Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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2025 Principal® Charity Classic Raised Record $10.6 Million for Iowa Youth

The Principal Financial Group

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

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Software-Defined Vehicles: The Critical Road to a Secure Future

Keysight Technologies

Innovation & Technology

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Impact: Delivering Financial Security

Northwestern Mutual

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Diversity & Inclusion

Freedom Is. In honor of Juneteenth.

As we recognize and reflect on Juneteenth, listen to our Invesco Black Professionals Network express what freedom means to them.

Social Impact & Volunteering

CNH Industrial South America Champions Education Campaign in Brazil

CNH Industrial South America partnered up with the Gente de Bem, a local organization that promotes education among teenagers and young adults.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Black & Veatch's Yousefelahiyeh Wins California Wastewater Group's Title as Young Professional of the Year

Just two months ago, Black & Veatch’s Roya Yousefelahiyeh was named her region’s young professional of the year by the California Water Environment Association (CWEA)...

Environment

Major Corporations and Foundations Commit Final Funding for Landmark Water Conservation Deal that Secures Nearly 49 Billion Gallons of Water for Lake Mead

Funding was provided by organizations spanning many sectors including Intel; Google; Microsoft; Procter & Gamble; Reformation; Keurig Dr Pepper; Ecolab; Cascade; Cox; The Coca-Cola Foundation; Silk; Target; Brochu Walker; and Swire Coca-Cola, USA.

Events, Media & Communications

Global CEOs and Industry Experts Share Learnings From Covid-19

The second day of the virtual 2021 CGF Global Summit drew to a close this evening, following a programme packed with information about opportunities and challenges in the global consumer goods industry.

Innovation & Technology

A Social Good Data Platform Transforming Global COVID Response Through Citizen Engagement

When you think about the global response to COVID, do data platforms come to mind? If you’re like many of us – probably not. But for countless people around the world, Ushahidi’s open source data platform has been a lifeline to valuable resources – and a powerful tool allowing them to document what’s happening in their communities.

Diversity & Inclusion

Adonis Timone Aims to Create Change With Advocates for Youth

Adonis Timone may be best known for their rap music, but the young, gender nonbinary artist who identifies with the pronouns he/they also works in the areas of HIV outreach and advocacy.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Essential Podcast, Episode 39: Accelerating Black Inclusion in Financial Services - Institutional and Cultural Barriers

Yasmine Chinwala & Pierre Davis explore New Financial’s latest research on inclusion of Black individuals in the U.K. professional sector, the absence of Black faces in finance, & what companies should do in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Peer Collaboration Event: How to Exist in the Workplace - Moving Forward

Antea Group lead a virtual peer collaboration event for clients and contacts within the Consumer and Industrial Goods industry. The call’s agenda focused on how companies exist in the workplace as we continue to move forward in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

2020 Increase in Veteran Homelessness Sparks Incremental Funding

The Home Depot Foundation today announced its investment of an additional $6.4 million to combat veteran homelessness and support veteran housing initiatives.

Research, Reports & Publications

MetLife to Originate $500 Million in Social and Environmental Impact Investments by 2030

In its annual Sustainability Report, released today, MetLife highlights its commitment to originating $500 million in new impact investments by 2030. I

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Mastercard Foundation $1.3 Billion Commitment to Save Lives and Livelihoods in Africa

We need all shoulders against the wheel to stop COVID-19 in its tracks, and this $1.3 billion commitment by the Mastercard Foundation is the kind of effort that can change the trajectory of the pandemic. It will enable millions of people across Africa to receive COVID-19 vaccines.

Diversity & Inclusion

We Are GroPride

Although we couldn’t physically march in our local Pride Parade this past weekend, it did not stop us from celebrating virtually! The ScottsMiracle-Gro GroPride Team was proud to share our mission in our first virtual Pride Parade.

Social Impact & Volunteering

GoodWorks Program Advances BIPOC-Owned Businesses

This program gave General Mills employees an opportunity to use their knowledge and skills to provide consulting services to help local BIPOC-owned small businesses and nonprofits impacted by the recent civil unrest as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health & Healthcare

Aflac Study: Men's Health Often in Women's Hands Women Are Key to Unraveling Men's Personal Health Perceptions, Education Is Needed to Address Root Reasons Why Men Avoid the Doctor and Promote Overall Wellness

In connection with June's Men's Health Month, created to bring awareness of male-specific health issues, Aflac, a leading provider of supplemental insurance products in the U.S., released findings of its new 2021 Men's Health Issues Survey.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

No Experience Necessary: New Koch Collaboration with Catalyte Removes Barriers to Transformative Careers

he goal is to identify potential and create access and opportunity for nontraditional recruits to leverage their innate abilities and drive transformation, for themselves and Koch. It’s connected to the company’s Market-Based Management® (MBM®) philosophy.

Health & Healthcare

Owens Corning’s Social Handprint: Safety and Company Culture

Over the past two decades, Owens Corning has worked to become one of the world’s safest companies. In National Safety Month, we share some reflections from our enterprise safety director.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Celebrating KeyBank's Commitment to the Community

From the teammates they hire and the clients they serve, to the suppliers they use and the communities that welcome them, KeyBank has a long-standing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in Buffalo and all of the communities they serve.

Education

Is Now the Right Time to Refresh Your EE Teaching Lab?

A professor asked me the other day why he should refresh his undergraduate electrical teaching laboratory. My immediate thought was, why not? Electrical engineering, after all, is at the heart of just about every technology revolution

Sustainable Development Goals

Carnival Corporation Announces Initial 2030 Sustainability Goals

World’s largest cruise company reaffirms commitment to sustainability with new 2030 targets and 2050 aspirations incorporating six focus areas to further strengthen environmental, social and governance performance



Newly announced goals and aspirations build on company’s achievement of 2020 sustainability goals a year ahead of schedule, with additional progress details expected to be released in its annual Sustainability Report later this summer

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Learning and Development as a Catalyst for Change at Clarivate

Clarivate empowers each colleague to be their best self every day and provides a wide range of skills development opportunities applicable now and for the future.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Meet Crystal - Who Makes a Difference Every Day for the Children in Rural Tennessee

Crystal Chambers is just one example of how P&G is enabling people to Lead with Love. In her role as a Community Engagement Coordinator for Save the Children, she brings to life their mission to provide children with health, education, and safety.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Vermont Creamery Named to Top 20 Leading Purposeful Brands by 2021 Purpose Power Index

Vermont Creamery, known for its consciously created line of fresh and aged goat cheeses, cultured butter, and culinary creams, today announced it was ranked in the top 10% of most purposeful brands, according to the 2021 Purpose Power Index.

Health & Healthcare

Illumina Supports Rockefeller Foundation with Global Pathogen Sequencing Collaboration

The Rockefeller Foundation said on Wednesday that it has committed over $20 million in research funding and formed a number of collaborations to boost pathogen sequencing capabilities and data sharing worldwide to combat future pandemics.

Diversity & Inclusion

Paramount+ Celebrates Pride Month with Donations to the Point Foundation

In June, for every person that tweets the hashtag #ParamountPlusPride, Paramount+ will donate $1 to the Point Foundation, the nation’s largest LGBTQ scholarship granting organization for more than 20 years.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Principal Financial Group: Financial Inclusion
    Helping individuals and businesses gain access to useful financial products and services to meet their needs—from savings, credit, and insurance to...
  2. Cascale Events
    Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
  3. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  4. Whole Planet
    Whole Planet, a pillar of Whole Foods Market Foundation, helps people living in poverty build long-term financial resilience through income growth...
  5. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  6. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...
  7. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  8. 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...
  9. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  10. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  11. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  12. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  13. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  14. 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...
  15. TCS | goIT
    Tata Consultancy Services is proud to bring you goIT In 2009, TCS North America launched goIT, its signature community engagement initiative.The...