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Education

Nurturing the Next Generation of Engineers

100 girls and young women from 6th through 12th grades gathered Keysight’s Santa Rosa, CA headquarters hosted our annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day event for six hours of fun, team-based learning. Read Keysight CTO, Jay Alexander's takeaway.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Ecocentricity Blog: Trash Turned Into Treasure

After taking a deep breath she smelled…nothing. If anything, it smelled like crisp, fresh, unpolluted air. She didn’t detect any unpleasant odors that she would have previously associated with composting.

Sustainable Development Goals

Public Eye: Emerging Trends and Top Priorities in Inclusive Business

Why is it so important to include non-traditional development actors, such as the private sector, in efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs)? What can they offer that an organization like UNDP can’t?

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sodexo Named Top Company by the National Association for Female Executives on the Top 70 Companies for Executive Women List

Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company committed to improving Quality of Life, announced today that it has been named one of the 2020 NAFE Top Companies for Executive Women by the National Association for Female Executives.

Sustainable Development Goals

Aflac Incorporated Unveils New Environmental, Social and Governance Website, Including 2019 ESG Report

Aflac Incorporated today announced that it has unveiled a new environmental, social and governance website highlighting the company’s commitment to ESG initiatives important to investors, employees and consumers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Subaru Scores 100 Percent in 2020 Corporate Equality Index

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced that for the fourth year in a row, the automaker has received a perfect score of 100 percent on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI).

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Comprehensive ESG Backed by World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund

A report from Norges Bank Investment Management has called for businesses to improve metrics to ensure they disclose ‘relevant, quantitative and comparable information on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues’.

Sustainable Development Goals

Tetra Tech’s Lusaka Water Supply, Sanitation, and Drainage Project Team Wins Company’s 2019 Project Management Achievement Award

Tetra Tech believes in the loyalty, effort, and excellence of its employees and initiated its annual Excellence and Achievement Awards program to recognize individuals and teams for achievements that demonstrate best-in-class performance and service to the community.

Diversity & Inclusion

UPS Longitudes | Rethinking Supplier Diversity

This Longitudes blog post is an abridged Q&A with Kris Oswold, Director of Supplier Diversity at UPS and was originally featured in Business Equality Pride (BEQPride) magazine.

Events, Media & Communications

Ideagen February 2020 Catalyze Magazine - Global 100 Leaders and Launch of Ideagen® TV "Powered by Azure"

Download the February edition of Ideagen here

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Future of Print Is Seamless, Secure, and Better for the Planet

For printing to stay relevant to today’s hyper-mobile society, it has to evolve to do something more for people than simply getting their text and images from the digital world into the physical one. And HP knows how to do it.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

COVID-19⁠—Seven Things Philanthropy Can Do Now

As governments, businesses, and individuals scramble to respond to the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic, those of us who work in the social sector rightly ask what we can do to effectively contribute.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

UPS Infographic | A Smart & Sustainable Shipping Journey

Social Impact & Volunteering

Global Citizen's Action Taker of the Week: Davinia James-Stewart From Silver Spring

Global Citizen has helped to secure more than $48.4 billion in global commitments around the world connected to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, commitments that are set to affect the lives of 880 million people.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Waking Up to Follow a Dream

For World Wildlife Day, Cayla shares her story of checking off all the appropriate boxes for adulthood, but only being 'fine' with her career. Then, she decided to follow a dream which led her to Cisco and working with our Sustainable Impact Program.

Innovation & Technology

FPT Industrial Is Investigating Plant-Based Biofuels

FPT Industrial a global powertrain brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI/ MI: CNH), invested in a production plan and tests dedicated to exploring macaúba biodiesel, with a view to developing a potential new source of sustainable fuel.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Wastewater is a Source of Valuable Water, Energy and Nutrients: How Do We Recover It?

Tina Arrowood, a principal research scientist at DuPont Water Solutions, worked with the mill to innovate a new system that made more economic sense.

Green Infrastructure

GM Continues to Facilitate EV Adoption, Tripling Employee Workplace Electric Vehicle Charging Availability Across U.S. and Canada

GM is making electric vehicle charging for employees more accessible by adding 3,500 new EV charging plugs throughout its U.S. and Canadian facilities. Increasing EV charging availability to consumers is a top contributor to growing EV adoption.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Whirlpool Careers: WERLD Engineering Program

Learn more about Skylar Soto’s experience at Whirlpool Corporation and opportunities within the Whirlpool Engineering Rotational Leadership Development (WERLD) program.

Innovation & Technology

At the Head of the Class – Designing a Waste Collection Truck of the Future

Thinking about what’s possible and what’s next is crucial to innovating. To help us design the waste-collection truck of the future, we enlisted the help of students at Arizona State University and the University of Southern California.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Group, Inc. Named Top Real Estate Brand in Lipsey Survey for 19th Consecutive Year

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) has been named the top global brand in commercial real estate by The Lipsey Company. This is the 19th year in a row CBRE has achieved this recognition

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Navigate the Changing Landscape of Workplace Giving

Workplace giving has evolved significantly over the past few years, becoming an expectation among employees across all industries. Nearly 6 in 10 employees stated it was imperative, or very important, to have a workplace culture that is supportive

Sustainable Development Goals

6 Ways Business Can Align with Sustainable Development Goals

2020 marks the start of the Decade of Action to deliver on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which combat poverty, inequality and injustice and climate change by 2030.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Yum! Brands Invests in World-Class Leadership Development for Front-Line Restaurant Managers With Acquisition of Heartstyles

Heartstyles is an intuitive and practical method for helping people learn how to become the best versions of themselves, lead authentically and build workplace cultures that unlock the potential of teams and deliver strong results.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Whole Planet Foundation Field Officer Award for Asia and the Pacific: Highlights from Vietnam

This blog spotlights stories from Whole Planet Foundation partners in Vietnam, however these winners are recognized alongside Ms. Elisabeth Kaisamy from SPBD Fiji and Ms. Mimkosha Kumari Shahi from NULBSL in Nepal who are also grand prize winners.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  2. Community Impact
    The communities where Chemours operates are also where we live, work, and play, and our mutual success is one and the same. We have a vested interest...
  3. 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...
  4. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  8. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  9. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  10. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  11. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  12. Local Communities
    The principals of living and working in synergy with the communities in which we operate, as well as collaborating on projects that benefit those...
  13. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  14. GoDaddy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
    Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...
  15. 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...