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Join Leaders From Google, Microsoft, REI & More at GreenBiz 26

Trellis Group

Events, Media & Communications

sustainability: 2025 Report - Rockwell Automation
Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

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What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Innovation & Technology

4 Ways Johnson & Johnson Is Cultivating Outside-the-Box Innovations for COVID-19

In addition to its own cadre of scientists hard at work fighting the pandemic, Johnson & Johnson also supports external researchers and entrepreneurs equally dedicated to finding solutions for the current health crisis.

Environment

BIER Member Spotlight: Carolina García Arbeláez

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

Research, Reports & Publications

Vistra Releases Comprehensive Review of Company Climate Strategy

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Republic Services, Rebuilding Together Select $1 Million in Small Business Revitalization Projects

Nine local affiliates of Rebuilding Together will receive a total of $1 million in grants from the Republic Services Charitable Foundation to help revitalize locally owned small businesses that have been disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Education

Qualcomm Wireless Reach: Qualcomm 21st Century Classroom

Mobile technology has fundamentally changed access to educational materials and this collaboration enables even greater opportunities to enrich teaching and learning, and address learning disparities by decreasing the digital divide.

Sustainable Development Goals

Developing a Market-Based Approach to Sanitation in Uganda

Uganda is off-track to meet the "universal access to sanitation" Sustainability Development Goal by 2030. This blog describes the drivers and barriers to basic sanitation and provides detailed recommendations on how market-based sanitation can help.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Verizon and Generation Partner to Close the Opportunity Gap and Reskill Workers

Verizon and Generation partner to close the opportunity gap and reskill workers

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Merck Donates $500,000 to Support River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Efforts

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and the MECTIZAN® Donation Program (MDP), announced today a $500,000 cash donation to support non-governmental organization (NGO) partners working to eliminate river blindness...

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

International Paper Fiber Supply Manager Accepts Diversity Leadership Award

Congratulations to Alex Singleton, fiber supply manager, Industrial Packaging’s Rome Containerboard Mill, for being recognized with the Diversity Leadership Award for the Society of American Foresters (SAF).

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comerica Makes Grant to LISC to Fuel Lending for Minority-Owned Small Businesses in Detroit, LA and Phoenix

Comerica Bank is teaming up with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) to expand access to capital for small businesses and nonprofits led by people of color—especially organizations without the size or track record to attract conventional financing on their own.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

4 Strategies to Support Designing for Distance in the Workplace

As businesses across the country contemplate the logistics of a post-pandemic workplace, both emotional and physical safety will likely be their guiding principle.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bank of America, Comcast NBCUniversal and Lenfest Foundation Help Launch Pilot of Coded By Kids' OnE Philadelphia

This provides the foundation for Coded By Kids to address diversity & inclusion in tech & innovation with long term solutions that are designed to deliver high-quality, sustainable career opportunities for communities of color in Philadelphia.

Research, Reports & Publications

Department of Defense Study Finds Risk of Exposure To COVID-19 Is Almost Non-Existent on United Flights

The results are in: Your risk of exposure to COVID-19 is almost non-existent on our flights (yes, even on a full flight).

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Forbes Just 100: Hershey Recognized for Doing Well by Doing Good

The Hershey Company’s legacy is rooted in doing well by doing good. This was the mission of our founder, Milton Hershey, who built a company on the values of integrity, excellence, togetherness and making a difference.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Building the Business Case for Technology

Join Benevity on Oct. 29 to hear how purpose-driven companies RBC and Toyota North America successfully built the business case to adopt corporate purpose technology, proving that it’s a need-to-have, not a nice-to-have.

Education

Connecting Students to the Real-World of Healthcare

As kids continue to navigate the new school year, whether in-person or virtually, being aware of overlapping diseases and social realities has become more important than ever.

Health & Healthcare

Gear Up to VoteSafe Receives Support From the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Gear Up to VoteSafe Receives Support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Additional funds urgently needed to help protect more election officials, poll workers, volunteers, and voters.

Events, Media & Communications

'Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy' Broadcast Special to Air on CBS on October 29, Hosted by Alicia Keys, America Ferrera and Kerry Washington

Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy, a nationally televised and streamed event, will air on the CBS Television Network and will be streamed via CBS All Access on Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT.

Media & Communications

The United Nations at 75 Years - A Wide Range of Corporate CEOs Around the Globe Pledge Their Support of the UN Missions

The United Nations members states -- the global family of sovereign nations collaborating peacefully for seven-plus decades to address common challenges -- got good news on its 75th anniversary.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Election 2020: A Test for American Democracy, and a Test for American Business

Many companies have already taken steps to enable voting and to promote free and fair elections as Election Day approaches in the U.S. Here are five additional things that business can do to sustain a healthy democracy.

Health & Healthcare

Leading HSE In The Ongoing Crisis Response

It is our hope that by sharing these insights, we can carry these conversations further afield and support the profession to continue demonstrating the value that HSE adds to your organisations in a crisis and beyond.

Diversity & Inclusion

Cooke and Moody's Release New Report, Roadmap for Inclusion: a Collaborative Digital Skills Training Model for Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities, during Disability Awareness Month

The Cooke School and Institute and Moody’s Foundation today released the report, “Roadmap for Inclusion: a Collaborative Digital Skills Training Model for Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities” outlining new employment trends and approaches to developing or improving digital skills training programs for young adults with disabilities.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Pandemic Presents Both a Challenge and Opportunity for Start-Ups: Tangerine CEO

The accelerated digital transformation brought on by the pandemic means that startups must in turn quickly pivot their business models to the new normal, but these challenges also open up opportunities for entrepreneurs to respond.

Events, Media & Communications

How to Balance Sustainability With an Urgent Present and Uncertain Future

Business leaders walk a tightrope trying to balance their response to what’s happening today with their long-term ambitions to play an active role in shaping a better world for tomorrow.

Diversity & Inclusion

UPS Longitudes | Recognizing Business Dreams: Better Times on the Horizon?

For almost all business owners, COVID-19 changed everything. Certain industries shut down for months or had to pivot operations to meet evolving consumer demands. Customers stayed home, either shifting their purchases online or not making them at all

Latest Campaigns

  1. Opportunity for All
    At Trane Technologies, uplifting our communities and workforce is the key to our continued success. We focus on broadening access to education...
  2. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  3. Corporate Social Responsibility
    Whirlpool Corporation has several CSR partners including United Way, Habitat for Humanity International, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Consulada...
  4. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  5. SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights
    Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...
  6. 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...
  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. IWBI | WELL Building Standard
    Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...
  9. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  10. Wesco Cares
    Life-changing events can happen to any of us, often when we least expect them. Employees in need can turn to the Wesco Cares. Its mission is to be an...
  11. People
    As a family-owned business, Bacardi values the importance of creating a warm and welcoming workplace. We do so by fostering an environment where...
  12. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  13. Community Investment
    all community engagement efforts (e.g., Teach for All, volunteerism, etc.)
  14. Advocacy
    Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...
  15. IWBI | Community News
    We believe that people's health and wellness should be at the center of design. That’s why we’re working with industry professionals in real estate...