Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

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Innovation & Technology

Team AkzoNobel Enters 2017/2018 Volvo Ocean Race

Events, Media & Communications

Sands China Team Achieves One Billion Online Impressions For The Parisian Macao Via Social Media

Congratulations to the Sands China team and everyone who participated in achieving this social media milestone in such a short period of time. The Parisian Macao opened September 13, 2016. The Parisian Macao is Las Vegas Sands’ and Sands China’s most energy-efficient integrated resort to date.

Innovation & Technology

Best for the World 2016: Doing Good for the World and Your Wallet

Environmentalism and social activism are sometimes considered to be all doom and gloom, but the first annual Best for The World conference refused to comply with such stereotypes.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Bloomberg & Donohue: Help American Workers. Pass TPP.

Energy

HPE Commits to 100% Renewable Energy with RE100

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise marked an important milestone on our Living Progress journey. We joined RE100 with a commitment to reach 100 percent renewable energy, while setting an interim goal to source 50 percent of our total energy consumption from renewable sources by 2025.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Michael Bloomberg Gives $300 Million to Johns Hopkins for Public-Health Effort

Diversity & Inclusion

Tragedy Spurs LongHorn Steakhouse Team to Open Hearts and Wallets

Every member of the LongHorn Steakhouse team in Cartersville, GA, contributes to Darden Dimes, an emergency assistance program for employees, inspired by Managing Partner Patricia France’s tragic tale.

Health & Healthcare

100 Objects That Shaped Public Health

Responsible Production & Consumption

Hear from Domtar Private Landowners on PBS’ This American Land

People are at the room of healthy forests. Domtar’s sustainable forestry work is featured in an upcoming episode of the PBS series This American Land, the leading conservation news program that reports on critical issues affecting America’s natural landscapes, waters and wildlife.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Aramark Mobilizes Employees to Improve the Health of Chicago Families

As part of Aramark’s ongoing commitment to health and wellness, more than 100 Aramark associates are uniting today at Chicago’s Casa Central to inspire families to make healthy food, nutrition and lifestyle choices for Aramark Building Community Day, the company's global day of service.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Sappi North America Announces Recipients of the 17th Ideas that Matter Grant

Sappi North America, a leading producer and supplier of diversified paper and packaging products, today announced the eight grant recipients of its 17th annual Ideas that Matter program, where financial support is given to designer applicants who create and implement print projects for social impact.

Energy

Powering Data Centers with Renewable Energy

Social Impact & Volunteering

Aramark Mobilizes Across Philadelphia to Improve Health of Local Families

As part of Aramark’s ongoing commitment to health and wellness, more than 500 Aramark associates are uniting today across Philadelphia, Aramark’s global headquarters, including at Congreso De Latinos Unidos (Congreso), The Federation of Neighborhood Centers (FNC), and other sites, to inspire families to make healthy food, nutrition and lifestyle choices for Aramark Building Community Day, the company's global day of service.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Get to Know Hagerty, Finalist for 2016 Employee Volunteer Program of the Year

Hagerty strives to come up with new and fun ways for employees to volunteer, taking into account location, timing, and what employees like to do. Their advice to other volunteer programs? Keep it fresh, create a CSR committee, and spread the word!

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Top Five Adoption-Friendly Workplaces All Put High Value on Family

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption has continually been impressed by the caliber of companies that have applied for recognition as an Adoption Friendly Workplace. This year was no different.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Making the World a Safer Place for Women

Around the world, 1 in 3 women experience physical and/or sexual violence at some point in their lives. That means 35 percent of our sisters, 35 percent of our friends, 35 percent of our coworkers—or maybe you’ve even experienced it first hand.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Doing One Thing to Improve our Community in Bengaluru

How do you save more than 3,800 gallons of water and 40 pounds of trash in Bengaluru, India? You get together a bunch of dedicated colleagues who are passionate about making their world a better place. By working together over a year, my 75 colleagues and I demonstrate that small actions for good can add up to a big, positive impact. It all started with doing one thing – really.

Education

HP Expands Commitment to Refugees, Convenes with Leaders for White House Summit

As a company in the business of creating consumer devices that both delight and inspire, HP believes that technology can enrich lives – and help rebuild them as well. And as a global company that does business in more than 170 countries and territories, HP has a unique opportunity to put that belief into action with aid to the some 5 million people who’ve fled their homes and country to escape civil conflict in Syria.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Getting More From Less

During times of economic hardship it is reasonable for companies to look for cost cutting opportunities and eliminate non-essential investments. Investments in sustainable packaging, however, shouldn’t be among the items on the chopping block.

Environment

Nestlé Waters North America Pushes Regional Collaborative Action as Vital to Global Climate Change Success

While the recent International Paris Climate Agreement was groundbreaking in the effort to combat climate change, regional implementation and sharing of experience and results will be the key to success, according to Nelson Switzer, chief sustainability officer of Nestlé Waters North America.

Innovation & Technology

New SmaaartTM Carbon Offset Program Enables Companies to Support Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

Companies can create impacts beyond carbon that make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals while delivering US$151 in benefits per carbon credit per year. Colorado-based Envirofit International, a global social enterprise that develops clean energy cookstoves, has pioneered a new corporate carbon offset program that enables companies to impact local communities in the developing world by creating jobs and improving livelihoods. Through the programme, Envirofit links carbon credit buyers to social entrepreneurs in the developing world in order to build local capacity, develop local markets and create jobs.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Leading Companies Sign Letter in Support of Refugee Relief

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation today released an open letter to the business community, signed by 49 companies, which highlights how the private sector is working to empower refugees through education, employment, and enablement

Latest Campaigns

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    Cascale shares insights regarding policy and regulation impacting the consumer goods industry, and highlights how it's supporting members prepare for...
  2. 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...
  3. FedEx | Delivering for Good
    Doing what we do best for those who need it most. When disaster strikes, and there’s not a moment to lose, our people mobilize the FedEx global fleet...
  4. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  5. Growth Through Sustainability
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    The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...
  9. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  10. KeyBank's Commitment to Diversity
    Promoting inclusive environments by employing systemic changes to improve the access of individuals of diverse backgrounds. Learn more about our...
  11. Cascale Events
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  12. Greener Products and Solutions
    We actively integrate sustainability into the product development process and look at all phases of the product life cycle for opportunities to...
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