Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Editors Pick

Investing In Health Pays Back report cover
New IWBI Report Underscores the Powerful Business Case for Health in Buildings and Organizations

International WELL Building Institute (IWBI)

Research, Reports & Publications

3BL Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2025
3BL Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2025

3BL

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Circularity in Action: Decarbonization for Refrigerated Transport
Circularity in Action: Decarbonization for Refrigerated Transport

Trane Technologies

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Diversity & Inclusion

A Mother’s Inspiration: "How My Mom’s Brave Actions Helped Shape My Future"

Johnson & Johnson’s Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Wanda Bryant Hope, shares what it was like for her mother to fight for equal rights in the 1960s.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CNH Industrial: Investing in the Technicians of Tomorrow

CNH Industrial N.V. in collaboration with the Salesian Institute "San Zeno" Launched the first TechPro2 program in Verona, Italy, focusing on training in mechanical industries.

Events, Media & Communications

CECP Welcomes CEOs of Aptiv (APTV), Henry Schein (HSIC), Philip Morris International (PM), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), and Welltower (WELL) to Present Long-Term Plans at Strategic Investor Initiative’s 8th CEO Investor Forum

CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative (SII) announced that five CEOs will present their companies’ Long-Term Plans to institutional investors at CECP’s 8th CEO Investor Forum on February 24th, 2020, in New York City.

Green Infrastructure

Southern California Edison Files 2020-22 Wildfire Mitigation Plan

Southern California Edison today filed its proposed 2020-22 Wildfire Mitigation Plan with the California Public Utilities Commission. SCE’s multiyear plan builds on the progress made last year to reduce the risk of fire ignitions caused by utility infrastructure.

Media & Communications

Who Is the “Best Of” of Sustainable Companies in the Important Annual Rankings? Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – What Reflection for Our Company?

Mirror, mirror on the wall – who is the most sustainable company of them all? That memorable line from the Walt Disney Studios’ 1930s classic is being regularly applied now by a widening range of third party players

Diversity & Inclusion

Arrow Electronics Named Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality in 2020

Arrow Electronics has achieved a 100 percent score on the 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

Media & Communications

PAPERbecause Celebrates 10 Years of Paper Advocacy

Domtar's award-winning PAPERbecause campaign recognizes the enduring value of the printed page. It delivers creative and entertaining reminders of the benefits of paper through eye catching print ads in popular magazines and newspapers.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Consumer Trends That Will Help Communicators in 2020

This Porter Novelli/Cone Gen Z Purpose Study establishes what makes potential customers tick, the stimuli that motivate them, and how their habits and preferences are evolving.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comerica Bank, KPMG's Family for Literacy Donates 4,000 New Books to Benjamin Franklin International Exploratory Academy

Comerica Bank and its community partner KPMG’s Family for Literacy Dallas donated 4,000 new books to Benjamin Franklin International Exploratory Academy library on Thursday, Jan. 30.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Investors Have a Fiduciary Responsibility to Combat the Climate Crisis

Investors should consider long-term climate and environmental risks as fundamentally material, and act accordingly. Prioritizing ESG and using all the tools of active ownership to hold portfolio companies accountable for environmental harms.

Diversity & Inclusion

‘The Voice of Blind People Hasn't Been Heard’: Inside the Fight for Audio-described Ads

.@ProcterGamble Company Accessibility Leader Sam Latif decided to lead the drive for audio-described ads and was blown away at how easy it was to produce an inclusive spot for consumers who are blind and visually impaired.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Cocoa For Good

Supporting our cocoa communities is more than an investment—it’s about enabling lasting and systemic change.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

New Blog: The Importance of Framing for Foundations Engaging on Equity

It’s not always what you say, but how you say it.

Environment

This Is How the IOC and the Olympic Games Are Addressing Climate Change

Here's how the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Games are addressing climate change.

Social Impact & Volunteering

The City of Detroit and FCA Seek Artists to Paint One of the Largest Municipal Art Installations in Detroit's History

This Valentine’s Day, FCA will join Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship and City Walls Detroit murals program in showing the city some love.

Energy

Wide Bandgap Technology Enables Future Solar Power Solutions

However, without appropriate technology that is able to deliver energy efficiently and at a comparable price point to existing technology, many government-backed initiatives to promote solar power are unlikely to be wholly successful.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Schneider Electric's Commitment to Sustainability Recognized at Davos

Schneider Electric was ranked among the “Global 100” most sustainable companies by Corporate Knights for the seventh year running, coming 29th overall and first in its category.

Education

"You’ve Got to See It, to Be It.” Bristol-Myers Squibb Partners with W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars Institute

"You’ve got to see it, to be it.” This quote by American activist Marian Wright Edelman embodies the personal and professional philosophy of Charlotte Jones-Burton , M.D., M.S, Cardiovascular Development Team Lead, Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Adobe Partners With Teach for America to Bring Creativity to Classrooms

At Adobe we believe that everyone is creative. Creativity is not exclusive or a special gift endowed only upon a lucky few.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Helping Connect Rural Communities in Argentina

The rural town of Tandil relies on its road network to not only enable people to keep in touch with one another, but also to ensure these rural, and sometimes remote businesses, are able to bring their products to market.

Education

APIA Scholars Rings in Lunar New Year With $1.2 Million Donation From Wells Fargo

Asian & Pacific Islander American (APIA) Scholars, the nation’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to the higher education needs of the APIA community, is ringing in the Lunar New Year with a $1.2 million grant from Wells Fargo.

Health & Healthcare

International Paper Addresses Period Poverty in Video Submitted to Corporate Citizenship Film Festival

International Paper’s new video “Fighting Period Poverty in Our Own Backyards” has been entered in the 2020 Corporate Citizenship Film Festival, hosted by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.

Education

Cisco Networking Academy Creates a Much-Needed Skills-to-Job Pathway for Diverse Midwest Students

Characterized as a ‘job machine,’ the US economy has had several years of prosperity and solid job growth. But this doesn’t mean that it’s prosperous for all Americans and all job sectors.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

PNC Helps Children and Communities Grow Up Great

Now in its 15th year, PNC’s Grow Up Great has served more than 5 million children in the U.S. through early childhood education grant-funded programs, educational materials and mobile engagement tours.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Who Do You Trust? It Might Depend on Your Generation

In a collection of essays called Trust, Inc., business school professors James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner write: “The truth is that trust rules. Trust rules relationships. Trust rules your influence. Trust rules you team’s cohesiveness.

Latest Campaigns

  1. IWBI | Workplace Wellness
    A WELL Certified™ project has the potential to add measurable value to the health, well-being and happiness of people in the buildings. It can also...
  2. 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...
  3. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  4. KeyBank: Responsible Banking
    Everyone’s financial journey is different. We make intentional efforts to meet the individual needs of clients and communities through a diverse range...
  5. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  6. Katrina 20th Anniversary
    This year marked the 20th anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Katrina, one of the worst, deadliest and most costly natural disasters to ever...
  7. 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...
  8. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  9. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. Scotts Miracle-Gro | Environment Improvement
    Earth's beauty and resources should be appreciated now and preserved for generations to come. Discover the stewardship initiatives underway to protect...
  13. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...