Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Challenge of Greenwashing: An International Regulatory Overview (2025)

KPMG

Research, Reports & Publications

Meet ISO 22716, the Gold Standard in Global Manufacturing: Mary Kay Certified for Cosmetic Good Manufacturing Practices

Mary Kay

Health & Healthcare

Early Diagnosis and Local Solutions Are Critical To Combat Lung Cancer

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Innovation & Technology

Southwire Announces Strategic Investment in Verdigris

Southwire

Environment

Making the Most of Your Water Risk Assessment

Antea Group

Events, Media & Communications

From Pitch to Possibilities: Leveraging Sports to Create Economic Mobility

Comcast

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Wells Fargo Launches National Challenge to Uncover Innovative Housing Solutions

Wells Fargo & Company

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sappi Recognized With Climate Performance Award From ClimateWork Maine

Sappi North America

Featured Brands

ICA Fund Announces $2.25 Million in New Funding From Wells Fargo To Support Growth-Ready Small Businesses in the Bay Area

ICA Fund today announced it has received a $2.25 million grant from Wells Fargo & Company as part of its Open for Business Growth initiative, a $20 million philanthropic program designed to help growth-ready small businesses access the capital and resources they need to scale.

From Ideas To Impact: Empowering Africa’s Next Generation of Climate Innovators

In December, the future of African innovation took center stage in Abuja, Nigeria, as students from across the continent gathered for Junior Achievement (JA) Africa’s Company of the Year (COY) competition.

Guiding Stars: Cereal Sense

The cereal aisle can feel overwhelming—especially when every box claims to be the right choice. Call-outs like “whole grain,” “fortified,” “heart healthy,” or “high protein” add to the confusion. When you’re short on time, you may not be able to review the nutrition facts panel.

Spring Cleaning Your Budget: A Fresh Start for Your Finances

If spring cleaning your closet feels satisfying, scrubbing your budget might feel downright transformative. Just like clutter tends to accumulate in the corners of your home, unused subscriptions, autopay traps and shifting expenses gather quietly in your financial life.

Comcast and Seattle Sports Commission Bring Team USA Spirit to Veterans in Burien

As the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games capture global attention, a powerful local gathering in Burien highlighted the inspiring connection between elite adaptive athletes and the veterans in our own community.

Jacksonville Military Moms Receive Surprise Gifts at Golf‑Inspired Operation Shower

Days before The PLAYERS Championship kicked off at TPC Sawgrass, 40 military moms and moms-to-be gathered with their loved ones inside Patriot’s Outpost for a special event.

Mastercard: Bottling the Creative Process: A Woman Founder’s AI-Powered Approach to Innovation

Catalina Banuleasa knows that most exciting new products aren’t born from sheer luck. As an entrepreneur who’s developed products for some of the world’s most innovative companies, she’s learned that “lightning bolt ideas” typically happen when you lay the groundwork for them.

Triple Pundit: Camden Healthcare Workers Confront the Barriers Holding Back Their Neighbors’ Health

The Healthy Neighbor program, led by healthcare provider Virtua Health and supported by global medical technology company Medtronic and Medtronic LABS, recognizes that health goes beyond medicine and visits to the doctor.

2025 JA Americas Company of the Year Celebrates the Spirit of Possibility

For three unforgettable days at the Junior Achievement (JA) Americas Company of the Year (COY) competition, the spirit of possibility took hold of Rio de Janeiro.

The Challenge of Greenwashing: An International Regulatory Overview (2025)

Regulatory frameworks for sustainability are shifting, shaped by geopolitical volatility, economic uncertainty and growing public demand for transparency. Jurisdictions are responding in kind with diverging approaches.

Recent Alerts

Diversity & Inclusion

AEG Earns Top Score in Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2024–2025 Corporate Equality Index for Sixth Consecutive Year

AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company proudly announced that for the sixth consecutive year it has received a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s (HRC) 2025 Corporate Equality Index

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Henkel Earns Equality 100 Award in Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2025 Corporate Equality Index

Henkel announces its 100 rating in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s assessment of LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Nielsen 2024 ESG Report: Prioritizing Our People

The last several years have brought a significant amount of change to the world, and Nielsen has evolved accordingly. We’re not only on a journey to transform our business model, we are also transforming our culture and employee experience so that we can continue to do our best.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Florida and Duke Energy Foundation Add to Long-Standing Support for Pinellas Education Foundation With $100,000 Grant

Thanks to Duke Energy Florida, the Duke Energy Foundation and Pinellas Education Foundation, thousands of students will experience real-world economic and innovative engineering concepts to help them reach their full potential both in and out of the classroom.

Environment

Case Study: AFFF Incineration Solutions in Port Arthur, Texas

Refineries process and produce large volumes of flammable materials. In order to mitigate the risk of fires, many rely on aqueous film forming foam or AFFF.

Environment

Cisco: Six Environmental Sustainability Trends for 2025 and Beyond

As we approach 2025, following what is likely to be the hottest year on record, the urgency to address our planet’s interconnected challenges has never been greater.

Events, Media & Communications

Georgia-Pacific Completes Investments in Bradford Corrugated Plant

Georgia-Pacific has completed the upgrades to its Bradford, Pennsylvania, corrugated facility that began in early 2023. The investment totaled close to $34 million and funded new equipment to modernize the plant’s operations.

Responsible Production & Consumption

SCS Standards Releases Revised SCS-108 Carbon Neutral Standard for Public Review

SCS Standards is pleased to announce that a version 2.0 of the SCS-108 Certification Standard for Carbon Neutral Entities, Buildings, Products, and Services is now available for public review. 

Environment

Antea Group UK Expands Service Portfolio With Launch of Water Services

Antea Group UK, a leading multidisciplinary consultancy specialising in environment, health and safety services for the private sector, today announced the launch of its comprehensive Water Consultancy Services.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Gildan Included in the Dow Jones Sustainability™ Index for the 12th Consecutive Year

Gildan Activewear Inc. (GIL: TSX and NYSE) (“Gildan” or the “Company”) is pleased to share that it has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability™ North America Index (DJSI North America), one of the world’s leading ESG performance rankings for publicly traded companies.

Innovation & Technology

Smarter Solutions and Doctors Without Borders Saving Lives on the Frontlines

With Lenovo, MSF teams sacrifice less precious time and resources on things like connectivity and IT infrastructure and can focus more on delivering vital care to people in need.

Health & Healthcare

Why Diversity in Clinical Trials Is So Important

Clinical trials are essential for the development of health care products, and it is increasingly recognized that there is a need for more diversity in trial participation.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Wesco 2024 Sustainability Report: Culture of Compliance

The Board is committed to supporting the company’s efforts to conduct its business in a principled, transparent and accountable manner. The Board believes that its effective oversight of ESG matters is central to its risk oversight function.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

U.S. Bank Provides $9 Million in Community Possible Grants

A safe, affordable home helps children, families and communities thrive. That’s why the U.S. Bank Community Possible program supports nonprofit organizations focused on creating stable, healthy home environments as part of its unified giving and employee engagement platform.

Energy

Eaton Vehicle-To-Home Charging Capabilities Enable Customers to Keep the Power on at Home and Will Be Featured at CES 2025

Intelligent power management company Eaton is demonstrating broad capabilities to keep the power on at home while helping minimize infrastructure upgrades to utility and home energy systems.

Education

Webster Bank Celebrates Opening of Taunton Finance Lab

Webster Bank, together with Associates for Human Services’ Taunton Area School to Career, program, celebrated the opening of the Webster Bank/TASC Finance Lab, a program created to provide local students the skills needed for financial empowerment and future financial well-being.

Education

The AI Skills You’ll Need for 2025: IBM SkillsBuild Education Forecast

2024 was a remarkable year for the growth of AI and its impact on everything from work to education and even our personal lives.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Way Finders Receives $10,000 Grant From KeyBank Foundation To Support Ready To Work: My Story, My Goals Program

Way Finders, Inc. of Springfield MA recently received a grant from KeyBank Foundation for $10,000 to implement its Ready to Work: My Story, My Goals program, which provides employment readiness resources to unemployed and underemployed residents in Hamden County.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

T‑Mobile Ready for Winter Storms Blair & Cora (Updated 1/7/25)

As Winter Storm Blair moves into the U.S., T-Mobile is taking proactive measures to help ensure customers, communities and first responders stay connected through severe rain, snow, ice, thunderstorms and freezing temperatures expected from the plains to the East Coast.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Upskilling for a Fresh Start in Tech

When Rifat Kabir Sharna moved from Bangladesh to Columbus, Ohio, in November 2023 with her husband, she had a goal: to make her mark in the tech industry.

Education

PotlatchDeltic’s Electrician Apprenticeship Program

Our St. Maries, Idaho facility’s electrician apprenticeship program consists of a combination of online/classroom coursework and practical experience.

Diversity & Inclusion

Finding Optimal Technical Solutions: Meet Armand Sadovschi

I initially started to work at a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) center as a contingent worker who provided policy and Workday related guidance via phone, live chat, and email. At that time, I did not plan to follow a career in the private sector.

Sustainable Development Goals

Leading the Way To Net-Zero: Lenovo’s Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets and 2050 Net-Zero Strategy

By working with SBTi and aligning to their Net-Zero Standard, which is also the world’s first framework for corporate net-zero target setting, Lenovo is taking a scientific, collaborative, and accountable approach to reducing emissions.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A Year in Review: Michael Mauser’s Reflections on Excellence, Innovation, and Growth

2024 was another remarkable year for HARMAN, defined by groundbreaking innovations and customer successes. Michael Mauser, President and Chief Executive Officer at HARMAN, reflected on the incredible milestones achieved through the collective efforts of our teams.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Investing in Gender Equality Offers a Bridge to a Healthier and More Stable Future

For impact investors, the question is not why gender equality matters — it’s how to effectively allocate capital in ways that empower women and catalyze meaningful progress far more quickly.

Latest Campaigns

Community Investment

all community engagement efforts (e.g., Teach for All, volunteerism, etc.)

Small Business Growth

We strengthen communities and help create local jobs by investing in underserved small business owners. We fund nonprofits that are focused on...

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...

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...

Whirlpool Corporation & Sustainability

At Whirlpool Corporation, we have a history of advances in sustainability founded on a simple principle: "Do the right things, the right ways. Always...

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...

Greener Products and Solutions

We actively integrate sustainability into the product development process and look at all phases of the product life cycle for opportunities to...

Accelerating access to healthcare technology

We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

Sustainable Operations

ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)