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Education

Pizza Hut and First Book Launch Collection of Antiracism Resources for Educators

Pizza Hut & First Book announced the launch of Empowering Educators – a collection of resources developed to provide educators with guidance & actionable steps to create equitable learning environments & navigate conversations about race and racism.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru of America and Philadelphia Union Showcase Adoptable Shelter Dogs at Subaru Park

Subaru of America, Inc. and the Philadelphia Union today announced that Subaru Park, home of the Union, will provide stadium seating to the likenesses of local adoptable dogs at home games in the 2020 season, starting with the very first home game on Tuesday, August 25.

Research, Reports & Publications

MetLife 2019 Sustainability Report: Creating Value as an Investor

MetLife is committed to delivering long-term value for all our stakeholders as we navigate a time of unprecedented change together.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Caring for Our People: A Look at Gildan's 2019 Sustainability Highlights

Gildan recently announced the release of its 2019 ESG report, highlighting the progress made by the Company towards fulfilling their vision of Making Apparel Better®.

Sustainable Development Goals

Supporting Kosovo's Agricultural Transformation

Kosovo’s agricultural sector has transformed dramatically over the last 30 years. Before the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990’s, the government purchased all the agricultural production from Kosovo’s farmers regardless of quality.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Comerica Bank Partners With Minority Depository Institutions

Comerica Bank announced today that it is moving $10 million in deposits to Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) within its five-state footprint, as well as building a mutual mentoring relationship with these institutions. MDIs assist minority and under-served communities and foster economic viability in these communities.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Subaru Announces New Initiative to Recycle PPE Waste in Partnership With Terracyclesubaru Announces New Initiative to Recycle PPE Waste in Partnership With Terracycle

Subaru of America, Inc., today announced a new recycling initiative to recycle personal protective equipment (PPE) waste in response to the increase in waste due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Environment

Adobe Joins Forces With the United Nations Environment Programme and The Ocean Agency to Create Change in Ocean Conservation

Our oceans are facing a perfect storm of pollution, overfishing, and climate change, and these threats have pushed ecosystems such as coral reefs to the tipping point of collapse. Over half a billion people globally rely on coral reefs for food and income. And so, with international conservation targets being set for the next decade at upcoming events, creating change has never been more urgent.

Environment

International Paper and The Nature Conservancy Expand Work to Scale Natural Climate Solutions in North America

The Nature Conservancy and International Paper Company, one of the world’s largest packaging, pulp and paper companies, recently completed the first of a two-phase effort to develop a suite of state-of-the-art forestry practices that others can use to create long-term solutions to global climate challenges.

Diversity & Inclusion

Duke Energy Progress Extends Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion to Financial Sector

Duke Energy Progress, a subsidiary of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), has successfully closed a $700 million debt offering with the help of seven diverse and minority-owned financial firms.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Partners in Health: Alliances That Can Transform Cities and Change Lives

Seventy-two percent of adults in the San Bernardino Countyare overweight or obese. Due to this statistic, Acquanetta Warren, Mayor of the City of Fontana, California launched Healthy Fontana, a program created to inform, educate, and promote...

Education

CNH Industrial Gives Children a Taste of the Real World of Work

Children were invited to CNH Industrial sites across North America to find out what their parents – and grandparents – really get up to at work. It was also an occasion to learn new skills, including budgeting, interview techniques and driving a tractor

Health & Healthcare

“Reimagining Community Health Systems Challenge” Participants Share Their Experiences in Working to Bring Telehealth to Underserved Areas

This summer, teams from four of the world’s top software development, medical technology, and global technology firms embarked on PYXERA Global’s Reimagining Community Health Systems Challenge to make telemedicine more widely available.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

My Special Aflac Duck® Taking Flight in Arizona

For 65 years, Aflac has had the extraordinary opportunity and privilege to help provide peace of mind to individuals who have our supplemental insurance policies.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ScottsMiracle-Gro Partners Share What Makes a Good Company

Recently at ScottsMiracle-Gro, we began to share more about our purpose to GroMoreGood everywhere. GroMoreGood defines how we see our responsibility to our communities, our planet, our consumers, our partners and each other.

Sustainable Development Goals

Q&A With Sappi North America's New Sustainability Leadership Team

A dialogue with Sappi North America’s sustainability and innovation leaders

Research, Reports & Publications

Deepen Your Understanding of Employee Expectations for Leadership Today

In wave ten of the Porter Novelli Tracker: Employee Perspectives on Responsible Leadership During Crisis, we’ll unpack employee perspectives on the topics of the day – including COVID-19, social justice and racial inequality – as well as how Purpose-driven companies can better engage employees through shared values.

Innovation & Technology

How Wearables Can Keep Us Healthy and Connected Through This Pandemic and Beyond [Podcast]

The array of use cases for wearables continues to grow, and the pandemic is showing even more ways they can benefit our lives. From staying healthy to caring for loved ones, connectivity on our wrists is stepping up.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Intel Travels To Africa To Closely Track Responsibly Sourced Tech Minerals

Adam Schafer, Intel director of Supply Chain Sustainability, and Erin Mitchell, Intel's Responsible Minerals Program manager, spent a week in late 2019 crisscrossing Rwanda’s mineral-rich mountains.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Simón Bolívar Foundation Announces the Results of the "Hoy Invita Simón" Open Call for Proposals

The Simón Bolívar Foundation, the non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, is pleased to announce that it will be allocating $200,000 among five qualified charitable organizations that presented projects that best meet the criteria for the Foundation's open call for a small food grant program "Hoy Invita Simón".

Research, Reports & Publications

Collective Impact in Emergency Response

In the new case study Collective Impact in Emergency Response, Paul Schmitz shares how a cross-sector team of leaders from government, philanthropy, and nonprofits came together to support their community through the COVID-19 crisis.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Analyze This: A Fork in the Road Leads Eva Garcia to a New Career

That’s part of how Koch leaders are trained, Bill said. “We have a strong focus on applying the principles of Principled Entrepreneurship™, transformation and self-actualization so that our employees can transform themselves,” he added.

Media & Communications

So Where Is the Corporate Sustainability Journey a Half-year Into the Dramatic Impacts of the Coronavirus?

The question may be going around and answers offered up inside the corporate enterprise as the senior executives and function, business unit and other managers meet the challenges posed by the virus pandemic, related economic disruption and civil protests on a number of topics.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Nestle Waters Becomes First Food and Beverage Company in the World to Earn Platinum Rating under the Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard

Nestlé Waters North America today announced that its Ontario, California water bottling site is the first food and beverage factory in the world to earn Platinum certification under the rigorous Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard.

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  14. Environmental Sustainability
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