Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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2025 Principal® Charity Classic Raised Record $10.6 Million for Iowa Youth

The Principal Financial Group

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

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Software-Defined Vehicles: The Critical Road to a Secure Future

Keysight Technologies

Innovation & Technology

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Impact: Delivering Financial Security

Northwestern Mutual

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Watch Land Betterment Corporation's Impact Minute Episode 18

Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”), an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites to create sustainable community development and job creation, is proud to release Episode 18 of its Impact Minute video blog

Research, Reports & Publications

Five Steps to Sustainability Reporting in an Evolving Landscape

Sustainability reporting is no longer optional—it's a stakeholder expectation. Most business leaders understand this: 90 percent of S&P 500 companies now issue public sustainability reports.

Environment

Innovating Solutions to Climate Change: Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021

We recently announced the launch of our fifth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, with prize money totaling $1 million USD. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is a competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage technology...

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

FedEx Inducted Into U.S. Chamber Foundation Corporate Citizenship Hall of Fame

Our focus on sustainable transportation, global entrepreneurship, and delivering for good enables us to bring the full force of our unique capabilities to bear on helping communities around the world.

Education

New Resources From Soar With Wings Support Student Emotional Health at Home and at School

Research shows that mindfulness and emotional health are critical skills for young students. Practicing mindfulness helps reduce negative mental reactions, like stress and anxiety.

Green Infrastructure

Groundbreaking $5.2M Hydrogen Blending Project Aims To Green Ontario's Natural Gas Grid

This hydrogen-blending pilot project, supported by Sustainable Development Technology Canada, is the first of its kind in North America—and represents an important step in greening the gas supply that millions of Ontario homeowners and businesses depend on to heat their homes and energize industry.

Environment

Drawdown Georgia Names Leadership Council Co-Chairs Jasmine Crowe, Roy Richards, Jr., and Nathaniel Smith to Lead New Climate Solutions Effort

Drawdown Georgia has announced the formation of a Leadership Council. Chaired by Jasmine Crowe of Goodr, Inc., Roy Richards, Jr. of Southwire, and Nathaniel Smith, of the Partnership for Southern Equity.

Sustainable Development Goals

TUSK Announces a $1.3 Million Boost to Its Conservation Fund Awards

The event will broadcast the presentation of the Annual Prince William Award for Conservation, sponsored by headline partner Ninety One

Events, Media & Communications

Join Qualcomm's Virtual Smart Cities Accelerate 2020 on Wednesday, December 9

We’ll explore the most recent technology advances, business models, and lessons that can make the Smart Connected Cities and Connected Spaces a reality.

Diversity & Inclusion

Pantene Offers a Beautiful Look at the Connection Between LGBTQ+ Adoptive Families and Hair

For LGBTQ adoptive parents, every opportunity to connect, matters. And caring for hair is one of them. This National Adoption Month, we're proud to support #BeautifuLGBTQ families and the moments that bring them together.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck Recognized by NMSDC for Advancing Minority Business Inclusion

Merck is honored to be recognized as a 2020 Corporation of the Year by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC).

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

LG Partners With Be Strong for Journey to Sustainable Happiness

LG Experience Happiness Program and Be Strong launch #GiveHappiness campaign to make this year a happier holiday

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ecolab Named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index

Ecolab Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that protect people and vital resources, has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability™ World Index (DJSI World)

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Ecocentricity Blog: Lists of Ten

I have no idea if an anthropologist would agree, but I’m convinced that humans make lists of ten because we just so happened to evolve with ten fingers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Black & Veatch Joins Forbes' 'Future of Smart Cities Campaign'

Black & Veatch, a global provider of smart infrastructure services and solutions, announces that it has joined Forbes’ “Future of Smart Cities Campaign."

Innovation & Technology

BlockApps Launches Agribusiness Blockchain Network 'TraceHarvest' Following Success with Bayer

BlockApps, the leading enterprise blockchain platform provider, today announced the launch of the TraceHarvest Network which is transforming the way agricultural products are managed. The new blockchain-powered business network was developed...

Education

University of St. Michael's College President's Capstone Award Winners Celebrated

These projects are designed to create positive social and environmental impact. This year’s winning projects focused on an innovative lifecycle perspective in mining, youth employment during COVID 19, and purpose enablement in responsible investing.

Environment

Arbor Day Foundation and Williams Collaborating to Reforest New Jersey and Virginia

The Arbor Day Foundation today announced it will partner with Williams, a leading natural gas infrastructure company, to plant more than 35,000 trees in New Jersey and Virginia. The reforestation efforts will help to reestablish natural habitats and waterways, while contributing to the restoration of endangered wildlife

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Governance to Empower the GRI Standards

Three appointments have been made to the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), the independent body with sole responsibility for developing and issuing the GRI Standards.

Health & Healthcare

Gildan's COVID-19 Prevention Campaign for Employees Globally

Since the onset of the pandemic, one of Gildan’s main priorities has been the health and well-being of its employees and their families around the world.

Research, Reports & Publications

H&R Block Commits to 1 Million Volunteer Hours and Supporting 500,000 Small Business Owners in Its First Corporate Responsibility Report

H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) has released new social impact goals for 2025 highlighted in its first corporate responsibility report, which outlines how the company continues to live out its Purpose to provide help and inspire confidence in clients and communities everywhere.

Diversity & Inclusion

Johnson & Johnson to Address Racial and Social Injustice Through Platform that Aims to Eliminate Health Inequities for People of Color

Johnson & Johnson announced today $100 million in commitments and collaborations over the next five years to invest in and promote health equity solutions for Black people and other communities of color in the United States.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Truist Foundation Awards Purpose Built Communities $7 Million Grant

Atlanta-based national nonprofit Purpose Built Communities announced today at its 11th annual conference that it will receive a $7 million grant from the Truist Foundation over the next three years.

Health & Healthcare

American Airlines, British Airways and oneworld Launch Transatlantic COVID-19 Testing Trial

American Airlines, British Airways and oneworld® have launched an optional COVID-19 medical-based testing trial on select flights from cities in the United States to London Heathrow (LHR).

Latest Campaigns

  1. Principal Financial Group: Financial Inclusion
    Helping individuals and businesses gain access to useful financial products and services to meet their needs—from savings, credit, and insurance to...
  2. 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...
  3. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  4. FedEx | Volunteer Campaigns
    Giving back is part of the FedEx culture. Team members support our charitable investments and local community needs by dedicating their time where...
  5. Whole Planet
    Whole Planet, a pillar of Whole Foods Market Foundation, helps people living in poverty build long-term financial resilience through income growth...
  6. Performance
    Prioritizing ethics, economic contribution, operational excellence, integrity, and accountability in all we do.
  7. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  8. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...
  9. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  10. 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...
  11. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  12. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  13. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  14. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  15. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...