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Environment

2040 Emissions Goal for onsemi

Not all climate pledges are created equally. You have likely seen companies commit to being carbon neutral or net zero, but what is the difference?

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Climate Safe Lending: Ensuring Planetary Stability

Traditionally, banks manage localized financial risks their borrowers might face, but the impact of their lending decisions has significance on the climate, our ecosystems and overall planetary stability.

Education

Toyota and Discovery Education Launch Initiative Inspiring Student Innovation in STEM

Toyota’s mission of Mobility for All is at the core of a new education initiative by Toyota and Discovery Education called Keys to Connect.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Elevating Nonprofit Websites With Skilled Volunteer Support

Taproot Foundation's web design volunteer community members are waiting to assist your #nonprofit! Team up with them to optimize your website's look, navigation, and traffic. Learn how to get started at their free September 29 webinar.

Energy

Goodyear Opts for Renewable Energy in European and Turkish Plants

Goodyear will adopt 100% renewable energy at its Goodyear plants across Europe and Turkey* in the first of a multiple-phase plan to procure 100% renewable energy in all its facilities across Europe, Middle East and Africa by the end of 2022.

Health & Healthcare

Essity Joins United Nations Foundation Expert Group in Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance

Hygiene and health company Essity expands its partnership with United Nations (UN) Foundation by joining a cross-industry group that brings together corporate experts in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Sustainable Development Goals

IMPACT2030 Transforming Lives and Communities Report

The Transforming Lives and Communities Report from IMPACT2030 explores how companies are channelling pro-bono, skills-based and hands-on employee volunteer service to help address the global challenges that the United Nations SDGs seek to remedy.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Optum Awards $1.4 Million in Maternal Health Grants to Five Community Organizations

Diversity & Inclusion

Real Change, Powered by Human Difference

ERGs also provide many benefits, from recruitment to retention and education. These employee communities are a critical resource to inform what is and is not working.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Whirlpool Converts it's Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Facility Into a Vaccination Center

Whirlpool Converts it's Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Facility Into a Vaccination Center

Innovation & Technology

An Ecosystem for the Ecosystem

Connected technology helps farmers care for the land and protect the environment.

Events, Media & Communications

96% of Americans Engage in Sustainable Behaviors, Per Findings From SB Brands for Good, Part of Sustainable Brands

Report provides insights and data on the sustainability intention-action gap and where brands can play a role.

Research, Reports & Publications

Hormel Foods Shares Food Journey Progress in 15th Annual Corporate Responsibility Report

Hormel Foods Corporation announced the launch of its 15th annual corporate responsibility report. The report contains in-depth information about the company’s CR progress in fiscal 2020 and a new set of CR goals to guide its programs through 2030.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

ImpactAssets Strengthens Investment and Client Engagement With Three Strategic Promotions

ImpactAssets, a leading $1.6 billion impact investing firm, promotes Sandra Osborne Kartt, Nick Peters and Deb Parsons across its investment and business development teams following a rapid growth of the firm’s leading-edge impact investment offerings.

Education

Inspiring the Next Generation of Inventors Through STEM Education

At Qualcomm, we’re committed to workforce development and corporate responsibility. One of the ways we honor that commitment is through Qualcomm® Thinkabit Lab™, an exemplar program that supports the attainment of our STEM Education Goal

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Subaru of America Named First-Ever Honoree of ASPCA® Corporate Compassion Award

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced it is the first-ever recipient of the Corporate Compassion Award from the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®).

Diversity & Inclusion

How Bloomberg's GOAL Program Helps Underrepresented Employees Rise

Large companies continue to demonstrate an increased commitment to diversity, but data shows there is still a lot of work to do—especially at the management level.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CNH Industrial Attains EcoVadis Platinum Medal in Annual Sustainability Assessment

CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI /MI: CNHI), a global leader in sustainability across its operations and the segments in which it operates, announces an important ratings milestone in its sustainability journey.

Health & Healthcare

Country 2 Country 4 Cancer (C2C4C) Event

More than 150 colleagues from 14 EU countries just finished cycling 3,000 km in our Country 2 Country 4 Cancer (C2C4C) event to raise awareness and much-needed donations for cancer research.

Environment

Schneider Electric's 2030 Climate Goals

Our climate change emergency is developing at daunting speed. As demonstrated by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), tipping points which exacerbate the impacts of global warming — such as the melting of polar ice caps — are to rapidly be breached.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Truist Executive Leaders Spend Time with Small Businesses

Truist Executive Leaders recently spent time with several small business owners in Charlotte. Their talent, energy & achievements motivated us to be even more committed to inspiring & building better lives and communities.

Environment

“Decarbonizing Value Chains: The Built Environment” - First in a Series of Executive Roundtables Focusing on Decarbonizing Scope 3 Emissions

Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions in a company’s supply chain and among its customers—so-called Scope 3 emissions—is the biggest challenge in decarbonizing most businesses.

Diversity & Inclusion

P&G Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2021

P&G celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with the theme “Comunidad. Together We Progress. Together We Shine,” celebrating the strength, resilience and warmth of the Hispanic community, and their outstanding contribution to the growth of the company.

Education

T-Mobile's Education Initiatives Have Connected 3 Million Students ... And We're Just Getting Started

Last school year was anything but normal for America’s 56 million K through 12 students. You hear the word “unprecedented” quite a lot, and it really was.

Diversity & Inclusion

Four Questions With Tracey Iraca: Combating Age-Related Disparities in Blood Cancer Treatment

Myelodysplastic syndromes, or MDS, is a rare type of blood cancer primarily affecting people over the age of 65. In fact, it’s such a rare and largely unknown illness that most people living with MDS don’t know anyone else who suffers from it.

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