Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Success Builds on Success

Aug 3, 2016 9:00 AM ET

Environmental and social responsibility goals go hand in hand with financial success. Environmental initiatives drive direct savings in energy and materials, employee training increases productivity and customer satisfaction, and strong sustainability positioning results in higher levels of customer loyalty, revenue and profit.

Energy

Lost in Translation -- Making Sense of Three Critical Renewable Energy Strategies: Power Purchase Agreements, Virtual PPAs and Renewable Energy Certificates

Aug 3, 2016 9:00 AM ET

An increasing number of enterprises are focused on going 100% renewable, driven in large part by the recent push to established science-based carbon reduction goals. Three of the supporting energy strategy trends to help enterprises achieve these goals are Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), Virtual PPAs, and Renewable Energy Certificates. None of these is probably a term that comes tripping off the tongue of the average businessperson.

Health & Healthcare

Innovating to Save Women’s Lives

Aug 3, 2016 12:00 AM ET

Kenya-based Jacaranda Health has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a pledge to provide 50,250 low-income women and children with high-quality maternal and child health care at its maternity hospitals by the end of 2019. The company has also committed to open two more maternity hospitals in 2018 and pilot innovative healthcare delivery models in 25 public health facilities to reach 250,000 additional women and children.

Events, Media & Communications

Women of FOX Sports and Geena Davis Institute discuss importance of female role models in sports

Aug 2, 2016 8:00 PM ET

More than 100 people gathered in Los Angeles on July 28 to hear from a panel of truly inspirational women on the importance and impact of positive role models in the world of sports. At the beautiful Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, the Women of FOX Sports partnered with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to host "A League of Their Own: Sports Inspiring Social Change."

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Source Intelligence® Earns Additional Honors For Innovation, Technology and Leadership

Aug 2, 2016 7:55 PM ET

Source Intelligence® continues to earn global awards in recognition of its superior technology and innovation as well as its strong, creative leadership.

Innovation & Technology

The Technology and Sustainability Entanglement

Aug 2, 2016 6:00 PM ET

Technology has momentum. It is disruptive and unstoppable. You can’t build a wall around it. To say that technology is more than the sum of its parts is a vast understatement, since technology in its connected aggregate is akin to an atmosphere that envelops us.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Making a Positive Impact: Inspiring Young People to Get Involved in Their Community

Aug 2, 2016 4:00 PM ET

Actively engaging young people in their community can result in positive and meaningful social change. Learn more about how to engage young people by reading Six Steps to Engage Millennials in Social Change and utilizing the complimentary Youth Engagement Toolkit.

Research, Reports & Publications

UPS Drives 1 Billion Cleaner Miles, Achieves Goal One Year Early

Aug 2, 2016 3:00 PM ET

UPS’s 14th annual Sustainability Report provides a comprehensive update on the company’s sustainability efforts, including an announcement that the company has achieved its goal of driving 1 billion miles in its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet one year earlier than planned.

Innovation & Technology

Watch the Living Progress Challenge Finals Live August 3 -- and See Who Wins!

Aug 2, 2016 2:50 PM ET

On August 3, the 10 finalists of the first Living Progress Challenge, will pitch their solutions in hopes of being selected as a winner. Winners will receive HPE support to build and deploy their digital solutions for social impact.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Diageo North America Among 50 Best Companies for Diversity and Inclusion, Again Named to Diversity MBA’s “50 Out Front” List

Aug 2, 2016 2:15 PM ET

Diageo North America has once again been recognized by Diversity MBA’s prestigious “50 Out Front for Diversity Leadership” list of the best places in the country for women and diverse managers to work. This is the fifth consecutive year that Diversity MBA, a national leadership organization, has named Diageo to the list. Diageo was ranked 18th overall, and also identified as Best in Class for representation of women and people of color in the most senior leadership roles. Additionally, Diversity MBA selected three Diageo North America employees for its “Top 100 Under 50” list, which recognizes diverse executives and emerging leaders.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Team Honda Week of Service Lends a Helping Hand Across North America

Aug 2, 2016 2:00 PM ET

Some 16,000 volunteers participated in the inaugural Honda Week of Service last month, performing a variety of community services that highlighted the important work of local community organizations throughout North America.

Environment

Natural Business for a World That's Waking Up

Aug 2, 2016 1:30 PM ET

Albert Einstein threw down the gauntlet for our human evolution when he said, “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space."

Events, Media & Communications

Annual Ideagen UN Empowering Women & Girls 2030 Global Summit

Aug 2, 2016 1:00 PM ET

Ideagen Convenes Luminaries from the world’s leading companies, NGO’s and public sectors in New York at the Delegation of the European Union to the UN and United Nations for the Annual UN Empowering Women and Girls 2030 Global Summit

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

California Team’s Nature-Inspired Home Gardening System Captures the Student Living Product Prize

Aug 2, 2016 1:00 PM ET

A team from California State University, Long Beach has won the 2016 student Living Product Prize for their innovative approach to a water and space-efficient home gardening system.

Education

PT Freeport Indonesia, a Freeport-McMoRan Company, Provides Business Management Training to Papuan Entrepreneurs

Aug 2, 2016 12:05 PM ET

PT Freeport Indonesia’s Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Development Program mentors indigenous entrepreneurs through all aspects of business development and management.

Research, Reports & Publications

Taproot Foundation and BMW Foundation Release Global Pro Bono Summit Recap: A Snapshot of the 2016 International Convening of Pro Bono Leaders

Aug 2, 2016 12:00 PM ET

The Global Pro Bono Summit Recap has just been released. This captures the highlights from the March 15-18 event held in Singapore this year. Visit www.taprootfoundation.org.

Events, Media & Communications

Register for Your FREE Sustainability Training Intro Course

Aug 2, 2016 11:30 AM ET

Health & Healthcare

ORB, by mPowering, Celebrates One Year of Empowering Frontline Health Workers with Access to Educational Resources

Aug 2, 2016 11:05 AM ET

Recently, a reception was held in Washington D.C. to commemorate the one-year anniversary of ORB, an mHealth content platform created by mPowering for frontline health workers.

Innovation & Technology

IBM Smarter Cities Challenge: Making 911 Smarter, Safer and Cheaper

Aug 2, 2016 11:00 AM ET

Check out this story about how an IBM Smarter Cities Challenge team is having a direct impact on the lives and welfare of Memphis' residents, in addition to helping the city conserve needed funds. As with many cities, Memphis emergency services (EMS) scramble equipment and trained personnel in response to an increasing number of non-emergency calls.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Driving Impact To Make Lasting Change

Aug 2, 2016 11:00 AM ET

Environment

Keep America Beautiful Announces Launch of 2016 Recycle-Bowl; Urges Nation to #BeRecycled Ahead of America Recycles Day

Aug 2, 2016 10:45 AM ET

As students, teachers, administrators and staff prepare to head back to school, national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful plans to ignite a passion for recycling in schools across the nation with the launch of its 6th Annual Keep America Beautiful Recycle-Bowl. Registration opens today for the fall recycling competition at http://Recycle-Bowl.org/.

Through participation in Recycle-Bowl and America Recycles Day, the only nationally-recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States, Keep America Beautiful is helping communities spotlight recycling on a local level by educating students and community members on how and what to recycle, while providing an array of resources to improve recycling in America.

Research, Reports & Publications

UPS Drives 1 Billion Cleaner Miles Meeting Goal Early

Aug 2, 2016 10:35 AM ET

UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced the company has achieved its goal of driving 1 billion miles in its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet one year earlier than planned, and marked more than 10 years of learning from its “Rolling Laboratory.”

Environment

Talk with Green Guy Show - Interview with Mayor Jim Brainard, Co-Chair, U.S. Conference of Mayors - Energy and Environment

Aug 2, 2016 10:30 AM ET

Mayor Jim Brainard of U.S. Conference of Mayors talks energy and the environment on Talk With Green Guy Show.

Health & Healthcare

HPRC Member Spotlight: Monica Torres, Baxter Healthcare Corporation

Aug 2, 2016 10:25 AM ET

Meet Monica Torres--Corporate Manager, Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability with Baxter Healthcare Corporation. We talk to Monica about her key responsibilities, her major accomplishments in her role, challenges she sees the industry facing, and what she sees as the future of healthcare plastics recycling. Monica also talks about why Baxter is a member of HPRC and gives us a look into what she loves to do "off-duty."

Events, Media & Communications

Top Four Reasons to Attend a CSR or Sustainability Conference This Fall

Aug 2, 2016 10:25 AM ET

Professional development events exist for just about every career, and they’ve been around since Thomas Edison held his first, “How to Change a Light Bulb” seminar for aspiring electricians (attendees earned 10 CEU credits and went home with some nice tsotchkes).

For the growing number of corporate and nonprofit professionals focused on social impact and sustainability initiatives, there is more choice in fall 2016 than ever before for events aimed at showcasing successful programs and the brands that made them happen.