Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Editors Pick

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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

Events, Media & Communications

LA Kings Host Inaugural Beijing Jr. Kings Camp

Earlier this month, AEG’s LA Kings hosted the inaugural Beijing Jr. Kings Camp in China from Aug. 19-23, as part of the team’s partnership with China-based ORG Packaging and the NHL to grow the sport of hockey in the region.

Sustainable Development Goals

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

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

Energy

Zero Net Energy Powers San Bernardino Community College District

When students and adult learners go to the district’s Applied Technology Training and Professional Development Centers, they are learning in Zero Net Energy buildings.

Sustainable Development Goals

Precious Water - Why Clean Water for This Young Schoolboy Makes My Job Seem Worthwhile

"Clean water for this young schoolboy makes my job feel worthwhile." Read Maryam Khalid from Nestlé Pakistan on our clean water and sanitation projects that benefit over 60,000 people in the country.

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Research, Reports & Publications

One-planet Prosperity Strategy: Sustainable Food at Leanpath

We know the world cannot sustainably feed 9.6 billion citizens by 2050 while wasting anywhere from a third to half of the global food supply.

Education

Mohawk and School Crashers Program Refresh Learning Spaces For Georgia Students Across the State

Students and faculty at 7 schools returned to dynamic media centers, music rooms, workspaces and other inspired education interiors with a new look and new energy thanks to Mohawk Industries and Georgia United Foundation’s School Crashers® program.

Sustainable Development Goals

Harnessing the Power of Partnerships to Create Opportunities for Inclusive Business

Thanks to technological advances, nowadays, the cost of scaling a business can be close to zero. Even the smallest entrepreneur can become what McKinsey calls ‘micro-multinational’ through online platforms.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Deeds Must Follow the Words of the Business Roundtable

Words are empty unless they are followed by deeds.

Environment

Kimberly-Clark, Deltares and Western Cape Government Reconvene to Transform Water Data into Solutions

Last week, on the eve of World Water Week, Cape Town businesses, government and nongovernmental organizations gathered for a second water risk workshop to make determinations about what solutions to the water crisis in the region exist, and whether they actually mitigate water risk.

Innovation & Technology

Dogs in Cars: The Trouble with Big Dogs [Part 2]

If you don’t care about your pooch, self-preservation should be enough to restrain your pet properly, right?

Events, Media & Communications

Doing Good for the Community: A Look into Sands Cares INSPIRE Charity Concert 2019

The concert raised almost $300,000 for Sands Cares Accelerator members, including the Marty Hennessy Inspiring Children Foundation and Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Inspiring Productivity With An Innovation Focused Culture

With technology advancing at a rapid pace, yesterday’s technology skills no longer are relevant today.

Health & Healthcare

Nourishing Future Generations with Vitamin Angels

Good nutrition is essential for a healthy start in life and the foundation for optimal growth and development. For pregnant women and infants, having access to the right micronutrients is especially important as a child who is well nourished in the crucial first 1,000 days of their life is ten times more likely to overcome life-threatening childhood diseases and will complete 4.6 more grades at school.

Social Impact & Volunteering

National Grid Celebrates Hands-on Skills With Trades Summer Camp

National Grid, in partnership with SEAT (Social Enterprise and Training) Center celebrated the company’s first ever local Trades Summer Camp for more than a dozen Schenectady youth, ages 13 – 15.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Women Give More from Less

New research supported by PayPal points to the fact that women give more to charity while earning 19% less than men, and as they age, women become more generous.

Research, Reports & Publications

SC Johnson Spatial Repellent Innovation Provides New Potential Solution for Communities in Malaria-Endemic Areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently posted a report showing the effectiveness of spatial repellents in fighting malaria.

Environment

Better Together: Meet the Environmental Leaders Committed to Sustainability Innovation in the Beverage Sector

Since our inception, the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable has stayed true to this founding concept, with global beverage brands setting competition aside and coming together as an industry to advance environmental sustainability and value.

Environment

Restoring the Woods to Its Former Glory

Almost half of the world’s forests have been cleared or degraded. When most people think of forest restoration, they think of replanting lost trees, but restoration is about improving landscapes that are deforested, degraded or underutilized.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck Fellowship for Global Health Wins 2019 Brandon Hall Group Human Capital Management Gold Excellence Award for Learning and Development

The Merck Fellowship for Global Health program, a three-month, field-based international corporate service-learning program designed to leverage the skills and talents of Merck employees worldwide...

Diversity & Inclusion

Equality Day: Intel Helps Young Women Experience Tech

The camp for girls in grades 7-9 from underserved communities was the first of its kind in the U.S., following WiSci STEAM camps this summer in Estonia and Kosovo — and previous camps in the countries of Rwanda, Peru, Malawi and Georgia.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Signs Your Sustainability Initiative Will Succeed—or Not

Why do some sustainability initiatives become firmly embedded in an organization while others fizzle out? It may have something to do with how your employees interact as they tackle the sustainability issue at hand.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Across Europe and Australia, General Mills Employees Help Alleviate Hunger

Across Europe and Australia, General Mills and our employees are helping to feed those facing hunger by supporting the Global Foodbanking Network, Food Bank Australia and the European Food Banks Federation and their members.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Domtar Joins Formal Request to Enforce and Regulate Paper Imports

Domtar, the United Steelworkers (USW) union and other domestic paper producers have filed a request with the U.S. Department of Commerce to address the circumvention of existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on uncoated paper imports.

Energy

Fifth Third Makes History by Powering Up 100% Renewable Solar Facility

Built by SunEnergy1, the Aulander Holloman Solar Facility is expected to generate clean power that is more than or equal to the amount Fifth Third uses in a year, enough to eliminate 143,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases and power 25,000 homes.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

LA Galaxy Welcome United States Military Members for Fleet Week Celebration

In continued support of those serving in the United States military, AEG’s LA Galaxy hosted more than 50 military men and women visiting Port of Los Angeles for the fourth annual LA Fleet Week on Aug. 28.

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...