Diversity & Inclusion

Q&A With Leila Stansfield, VP of Global Strategy and Champion for Women in Leadership at Bacardi

Mar 6, 2020 8:00 AM ET

Leila Stansfield, VP of Global Strategy for the world’s largest spirits company in the world, is also responsible for promoting a diverse and inclusive environment, one that reflects the communities the Bacardi operates in.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Truist to Donate $225,000 for Disaster Relief in Middle Tennessee

Mar 6, 2020 2:45 AM ET

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating Women Who Make Positive Change in the World

Mar 5, 2020 4:30 PM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Aramark Building Community Organizational Leadership Award Goes to Woods Services

Mar 5, 2020 4:30 PM ET

Woods Services was awarded the 2019 Aramark Building Community Organizational Leadership Award in recognition of its efforts to provide innovative, comprehensive, and integrated health and case management services

Diversity & Inclusion

By Celebrating Women Every Day, Can We Innovate for Good Faster?

Mar 5, 2020 4:30 PM ET

International Women’s Day, fast approaching on March 8, is a powerful reminder to celebrate women in our lives.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

NPHY, Sands Highlight Progress in the Movement to End Youth Homelessness

Mar 5, 2020 4:15 PM ET

With support from Las Vegas Sands for the Movement to End Youth Homelessness in Southern Nevada, Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) continues to spearhead the community effort to address the high rates of youth homelessness.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Group, Inc. Named One of the World's Most Ethical Companies for Seventh Consecutive Year

Mar 5, 2020 4:10 PM ET

CBRE has been recognized as one of the 2020 World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. This is the 7th year in a row CBRE has been recognized.

Diversity & Inclusion

These Women Found Fulfilling Careers in Energy

Mar 5, 2020 3:50 PM ET

Women make up about 20 percent of the country’s utility industry workforce, and at Duke Energy, we're on a mission to increase diversity and strengthen a culture that supports it.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Freeport-McMoRan United Way Campaign Tops $11 Million

Mar 5, 2020 3:10 PM ET

Freeport-McMoRan employees continued the tradition of giving back to the community by pledging more than $4 million in 2019, which raised a record-setting $11.1 million with the company match program for United Ways across the U.S.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Nature Needs Heroes: Actor Yo Yang on Supporting Eco-conscious Projects

Mar 5, 2020 2:20 PM ET

Timberland is proud to feature Yo Yang in the brand’s “Nature Needs Heroes” campaign, which celebrates heroes around the world who are making positive change for the planet, and calls on the global community to join the movement.

Education

Meet the Reinventor: Yamilée Toussaint Beach, Founder of STEM from Dance

Mar 5, 2020 2:15 PM ET

Yamilée Toussaint Beach is easily described as a polymath. Growing up on Long Island, she excelled in math and science in school, and after class dedicated herself to jazz, ballet, and modern dance.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

New Holland Agriculture Plant in Zedelgem, Belgium, ‘Supporting’ Its Workers in More Ways Than One

Mar 5, 2020 2:00 PM ET

New Holland Agriculture a global agricultural brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI/ MI: CNH), hosted Hilde Crevits, the Belgian Minister of Agriculture and Work, at its New Holland Agriculture plant in Zedelgem, Northwest of Belgium.

Innovation & Technology

We Are Family! Meet the Ambitious Young Social Entrepreneur Who Took Home the T-Mobile Family Challenge Grand Prize

Mar 5, 2020 2:00 PM ET

Legally Ours exposes middle sch​ool students to the legal field while promoting community involvement and building their communication skills.

Health & Healthcare

Profiles in Creating Possible: Staci Bush Helps Gilead Go Beyond Medicine to Address Barriers to HIV Care Through Partnerships

Mar 5, 2020 1:35 PM ET

Staci Bush can still remember the first time that she, while working as a physician’s assistant at an LGBTQ+ teen health center in Chicago, became aware of the term “single tablet regimen for HIV.”

Responsible Production & Consumption

Don’t Lose Sleep Over How to Recycle Your Mattress

Mar 5, 2020 1:25 PM ET

It doesn’t happen very often, but there usually comes a time when you need a new mattress. So, what’s the right way to discard your old one? Read on for the details and rest easy!

Environment

WEC & Bank of Africa – BMCE Group Sign an Agreement to Promote Environmental Governance in Private and Public Sectors of Morocco

Mar 5, 2020 1:00 PM ET

WEC & Bank of Africa signed an agreement that will enable public & private sectors in Morocco to improve their environmental performance through green technologies, practices & services, addressing air pollution, water, & waste management challenges

Social Impact & Volunteering

Up-Skill Your Employee Volunteer Champions, Ambassadors and Leaders

Mar 5, 2020 1:00 PM ET

Need to invest in your influential employees (the social innovators) leading in the company's employee giving and volunteering program? If you want to achieve sustainable scale with limited resources - this is for you!

Events, Media & Communications

Behind the Masthead: TriplePundit Holds Virtual Open House April 1

Mar 5, 2020 12:10 PM ET

TriplePundit, which has covered the business of doing better since 2005, will invite the sustainability and corporate responsibility community into its newsroom April 1 in a virtual open house. Registration is free and open now.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Reforestation: More Than Planting Trees

Mar 5, 2020 10:20 AM ET

Climate change and biodiversity loss are on everyone’s minds these days – as they should be.

Environment

Hormel Foods Celebrates Completion of Solar Array at Its Swiss American Sausage Company Facility in California

Mar 5, 2020 10:00 AM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Albertsons Companies Foundation Wins Community Hero Award at Benevity’s 2020 Corporate Goodness Awards

Mar 5, 2020 10:00 AM ET

The Albertsons Companies Foundation won a Corporate Goodness Award, “the Goodie,” for our community outreach programs, especially our work to end childhood hunger in our neighborhoods.

Environment

Olympic Games to Become “Climate Positive” From 2030

Mar 5, 2020 9:40 AM ET

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Today announced that the Olympic Games and Olympic Winter Games will be “climate positive” from 2030 onwards.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Service in the U.S. Military Translated to a Career at Blackbaud for Customer Advocacy Manager Tim Newborn

Mar 5, 2020 9:35 AM ET

Education

The Drug Enforcement Administration and Discovery Education Introduce Digital Workplace Training to Combat Opioid Epidemic

Mar 5, 2020 9:30 AM ET

The Operation Prevention program, created in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Discovery Education, today announced a 4-part series to educate workplace professionals about the opioid epidemic.

Sustainable Development Goals

Retail Revival Grows Internationally, Helping Local Businesses Expand Their Sales Online

Mar 5, 2020 9:15 AM ET

eBay partners with local city leaders in regions across the world to develop innovative small business programs that address specific retail challenges and scale solutions to benefit entrepreneurs across different communities