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Editors Pick

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New IWBI Report Underscores the Powerful Business Case for Health in Buildings and Organizations

International WELL Building Institute (IWBI)

Research, Reports & Publications

3BL Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2025
3BL Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2025

3BL

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Circularity in Action: Decarbonization for Refrigerated Transport
Circularity in Action: Decarbonization for Refrigerated Transport

Trane Technologies

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Green Infrastructure

What SEC ESG Disclosure Mandates Might Mean for Your Business

Earlier this month, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose convened 17 CEOs and key legal leaders to discuss newly proposed environmental and social governance disclosure requirements from the SEC. Here are four key takeaways from the conversation.

Diversity & Inclusion

Inner Work: The Heart of Organizational Equity Work

We hear about "inner work" often when we work with companies on equity. What do we mean by "inner work" and why is it so important? Professional and personal examples from FSG's Nikhil Bumb.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

AEG's Dignity Health Sports Park's ASCSC Community Foundation, LA Galaxy Foundation, and Kings Care Foundation Partnered With Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation, AT&T and Becca's Closet to Host Prom Dress Giveaway “Yes! That's My Dress"

Three of AEG’s Foundations -- Dignity Health Sports Park ASCSC Community Foundation, the LA Galaxy Foundation and the Kings Care Foundation -- partnered with the Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation, AT&T and Becca’s Closet to host

Education

T. Rowe Price: Families' Excitement for Cryptocurrency Brings Risks and Opportunities

T. Rowe Price’s 14th annual Parents, Kids & Money Survey, which sampled more than 2,000 parents and their 8- to 14-year-old kids, reveals insights about parents’ and kids’ knowledge and interest in cryptocurrency.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Road Ahead With Expedia Group's Inclusion Business Groups

Earlier this year, we launched a “Meet our IBGs” blog series to reintroduce you to our Inclusion Business Groups (IBGs) and the talented global leaders guiding these communities.

Sustainable Development Goals

How to Harness Business Innovation for a Better Future

How can businesses around the world take action that helps reduce inequalities, while fostering innovation to promotes inclusive and sustainable industrialization?

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Home Depot Foundation Invests $6.6M to Build, Repair & Renovate Homes for Veterans

More than 400 U.S. military veterans nationwide will receive new, renovated or repaired homes thanks to an additional $6.6 million granted by The Home Depot Foundation to several of its nonprofit partners.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Field of Dreams: Sports Matter Grant Will Provide New Facility for Deserving Girls Program

We gave the Jerome High School softball team $100,000 to build a field to call their own.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Supporting Cambridge's Life Sciences Ecosystem: Q&A With James Seppala and Tim Schoen

James Seppala and Tim Schoen discuss BioMed Realty’s footprint in the UK and the opportunity in the life sciences real estate market in the years ahead.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

KeyBank Named #2 Affordable Housing Lender in U.S.

KeyBank has been named the #2 Affordable Housing lender for 2021 in Affordable Housing Finance magazine's annual rankings.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Morgan Stanley's Plastic Waste Researcher on the State of the Crisis

When Morgan Stanley launched its Plastic Waste Resolution in 2019, we knew that reducing the waste problem would require an integrated approach that brought together science, industry, capital and government.

Diversity & Inclusion

Get Inspired - and Get Involved!

Here, Regions associates share their favorite women’s organizations and talk about why their work is so meaningful and valuable to their communities.

Research, Reports & Publications

Toward Mandatory Climate Disclosure in the US? What the SEC Proposal Means for Sustainable Procurement

On March 21, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) introduced a landmark proposal requiring companies to include climate disclosures in their annual filings.

Environment

Cool Effect Celebrates the Good on the Ground and Positive Impact of Carbon-Reducing Projects

Cool Effect, a Bay Area based nonprofit dedicated to supporting voluntary carbon projects around the globe, is celebrating the positive impact carbon credits can have for people and planet by highlighting “The Good on the Ground”

Health & Healthcare

For Kidney Transplant Recipients, a More Accurate and Tailored Care Plan

For years, clinicians have used genomics to better inform treatment and personalize therapies. Now, Verici Dx, an immunodiagnostics company based in Tennessee (US), wants to turn that personalized medicine lens to a different field: kidney transplants.

Diversity & Inclusion

P&G Recruits and Supports People With Neurodiversity

Juan José Sibaja Shares His Journey to P&G—And What We Can All Do to Create an Inclusive Workplace

Research, Reports & Publications

Marsh McLennan Charts a Path to Net-Zero Across Its Operations by 2050

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) recently announced its commitment to set and execute low-carbon transition strategies that chart a path to net-zero across its operations by 2050 and reduce its emissions by 50 percent by 2030.

Research, Reports & Publications

Supply Chain Sustainability Management Leader Assent Issues 2021 Sustainability Report

In today’s market, you can’t be a CEO without thinking about ESG as investors now require the same due diligence in sustainability transparency as they do for financial transparency, and customers expect the same.

Environment

The Arbor Day Foundation Partners With Clayton® to Plant Over 2 Million Trees in 2022

The Arbor Day Foundation is partnering with Clayton to plant 2.33 million native trees in forests around the US in 2022.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

America's Charities Named '2022 Best Nonprofit to Work For' for Second Consecutive Year

America’s Charities Named ‘2022 Best Nonprofit To Work For’ For Second Consecutive Year

Innovation & Technology

Arrow Electronics Sponsors FIRST® Robotics Regional Competition

Sponsored by Arrow Electronics, the event challenges high school students to build industrial-size robots and maneuver them through a series of challenges against other teams.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Fifth Third Affirms Commitment to Financial Education During Financial Capabilities Month

As we celebrate Financial Literacy Month in April, we’re proud to report that over 2.8 million people have been educated though our various programs in the past 18 years.

Energy

Ørsted Completes Onshore Wind Farm Haystack Wind in Nebraska

Located in Wayne County, Nebraska, Haystack Wind utilises existing interconnection infrastructure in Southwest Power Pool (SPP) North from Ørsted's 230 MW onshore wind farm Plum Creek Wind, which is placed close by.

Education

We Need to Stop Talking About the Years Our Kids Lost in School.

One pandemic-era educator shares what she sees from her side of the screen: When we talk about the learning losses from the pandemic, we need to consider the gains, too.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  2. IWBI | Workplace Wellness
    A WELL Certified™ project has the potential to add measurable value to the health, well-being and happiness of people in the buildings. It can also...
  3. 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...
  4. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  5. KeyBank: Responsible Banking
    Everyone’s financial journey is different. We make intentional efforts to meet the individual needs of clients and communities through a diverse range...
  6. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  7. Katrina 20th Anniversary
    This year marked the 20th anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Katrina, one of the worst, deadliest and most costly natural disasters to ever...
  8. ESG Recognition
    While our commitment to being a responsible corporation is not dependent on recognition, it is a great validation of our work when external...
  9. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  10. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  11. America's Charities Employee Engagement & Social Responsibility
    More than ever, retaining and recruiting employees is a top priority for companies. Aware of the link between workplace giving and employee engagement...
  12. KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service
    KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...
  13. Scotts Miracle-Gro | Environment Improvement
    Earth's beauty and resources should be appreciated now and preserved for generations to come. Discover the stewardship initiatives underway to protect...
  14. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  15. 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...