Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Health & Healthcare

Empowering Educators to Transform Into Trauma-Informed Schools

Today’s educators have one of the hardest jobs in the world. On any given day, they are asked to serve not only as teachers, but as coaches, artists, translators, and a host of other roles, as well.

Diversity & Inclusion

Biogen Employees Engage in a Week-Long Series of Open Dialogues to Enhance DE&I Understanding

Inspired by employees’ ideas and engagement, Biogen’s event included virtual conversations and opportunities to learn about DE&I within the company, the broader healthcare system and the wider world.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Getting the Most Out of Your Parental Leave

At Workiva, our parental leave policy helps us attract and retain top-tier talent that is critical to our success. It also helps support the personal and financial needs of employees during a joyful but tough time of enormous transition.

Diversity & Inclusion

Groundbreaking New Fund Launches to Support Women in Global Value Chains

A first-of-its-kind collaborative funding initiative, the Resilience Fund for Women in Global Value Chains, launches today, bringing together corporate investors,

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Beyond the Field with Warrick Dunn

Truist is an Official Retail Bank of the NFL. There are many sides to Warrick Dunn – father, son, former NFL athlete and founder of Warrick Dunn Charities to name a few. We’re giving you an exclusive look at them all. Let’s go #BeyondTheField and inside Warrick’s locker.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Purnima Padmanabhan: Passion Principle

"When you find that joy for what you do, long hours or a few sleepless nights won’t matter. You’ll find yourself feeding off the passion, learning from your failures and pushing on to realize your goals."

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Reimagining Zero Waste: Five New Ways to Recognize Your Waste Diversion Success

With the launch of our new Zero Waste Certification Program, SCS has made it possible for more companies and in particular, individual facilities within larger corporate structures, to participate in a zero waste program and be recognized for the waste diversion, re-use and recycling that they are already doing.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

GreenMoney's 6th Annual all-Videos issue

The new all-videos features a variety of innovators from the interconnected worlds of Impact Investing, Corporate Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability and Renewable Energy

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Benevity Sees Exponential Surge in Searches for Nonprofits Providing COVID-19 Support in India

Benevity announces 7 of the top 10 searches on their platform in April 2021 were directly related to the COVID-19 crisis in India, indicating a strong desire for companies and their people to find & support organizations that are providing relief.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Creating a Sustainable Future Is a Continuous Commitment

At Georgia-Pacific we strive to be a preferred partner and drive continuous improvement to create sustainable outcomes that benefit society.

Watch the GP sustainability team’s first episode of In the Loop, a newscast discussing the Principles of Progress and other sustainability topics.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

DiversityInc Names Rockwell Automation to Top Companies for Employee Resource Groups, Noteworthy Companies Lists

DiversityInc named Rockwell Automation as one of its 2021 Top Companies for Employee Resource Groups and to its Noteworthy Companies for Diversity list.

Energy

Vernon Hills Park District Offsets Electrical Costs Using Trane's Renewable Energy Solutions

Vernon Hills Park District, in collaboration with Trane® by Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator, has installed a rooftop solar array at its maintenance facility that produces enough energy to offset 70% of the building’s

Social Impact & Volunteering

How Digital Training Content Helps Refugees, Youth, and Young Adults Shape Their Careers

Deloitte worked with Volunteer Vision, a digital mentoring provider in the corporate volunteering and diversity & inclusion sector, to create an online program that would support youth and young adults on their path to employment.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Fifth Third Joins Ceres Company Network; Latest Step in Accelerating Transition to a Sustainable Future

Fifth Third joined a network of companies who commit to achieving robust sustainability goals, improving resiliency in operations & supply chains, and advancing market-based & equitable solutions to the world’s biggest sustainability challenges.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bloomberg Media Expands Bloomberg Equality, Deepening Commitment to Covering Issues of Race, Gender, Diversity, and Fairness

Bloomberg Media today announced the expansion of Bloomberg Equality to elevate issues of race, gender, diversity, and fairness within the governments, companies and societies that it covers.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bacardi Limited Donates $100,000 To Support India COVID-19 Efforts

Funding provided by Bacardi is earmarked to provide immediate assistance to local relief agencies working to mitigate the worsening impact of the coronavirus pandemic in India.

Diversity & Inclusion

Medtronic Receives Its Highest-Ever Ranking on DiversityInc Top 50 List

Medtronic’s move from # 33 in 2020 to # 11 in 2021 on the overall list is one of the largest jumps of any company in the Top 50.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Henkel Develops Industry's First Bio-Based PUR Hot Melt Adhesive for Consumer Electronics Assembly

In keeping with the company’s sustainability priorities, Henkel announces the development and commercial availability of LOCTITE® HHD 3544F, the industry’s first bio-based polyurethane reactive hot melt designed for consumer electronics assembly.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Nominate a Company for the 2021 Fortune Change the World List

Each year, Fortune publishes the Change the World List to celebrate companies and leaders that embrace corporate purpose and recognize how it can add value to business and society.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

United Health Foundation Support Fuels Medical School Charter Graduation

The first cohort of students of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) will be graduating on May 7, 2021.

Energy

Turning the Tide

How do we turn the tide on the mining sector’s “dirty” image and reveal how the mining supply chain and renewables can combine to limit global warming to at or below 2°C?

Media & Communications

Essential Talks Podcast Launches Season 2 by Showcasing Essity's Tork Circularity Innovation

Melting glaciers, more droughts and wilder weather have increased public awareness that we are all equally responsible for climate change. But are we running out of time?

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Black & Veatch's Julie Eiter Selected for Society of American Military Engineers' Leadership Development Program

Black & Veatch proudly announces that licensed mechanical engineer Julie Eiter of the company’s federal business has been accepted to the Society of American Military Engineers’ (SAME) inaugural national leadership development program.

Education

AAUW: 2020 Summary Report Tech Trek Wearable Tech STEM Camp

In partnership with Qualcomm® Thinkabit Lab™, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) offered a virtual Wearable Tech Trek.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative Opens Benchmark for Social Compliance Schemes in Fishing, Agriculture and Aquaculture Sectors

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI) has today opened its social benchmark to the fishing, agriculture and land-based aquaculture sectors with the launch of benchmark requirements for its new At-Sea Operations and Primary Production scopes.

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...
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    We actively integrate sustainability into the product development process and look at all phases of the product life cycle for opportunities to...