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What Survived the L.A. Wildfires

The stark images of a single home standing amid charred ruins of its neighbors are an apocalyptic memory of the Eaton and Palisades fires across Los Angeles in January 2025, 18 months ago. There was one house left standing in Malibu. Another in Altadena.

Corporate Responsibility

Motorola Solutions Foundation Champions 15 Years of the Connected by Safety Program

Motorola Solutions

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

MetLife 2025 Sustainability Report: Responsible Investments

MetLife

Inclusion & Opportunity

Lenovo Foundation, David Beckham, and Street Child United Create Life-Changing Opportunity for Young Leaders at FIFA World Cup 2026™ Final

Lenovo

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

SungEel HiTech Implements Rockwell Automation’s PlantPAx® DCS for Eco-Friendly Battery Recycling

Rockwell Automation

Corporate Responsibility

Carnival Corporation Expands Surplus Meal Donation Program to The Bahamas

Carnival Corporation

Awards & Rankings

Discovery Education's Digital Citizenship Initiative Named 2026 CODiE Award Winner

Discovery Education

Environment

LG Electronics Reports 2025 Scope 1 and 2 Emissions Below 2023 Target Levels in Latest Sustainability Report

LG Electronics USA

Philanthropy

$2M Philanthropic Investment Will Help Charlotte Cultivate New Tech Talent To Keep Pace With City’s Growth

Wells Fargo & Company

Featured Brands

How Whispp and Qualcomm Brought Voice Reconstruction AI to Snapdragon X Elite

“This collaboration with Qualcomm allowed us to test Whispp where the technology ultimately needs to perform: in real conversations, on the devices people already use..."

Digital Financial Education Sparks Transformation for Microentrepreneurs in Bolivia

Every morning in El Alto, Bolivia, Yoselin has dozens of financial considerations to think about before her first customer arrives. How much oil should she buy this week? Will rising food prices cut into her profits again?

A Tampa Family Finds Peace Under a New, Hurricane-Ready Roof

When Hurricane Milton tore through Tampa, Florida, on October 9, 2024, Michelle watched as floodwaters destroyed everything in her home—including clothes, furniture, and bedding—and shattered her sense of security.

Carnival Corporation Expands Surplus Meal Donation Program to The Bahamas

One year after celebrating the grand opening of Celebration Key on Grand Bahama Island, Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL), the world’s largest cruise company, has another reason to celebrate, today launching its surplus meal donation program in The Bahamas.

LG Electronics Reports 2025 Scope 1 and 2 Emissions Below 2023 Target Levels in Latest Sustainability Report

Global ESG management leader LG Electronics has released the LG 2025-26 Sustainability Report, which highlights the company’s ongoing worldwide efforts to realize its vision for A Better Life for All.

Engineer the Future: Educators Can Apply for the Arduino Scholarship Now!

The Congressional App Challenge and Qualcomm Incorporated today announced Engineering the Future: Educator Arduino Scholarship, a new national initiative to expand access to physical computing tools for middle and high school students

$2M Philanthropic Investment Will Help Charlotte Cultivate New Tech Talent To Keep Pace With City’s Growth

National nonprofit CodePath today announced a $2 million philanthropic investment from Wells Fargo and the Wells Fargo Foundation to accelerate the number of local college students who are prepared to participate in Charlotte’s growing technology economy.

STEM Next is Testing a New Model for AI Learning in Afterschool. Early Results Show What Works.

With leadership support from partners including Qualcomm and Arconic Foundation, STEM Next launched the Opportunity AI pilot project in fall 2025

Real-World Skills for Real World Challenges: AI-Led Updates Across Cisco Certification Portfolio

Advances in technology continue to make increased demands on networking and technology professionals. In just a few years, AI has become an integral part of how networks are designed, managed, and secured—driving a shift in the skills most critical to IT professionals.

Guiding Stars: Making the Case for Eat-and-Repeat Meals

As a dietitian, I often extol the nutrition benefits of eating a variety of foods. You know the drill: more variety equals a wider range of nutrients and other healthy food compounds.

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Volunteering & Community

Why Did 300 Project Managers #ScopeforChange on MLK Day?

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?” In answer to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call, over 300 project managers and subject matter experts in marketing, finance, strategy, HR, and IT committed their day to use their own talents for others at the Project Management Day of Service Pro Bono Lab.

Environment

The Ticking Carbon Clock

Inclusion & Opportunity

Spotlight on Antea Group Consultant Steven Meun

Let's take a closer look at some of Antea Group's most valuable resources--its people! Next up is sustainability practitioner Steven Meun out of the St. Louis office. Steven tells us about his energy and water conservation experience, what he loves about the sustainability practice, and his first job on a tulip farm.

Education & Workforce Development

1 Million Hours, Infinite Potential

Earlier this month we announced that we reached an exciting milestone: AT&T employees have provided 1 million hours of mentoring to more than 160,000 students who need it the most through our Aspire Mentoring Academy.

Philanthropy

Bechtel Renews Philanthropic Partnerships Supporting Education, Engineering, and Volunteerism

Inclusion & Opportunity

The Film by Two Women That Has Wall Street Talking

Now, two ambitious filmmakers aim to give the genre a much-needed update, and they’re soliciting feedback—and funding—from some of Wall Street’s biggest names. Equity, a movie about a female investment banker whose IPO is in jeopardy, is the product of interviews and meetings with dozens of former and current dealmakers, including James B. Lee Jr., a vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase, Barbara Byrne, a vice chairman of Barclays, muni bond maestro Alexandra Lebenthal, and Elaine La Roche, a former Morgan Stanley managing director who reigned as one of the most powerful women in finance in the 1990s.

Environment

Carnival Corporation to Host The Nature Conservancy's Mapping Ocean Wealth Annual Meeting

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest travel and leisure company, will welcome representatives from leading conservation, science and sustainability organizations Jan. 26-27 to its Miami headquarters for The Nature Conservancy's Mapping Ocean Wealth annual forum.

Education & Workforce Development

Apply to be an Amgen Scholar at the Karolinska Institutet

Undergraduate students selected for the Amgen Scholars Europe Program at Karolinska Institutet will be given the opportunity to conduct research during 8 weeks in the summer at KI.

Energy & Infrastructure

Market Study Finds WeatherBug Home Delivers 3X Higher Consumer Energy Efficiency With Improved Customer Comfort In Utility Pilot

Consumers who integrated WeatherBug Home’s HVAC control and optimization capabilities with their connected thermostat saved 16.5% electricity when cooling their home as compared to 5.1% HVAC savings from a connected thermostat –-- saving 11.4% more in HVAC energy use -- according to results from a pilot conducted by National Grid.

Philanthropy

Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Corporate Grant Programs

With today’s modern technology, we now have the ability to manage all aspects of our grant-giving, including the ability to measure effectiveness, right at our fingertips.

Events

Last Day to Save 20% on Registration for International Women's Day Forum 2016!

Today is the last day to save 20% on registration for the International Women's Day Forum 2016. The Business of Inclusion: Global Prosperity through Women and Girls Empowerment will convene more than 500 public and private sector leaders to explore inclusive solutions that create opportunities for women and girls around the world.

Research & Reports

New Report: $12.1 Trillion Must Be Invested In New Renewable Power Generation Over Next 25 Years To Limit Climate Change

To reach the level of investment in new renewable power generation needed to avert dangerous climate change, $12.1 trillion of investment will be needed over the next 25 years, which is $5.2 trillion above business-as-usual projections, a new report by Ceres and Bloomberg New Energy Finance concludes.

Events

Florida Department of Health in Broward County and ArtServe Announce Jury For Art to End Aids Mural Project

Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) and ArtServe announce the Jury panelists for the “Art to End AIDS” public mural project that is part of the broader HIV Ends With Me and Broward Greater Than AIDS campaigns.

Corporate Responsibility

CEMEX Paving Innovations Look to Improve Quality of Life for 15,000 People in Panama

In 2015 the government of Panama, through its Ministry of Public Works, embarked on a project with CEMEX to rehabilitate 5.7 km of the road, a project that is now approximately 45% complete and is expected to be delivered in June of this year.

AI & Technology

SolarCity Helps Non-profits with New Sunraising Initiative

SolarCity is the nation’s largest solar provider. Among the reasons for that are some of their innovative, community-oriented programs, like their GivePower Foundation which provides a free solar system and battery to a school without electricity for every MW of solar that they install.

Health & Healthcare

Subaru Celebrates Record Year With Second Consecutive Sales-Matching Meal Donations To Feeding America®

To commemorate Subaru’s seventh record-breaking sales year, the company will donate a meal for every vehicle sold in 2015 -- 582,675* -- to help the Feeding America® nationwide network of 200 food banks. This is the second year Subaru has matched its year-end sales figure to meal donations.

Environment

Antea Group and Technology Forecasters Inc. Join Client Services

Antea Group and Technology Forecasters Inc (TFI) are pleased to announce that they have joined client services, effective immediately.

Corporate Responsibility

Bard MBA to Host Live Podcast on COP21: The Unstoppable Momentum Behind Corporate Climate Action

The Bard MBA in Sustainability  will host a live discussion: COP21, The Unstoppable Momentum Behind Corporate Climate Action on the dial-in podcast, Sustainable Business Fridays, with Margaret Fenwick, Manager Environment and Climate, United Nation Global Compact office, on Friday, January 29th, at 12pm.

Corporate Responsibility

Antea Group Case Study: EHS Auditing Support for a Global Pharmaceutical Organization

A global pharmaceutical organization sought to improve its best‐in‐class EHS and social responsibility performance across its global organization. Following establishment and communication of baseline performance expectations to its sites, it was necessary to evaluate a diverse array of locations in multiple geographies to determine the degree of conformance and recommend corrective actions if necessary.

Education & Workforce Development

Renewal of the Pernod Ricard & Erasmus Student Network Partnership

Education & Workforce Development

Mentors: Opening Doors of Opportunity

When I look back at my own education, I am grateful to the adults who opened doors of opportunity for me. At the time, I just knew them as people I looked up to; today I understand these inspiring people were my mentors.

Events

5th GRI Global Conference 2016: 1 Day Left for Early Bird Registration - 20% Reduced Rate

Inclusion & Opportunity

Yum! Celebrates Recognition Culture

Education & Workforce Development

Employees Extend Holiday Cheer to More Than 37,200 K-12 Students

As the holidays come to a close and students are returning to school, teachers across the country will have a special announcement for more than 37,200 students. Their classroom project has been funded!

Corporate Responsibility

The Circular Economy Agenda for Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility

Most of the products we buy and consume are bound to reach their ‘end of life’ at some stage. To date, business and industry have customarily followed an economic model that is built on the premise of ‘take-make-consume and dispose’.

Latest Campaigns

Collaboration and Partnership

Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...

Smile Train: World Cleft Awareness Day 2026

Observed annually on July 20, World Cleft Awareness Day (WCAD) raises global awareness about cleft lip and/or palate, helps reduce stigma, and...

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...

Advocacy

Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...

Smile Train: World Cleft Awareness Day 2026

Observed annually on July 20, World Cleft Awareness Day (WCAD) raises global awareness about cleft lip and/or palate, helps reduce stigma, and...

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...

Sustainability- Carnival Corporation's Way of Doing Business

Carnival’s approach to sustainability is a full-time commitment; it is not a cost of doing business, it is a way of doing business. We at Carnival...

Policy and Regulation

Cascale shares insights regarding policy and regulation impacting the consumer goods industry, and highlights how it's supporting members prepare for...

Disaster Relief

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

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...