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

Health & Healthcare

Coming Together to Support Premature Babies in the UK

Every year across the U.K., more than 95,000 babies require care within specialist neonatal units.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Empowering Farmers to Self-Assess Agricultural Practices

This summer we launched Version 2.0 of the General Mills Regenerative Agriculture Self-Assessment, a user-friendly tool for farmers to understand alignment between their agricultural practices and the principles of regenerative agriculture.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Powers Storm Resiliency in N.C. Communities With $1.1 Million in Grants

Media & Communications

GRESB at the Decade Mark – the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark Serving Investors, Real Estate Asset Owners and Managers, Developers…

A decade ago, two large institutional investors launched “GRESB” to try to develop more efficient access to comparable and reliable data related to the ESG performance of their investments.

Environment

How to Create a More Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain

Read Antea Group’s advice on building a sustainable and resilient supply chain for your business.

Environment

Land Restoration Efforts Create Wildlife Habitats in Johnsonburg

Driven by a passion for wildlife and a desire to leave a different kind of legacy, the Johnsonburg Mill found a perfect use for the nutrient-rich byproducts of the paper manufacturing process.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Helping SE Asian Companies Report on Sustainability

New Southeast Asia Regional Hub in Singapore expands GRI's capacity to encourage sustainability reporting around the world.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Kids Foundation Kicks Off 2019 Growing Healthy Kids Campaign with $1M Match by Whole Foods Market

Whole Kids Foundation launched its annual monthlong Growing Healthy Kids campaign to fund K–12 school programs in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. that connect kids to real food.

Research, Reports & Publications

Maximizing Positive Impact: Albemarle Highlights Sustainability Efforts in 2019 Report

Albemarle is proud to announce the release of its 2019 Sustainability Report on 2018 activities. The report describes numerous efforts and initiatives that demonstrate their increasingly expanding commitment to sustainability.

Diversity & Inclusion

Fifth Third Bank Hosts Annual Supplier Diversity Summit to Educate and Connect Diverse Suppliers

Fifth Third Bank recently hosted its fifth annual Supplier Diversity summit. The summit focused on educating minorities and women on the best business practices and featured a pitch competition for innovative female businesses.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Pro Bono Perspectives Episode 29: Marcy Scott Lynn, Facebook

In recognition of National Disaster Preparedness Month, Pro Bono Perspectives is revisiting Danielle Holly’s conversation with Facebook Director of Global Impact Partnerships Marcy Scott Lynn.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How to Collaborate for Better Impact Through Employee Volunteering

Corporate volunteering plays an increasingly significant role as a positive vehicle for business involvement in local and international sustainable development initiatives.

Health & Healthcare

The Arbor Day Foundation Launches New Tree Campus Healthcare Recognition Program

The Arbor Day Foundation announced today the launch of its new Tree Campus Healthcare program.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Rouge River Farms Certifies All US Operations With Equitable Food Initiative

Equitable Food Initiative announced today that Rouge River Farms, which specializes in tray-packed and year-round sweet corn, now has all of its U.S. operations EFI certified.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Helping Pups Strut Their Stuff in Support of Domestic Violence Victims

When people help others, it’s satisfying to know that you have made a positive difference for someone else. Volunteering is important to me because it gives me a sense of community and giving back to that community is extremely important.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Two Bridgestone Plants Recognized by PACCAR With 2018 Supplier Quality Awards

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (Bridgestone) announced that its Warren County, Tennessee, and LaVergne, Tennessee truck and bus radial (TBR) tire manufacturing facilities were recently recognized by PACCAR with a 2018 Quality Achievement Award.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Duke Energy Named to Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women

Duke Energy is proud to be named by Forbes’ as one of America’s Best Employers for Women. We serve increasingly diverse communities in an increasingly complex world. That is why diversity and inclusion are central to both our work today and our vision for the future.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Bayer Provides Produce Growers With Holistic Approach to Field Challenges During First Ever Agriculture and Innovation Showcase

To help farmers meet modern challenges, Bayer, with its Seminis® and De Ruiter® vegetable seed brands, hosted its first ever Agriculture and Innovation Showcase this week in Woodland, California.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Nestlé Waters North America’s Stanwood, Mich., Bottling Facility Achieves Alliance for Water Stewardship Gold Certification

Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) is pleased to announce that its Stanwood bottling facility in Michigan has received Gold certification under the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) International Water Stewardship Standard

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CNH Industrial Employees Put the ‘Fun’ in Fundraising

Employees from CNH Industrial’s N.V. (NYSE:CNHI / MI:CNHI) commercial vehicles brand IVECO in Australia banded together to collect pledges for Cancer Council Australia on the charity’s iconic Daffodil Day.

Sustainable Development Goals

Water Equity in Western Honduras and Beyond

At Pentair, we believe the health of our world depends on reliable access to clean water, so this year’s World Water Week theme, "Water for society: Including all,” feels especially close to our hearts

Innovation & Technology

Four Lessons Learned About Pivoting Toward Digital Transformation

Schneider Electric is more than 180 years old, and we’ve pivoted several times. We started in iron and steel, and now we are providing energy and automation digital solutions for efficiency and sustainability.

Research, Reports & Publications

Setting Sail With Lower Emissions

Click here to learn how Caterpillar is helping find ways to reduce the emissions footprint of marine transport – and specifically the cruise industry – thanks to MaK™ brand dual-fuel engines.

Energy

Dangerous, Short-sighted Methane Rollback Proposal Puts Oil and Gas Companies on the Spot

The Trump administration’s proposed rollback of federal methane regulations is “another dangerous, ill-advised maneuver that aims to sabotage climate action while flying in the face of investor concerns,” said Andrew Logan.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Smithfield Foods and Harris Teeter Donate 40,000 Pounds of Protein to Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina

To support hunger relief efforts in the Carolinas, Harris Teeter and Smithfield Foods joined forces at the grand opening of Harris Teeter’s newest store to donate nearly 40,000 pounds of protein to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina.

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...