Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Benevity Helps Microsoft Bing Raise $1.5 Million for Nonprofits

Benevity announces that Give with Bing users have donated Microsoft Rewards points valued at over US$1.5 million to more than 30,000 nonprofit organizations around the world.

Environment

Covestro Commits to Cleaner Waters With Operation Clean Sweep® Blue Membership

Covestro LLC is elevating its efforts to protect and preserve our world’s water sources by joining Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS) blue—an initiative born from the larger Operation Clean Sweep® program.

Education

Justice's Opportunity with IBM's P-TECH

Meet the new voice of tech. Justice has loved technology since he was little. Thanks to the help of a new education initiative founded by IBM called P-TECH, he’s turned that passion into a college diploma and a job at IBM at the age of 18.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Global Water Challenge & The Coca-Cola Foundation Announce Support for Ten New Grantees

Global Water Challenge (GWC) and The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF) announced US$1.28MM in new grantmaking from their ongoing partnership to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across Eurasia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Environment

Ray C. Anderson Foundation's NextGen Committee Awards $100,000 Grant to Cultural Survival

The NextGen Committee of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to Cultural Survival to support grassroots Indigenous solutions to climate change.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bryan Stevenson, Sir Elton John, Temie Giwa-Tubosun, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Warren Buffett, Sesame Workshop and the Black Lives Matter Movement to be Recognized at the 2020 Global Citizen Prize Awards

International advocacy organization Global Citizen today announced the winners of the 2020 Global Citizen Prize.

Environment

Why Resources-as-a-Service (RaaS) for EHS Is Gaining Fast Popularity

Sometimes an extra set of capable hands can make all the difference. What is Resources-as-a-Service (RaaS) and what does it mean for EHS&S? Read this Antea Group USA blog and find out why we’re seeing companies change the way they approach staffing.

Research, Reports & Publications

Fifth Third ESG Report: Collaborations for Community Benefit: Northwest Activities Center

Northwest Activities Center (NWAC) is a community staple in Detroit—and so is Fifth Third Bank. The two have worked together for years and the relationship has yielded lasting, sustainable results for individuals and families in the Motor City.

Research, Reports & Publications

Arbor Day Foundation's Replanting Our Planet's Forests

Generations past cared for our forests, preserving them as our heritage. Like the biological network a forest needs to thrive, our network of tremendous people helped guide that heritage towards a secure future this past year

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Responsible Business Alliance Launches Worker Voice Platform

The Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) today announced the launch of its worker voice platform to help members and their suppliers improve conditions in their international supply chains

Research, Reports & Publications

VMware Commits to Building a More Equitable, Sustainable and Resilient World

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced its 2030 Agenda, a decade-long commitment to address critical challenges facing the global community.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

BVCI Names Scean Cherry as Labor Relations Chief

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CBRE Announces Industry-Leading Science-Based Greenhouse Gas Emission Target

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) today announced that the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved the company’s science-based target to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from both CBRE’s own operations and the properties it manages for investors and occupiers.

Education

Stepping Up With Tech Support: CNH Industrial Helps Schools With Online Learning Transition

A CNH Industrial manufacturing site in Wisconsin is helping local families get access to much-needed tech support for homeschooling and online learning.

Environment

Antea Group Announces New Service Offering: Resources-as-a-Service

Antea Group USA introduced a new service to their Health and Safety offerings called Resources-as-a-Service (RaaS). RaaS is Antea Group’s customizable staffing solution for temporary EHS & sustainability resourcing needs.

Innovation & Technology

Two Technologies Available Today to Resolve Climate Change

The primary driver of climate change is carbon emissions, and 80% of carbon emissions are energy related. To confront this climate crisis, we must reduce these emissions drastically.

Health & Healthcare

Manisha's Lesson

It’s time to unite behind the front line. Hear from Manisha, a clinical lead in the UK, to see how COVID-19 didn’t create health equity, but it exasperated it. Manisha describes how the effort to #BacktheFrontline requires a commitment to equity.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Retraining and Adult Education Help Close the Skills Gap

The global pandemic has highlighted long-standing economic and social disparities faced by minorities and unemployed and underemployed people.

Research, Reports & Publications

Powering an Inclusive Future Through Corporate Social Responsibility

Cisco’s purpose to power an inclusive future for all is something the company has been committed to for decades. The power of our technology to create positive and inclusive outcomes on a global scale was immediately apparent...

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

International Paper Global Cellulose Fibers Business Donates 1,000 Feminine Hygiene Kits to Combat Period Poverty

Each year, more than 40 million women and girls around the world are affected by period poverty – the lack of access to sanitary products, feminine hygiene education, toilets, handwashing facilities or waste management during menstrual cycles.

Research, Reports & Publications

Fifth Third ESG Report Feature: New Life Springs Within Old Bank Building in Lima, OH

With one investment, Fifth Third was able to improve families' lives while preserving a building on the National Register of Historic Places, revitalize a neighborhood, create affordable housing, & contribute to an environmentally-sound building.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

CGF China Brings Together CGF Members and Recyclers for Upstream-Downstream Solutions Panel on Plastic Waste

At the China Plastics Reuse and Recycling Association (CPRRA) member conference, the CGF China Office held a panel discussion in Hangzhou, China, to discuss the CGF, its members and other industry actors on their plastic waste and recycling efforts.

Sustainable Development Goals

Continuous Improvements on Saving Energy and Waste Powered by #TeamDow Employees

Our Dow teams continue to find creative ways to optimize energy use and reduce waste, helping us advance our sustainability goals and save costs.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Timberland's Commitments to Better Product and a Greener Future Converge With a Program to Increase Factory Efficiency

Timberland’s commitment to create better product focuses on what goes into each product as well as how it is made.

Innovation & Technology

GoodCarts Offers Platform To Help Mission-Driven Retailers Succeed and Grow

GoodCarts, a platform supporting social impact ecommerce brands, recently launched as a way to connect tens of thousands of purpose-driven e-commerce brands and retailers in order to exchange customers who share the goal of “shopping for good.” The platform is free for all impact brands and generates exclusive free discounts for consumers.

Latest Campaigns

  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  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. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  9. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  10. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  11. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  12. Recognition of our Company
    As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...
  13. Tork, an Essity brand
    Tork is an Essity brand. Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company. Wherever there is a need for wiping, drying, cleaning or polishing...
  14. Aflac Insights
    Learn more about Aflac’s survey findings to better understand workplace trends as well as consumer attitudes, habits and opinions toward health and...
  15. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...