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Bacardi-Owned BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® Announces ‘Electrifying’ Global Partnership With E1 Series

BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® is stepping into the world of sports entertainment, announcing a new global partnership with E1 Series – the world’s first all-electric race boat Championship that combines sports, entertainment and a respect for the world’s ‘natural blues.’

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Environment

T-Mobile’s #TreeMobile Campaign Commits to Donate up to Half a Million Trees – With Your Help!

T-Mobile launches its #TreeMobile Campaign for the second year in a row in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, this year asking people to help them plant up to half a million trees!

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Perspectives Podcast: Episode 19 - Colleen Olphert, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship

Pro Bono Perspectives host and Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly is joined by Colleen Olphert, Director of Membership and Member Services at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (BCCCC) to discuss how corporate citizenship and CSR initiatives are filling gaps left by an overextended public sector.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Industry Leaders Sign MoU on Responsible Tin Sourcing

Industry Leaders Sign MoU on Responsible Tin Sourcing

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Innovation & Technology

Arrow Electronics Bridges Technology Gap by Connecting Students in Colorado and Storm-Ravaged Saipan

Through its sponsorship of the Colorado Succeeds Prize, Arrow Electronics is helping Colorado high school students virtually collaborate with their counterparts in the storm-ravaged U.S. commonwealth of Saipan. Part of the Northern Marina Islands, Saipan is still recovering from the super typhoon Yutu, which decimated the island in October 2018.

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Research, Reports & Publications

350 Years of Curiosity Creating Shared Value

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany has published its tenth Corporate Responsibility Report, covering the year 2018.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Photo Gallery | ScottsMiracle-Gro Celebrates Earth Month, Supports Local Community Gardens

To raise awareness for the important role community gardens play in neighborhoods, ScottsMiracle-Gro joined other central Ohio partners––including the City of Columbus, Columbus Public Health, Franklin County, The Columbus Foundation, Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens and Hidden Creek Landscaping––in an Earth Day celebration on the ScottsMiracle-Gro Community Garden Campus at Franklin Park Conservatory on April 12.

Innovation & Technology

Video | Southern California Edison Installs Cameras to Monitor Potential Wildfires in Real Time

Southern California Edison (SCE) has installed 70 high tech cameras to monitor high-risk fire areas. SCE, fire agents and the public have 24-hour access to these cameras and plans to install 160 cameras by 2020.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Profit Through Purpose: Eight Years of Pioneering and Learning

We’re eight years into our 10-year Unilever Sustainable Living Plan and have made significant progress across many of our ambitious targets. We have also learnt a lot during that time. Not least that new technologies, new business models and new ways of thinking are all vital to creating the change the world needs – quickly and at scale.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

What Sesame Street is Doing to Reduce Stigma and Change Perceptions Around Autism

In the U.S., 1 in 59 children is diagnosed with autism. Nearly every family and community is touched in some way.

While the diagnosis is common, public understanding of autism is not. This lack of understanding can make life even more difficult for children with autism.

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Energy

Climate Change Is Dynamic, and Our Response Must Be Too

National Grid President John Bruckner on how gas, both green and natural, will play a role in securing our clean energy future.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Recognized for Top Customer References, Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility Among All Outsourcers by IAOP

CBRE Group, Inc. announced that the company has been recognized for sustained excellence across several categories in The Best of The Global Outsourcing 100 (GO100) by IAOP®, which has identified the “best of the best” global outsourcing firms, across all industries, from the past ten years.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Special Ducks Help Comfort Children Who Are Battling Cancer

The invention, called “My Special Aflac Duck,” was named one of Time Magazine’s best inventions of 2018, and it’s easy to see why, as kids rapidly grow attached to them. “We consider the duck a social robot,” inventor Aaron J. Horowitz said. “He is a constant companion for kids that can really share in the experience that they are having, and can give them a better tool to communicate how they feel.” The duck responds to the touch of a child’s hands, and can even indicate that it’s being tickled, quacking rapidly when it’s tickled under its wings.

Environment

Everlane Partners With The New York Times to Push the Truth of Climate Change

Although more than seven-in-10 (73%) Americans think global warming is happening and nearly the same amount (72%) say global warming is important to them personally, according to new research from Yale, the concept of climate change is still called into question on a nearly daily basis.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Hallmark VIDEO | Inspiring Acts of Caring: Scott Poore Aids Animal Rescue and Adoption

Inspiring others to show they care through acts of kindness speaks to the essence of the Hallmark brand. Hallmark’s Care Enough campaign highlighted the selfless acts of dozens of individuals to inspire others to perform acts of caring.

Environment

How One Purchase Can Change Lives

When does an everyday errand become a life-changing act of kindness? When a simple packaged good purchase helps bring clean drinking water to children, families, and communities that desperately need it; when “1=1” means that consumers can help support an urgent global initiative that’s changing lives.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Wells Fargo Commits to Three-Year Title Sponsorship of No Barriers Summit

No Barriers USA announced that Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) has committed to a three-year title sponsorship of the organization’s annual event, the No Barriers Summit. The summit this year is in Squaw Creek, Lake Tahoe, California, June 13–15. No Barriers USA and Wells Fargo plan to bring the event to San Francisco in 2020 and Washington, D.C., in 2021. Wells Fargo has sponsored the summit since 2015.

Diversity & Inclusion

Slam Dunk: How Women at Johnson & Johnson Pioneered Company Basketball

There's a long history of employee sports teams at Johnson & Johnson, beginning with a men’s baseball team in 1895. The first women's basketball team was formed in 1907 by members of the Laurel Club, which was founded the same year.

Health & Healthcare

Pfizer Reaffirms Commitment to Delivering Essential Therapies Through Manufacturing Investment

We are experiencing an exciting new era in drug discovery and development with scientific advances that could result in future breakthroughs. To make this promise a reality, Pfizer is dedicated to investing in manufacturing capabilities to keep pace with science today, and to plan for what’s coming next.

The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

MilliporeSigma Drives Packaging Sustainability Through New Program

As part of MilliporeSigma’s commitment to reduce its environmental impact, the company has launched a new SMASH Packaging Plan — a four-year approach to drive improvement in the sustainability of its packaging. Through this initiative, MilliporeSigma is setting new standards and goals to shrink, secure, switch and save packaging while still meeting the required performance requirements and transit safety regulations.

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Energy

Duke Energy Renewables Constructs 200-MW Mesteño Wind Project in Texas

Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, today announced it will build, own and operate a 200-megawatt (MW) wind project – Mesteño – in Starr County, Texas. The project’s output will be sold into the ERCOT market and Duke Energy Renewables will enter into a long-term hedge agreement covering the majority of the expected wind energy production.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Women in the Field of Finance

At the financial firms I am involved with, Domini Impact Investments has five employee equity-owning managers in leadership. Four of the five are female. The Sustainability Group has four partner-level members and three of the four are female. I feel pretty secure in stating that female leadership is possible, even within the financial asset management field.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CNH Industrial Hosts Signing Day for Youth Manufacturing Education Program at Case IH Grand Island Facility

CNH Industrial’s Case IH Grand Island Facility hosted a “signing day” event on April 2 to celebrate its support of the certified Youth Apprentice Program with the Department of Labor and Career Pathways High School in the city of Grand Island. Together with company representatives, the event was attended by Debra Cremeens-Risinger, U.S. Department of Labor Nebraska State Director, who signed the program registration, along with Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska Mike Foley and Dan Phillips, Director of Career Pathways.

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GRI Working With ASViS to Support Sustainable Development

GRI and The Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS) have signed memorandum of understanding, kicking off a partnership to unite efforts to promote corporate social responsibility in relation to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Carbon Yield Fund Wins 2019 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge

Sustainable Investing Challenge brings together future leadersseeking to help address today’s toughest sustainability issues throughinnovative financial instruments

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Responsible Production & Consumption

[VIDEO] Giving Your Clothes a Second Life

The problem of apparel waste has become, with over 10.5 million tons dumped in landfills in North America every year. There are many statistics quoted on the matter, but leave it to say that the vast majority of what we get rid of ends up in landfills, some say as high as 80%.

As consumers we have an opportunity to help stem the flow of garments to landfill. The important thing is to avoid apparel waste by thinking of alternatives for your clothes before throwing them out. Learn more about how you can give them a second chance at life and join the conversation on #MakingApparelBetter. To view the entire Conscious Consumption campaign, visit the Genuine Responsbility site at https://www.genuineresponsibility.com/en/stories/news/conscious-consumption/

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