News from Leading Brands

Keep up with the latest impact news from companies embracing the triple bottom line, shared via 3BL's publishing platform.

Focus for maximum impact

Focus™ is 3BL’s premier product, a comprehensive suite of proprietary tools and expertise to optimize your impact programs with precision and purpose.

Discover Focus

Smarter impact communications

Power your message with data, insights and confidence

Find out more at 3BL.com

Energy

T-Mobile’s Ambitious Action To Build a Sustainable Future

T-Mobile operates with 100% renewably purchased electricity. Here is how it commits to a more environmentally and socially responsible approach

Innovation & Technology

Black & Veatch To Advance Carbon-Neutral Aviation in Australia, New Zealand

Black & Veatch, a global leader in critical infrastructure solutions, has joined Bioenergy Australia’s (BA) Sustainable Aviation Fuel Alliance of Australia and New Zealand (SAFAANZ).

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

KeyBank Opens New, Full-Service Branch in Colorado Springs

To commemorate the new Northgate neighborhood branch opening, KeyBank will also be investing in two local nonprofit groups. Tri Lakes Cares and Mt. Carmel Veteran’s Center will each receive a $10,000 donation from Key to further their missions.

Education

Zoom, Zoom: Students Use STEM Skills To Improve Zoo Habitats for Design Challenge

Ricci Seguban prioritizes making a difference. It’s something she strives for every day as a process safety engineer at the Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend refinery — and why she volunteers with the ZOOMS STEM Design Challenge, an annual program for kids at the Minnesota Zoo.

Health & Healthcare

Make-a-Wish, Local Subaru Dealership Grant 13-Year-Old’s Wish

Make-a-Wish partnered with Garcia Subaru North to host a party, surprising a 13-year-old Albuquerque resident with his wish to go on a shopping spree.

Environment

DKsilos Is the Crop of the Cream

Bayer isn’t in the cattle business. At least, we weren’t. That was before we started asking big questions about small farms.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Gives $170,000 in Grants To Support Indiana Communities Devastated by Storms

The Duke Energy Foundation is awarding $170,000 in grants to nonprofit organizations providing support for those impacted by devastating storms that moved across Indiana in late June and early July.

Sustainable Development Goals

Schneider Electric Sustainability Impact Program Reaches Midterm Milestone

Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today published details of its quarterly sustainability impact performance, alongside its half-year financial results.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

GRI Joins Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) for Collaborative Impact in Procurement

GRI has recently become a member of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC), an organization conformed by purchasers, suppliers, advocates, and experts committed to driving positive impact through the power of procurement.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Nucleus Office Parks Joins the WELL at Scale Commitment and Becomes the Largest Real Estate Portfolio Globally To Achieve the WELL Performance Rating

Nucleus Office Parks, the operating platform for Blackstone Real Estate’s wholly owned offices in India, announced today its commitment to the WELL at Scale Initiative and received the prestigious WELL Performance Rating at 15 of its properties

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

From the 2022 Fifth Third Sustainability Report: Reducing Punitive Fees for Customers

“Our goal is to help give customers access to their own money and save for the future,” said Howard Hammond, head of Consumer Banking at Fifth Third in the Company’s 2022 Sustainability Report.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Albertsons Companies Earns Top Score on 2023 Disability Equality Index®

Albertsons Companies [NYSE: ACI] today announced that it earned a 100 on the Disability Equality Index (DEI), securing the designation as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion.”

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Lenovo Receives Top-Score As Best Place To Work for Disability Inclusion

Lenovo, a global technology powerhouse and employer of 77,000 workers around the world has been recognized as a best place to work for disability inclusion by the Disability Equality Index (DEI).

Diversity & Inclusion

Bath & Body Works Receives Top Score for Disability Inclusion

On July 26, we celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Passed in 1990, the ADA is a landmark civil rights law that promotes inclusion and prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities.

Innovation & Technology

Possibilities Through Prosthetics

Easton LaChappelle and his medical device startup Unlimited Tomorrow (UT) learned of Sasha’s ordeal and went to work on a smart prosthetic arm to give her a more normal life with the help of technology.

Innovation & Technology

Will Formula E Innovations Make Driving More Safe, Sustainable, and Satisfying for Everyone?

Formula E, the all-electric motorsport championship that is quickly gaining popularity around the world, showcases automotive innovation at the highest levels.

Sustainable Development Goals

Paris 2024: High Ambitions for Lower-Carbon Games

The Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 will set new standards for environmental responsibility, demonstrating how to hold global sporting events in an era of accelerating climate change.

Research, Reports & Publications

Cintas Corporation Releases Fiscal Year 2023 Impact Report

Cintas Corporation today published its Fiscal Year 2023 Impact Report, which includes information and giving data about the company’s philanthropic initiatives that it supported during the last fiscal year through Cintas Cares.

Health & Healthcare

New Research Shows CGP Is Most Effective as a Standalone Test

Comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) assesses hundreds of tumor genes to find actionable mutations and is becoming the standard of care for many cancers. However, oncologists often opt for single-gene tests (SGT) before pursuing CGP.

Innovation & Technology

BCW Introduces Cognitive AI Solution Against Weaponized Information

BCW announced today that it has entered into an exclusive partnership with Limbik, a top information defense technology company rooted in cognitive artificial intelligence, to provide clients with advanced identification and mitigation solutions against weaponized information.

Environment

Safeguarding Businesses From Hurricanes and Wildland Fires

In our webinar entitled “Forecasting the Fury: Safeguarding Businesses from Hurricane and Wildland Fires,” our team of meteorologists discuss how you can keep your business safe from two potentially devastating natural disasters.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Innovation Creates 100% Recyclable Packaging

Together, Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) and Pagès Group are accelerating the shift from plastic packaging to more sustainable materials.

Events, Media & Communications

Challenges for Corporate Managers in the Changing ESG Reporting & Disclosure Environment

Today, organizations and their leaders find themselves attempting to navigate in a complex and fast changing environment for ESG and Sustainability.

Diversity & Inclusion

Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn: Meet Katy Cooperstein

I’m a Senior Software Engineer on the Payments Hub team within the Commerce division. I have been at GoDaddy for a little over two years now, coming from the Poynt acquisition that happened shortly after I graduated and started full-time.

Health & Healthcare

Accelerating Action To Decarbonize Healthcare in the U.S.

Climate-related deaths, including from air pollution, extreme temperatures, flooding and drought, are growing.

Latest Campaigns

  1. 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...
  2. Southwire Giving Back
    Our neighbors depend on us, just as we depend on them, so we are committed to improving the quality of life in the communities in which we work. At...
  3. Carbon Footprint
    We are accelerating our efforts to help build a low-carbon economy and avert the worst impacts of climate change. Our goal to reduce our GHG emissions...
  4. Environmental Sustainability
    As sustainability leaders, we implement our sustainability strategy across all company activities along the entire value chain, from raw materials to...
  5. Corporate Social Responsibility
    Corporate Social Responsibility
  6. Sustainability Report
    Our latest Sustainability Report highlights recent accomplishments and progress toward achieving goals in the environmental, social and governance...
  7. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  8. Kingfisher Around the World
    The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
  9. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...
  10. IWBI | WELL Building Standard
    Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...
  11. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  12. Green Mountain Energy Commitment to Sustainability
    At Green Mountain Energy Company, we share our customers’ commitment to the environment and sustainability. We are inspired by the success that we...
  13. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...