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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Strategy Behind The Clorox Company’s Reimagined Workforce

Our culture evolves by galvanizing people through an inclusive workplace, simplifying operations and leveraging technology for growth. We thoughtfully invested in digital resources to make work faster and leaner, while placing our people at the center of our experiences.

Innovation & Technology

How BlocPower’s Donnel Baird Developed a New Model for Green Cities (Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg)

“I one hundred percent believe that the solutions to the climate crisis are inextricably woven with solutions to wealth equality,” says Donnel Baird, the founder and CEO of BlocPower.

Health & Healthcare

Essity Hygiene and Health Report 2023–2024: Placing the Spotlight on Equality in Health and Well-Being

The future of health and well-being for women and girls is at a crucial turning point. The convergence of multiple crises, including the Covid-19 pandemic, conflicts, and climate change, has deepened societal inequities and worsened women+’s possibilities to lead healthy lives.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Pizza Hut and Spurs Player Tre Jones Team Up To Support Spurs Youth Basketball League in 2024

Pizza Hut and San Antonio Spurs player Tre Jones have once again teamed up with Spurs Youth Basketball League (SYBL) to support the league’s mission and athletes with a promotional offer.

Health & Healthcare

Qualcomm Wireless Reach Closes the Digital Divide in Telehealth

Through the Qualcomm Wireless Reach initiative, Qualcomm collaborates with a variety of organizations to help close the global digital divide.

Innovation & Technology

Gilead Sciences: Art Captures the Experiences of Women Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer

For the past 30 years, Pilar Fernandez has navigated living with metastatic breast cancer. And while she’s faced a series of related health challenges, it hasn’t slowed her down.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Home Depot Kicks Off 15th Year of Campus Enhancements for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Will Surpass $10 Million in Financial Support

The Home Depot is kicking off its 2024 Retool Your School program, which provides career development opportunities and improves campuses at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

DEI@Cadence: Sharing and Learning in 2023

There is a growing conversation around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and almost everyone has an opinion on this topic. What do these values mean at Cadence? Does DEI have any real impact on our work here?

Environment

100 Years of Olympic Winter Games: The Evolution – Reinventing the Present, Adapting to the Future

Next week marks 100 years since the first Olympic Winter Games took place in Chamonix, France. Ahead of the anniversary, we think about how their future might look in the face of accelerating climate change.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Whirlpool Corporation and Foundation 2023 Impact Highlights

Around the globe, Whirlpool Corporation helps improve life at home for people in the communities in which we operate and well beyond.

Innovation & Technology

North American Firms See Tech As Silver Lining in 2024 Business Forecast

Despite geopolitical uncertainty and economic challenges, North American businesses are not just surviving, but thriving, according to compelling new research from Economist Impact and DP World.

Sustainable Development Goals

Crown Holdings 2022 Sustainability Report: Progress Toward Our Twentyby30™ Goals

We committed to Climate Group’s RE100 and joined The Climate Pledge, reinforcing our commitments to prioritize climate change by using renewable energy sources and supporting methods to reduce our carbon footprint.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Asian Community Development Council Strengthens Access to Services for the AAPI Community With Sands Cares Support

Announced in mid-2023, the latest round of Sands Cares funding for ACDC continued support for the Healthy Asians and Pacific Islanders Medical Center and the API Language Link, which provide critical in-language health and social services to the Southern Nevada AAPI community.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

KOCH INVESTS: Enhancing Supply Chain Tech Solutions

Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) has led a $32 million Series C round in Silo, the leading provider of modern technology solutions for the supply chain.

Energy

Toward Net-Zero Value Chains: How To Minimize Your Scope 3 Emissions

Government and business leaders, climate experts, and other stakeholders gathering for the COP28 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December know that accelerating the energy transition is more important than ever.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Cisco: Employee Giving and Volunteerism Drives Positive Business Outcomes

Cisco was honored last year to win the top spot on People’s 2023 List of Companies That Care, and a key factor was our employee culture of giving back.

Environment

Allen & York – 30 Years and Counting

Allen & York's CEO and Founder, Mark Allen has a story or two about Environmental & Sustainability recruitment, but we wanted to ask him why he founded Allen & York and how he was feeling 30 years on.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Olympic Games Can Inspire a New Generation

We must make sport available to all children, regardless of their personal situations and backgrounds, and the Olympic Games are the perfect way to inspire them, says two-time Olympic champion Aksel Lund Svindal.

Diversity & Inclusion

Albertsons Companies Seeks Innovative, Diverse-Owned Brands, Hosts Fourth Annual Supplier Diversity Program

As part of the company’s ongoing commitment to fostering diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, the Albertsons Cos. Supplier Diversity Program is designed to discover, support and give diverse-owned suppliers the opportunity to expand their business with Albertsons Cos.

Events, Media & Communications

Griffith Foods Welcomes Michelle Egger As Global Director of Partnerships and Madeline Patterson Smith As Global Director of Sustainability Impact Reporting

Griffith Foods is proud to announce the addition of two global directors, Michelle Egger and Madeline Patterson Smith. These new roles will play a pivotal role in advancing the company’s 2030 Aspirations and purpose-driven strategy.

Environment

The World To Finally Transition Away From Fossil Fuels

The COP28 gavel has finally slammed down with the focus on a key word: transition. After days of intense negotiations between world leaders at the two-week UN climate summit in Dubai, the clock is now ticking as the fossil fuel industry faces the inevitable end.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Attracting & Developing Diverse Talent at Dow

By focusing on improving representation across multiple dimensions of diversity, we are cultivating an innovative workplace driven by a wide range of experience, ideas and expertise.

Innovation & Technology

Responsible Compute: Where Power Meets Sustainability

By encouraging businesses to move elements of their HPC workloads to data centres powered by natural resources, Responsible Compute is part of a wider movement to make huge strides towards reaching ESG goals.

Innovation & Technology

Embracing the Future: Our Path to Sustainable Thermal Management Innovation

The arctic blast that we've seen in the U.S. over the past week is a prime example of the competing challenges we face in addressing climate change.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

International Paper Partners With Wreaths Across America To Remember Fallen Veterans

On National Wreaths Across America Day, Saturday, December 16, 2023, International Paper (IP) was proud to support Wreaths Across America (WAA) in remembrance to honor our veterans.

Latest Campaigns

  1. 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...
  2. PNC: Commitment to Early Childhood Education
    We're focusing on early learning to help children succeed. Research has shown that the first five years of a child's life is critical to long-term...
  3. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...
  4. 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...
  5. Sustainability
    Leading the logistics sector towards a more sustainable future by investing in innovative green technologies, enhancing operational efficiency, and...
  6. ESG Voices: Short Podcasts Addressing the Opportunities and Challenges of ESG
    This podcast series takes a deep dive into the opportunities and challenges of ESG and what it means for businesses and communities through interviews...
  7. Local Communities
    The principals of living and working in synergy with the communities in which we operate, as well as collaborating on projects that benefit those...
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator
    The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...
  11. Drive for MPC
    At Marathon Petroleum, our professional truck drivers share one common vision: no accidents, no injuries, and no harm to the environment. We’re proud...
  12. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  13. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...
  14. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  15. 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...