Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Events, Media & Communications

Hormel Foods Brings its Pantry Project Live to Instagram

The event is part of The Pantry Project, an initiative Hormel Foods pioneered during the COVID-19 outbreak. The company has invited chefs and kitchen experts to support home cooks by showing them how to put their pantry stashes to good use.

Events, Media & Communications

Handprints Over Footprints: Combining Social Impact with Environmental Stewardship to Create Net-Positive Enterprises

This CEU introduces the concept of Handprinting, and its increasing importance in the transformational movement of regenerative sustainability.

Health & Healthcare

Ramping Up Manufacturing to Help Address COVID-19

As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases increased in Asia and began to spread to other regions around the world, a team of employees at Gilead’s manufacturing site in La Verne, California met in the early morning of Monday, Feb. 3.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Market Disruption is Affecting Global Corporate Renewables

The unprecedented impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is being felt across industries, including renewable energy. These market dynamics will especially affect corporations that are evaluating, or have contracted for, power purchase agreements (PPAs).

Health & Healthcare

Bayer Supports Fight Against the Corona Pandemic in Spain With Measures Totaling Approximately 1 Million Euros

Bayer is supporting the fight against the corona pandemic in Spain with a comprehensive aid package. The company is donating 800,000 euros to the national health system in Spain for the purchase of urgently needed medical equipment and hospital beds.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Coronavirus: Helping Medical Professionals, Students and Our Community

JetBlue is working with non-profits & NGOs to get medical professionals & much-needed supplies to places where they are needed most, as well as providing flights to students who need help getting to family & friends or a permanent housing situation.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Medtronic Foundation Announces 2:1 Match for Employee Charitable Giving During COVID-19 Response

In the midst of a global health crisis, the Medtronic Foundation is committed to supporting front line health workers and nonprofit organizations around the globe.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Shifts Temecula Operations to Produce Face Shields for COVID-19 First Responders

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company has shifted production in its Temecula, California manufacturing plant to produce face shields to help protect healthcare workers and first responders in critical need areas across the country.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bedford Brewery Opens Beer Garden, Pop-Up Food Bank for Restaurant Workers

Sysco donated food that would’ve been shipped to restaurants that are now closed.

Innovation & Technology

How to Protect Yourself and Loved Ones from COVID-19 Phone Scams

As more and more Americans brace for the possible health and economic fallouts from the COVID-19 outbreak, scammers are proving themselves to be another rising threat, harnessing the fear and uncertainty many of us feel day to day on a growing basis.

Diversity & Inclusion

Merck named one of the Top 50 Workplaces for Indigenous STEM Professionals by AISES

Merck has been recognized by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) for its commitment to diversity and inclusion. AISES released its listing of the 50 Top STEM Workplaces for Indigenous STEM Professionals...

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

LLS and Partners Commit $4.5 Million for Blood Cancer Patients Impacted by COVID-19

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), a global leader in the fight against cancer, along with valued partners, announced their commitment to help as many blood cancer patients as possible during this unprecedented crisis.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

ViacomCBS Launches $100 Million Coronavirus Relief Fund

ViacomCBS has launched a $100 million fund to provide support to the crew members, actors, and filmmakers whose livelihoods have been impacted by the production shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

American Express’ Commitment to Backing Colleagues, Customers and Communities Affected by COVID-19

For more than 170 years, American Express has been committed to backing our colleagues, our customers, our partners and the communities we serve around the world.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

United Airlines Partners With City of Chicago on Donations for COVID-19 First Responders and Patients

United Airlines has partnered with the City of Chicago to provide supplies for COVID-19 first responders and patients.

Green Infrastructure

Mohawk Group Recognized as Disaster Recovery Supplier

The General Services Administration (GSA) has designated Mohawk Group as an official disaster recovery supplier

Health & Healthcare

United Airlines Partners with Governor Newsom to Fly Medical Volunteers to California to Fight COVID-19

United Airlines has partnered with Governor Newsom to provide free, round-trip flights for medical volunteers traveling to California to help in the frontline fight against the COVID-19 crisis.

Events, Media & Communications

3BL Forum: Brands Taking Stands 2020 Postponed

3BL Media announced today the postponement of its annual gathering of corporate leaders, 3BL Forum: Brands Taking Stands® – Business Elects to Lead. The event was scheduled for October 6-7 in New York City.

Sustainable Development Goals

Tetra Tech’s Charity of the Year Update: Clean Water in Guatemala

Each year at Tetra Tech’s annual meeting, its employees donate to a charity organization. At the 2019 annual meeting, we donated to an Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA) water project in La Reforma, Guatemala.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Two Million Surgical Masks Donated by Las Vegas Sands Arrive in New York, Nevada

2 million surgical masks donated by Las Vegas Sands arrived in Albany, New York this morning where 500 boxes, containing one million masks were unloaded for distribution to health care providers and first responders facing the COVID-19.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Supporting Texas Small Businesses Through Retail Revival

As the world struggles to cope with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, small business owners in particular are facing difficult and unprecedented challenges

Sustainable Development Goals

The School Fund of Minera El Abra, a Freeport-McMoRan Company, Funds Leadership Program for 600 Students and Teachers

The School of Leaders: Empodérate El Loa Program, a partnership of Emprende Joven and the Minera El Abra School Fund, promotes social-emotional skills for students and provides teacher training in the Calama region of Chile.

Innovation & Technology

Arrow Electronics Asia-Pacific Offices Host 20 Charity Events in Eight Countries

Arrow Electronics employees in the Asia-Pacific region made a significant contribution to the company’s global corporate sociality responsibility efforts in 2019, hosting 20 charity events in eight countries.

Health & Healthcare

Northern Trust Announces COVID-19 Assistance

Northern Trust Corporation (Nasdaq: NTRS) announced on April 8, 2020 it is providing $3 million in philanthropic support to nonprofit organizations around the world, including those that provide healthcare, food and other humanitarian relief.

Latest Campaigns

  1. 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...
  2. ESG Recognition
    While our commitment to being a responsible corporation is not dependent on recognition, it is a great validation of our work when external...
  3. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  4. America's Charities Employee Engagement & Social Responsibility
    More than ever, retaining and recruiting employees is a top priority for companies. Aware of the link between workplace giving and employee engagement...
  5. 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...
  6. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  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. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  9. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  10. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  11. 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...
  12. Recognition of our Company
    As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...
  13. Tork, an Essity brand
    Tork is an Essity brand. Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company. Wherever there is a need for wiping, drying, cleaning or polishing...
  14. Aflac Insights
    Learn more about Aflac’s survey findings to better understand workplace trends as well as consumer attitudes, habits and opinions toward health and...
  15. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...