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Health & Healthcare

Building My New Normal, Brick by Brick

Our new normal coming out of this pandemic doesn’t have to be any worse, it just has to be different.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Innovating to Live Better, Walmart Foundation and Nonprofits Fight Childhood Food Insecurity

As COVID-19 continues to drive food insecurity, many nonprofits are searching for creative solutions to help meet the needs of children in their own communities. That’s where we come in.

Environment

3 Pillars of a Successful Legacy Liability Management Program

Learn how to reduce or extinguish your legacy liability and teach your remediation portfolio managers how to present these strategies to your leadership team. Check out these three pillars of a successful legacy liability management program.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Family-Focused Culture at Bacardi USA Shines Through on Fortune Best Small & Medium Workplaces™ 2020 List Created by Great Place to Work®

The company was lauded for its quick response to the Covid-19 pandemic, with one employee stating, “In moments where others were silent, we were acting, and it makes me proud to work for a company that intends to lead the change."

Diversity & Inclusion

T. Rowe Price Encourages Employees to Help End Transphobia

T. Rowe Price is cognizant of challenges transgender people face globally, including transphobia, regressive legislation, restricted access to medical support, and violence.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Creativity is Good for Your Head

To celebrate the power of drawing, painting, singing, skating, meditating, surfing, cooking - and to catalyze even more therapeutic self-expression, Vans Checkerboard Day arrives with a simple message: “Creativity is good for your head.”

Health & Healthcare

NYC Test & Trace Corps and Port Authority Open Free COVID-19 Testing Site at JetBlue's Terminal 5 at JFK Airport, Pilot Program Launches to Provide Free COVID-19 Test Kits to New Yorkers Booked on Return Flights

With more than 40,000 essential workers at JFK, the new site will bolster outreach to this critical frontline group while also allowing those who must travel the chance to test before & after a flight and receive results within 48 hours on average.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Small Business Owners From the Bronx to England Learn How to Thrive During COVID-19 With Paypal

In a new film, presented by Innovate Finance, hear how entrepreneurs from NY to the UK have pivoted their businesses, accelerated their digital payments offerings, and kept afloat in this challenging year with some help from PayPal.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

IVECO S-Way NP 460 Wins Sustainable Truck of the Year 2021 Award

The IVECO S-Way NP 460 in LNG version was crowned Sustainable Truck of the Year 2021 in the Tractor category. The award, now in its fifth edition, was created by Italian specialized magazine Vado e Torno.

Health & Healthcare

Hanes Hosiery Donates More Than a Quarter of a Million Face Masks to Support Arkansas Emergency Management

Committed to doing its part to help during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hanes Hosiery has donated 263,000 seamless face masks produced in Clarksville, Arkansas, to the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MLB Announces Grant to Sesame Workshop, Additional Military VSO Partners

Funds Will Expand Sesame Workshop’s Resource Hub and Build Out Its COVID-Response Initiative to Uniquely Assist the Military Community

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

T‑Mobile Rolls Out Apprenticeship Program Offering Industry‑Leading Career Opportunities to Nevadans–and Beyond

T-Mobile’s Apprenticeship Program is creating amazing career opportunities for diverse talent to learn new skills through hands-on experiences that open up amazing career opportunities, earn while they learn, and get access to world class benefits.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Operation Warm and FedEx: Providing 800,000 Coats Warms Kids and the Hearts of Volunteers

I’ve had the pleasure of working for FedEx for over 13 years. In my time here, I’ve served in marketing and communications roles across multiple channels of our business but, admittedly, my experience in Global Citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibility has afforded me a different kind of success.

Diversity & Inclusion

P&G Powered by Purpose Podcast: “Who Decides What 'Normal' is?”

Responsible Production & Consumption

"US Voters: Circular Politics Beyond Polarization"

The US 2020 election illustrated once again that independent voters are tired of the two-party red or blue duopoly. Like European voters they are beyond left and right and ahead with new visions of the future. Old memes and battles between capitalism and socialism ended in the past Cold War.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Xylem and The Chris Long Foundation Dig Deep for Water Accessibility

Some in the U.S. might be surprised to learn that water accessibility challenges may exist within their communities. Across the country, more than 1.5 million Americans lack access to clean and sustainable water.

Sustainable Development Goals

Demand Grows Globally for Food, Beverage and Agriculture Companies to Accelerate Shift Towards a Nature-Positive Future

Appetite for Change: As expectations of sustainability grow among employees and consumers alike, new analysis reveals leadership opportunity for FB&A businesses willing to prioritise the environment.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Four Social Campaigns That Are Re-Inventing How People Drink

As the world’s leading brewer, we want every experience with beer to be a positive one.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

2020 Moskowitz Prize Awarded to Research That Demonstrates Shareholders Can Influence a Firm’s Real Environmental Impact

From a field of over 100 submitted papers, The Real Effects of Environmental Activism was selected as the winner of the 2020 Moskowitz Prize at Northwestern University.

Environment

BIER Member Spotlight: Julie Starr

Welcome to our series aimed at spotlighting the individual leaders within BIER member companies and stakeholder organizations.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Henkel AG & Co KGaA's Social Plastic Ecosystem in collaboration with Plastic Bank earns top honors in the 2020 Packaging Innovation Awards by Dow

Dow (NYSE:DOW) announced the winners of the 2020 Packaging Innovation Awards recognizing breakthrough packaging achievements in design, technology, sustainability and user experience.

Responsible Production & Consumption

UPS News | UPS Teams With Atlanta-Area Organizations To Give Old Uniforms New Life

UPS is working with two local non-profit organizations to upcycle thousands of old uniforms into dog leashes, benefitting programs to provide much-needed homes and jobs for Atlanta-area residents - including some four-legged ones.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Volunteer Light Set to “Shine” With Cumulus Media / VolunteerMatch Partnership as Americans Gather Around Thanksgiving Tables

Cumulus Media and VolunteerMatch are teaming up to “Shine” a light on the invaluable benefits of human connection with the launch of “PROJECT SHINE” on Thursday, November 19, 2020.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Union Employees Keep Sappi Safety-Focused and Successful

“We are all in it together,” says Jay Arnston, fiberline control room operator and president of the USW Local Chapter 11-63 at the Cloquet Mill.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

VF Foundation: Caring for Our Communities

Every thread of our global community has seen the pandemic's impacts, including those who make VF products. Across Asia, COVID-19 temporarily halted the operations at hundreds of manufacturing sites. In turn, thousands of vulnerable garment workers continue to suffer through financial stress and food insecurity with their families.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  2. Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator
    The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...
  3. Fifth Third's Commitment to Small Businesses
    Fifth Third believes that small businesses form the foundation of our communities – and when they succeed, we all succeed. Supporting them through...
  4. FedEx | Volunteer Campaigns
    Giving back is part of the FedEx culture. Team members support our charitable investments and local community needs by dedicating their time where...
  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. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  7. 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...
  8. Digital Safety
    We provide tools and guidance so people can manage digital content in a way that’s right for them and their families. Learn more >>
  9. 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...
  10. Nutrition and Health
    Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
  11. Health and Safety by Antea Group
    Antea Group's health and safety consultants understand what it takes to help make a positive impact on safety culture. Read blogs, insights, and more...
  12. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  13. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  14. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  15. Retail Logistics
    DP World provides end-to-end retail logistics solutions including comprehensive Purchase Order management from origin consolidation to retailer PO...