The Latest News From Leading Brands

Corporate and nonprofit news distributed by 3BL, including press releases, op/eds, multimedia, and the full range of stories that shape reputation.

Research & Reports

Animal Health Is at the Center of Society's Most Important Trends

Elanco

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

H&M Group, Cascale Among ‘Source of Good’ Season 5 Highlights

Cascale

Corporate Responsibility

LOVB Announces CVS Pharmacy as an Official Health & Wellness Partner

CVS Health

Health & Healthcare

Breaking Barriers With Exercise in Pulmonary Fibrosis Care Across Europe

Boehringer Ingelheim

AI & Technology

What Customers Expect From a Sustainable Technology Partner

Everpure

Research & Reports

PBF Energy Publishes 2025 Sustainability Data Supplement

PBF Energy

Research & Reports

G&A and Ceres Research Finds Lessons in Initial Voluntary Reports Under California’s SB 261

Governance & Accountability Institute

Volunteering & Community

First Registered Networking Equipment Continues EPEAT’s Expansion Into Sustainable Digital Infrastructure

Global Electronics Council

Featured Brands

T-Mobile Supports Indiana Communities Following Severe Weather and Prolonged Power Outages

Following destructive storms across the Midwest, T-Mobile teams helped support impacted customers and communities, including offering unlimited talk, text and data to customers in affected areas who don’t already have it, through Tuesday, September 15.

Verizon Combines Tech, Readiness and Grants for Complete Disaster Relief

As natural disasters become more frequent, evidenced by recent weather across the country, communities are left increasingly vulnerable. Verizon is meeting this challenge holistically by combining long-term resilience investments with immediate aid.

Beyond Delivery: How One Shipment Sparked a Larger Response

One of the greatest impacts of in-kind shipping from FedEx is that its reach extends far beyond any single shipment. It helps Rise Against Hunger build stronger relationships with our in-country partners, expand access to healthcare in the communities we serve and respond quickly

Guiding Stars: Fast Food at Home

You know the moment. It’s been a busy day. Your family is asking about dinner, while you’re already thinking about the easiest path that leads to bed. In these moments, it’s easy (very easy) to spin through a drive-through or order overpriced delivery.

PBF Energy Publishes 2025 Sustainability Data Supplement

PBF Energy Inc. published its 2025 Sustainability Data Supplement, presenting three years of environmental, safety, workforce, and governance performance data (2023–2025) across the company's refining operations.

Delivering Hope: How FedEx Helps Pets Recover After Typhoon Sinlaku

When a natural disaster strikes, the immediate focus is often on human survival and rebuilding. But for communities like those in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), pets are family, and their survival is tightly woven into the region's overall recovery.

From Relief to Recovery: Truist and Truist Foundation Surpass Halfway Point of $725 Million Truist Cares for Western North Carolina Commitment

As global leaders gather in Asheville, North Carolina, Truist Financial Corporation, and Truist Foundation announce they have surpassed the halfway point of the $725 million Truist Cares for Western North Carolina commitment established following Hurricane Helene.

CyberInspire-ing the Next Generation: Why the Future of Cybersecurity Starts Earlier Than We Think

Cybersecurity is often discussed as a problem to solve — a skills gap to close, a threat to mitigate, a workforce shortage to manage. From where I sit as a top information security officer at Aflac, a leader in supplemental insurance in the U.S. and Japan, I see it differently.

Guiding Stars - Berry Season: A Simple Way To Add More to Your Day

Nutrient-rich berries are bountiful in the summer months. High in powerful antioxidants (polyphenols), berries support brain health, disease prevention, and even improved mental health. They’re also a great source of fiber (a cup of raspberries, for example, offers 8 grams).

Wells Fargo Expands Affordable Senior Housing and Financial Education With $1.2 Million in North Dakota

Wells Fargo and the Wells Fargo Foundation are providing $1.2 million in North Dakota to support affordable senior housing and accessible financial education.

Recent Alerts

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

SC Johnson Leading Discussion on Transparency and Earning Consumer Trust

As consumers continue to lose trust in business*, companies are being held to higher standards for disclosing the ingredients in their products. Building on its legacy and leadership in ingredient transparency, SC Johnson will come together with a panel of experts from Harvard University, GlobeScan, Marks and Spencer plc and Edie.net for an interactive discussion on the opportunities and challenges for transparency and how it affects consumer trust.

AI & Technology

Vodafone Asks Customers to Become Cancer Researchers

As consumers spend more time on their phones, many organizations have begun brainstorming ways to engage them to do good on these compact, yet powerful machines. UNICEF tapped into the “always connected” stigma and created the wildly successful Tap Project app, which garnered over 2.6 million users and raised $1.6 million for kids in need of safe drinking water. More recently, one brand has come up with an even simpler ask in order to harness the power of smartphones and conscious consumers to support a cause.

Philanthropy

AEG’s StubHub Center Welcomes 3,000 Children and Families for 11th Annual Treats-n-Suites Halloween Bash

AEG’s StubHub Center Foundation and the LA Galaxy Foundation hosted the 11th annual Treats-n-Suites Halloween Bash last week at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. The sold-out event welcomed 3,000 guests, including children ages 2-11 and their families, for a series of Halloween-themed activities including trick-or-treating, arts and crafts, a costume parade and contest, hay rides, face painting, as well as the Wildlife Learning Center's Wildlife Safari Meet and Greet with a series of wild and exotic animals.

Philanthropy

October is #SubaruLovesPets Month

October is #SubaruLovesPets Month, and to celebrate Subaru retailers are partnering with animal organizations in their communities to collect and donate pet supplies. Basic pet supplies help keep shelter animals happy and healthy, increasing their chances of finding a safe and loving home.

Philanthropy

Carnival Corporation Raises Record $338,500 for American Cancer Society

Carnival Foundation, the charitable arm of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world’s largest leisure travel company, held its second Relay For Life fundraiser Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, for American Cancer Society.

Research & Reports

Erb Featured Business Sustainability Case Study: Cargill: The Risky Business of Integrating Climate Change and Corporate Strategy

The complex and fragmented agribusiness sector has been resistant to legislation surrounding greenhouse gas emissions and other climate change regulations. Cargill, one of the largest agribusiness companies and the largest privately held company in the U.S., has the ability to become a significant driver of the climate change conversation and set new industry standards.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Tupperware Brands Recognized for Accelerating Gender Diversity in the Boardroom

Events

Major Leaguers to Build Homes and Raise Funds for Natural Disaster Victims Through a Pair of Dallas Events in Late November

The Major League Baseball Players Trust announced it will be hosting a pair of events in Dallas, TX on Wednesday, November 29 to help provide housing for Houston flood victims and raise funds and awareness for those suffering in the wake of natural disasters in California, the Caribbean, Florida, Mexico and Texas.

Volunteering & Community

Working ‘Miracles’ With Baseball

Wells Fargo volunteer George Baskerville devotes hundreds of hours every year to bring baseball to kids with disabilities. “I wouldn’t trade this for anything,” said Baskerville of his work with The Miracle® League of Richmond, which has grown from about 40 participants in its first year to more than 110 today.

Corporate Responsibility

Video: GRI Standards One Year On

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) released the first global standards for sustainability reporting a year ago. In this video, GRI Chief of Standards Bastian Buck speaks about the uptake of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards, one year after their release.

Volunteering & Community

TransCanada People Get Empowered for Their Communities

Every year, TransCanada employees and contractors participate in a month-long giving and volunteering campaign called Get Empowered. The 2016 campaign raised almost $1 million in personal and company-matched donations and tracked more than 6,370 volunteer hours across Canada, U.S. and Mexico.

Energy & Infrastructure

Mike Bloomberg Contributes $64 Million to Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign

The Trump Administration with Scott Pruitt leading the charge may be dismantling the Clean Power Plan, but former Mayor of New York City is doing his part to advocate for cleaner sources of power in the U.S. Hours after President Trump made his plans for the Clean Power Plan clear, Bloomberg announced he would contribute $64 million to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal program.

Volunteering & Community

How Can I Help?

Flooded streets, collapsed buildings, growing inequality, healthcare, citizenship and more. Of course we’re all wondering how we can help and wishing we knew precisely how and where to show up.

Health & Healthcare

New Elton John AIDS Foundation Funding to Combat HIV Epidemics

EJAF has announced new funding initiatives to increase advocacy and service delivery for people living with and at-risk for HIV and hepatitis C.

Philanthropy

Visa Makes Commitment to Universal Postal Union to Increase Financial Services for Underserved Communities

Visa has made a three-year financial commitment to help the Universal Postal Union, which is the primary forum for cooperation in the global postal system, advance financial inclusion through its new Financial Inclusion Technical Assistance Facility. Of the world’s 661,000 post offices, 91 percent offer some form of financial services, and the UPU aims to increase the number of payment accounts held by posts by 250 million by 2020.

Health & Healthcare

Products with a Purpose

Three years into remission, Justin Fairfax was working for a company that helped produce events for Hormel Foods when he heard someone onstage mention the Hormel Vital Cuisine™ brand, the company’s line of specialty products that help with recovery.

“I thought, ‘Holy cow, why didn’t I know about this when I went through treatment?’” Fairfax remembered. “It made a big impact on me that a big company was dedicating its research and development efforts to making the lives of people who are going through cancer better and more comfortable.”

Environment

HBR’s Top 100 CEO’s List Used CSRHub ESG Metrics

Harvard Business Review just released their much anticipated The Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2017 list. CSRHub is honored to have our ESG (environmental, social, and governance) metrics included again this year as part of the methodology for ranking the world’s top 100 CEOs.

Environment

Long Island Students Win Top Water Innovation Prize

Two childhood friends have won the top prize at the 2017 Stockholm Junior Water prize sponsored by Xylem. Ryan Thorpe and Rachel Chang, seniors at Manhasset Secondary School on Long Island, N.Y., have created a system that uses biosensors to detect individual colonies of four of the most common pathogenic bacteria found in water, paving the way for applications in regions where clean water is a luxury.

Events

Sunny Verghese Appointed as WBCSD Chair for 2018

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development today announced that Mr Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Olam International, has been appointed as the new Chair of WBCSD. Mr Verghese’s term begins on 1 January 2018 for a duration of two years.

AI & Technology

Sign Up for HPE’s “Data Management and Programming Models for Memory-Driven Computing” Webinar

Want to simplify programming and manage your data efficiently? If your answer is yes, this webinar on Data Management and Programming Models for Memory-Driven Computing webinar is for you! Register to join us on Tuesday, November 14th from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. pacific time.

Corporate Responsibility

VIDEO: Introducing Our New Suburban Chicago Headquarters

Volunteering & Community

[VIDEO] Whirlpool Volunteers Pack Boxes for Seniors at SMCAA

Hundreds of senior citizens in Southwest Michigan will receive commodity packages, thanks to volunteers from Whirlpool Corporation and the Southwest Michigan Community Action Agency.

Awards & Rankings

How Being Committed to the Environment Can Be a Business Opportunity

As well as being the only industrial company on CDP’s A List for 7 years in a row, Schneider Electric also helps clients identify business opportunities in acting to address climate risks.

Philanthropy

Smithfield Foods and its Farmer John and Saag’s Brands Donate Nearly 90,000 Pounds of Protein to California Wildfire Relief Efforts

Smithfield Foods and its Farmer John and Saag’s brands have donated nearly 90,000 pounds of protein to the Redwood Empire Food Bank in California. The donation is part of Smithfield’s Helping Hungry Homes® initiative, a program committed to alleviating hunger and helping Americans become more food secure, and will help victims of the ongoing wildfires throughout Northern California.

Philanthropy

Carnival Horizon Dreamscape LED Atrium Sculpture to Feature Artwork Created by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Patients

Carnival Cruise Line announced that the massive LED “Dreamscape” atrium sculpture on the new Carnival Horizonwill feature colorful, custom-designed artwork created by patients of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® when the 133,500-ton ship debuts in Europe in spring 2018.

Latest Campaigns

Disaster Relief

During times of natural disaster and other events Verizon will provide emergency relief to the area(s) impacted.

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

Health in Action

Our Prescription for a Better World framework is organized around three key pillars: building healthy communities (Health in Action), protecting the...

Rethinking EHS Podcast

Join us as we travel the world to uncover real stories of impact—from landfills and energy transition to workplace safety, emerging contaminants, and...

GoDaddy | Customers

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, helps millions of entrepreneurs globally start, grow, and scale their businesses. People come to...

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...

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...

GoDaddy | Customers

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, helps millions of entrepreneurs globally start, grow, and scale their businesses. People come to...