim McGaugh as U.S. Head of Corporate Affairs to advance and align key strategic priorities across its U.S. business, with a focus on Massachusetts and New York, and at the federal level, the company announced this week.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Elevating the Voices of Our AAPI Community

At SAIC, we embrace the diverse cultures, heritages and traditions of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, which has made significant contributions to the history and success of our nation – and they continue to do so today.

Diversity & Inclusion

D&I Weekly News Round Up: Girls Empowerment, LGBTQ+, and More

Welcome to the latest edition of our Diversity & Inclusion News Round-Up. Today we are talking about the impact of AI on D&I, a BBC initiative supporting girls in Afghanistan, gender roles around the world, and Catholics nuns making a stand for transgender rights.

Education

IBM Grants $5 Million for Cybersecurity, Enhanced Skilling on AI

In response to the growing threat of ransomware attacks against schools around the world, IBM will provide in-kind grants valued at $5 million to help address cybersecurity resiliency in schools.

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Health & Healthcare

Quest Diagnostics Elects Luis A. Diaz, Jr., M.D. to Its Board, Expanding the Number of Directors to 10

Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Luis A. Diaz, Jr., M.D. to serve as a director.  Including Dr. Diaz, the company's Board has 10 members.

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Energy

National Grid Provides Incentives To Expand Solar Use at Northern NY Farm

National Grid, through its Agribusiness Productivity program, provides incentives to fund energy efficiency, renewable energy delivery and/or productivity improvements undertaken by dairy businesses, commercial farms and controlled environment agricultural facilities.

Energy

Alibaba: Social & Sustainable - Green Resale Platform Idle Fish Adopts Social Commerce

Alibaba Group’s consumer-to-consumer resale platform Idle Fish is moving into a social e-commerce model, giving China’s growing cohort of sustainability-driven users a new forum to connect.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

For Second Consecutive Year, Fifth Third Private Bank Recognized As Best for High Net Worth Clients

In May, Fifth Third Private Bank was also awarded the Best Bank ESG Communication Strategy for the Americas and Best Bank for ESG Thought Leadership for the Americas by the WealthBriefing Wealth for Good Awards.

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Research, Reports & Publications

GoDaddy & UCLA Research Reveals a Single Microbusiness Creates Nearly 7 Local Jobs

According to new research from GoDaddy and UCLA, the U.S. cities with the most microbusiness activity during the fourth quarter of 2022 are San Jose, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Denver, San Diego, and Austin.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Southwire’s Project GIFT® Hosts Annual Walk for Water in Support of Water Mission

Raising awareness to address an issue that impacts billions of people around the world. Southwire’s Project GIFT recently partnered with Water Mission to host a Walk for Water event, collecting $38,520 in donations.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Hosts Annual Storm School, Awards $55,000 in Foundation Grants to Local EMA Organizations

First responders, including representatives from local police, fire and emergency management agencies throughout southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky, attended Duke Energy Storm School.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

KeyBank To Sponsor Black Economic Success Trust (B.E.S.T.)

KeyBank announced a sponsorship of the Black Economic Success Trust (B.E.S.T.) in downtown Denver on June 9-10.

Research, Reports & Publications

The Global Impact of CSRD

Andie Wood, vice president of regulatory strategy at Workiva, shares a primer on the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), new ESG regulation adopted by the European Commission impacting thousands of companies worldwide.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Georgia-Pacific's Principles in Perspective: Jesse Ingram

Hear from Jesse Ingram, maintenance manager at Albany Lumber, as he shares how Charles Koch’s book, Good Profit, helped him connect our values within GP back to the building products business.

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Environment

Why 500 Million Trees Is Just a Start

The Arbor Day Foundation crosses milestone mark to plant 500 million trees.

Latest Campaigns

  1. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...

  2. Collaboration and Partnership
    Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...

  3. AMD Environmental Sustainability
    Advancing sustainability across our operations, supply chain manufacturing and product stewardship

  4. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...

  5. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. Impacting Today and Tomorrow
    What we do matters and our associates can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in the community.

  9. International Paper | SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS
    Vision 2030 Goal: Improve our climate impact and advance water stewardship

  10. Shared Goodness Promise - Hershey's ESG Progress
    The Hershey Company is committed to publishing annual environment, social, and governance reports that give updates on our publicly stated goals and...

  11. 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...

  12. PSEG People & Communities
    PSEG is committed to improving the lives of our customers, our employees and the diverse communities we serve throughout New Jersey and Long Island...

  13. 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...

  14. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...

  15. Sustainability- Carnival Corporation's Way of Doing Business
    Carnival’s approach to sustainability is a full-time commitment; it is not a cost of doing business, it is a way of doing business. We at Carnival...