Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Inclusion & Opportunity

From Assembly Line to Executive Suite

Melody Birmingham-Byrd was 22 when she vaulted into management, taking a job as a front-line supervisor at a General Motors plant in Rochester, N.Y. She oversaw members of the United Automobile Workers whose backgrounds were about as different from hers as they could possibly be – most were male, white, older and experienced.But Birmingham-Byrd was determined to do right by her team, to provide the type of supportive, positive leadership she felt her parents never got in their assembly line jobs.

Events

NAEM's EHS Operational Excellence Conference to Focus on Business Integration, Strategic Alignment

Today’s environment, health and safety leaders are involved with more aspects of business operations than ever before as they work to align their programs with corporate strategy and deliver bottom line results. To address this new approach to EHS management, NAEM has designed its May 2019 conference to meet the needs of those shaping business practices well beyond the traditional EHS sphere.

Environment

BIER Member Spotlight: Michael Wilson

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) highlights their members' beverage industry sustainability insights and ideas in their BIER Member Spotlight series on a monthly basis. These spotlights include their answers to questions about their company's sustainability achievements and strategy, practical insights from BIER, interesting facts, and more.

Research & Reports

El Abra, a Freeport-McMoRan Company, Sponsors the First National Atlas of Nesting Birds of Chile

El Abra recently supported the publication of the first National Atlas of Nesting Birds of Chile, a project carried out by the Network of Bird and Wildlife Observers of Chile.

Awards & Rankings

Intel Corporation Recognized As One of the 2019 World's Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere

Since the company began, uncompromising integrity and professionalism have been the cornerstones of Intel’s business. In all that we do, Intel supports and upholds a set of core values and principles. Our future growth depends on each of us understanding these values and principles and continuously demonstrating the uncompromising integrity that is the foundation of our company.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

What the World Needs Now? Spotify for Sustainable Supply Chains

Businesses today are taking basic services and turning them into well-designed, convenient user-friendly experiences. You see it every day with companies like Spotify and Seamless. Or Netflix, which is suggesting I watch The Great British Baking Show, based on my family’s viewing-history.

Corporate Responsibility

We’re Up to the Challenge of Making the World a Better Place

At Tyson Foods, we’re committed to our purpose -- to raise the world’s expectations for how much good food can do. We strive to do what’s right for our customers, consumers, suppliers, team members, communities, the planet and our shareholders. That’s why Tyson Foods recently joined the United Nation's Global Compact. By joining the Global Compact, Tyson Foods publicly commits to implementing sustainability principles that support human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption. We’re part of a global community of like-minded companies working to do good.

Health & Healthcare

Robot Duck Brings Comfort to Kids Battling Cancer

The company has invested 3 million dollars into the program, distributing more than 2,500 ducks free of charge nationwide to children diagnosed with cancer.

Socially Responsible Investing

Verizon Closes on U.S. Telecom Industry’s First Green Bond to Fund Environmental Initiatives

The eligible categories for the use of the net proceeds – renewable energy, energy efficiency, green buildings, sustainable water management, and biodiversity and conservation – are designed to positively impact the environment and advance U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

Philanthropy

Wells Fargo Invests $18.5 Million in Grants to Ease Small BusinessStress and Expand Access to Capital

Wells Fargo announced $18.5 million in grants today to nine Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) so they can unlock capital or increase training to diverse small businesses across the U.S. Two CDFIs are receiving awards to continue their work supporting entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico, which is still recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Environment

Hydrofinity Has The Only Washing Machine In The World With Environmentally Preferred Status

Hydrofinity washing system is the first commercial washing machine in the world to be awarded Environmentally Preferable Product Certification. Global body @SCSGlobalServices rigorously assessed their machine alongside a conventional commercial washing machine and found it has a better environmental performance.

AI & Technology

CNH Industrial - Natural Gas. For a cleaner world. And for a brighter future.

At CNH Industrial sustainability is one of our core principles, and our longstanding commitment to natural gas powertrain technology is testament to this. We develop IVECO vehicles and FPT powertrains that use environmentally friendly fuels to radically reduce emissions and maintain the same performance as conventional engines.

Socially Responsible Investing

How Exxon Taught Me That Shareholders Can Change the World

I rose to the podium, looked at Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, and asked “Why does Exxon fund climate-denying organizations [like ALEC], when you publicly support a carbon tax?” Tillerson deflected the question saying “we would never impinge on ALEC’s free speech.” Two years later, Exxon ceased funding them.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

ANN SACKS® Collaborates With Kohler Wastelab on the Crackle Collection

ANN SACKS has partnered with parent company, Kohler Co., to create The Crackle Collection by Kohler WasteLAB, an innovative tile series that employs Kohler’s unfired pottery cull as its medium, transforming the waste into a responsive tile body.

Socially Responsible Investing

Our Pledge to Educate 100,000 More Entrepreneurs across Africa

HP LIFE is an important component of HP’s global $20 million investment in achieving better learning outcomes for more than 100 million people by 2025.

Corporate Responsibility

Ebay, Akron-Area Merchants Tout Success of Pilot Retail Revival Program

We Care Tees was among 100 small businesses in Akron and Warren selected to take part in eBay Inc.’s first Retail Revival one-year program.

Philanthropy

Fueling Full Lives in North Minneapolis

Fresh fruits and vegetables aren’t abundant at everyone’s table: In many parts of the country, there are wide disparities when it comes to accessing nutritious food.

In the greater Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul), this is a challenge in North Minneapolis, a diverse, urban community.

Awards & Rankings

Benevity Announces 2019 Goodies Award Winners

Meet the winners of The 2019 Corporate Goodness Awards! “The Goodies” were presented last night at Benevity's Annual Goodness Matters client conference to recognize progressive companies who are leading the social impact space with innovative, inclusive approaches to community investment and employee engagement in giving, volunteering, activism and positive actions.

Energy & Infrastructure

Partnerships in Powerful Alignment at Musselwhite

Between 2012 and 2015, Goldcorp’s Musselwhite mine partnered with surrounding First Nations communities and provided early funding to create a joint-venture called Wataynikaneyap (Watay) Power, to bring electrical grid connection into the northwest region of Ontario, Canada, and potentially provide power to Musselwhite.

Volunteering & Community

CityLink & Fidelity Investments Partner to Propel Cincinnati Workers into Living Wage Jobs

Common Impact launched an exciting project between Fidelity Investments and CityLink Center – one that would support the nonprofit in providing additional hard-skills training programs that would propel its clients into living wage jobs.

Environment

SC Johnson, Plastic Bank Take Action to Solve Ocean Plastic Pollution at GreenBiz 2019

To continue building the momentum to address the crisis of plastic in our world’s oceans, business leaders, governments and civil society must work together to help solve this problem. That was the message delivered by SC Johnson Chairman and CEO Fisk Johnson during a panel discussion Wednesday at GreenBiz 2019 in Phoenix.

Education & Workforce Development

Climbing a Ladder of Success to a Biotech Research Career

For Saira Sakalaš, learning she was selected as an Amgen Scholar last year was the beginning of a new chapter in her life. She says she will never forget the moment she got an email from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden offering her the fellowship.

Events

Bacardi Limited Partners with S.H.E. Globl to Bring First S.H.E. SUMMIT to Europe

On 4th March in the lead up to International Women’s Day, Bacardi Limited and S.H.E. SUMMIT, the flagship event of S.H.E. Globl, will host its first-ever European event in London, bringing together men and women, from across society, culture and business, to encourage them to take actions that plant seeds of change for a more diverse and inclusive community and workforce.

The one-day event entitled Spirit Forward, is anchored in the theme: You Don’t Need to be in Charge to Lead, centering on the belief that the first step in being a change-maker is to acknowledge that you already are.

Environment

Home Is Where The Heart Is: Tiny Houses and Homelessness

Shelter is on the first rung of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs. And yet, as a society, we have not cracked the code for how to house people in a way that is equitable and sustainable. While millions consume cubic acres of carbon heating and cooling their McMansions, others combat housing insecurity on a daily basis.

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LATAM Growth

DP World is significantly expanding its operations in Latin America, focusing on enhancing port infrastructure and increasing cargo handling...

Growth Through Sustainability

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