Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Schneider Electric’s Perspectives Day Asia Reframes Risk

Cascale

Environment

NFWF Announces $1.8 Million To Support Working Lands and Restore Wildlife Habitat in the Intermountain West

Yum! Brands

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Bridging Clients and Teams: Meet Andjela Arsic

GoDaddy

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

KeyBank Foundation Invests $225,000 To Preserve Affordable Housing in Toledo’s Old South End

KeyBank

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Global Reach, Local Impact

Tapestry, Inc.

Health & Healthcare

How CVS Health Supports Better Heart Health

CVS Health

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Jeff Towns: Leading With Experience, Safety, and Humanity at Blue Mountain

Covia

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SLB Recognized at the World 50 2026 Impact Awards

SLB

Featured Brands

Newsweek: Medtronic Built a Care Platform for Ghana. Now, It’s Working in New Jersey

Alexis Kayser, Healthcare Editor at Newsweek, recently connected with Geoff Martha, CEO of Medtronic, and Dennis Pullin, CEO of Virtua Health, to learn how they transformed a tactic used in Kenya, Ghana and India into a community health program in New Jersey.

Delivering History: FedEx Helps Bring Bison Latifrons to the Smithsonian

On Thursday, May 7, 2026, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History will help mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with the opening of Bison: Standing Strong.

NFWF Announces $1.8 Million To Support Working Lands and Restore Wildlife Habitat in the Intermountain West

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) recently announced nearly $1.8 million in grants to restore, improve and conserve sagebrush, mesic wet meadow and big game migratory corridor habitats in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.

Wells Fargo Helps Drive Growth in West Charlotte With $6 Million

Wells Fargo today announced a $6 million philanthropic investment in Charlotte, North Carolina, reinforcing the company’s long‑standing commitment to the city.

What It’s Like To Grow Up With a Trach

Grace's story is a powerful look at life with a tracheostomy (trach) and the strength of a family navigating a diagnosis.

PNC Surpasses Community Benefits Plan Commitment With $119 Billion in Community Investments

Surpassing our original $88 billion commitment with $119.3 billion in capital investments, loans and philanthropic support, PNC expanded homeownership, small business growth and community revitalization initiatives in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities nationwide.

One Million Items Collected! Taco Bell® Sauce Container U.S. Recycling Program

For years, Taco Bell’s iconic hot sauce packets have been part of fans’ biggest and boldest moments, from elevating everyday meals to inspiring fashion statements and even unforgettable marriage proposals.

Ditch “Aisle Anxiety” With Guiding Stars

According to a recent survey of US adults, more than a third of respondents experience “aisle anxiety” when grocery shopping. And 39% feel “overwhelmed” by all the options. The survey also found that the average shopper spends four minutes deliberating over each item.

Connecting Across Continents With Women of Cisco Networking Academy

Through Cisco Networking Academy, millions of learners each year gain the skills and credentials they need to lead, create, and thrive in the tech industry. Here, we’re showcasing a few of Cisco Networking Academy’s inspiring women and their unique career journeys.

How a Supplemental Insurance Safety Net Can Cover Any Path While You’re Growing Up

Life is full of unexpected moments, and unique choices and conventional milestones, like getting married or starting a new job, can be bypassed or reached at different times by different people.

Recent Alerts

Social Impact & Volunteering

Tips to Design Your Pro Bono Program

At the 2015 VolunteerMatch Summit, Charles Schwab joined a panel discussion about transforming the traditional volunteer day into a pro bono day of service.

Energy

TransCanada to Acquire Columbia Pipeline Group for US$13 Billion

TransCanada Corporation (TSX:TRP) (NYSE:TRP) (TransCanada) today announced it has entered into an agreement and plan of merger pursuant to which it will acquire Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc. (NYSE:CPGX or Columbia), a Houston, Texas-based company that operates an approximate 24,000-kilometre (km) (15,000-mile) network of interstate natural gas pipelines extending from New York to the Gulf of Mexico, with a significant presence in the Appalachia production basin.

Education

JetBlue Supports The White House’s ‘Let Girls Learn’ Initiative

Research, Reports & Publications

GSK Publishes Annual Report and Responsible Business Supplement 2015

“Whilst 2015 has been a year of substantial change for GSK, we have remained fully focussed on progressing our responsible business commitments whether it be through proactive measures such as new ways of working with healthcare professionals, or responding to some of society’s most pressing health needs like Ebola.” - Sir Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer, GSK

Social Impact & Volunteering

Mary the Emissary

In this installment of our multi-part Get to Know Us Better series, demonstrating how Goldcorp’s vision of Together, Creating Sustainable Value is more than job creation, career training and infrastructure, we share a story about how the exchange of knowledge and cultural perspectives can lead to social, environmental and local benefit. Here we introduce you to a Goldcorp future-changer who’s helping converge corporate innovation and ancient tradition.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Mary, la Emisaria

En esta entrega de nuestra serie de varias partes que demuestra cómo la visión de Goldcorp Juntos, Creando Valor Sustentable es mucho más que la creación de empleos, la capacitación profesional y la infraestructura, compartimos una historia sobre cómo el intercambio de conocimientos y perspectivas culturales puede dar como resultado beneficios locales, sociales y ambientales. Les presentamos a una persona que cambiará el futuro de Goldcorp, alguien que ayuda a que converjan la innovación empresarial y las tradiciones milenarias.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Mary, l’émissaire

Dans cet épisode de notre série en plusieurs parties démontrant comment la vision de Goldcorp « Créer ensemble de la valeur durable » dépasse la création d’emplois, la formation professionnelle et l’infrastructure, nous vous faisons part d’un récit de partage de connaissances et de perspectives culturelles pouvant engendrer des bienfaits sociaux, environnementaux et locaux. Nous vous présentons un membre de Goldcorp qui participe à l’évolution future en contribuant à faire converger l’innovation de l’entreprise et les traditions ancestrales.

Energy

Lockheed Martin and Concord Blue Begin Next Phase on Bioenergy Facility in Germany

Environment

KeyBank Recognized as Transparency Leader in Competitive CDP Rankings

As a leader in sustainability for the banking industry, KeyBank was recently recognized by the Carbon Disclosure Project as a company meeting criteria for the S&P Climate Leadership Index. With programs focused on environmental reporting, a largely successful renewable energy portfolio, and programs targeting a “low carbon future,” the company moves forward by supporting transparency throughout the banking industry.

Environment

If Farm-To-Table Eating Is Cool, What About Toilet-To-Tap Drinking?

Critics have derided the trend -- which comes as food sustainability, encapsulated in the farm-to-table philosophy, gains popularity -- as “toilet-to-tap” drinking. But a new survey released this week finds a surprising number of Californians are on board with the concept.

Environment

BNY Mellon Goes Carbon Neutral

Building on its environmental performance leadership and delivering on the pledge it made as part of the White House’s American Business Act on Climate Pledge, BNY Mellon has become carbon neutral for scope 1 and scope 2, as well as scope 3 business travel greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2015. It has a strategy in place to continue this commitment and will remain carbon neutral in 2016. Carbon neutrality is reached when an organization’s net GHG emissions are equal to zero.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Gender Balance is Our Business

The issue of gender balance touches nearly every corner of our lives – there is a collective demand for balance in politics, business and in our personal lives. But in the case of companies, gender balance should not only be addressed for the sake of equality, but also for the sake of performance.

Environment

Antea Group Case Study: Machine Safety and Risk Assessment

A global automotive supplier required an external resource to enhance their global machine safety program and develop safety risk assessments of their equipment.

Events, Media & Communications

CSRHub's Cynthia Figge Speaking at Boston College's 2016 International Corporate Citizenship Conference

CSRHub Co-Founder and COO, Cynthia Figge, will be a panelist at Boston College’s 2016 International Corporate Citizenship Conference. This event will be held on March 20-22nd in Atlanta, GA. Cynthia will be speaking at the Session focused on Ratings, Rankings and Data Analytics. Cynthia will be joined by Eric Fernald from MSCI and Susanne Katus from eRevalue, in a session moderated by Stephen Donofrio, BC Center for Corporate Citizenship, to discuss the landscape of how companies are measured. The audience will receive tips to shape their companies' approach to the complex world of ratings and rankings.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Highlights from GSK’s 2015 Responsible Business Supplement

Operating responsibly is fundamental to GSK’s strategic priorities. Our success depends on our ability to research and develop innovative products and make them accessible for more people in a responsible way. In our Responsible Business Supplement, we report our progress against 23 forward-looking commitments across four areas: Health for all, Our behaviour, Our people and Our planet.

Events, Media & Communications

Deep Dives, Networking Opportunities, Global Perspectives, and More at Circular Economy Forum May 16-17

On May 16-17, the U.S. Chamber Foundation, in partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation an PYXERA Global, will host the 2016 Sustainability Forum, Better Business, Better World: Mainstreaming the Circular Economy in Washington, DC.

Education

Ghetto Film School LA Kicks Off Program for Female Students to Expand Access to the Entertainment Industry

As part of its commitment to offer new avenues into the entertainment industry, Ghetto Film School Los Angeles launched a new program exclusively for its female students this spring. Entitled "Iris-In: A GFS Program for Young Women," the semester-long class features top female producers and filmmakers currently working in Hollywood. 21st Century Fox co-founded GFS LA in June 2014, and since then, its executives and talent have taken a hands-on role in enhancing the students' education.

Environment

The Dawn of a New Era

Little Buffalo, a town of 500 people in Alberta, is at the forefront of multiple environmental justice battles: it has been polluted by oil spills and damaged by tar sands mining, but it is also pushing to move beyond fossil fuels and towards renewable energy.

Environment

Record-Breaking Earth Hour to Set the Stage for New Era of Climate Action

On Saturday, March 19 at 8:30pm local time, the 10th and most far-reaching Earth Hour will sweep across the world and kick off a new era of climate action. Millions of individuals, along with businesses, cities, landmarks and an unprecedented 178 countries and territories, will switch off their lights to call for increased action to protect our planet from climate change.

Research, Reports & Publications

Visa Europe and JA Europe Launch New Research to Address the Financial Skills Gap in Young People

Businesses across Europe are being invited to collaborate in new research which will help identify the financial skills needed by young people in today’s digital economy.

Innovation & Technology

Young Minds from 15 U.S. Public Schools Present STEM Projects for Making a Difference in their Communities in front of a Live Panel of Judges in the $2 Million* Solve for Tomorrow Contest

Students and teachers from 15 public schools across the nation convened at the brand new Samsung 837 building in New York City yesterday to present their STEM-driven projects in front of a live panel of judges. Five schools will be selected as National Winners in the Solve for Tomorrow contest, which challenges young minds to tap into their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education to solve a problem affecting their local community. From designing prosthetic enhancements for wounded veterans to filtering contaminated drinking water, the 15 National Finalist schools are tackling real-world problems in their backyards.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sodexo Recognized by Women’s Empowerment Principles for Championing Gender Equality

In observance of International Women’s Day, over 300 leaders from business, civil society, government and the United Nations (UN) gathered at UN Headquarters in New York City for the 2016 Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Ethisphere Identifies World’s Most Ethical Companies

Companies with strong ethical practices have historically outperformed others financially and managed to achieve a greater level of stakeholder satisfaction.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Reflections from the International Women's Day Forum

A belated happy International Women’s Day to all! As I reflect on an inspiring two days at the 2016 International Women’s Day forum last week, The Business of Inclusion: Global Prosperity through Women and Girls Empowerment, I wanted to share a few of the themes that came to the fore over the course of the conference.

Education

BJ’s Wholesale Club to Help Educators Receive Valuable Resources

Latest Campaigns

Accelerating access to healthcare technology

We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...

Putting 'H' (Humanity and Health) Into ESG

Putting 'H' (Humanity and Health) Into ESG

Halo Awards

The Halo Awards are the social impact sector’s longest-running recognition of excellence in corporate–nonprofit partnerships. For more than two...

Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

Key Supports Affordable Housing

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment helps fulfill Key’s purpose to help clients and communities thrive by financing projects that...

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...

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...

The Ray

News and information about The Ray, Georgia's restorative, sustainable highway of the future.

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

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...