Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Editors Pick

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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

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Accelerating Leadership in a Consequential Decade Through Action and Accountability

We are in the most consequential decade of our time. The actions we take today will determine whether we, as a global community, can avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis and reckon with the inequities that prevent far too many from accessing opportunities.

Health & Healthcare

Record-breaking Achievement at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine

Our team at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine sequenced the genome of a critically ill infant to provide a clinical diagnosis in a record-breaking 13.5 hours and leading to implementation of life-saving treatment 4 hours later.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

UnitedHealth Group Welcomes Joy Fitzgerald as Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer

Our journey to build the health care workforce of tomorrow, reflective of the people and communities we serve, requires a sustained commitment to more deeply embed diversity, equity, and inclusion into our everyday work.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Foundation Grants Seek to Expand Broadband Internet Access in Indiana's Underserved Areas

Two Duke Energy Foundation grants totaling more than $113,000 will help improve broadband internet access in underserved areas in 15 Indiana counties.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Promoting a Sustainable and Ethical Supply Chain

To impact global change, Clarivate is making a conscious choice to engage with suppliers who align with our sustainability goals – whose products and services are produced in a way that treat people and the environment ethically and responsibly.

Environment

Ceres Company Network Welcomes Fifth Third Bank

By joining the Ceres Company Network, Fifth Third joins 60 companies who commit to achieving robust sustainability goals, improving resiliency, and advancing market-based and equitable solutions to the world’s biggest sustainability challenges.

Education

DesignFWD: Surviving to Thriving: A Paradigm Shift in Shaping Hybrid Environments

This course will discuss various strategies in the built environment that will help us navigate the new workplaces.

Environment

Can We Pay Farmers to Store Carbon Emissions in Their Fields?

As companies turn to the latest carbon-capture technologies, one low-tech solution has been gaining ground: Carbon farming, or regenerative agriculture

Environment

Kimberly-Clark Among the First to Join WWF's New Forests Forward Program

As Kimberly-Clark works to provide the essential products its consumers need to care for themselves and their families, it is committed to doing so in a manner that cares for the world’s forests and the diversity of life they support.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Schneider Electric Addressing Climate Change on World Climate Day

All this is of course welcome. But governments can’t, and shouldn’t, go it alone. Companies, too, need to be part of the climate change solution.

Research, Reports & Publications

Itron’s 2020 Environmental Social Governance Report Highlights Industry Infrastructure Support, Driving Greater Efficiency

Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), which is innovating the way utilities and cities manage energy and water, today released its 2020 Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Report

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Climate Solutions Provider 3Degrees Prepares to Scale With New COO Role, Hires Malcolm Fabiyi

3Degrees' new COO Malcolm Fabiyi brings 20+ years of combined experience in corporate management, environmental solutions, and management consulting to 3Degrees, as well as an international perspective.

Events, Media & Communications

Nestlé: Leading for a Sustainable Future

The Shared Value Initiative invites you to join Nestle CEO Mark Schneider for a fireside chat on Tuesday, June 22 with SVI Senior Advisor and Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Mark Kramer about Nestle’s journey

Diversity & Inclusion

Change Your Corporate Mindset

On companies addressing racial equity: “I worry that we are trying to make the opportunity fit us, rather than seriously exploring what we need to change about ourselves to take advantage of the opportunity.” Read Change Your Corporate Mindset.

Education

Thermo King Announces Development of a Bachelor of Engineering Degree and a Robotics Automation Training Centre

Thermo King, a brand of Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT) announced its collaboration with Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT)

Social Impact & Volunteering

CASE Supports 13th Annual Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ

CASE Construction Equipment, a brand of CNH Industrial, donated the use of an SV280B skid steer to Victory Garden Initiative’s 13th Annual Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ.

Events, Media & Communications

WSP Celebrates World Ocean Day

Diversity & Inclusion

Powering the Future of Pride: T-Mobile Invests in Educational Equity for LGBTQ+ Youth

To celebrate Pride this year, T-Mobile is making a $1 million donation to the HRC Foundation’s new financial and digital literacy initiatives and a $250,000 donation to GLSEN’s efforts to make schools safer and more inclusive for LGBTQ+ youth.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Fifth Third Bank Named to Forbes Best Employers for New Graduates 2021 List

As part of Fifth Third's journey to accelerating racial equality, equity and inclusion for its employees, customers and communities, the Bank works to support inclusion and diversity in its workforce and among its suppliers through its 6 bold goals.

Environment

Make A Difference to Climate Change

We’ve kicked off our Make a Difference to Climate Change initiative to highlight our responsibility and seize opportunities - as a leader in our industry - to act now.

Diversity & Inclusion

P&G Spotlights Allyson Felix's Legacy Leading into Tokyo Games

Today we explore how one major brand modified its well-known “Thank you, Mom” campaign to shine a light on an important fight of signed athlete, Allyson Felix.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Logitech Marks Milestone in Conflict-Free Minerals Commitment

All Logitech products are now verified as being made only with minerals and metals that comply with conflict-free standards. Additionally, 100% of in-scope suppliers are now participating in a third-party responsible minerals sourcing audit program.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Arrow Electronics Named International Commerce Award Winner by World Trade Center Denver and Denver Business Journal

Arrow Electronics recently received a 2021 International Commerce Award from the World Trade Center Denver and the Denver Business Journal.

Innovation & Technology

Technology Collaboration to Close the Digital Divide

Intel, AWS and Megh Computing announced a collaboration to deploy a Citizens Broadband Radio Service private network solution that will enable remote learning with broadband access as an essential service for an underserved community in Sacramento.

Environment

Want to Establish a Healthy Toothbrushing Routine? Consider Brushing Frequency, Water Use, Power and Recycling

Procter & Gamble brands Oral-B and Crest conducted a survey to better understand oral care habits, resulting in several tips that can help people improve their personal health and reduce environmental impact.

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. Whole Planet
    Whole Planet, a pillar of Whole Foods Market Foundation, helps people living in poverty build long-term financial resilience through income growth...
  4. 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...
  5. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...
  6. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  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. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  9. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  10. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  11. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  12. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  13. 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...
  14. TCS | goIT
    Tata Consultancy Services is proud to bring you goIT In 2009, TCS North America launched goIT, its signature community engagement initiative.The...
  15. Southwire Giving Back
    Our neighbors depend on us, just as we depend on them, so we are committed to improving the quality of life in the communities in which we work. At...