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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

How We Imagine Better: Team Dow Is Creating Positive Change Around the World

As Dow celebrates its 125th anniversary, we reflect on the thread that unites us across all those generations and continues to strengthen us for the future – our people and their unwavering spirit of innovation.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Pyxera Global Appoints New Country Director to Lead 10-Year Strategy for India

Pyxera Global is excited to announce the appointment of Rajesh Varghese as its new Country Director for India.

Health & Healthcare

Reducing COVID-19's Impact in Long-Term Care Facilities

Project HOPE is an international global health and humanitarian relief organization with decades of experience responding to crises around the world.

Sustainable Development Goals

Schneider Electric Closes 2022 With Strong Sustainability Impact Results

Schneider Electric, recognized as a leading sustainability practitioner by independent Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings, announced today strong annual sustainability impact results alongside its 2022 financial performance.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

DICK'S Sporting Goods Announces Plans for 200+ SidelineSwap Trade-In Events in First Half of 2023

DICK'S Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) and SidelineSwap, the world's largest online marketplace for new and used sporting goods, are building on the success of the 60 trade-in events they executed in 2022.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Applications Open for the 2023 IC100 Awards

Representing 25 industries in 57 cities nationwide and more than 7,000 employees in 2022, the 25th Annual IC100 Awards celebrates small businesses' power, resiliency, and commitment in under-resourced communities.

Responsible Production & Consumption

How We Design Our Way Out of Our Plastic Problem

Our relationship with plastic needs to change, and fast. The urgency around the plastics issue has been felt even more keenly since negotiations for a legally binding global plastic treaty began last month.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Planet Foundation Announces Top 2023 Supplier Donors

Whole Planet Foundation’s is proud to announce 2023 top supplier donors! These brands are creating income-generating opportunities to alleviate global poverty through the Foundation's microlending programs.

Green Infrastructure

Eaton Partners With IES To Help Building Owners Make Energy Transition Plans

Eaton, the intelligent power management company, has signed an agreement with IES to develop approaches that will help building owners boost the sustainability of their buildings and prepare them for the energy transition.

Energy

Booster’s Mobile Fuel Delivery Lowers Last-Mile Fleet Emissions

For last-mile fleets, decarbonized solutions must be simple and practical to implement into existing operations. As the last-mile delivery market grows, fleet managers can combine mobile fuel delivery, data analytics and renewable fuels, to work toward a carbon-neutral fleets.

Environment

Sustainability at the 2023 Super Bowl: How This Focus Showed Up at the Game and in Ads

Sustainability at the Super Bowl isn’t just about running out the clock. Learn how the NFL helped create a culture of sustainability and brought it center-stage at Super Bowl LVII.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How ESG Impacts Board Members

Not only do a growing number of investors demand a well-defined ESG role responsibility for board members, but legal and regulatory trends are beginning to specify ESG oversight as part of a board’s fiduciary duty.

Diversity & Inclusion

Indigenous Languages Preserved and Promoted by Lenovo Foundation, Motorola and UNESCO

Lenovo Foundation and Motorola are collaborating with UNESCO to digitize, preserve and promote indigenous languages, in honor of UNESCO’s International Decade of Indigenous Languages

Energy

SAP Supports Utilities Across the EU To Enable Energy Transition

The energy crisis has two faces: the need for decarbonization in order to limit global temperature increase and rising highly volatile energy prices due to energy market turbulence caused by the war in Ukraine.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ESG Next: An Interview With IBM’s Justina Nixon-Saintil

NationSwell interviewed Justina Nixon-Saintil, Vice President and Chief Impact Officer at IBM, about why passion and partnership are paramount to an ESG leader’s success, why engineering and CSR work go hand-in-hand, and why the future of ESG might just be its “S.”

Environment

New WWF Analysis: Greenhouse Gas Accounting Efforts Undermined by Disparate Tools & Frameworks

Variability in product-level greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting standards and methodologies can prevent companies from understanding both their true emissions and their progress in reducing them, according to a new analysis from World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

PyeongChang 2018: New Horizons for Winter Sports

Five years after the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, the Games are helping more young people in the Republic of Korea to get involved in winter sports.

Responsible Production & Consumption

New Fair Trade USA™ Consumer Report – Conscious Consumerism Goes Mainstream

Fair Trade USA™ has released its new 2022 Consumer Insights Report: An Investment in Trust: Conscious Consumerism Goes Mainstream Despite Economic Headwinds. The report examines the continuing drive of today’s consumers in their ethical quest to purchase fair trade products.

Diversity & Inclusion

Live Art Space at L.A. Festival Honors Black, Latina and Indigenous Women

The LA3C festival in Downtown Los Angeles recently brought together thousands of people who took in a diverse array of experiences that included live music from Lil Baby, Snoop Dogg, Maluma and many others, as well as a special live art space sponsored by U.S. Bank.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Merchant Q&A: The Home Depot’s Sr. Director of Merchandising Highlights the Environmental Benefits of Tool Rental

At The Home Depot, we know that the most sustainable tool isn’t necessarily the new one on the shelf; often, it’s the one that is rented, serviced and shared. One person who knows about the impact of tool rental is Tony English.

Diversity & Inclusion

Making Room for Indigenous Voices at COP27

“I was blown away by the international Indigenous presence at COP27,” he says. “It was heartwarming to see the organization and representation of Indigenous People compared to the first COP I attended 22 years ago."

Environment

Bayer: Better Is Smart Crops Helping Farmers Weather Climate Change

Climate change is a significant concern for farmers, as it impacts the crops they grow, and ultimately our food security.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Corporation Named One of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies for Thirteenth Consecutive Year

Whirlpool Corporation has been recognized by Fortune as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for the thirteenth consecutive year.

Education

Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Offer K-12 Teachers and Families Nationwide Digital Resources To Engage Students in Engineers Week

Discovery Education and its social impact partners present teachers and families nationwide a curated collection of engaging, no-cost digital learning resources designed to engage today’s students in Engineers Week.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Georgia-Pacific Equips all Corrigan Police Patrol Cars with Life-Saving Technology

Georgia-Pacific donated $16,000 to the City of Corrigan to purchase the medical devices.

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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...