Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Diversity & Inclusion

Fifth Third Bank Named to Forbes Best Employers for Diversity 2021 List

Fifth Third Bank, National Association, has been named to the Forbes list of Best Employers for Diversity 2021.

Social Impact & Volunteering

CNH Industrial Hosts Vaccine Pop-up Clinic at Manufacturing Site In Goodfield, Illinois

CNH Industrial hosted a Covid-19 vaccine pop-up clinic at its Case IH manufacturing site in Goodfield, Illinois. The company supported the Woodford County Health Department that had partnered with the Illinois National Guard

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The InspirED Global Fellowship Continues to Aim High

Environment

EarthX Announces Partnership With Fundación Azteca by Grupo Salinas

EarthX and the Fundación Azteca have partnered to broadcast the EarthxTV show “El Futuro Del Planeta” on Sunday, April 25th. The show will air on ADN 40 after its initial Earth Day launch on EarthxTV’s new OTT streaming platform on April 22nd.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Alliance Data Supports Junior Achievement's Teen Financial Literacy Program by Funding Innovative Mobile App Courses

Alliance Data Systems Corporation today announced its Card Services business and the Company’s bank affiliate, Comenity Capital Bank, have committed $120,000 to Junior Achievement USA to offer financial literacy courses on Learn & Earn™.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MBTA + WSP USA Honored in Proximo Infra's Deals of the Year Americas Awards

Green Infrastructure

Leaders Call for Bold Action Where Climate, Health, and Equity Meet in the Built Environment

Living Future 2021: Inclusion + Unity put a spotlight on climate, health, and equity in the built environment, closing today with awards celebrating leaders and projects inspiring transformational changes.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

SAIC Joins Border Patrol Foundation Partnership

The Border Patrol Foundation (BPF) is pleased to announce that SAIC has become a national partner of the foundation. The BPF honors the memory of fallen U.S. Border Patrol agents and provides support and financial resources to their families.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Leaders of the World's Largest Companies Discuss Aligning Stakeholder Needs With Core Business Strategy

Exemplifying a commitment to focus on stakeholder needs as a part of the core business strategy, more than a dozen leading CEOs virtually gathered for a session in Chief of Executives for Corporate Purpose’s© (CECP) 2021 Board of Boards Series. Led by Carmine Di Sibio, EY Global Chairman and CEO, this closed-door session focused on CEO priorities as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, bringing in recent EY survey research on plans to “build back better”.

Health & Healthcare

Are You Thinking About Your Alcohol Drinking Habits?

If you’ve been thinking about your drinking habits this #AlcoholAwarenessMonth and would like to explore further, asking yourself some of these questions could help.

Sustainable Development Goals

Brands Celebrate Earth Day by Activating Stakeholders

Yesterday, we celebrated the 51st global Earth Day. Leading up to the day, we saw trillion-dollar commitments, business leaders signing environmentally focused pledges and increasing engagement in the circular economy.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Two Abbott Technologies Win Edison Award

Knowledge is power. Especially when it comes to your health. That's why we created products to give people the information they need, when they need it most, to make the best decisions for their health — during a pandemic or not.

Environment

Add This Podcast to Your List: The Edge of Energy, Presented by Scotiabank and Produced by the Walrus Lab

The eight-episode series, presented by Scotiabank, produced by The Walrus Lab and hosted by Kofi Hope, features talks with industry experts and innovators who explain what it will take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero.

Environment

Dow on Earth Day 2021: One Future, Together

Across the world, businesses and governments are ramping up technological investments in renewable energy, electric vehicles and green building initiatives. The global goal? Reach a net zero economy by 2050.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Proxy Voting, ESG, and the Future of Fund Disclosure

At the ICI Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference, Acting SEC Chairwoman Allison Herren Lee noted that many millennials and other sustainability-minded investors are putting their money where their hearts are, in funds with environmenta...

Environment

CGF Environmental Sustainability Newsletter - Q1 2021

In this video, hear from the CGF's Aliya Kumekbayeva as he gives updates from the CGF's Environmental Sustainability Coalitions of Action.

Environment

Ceres Applauds President Biden's Announcement of a Strong National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Target

Ceres applauds today’s announcement by the Biden administration of a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the U.S.

Diversity & Inclusion

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Launches 'Nuestras Finanzas' to Bring Financial Education Initiatives to the Latino Community

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises is celebrating Financial Literacy Month with the kickoff of Nuestras Finanzas (Our Finances), a national program designed to inform and encourage U.S. Hispanics to accelerate their financial freedom and success.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Henkel Recognized as One of America's Best Employers for Diversity 2021 by Forbes

Henkel’s long-standing commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce is reflected in its values and practices.

Research, Reports & Publications

SJW Group Releases 2020 Sustainability Report: Coast to Coast

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru of America Supports Camden Artists Through Public Art Installations

Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) today announced that it will help fund “A New View,” a public art project stemming from a $1 million Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge grant

Energy

Ørsted and the UN Global Compact to Help Companies Put Carbon Reduction at the Heart of Their Business

Global society has less than ten years to halve carbon emissions and stay below the critical 1.5°C threshold of global warming.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MENTOR and American Student Assistance Launch National Campaign to Promote Youth, Equity in Workplace Culture

MENTOR and American Student Assistance (ASA), a national nonprofit that fosters education and career pathways, launched a comprehensive workforce development campaign to create more diverse and equitable workplaces for our nation’s young people.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Driving Packaging Sustainability From the Start

Fabien Thibault, global manager, product and packaging sustainability, gives an overview of his company's ambitions and actions in the realm of packaging sustainability in his recent article for Packaging Europe.

Latest Campaigns

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    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  2. Enriching Women's Lives
    60 years ago, Mary Kay Ash created an unparalleled opportunity for women to define their own successes and control their own futures. Her vision of...
  3. SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights
    Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...
  4. Policy and Regulation
    Cascale shares insights regarding policy and regulation impacting the consumer goods industry, and highlights how it's supporting members prepare for...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  8. 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...
  9. Forests
    Managing our forests sustainably and protecting water, wildlife, and species at risk.
  10. GoDaddy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
    Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...
  11. Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator
    The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...
  12. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  13. 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...
  14. Cascale Events
    Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
  15. 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...