Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful Announces 2020-21 Great Youth Advisory Council

Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful (GC&B), a Keep America Beautiful affiliate in Lawrenceville, GA, has announced its new class of Green Youth Advisory Council members. Twenty-one high schoolers from across the area have been selected to serve as youth leaders to help engage a new generation of environmental stewards.

Education

Happy World Teachers' Day

Qualcomm recognizes and celebrates teachers across the globe for their steadfast commitment to their profession and to the students they serve.

Media & Communications

Watch Land Betterment Corporation's Update from its Eastern Kentucky Ag Tech and Sustainable Housing Site

Land Betterment, an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites to create sustainable community development and job creation, show and discuss its development plans for its multi-purpose, 120-acre site located in Perry County, Kentucky, near the town of Hazard.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck Named to Working Mother Best Companies Lists

Merck is proud to be named one of Working Mother's 100 best companies for 2020, a distinction we've been honored to receive for more than 30 years running, and a 2020 Best Companies for Dads, for the third consecutive year. With a focus on...

Environment

The Science & Art of Goal Setting: Announcing Johnson & Johnson's New Climate Goals

Johnson & Johnson’s latest climate goals build on the legacy and achievement of our previous efforts, while accelerating action as part of the larger movement by the private sector, along with governments and civil society, to ramp up the ambition and implementation of climate goals during this new UN Decade of Action.

Social Impact & Volunteering

New Innovation Lab Cultivates Women-Led Businesses in the Sanitation Economy

Powered by the Toilet Board Coalition, with the strategic support of Kimberly-Clark and its Kotex brand, the Women in the Sanitation Economy Innovation Lab is a new initiative intended to cultivate and catalyze early stage ideas and businesses within the Sanitation Economy that are either women-led and/or women’s health-focused.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Taproot Foundation Unites Skilled Volunteers, Private and Nonprofit Sectors for Pro Bono Week 2020

Taproot Foundation, a national nonprofit that connects organizations with volunteers sharing their professional skills pro bono, will host a week of virtual events in October celebrating Pro Bono Week in partnership with sponsor American Express.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

"ESG Beat" Podcast Featuring CECP's Brian Tomlinson, Director of Research, CEO Investor Forum

Listen to this latest episode of "The ESG Beat", recorded with Professor Amelia Miazad for the Sustainable Capitalism course at University of California, Berkeley - School of Law.

Innovation & Technology

This Paint Inspired by Butterflies Could Be the Secret to Cooler Cities

Cypris Materials has created a paint inspired by blue morpho butterfly wings, which get their color from blue lightwaves reflecting off the nanostructure of the wings themselves.

Diversity & Inclusion

Franklin Templeton Responds to Connecticut's Call to Address Economic and Racial Disparities

Franklin Templeton is proud be part of the Corporate Call to Action Working Group, joining leading financial services companies that are committed to addressing structural racism and racial inequity in the United States.

Green Infrastructure

Electrification of Agricultural Vehicles

Agricultural mobile machinery/vehicles are a type of machinery used in farming or other agriculture-related activities, such as harvesting.

Research, Reports & Publications

Fifth Third's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report Highlights the Value of Sustainability

Fifth Third published its inaugural ESG Report, which highlights how the Bank generates long-term sustainable value for stakeholders, including robust support for small businesses and its communities through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Energy

Facility Optimization and Solar Energy

After optimizing your facility, you can raise the sustainability bar and realize further cost reduction by considering renewable energy sources such as solar energy.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

$10,000 Awarded to Title 1 School for Virtual Financial Literacy Education

Jackson Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit with the mission to advance financial knowledge on a national scale, today announced Potter-Burns Elementary School in Pawtucket, RI as the winner of the 4th annual Cha-ChingTM Money Smart Kids Pledge Challenge.

Research, Reports & Publications

Powering Data Centers with Natural Gas: A Report on the Benefits of Natural Gas for Data Center Backup Power

Increasingly dynamic and reaching monumental scale in size and complexity, data centers are using record levels of power. Resilient, sustainable alternatives for emergency backup power is one way data centers are working towards greener operations.

Education

Episode 43: How Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab Embraced Connected Learning To Reach More STEM Students Than Ever Before [Podcast]

Kids who attend Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab STEM summer camps create their own inventions to express themselves and solve problems for their communities. While distanced learning made this year a little different, it also let more students participate.

Innovation & Technology

Why Manufacturing Matters: Intel's 40 Years in Arizona

Caring for the communities where we operate has always been important to us. I’m proud to say that over the past 5 years, employees have volunteered more than 700,000 hours at Arizona schools & nonprofits where we’ve donated some $33.8 million.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

ASCM, PYXERA Global, and Ellen MacArthur Foundation Announce Collaboration to Accelerate the Adoption of Circular Economy Supply Chain Practices

The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), PYXERA Global, and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation today announced they will work together to help companies become more circular, which will contribute to economic recovery following the pandemic and beyond.

Events, Media & Communications

CNH Industrial and Nikola Co-Sponsor Politico's “Decarbonization of Heavy Transport and the Role of Hydrogen”

CNH Industrial N.V. and Nikola Corporation co-sponsored Politico’s Decarbonization of Heavy Transport and the Role of Hydrogen.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Whole Planet Foundation Launches Annual Poverty Is Unnecessary Project

This October, Whole Planet Foundation celebrates its global impact on poverty and the partners who further its mission.

Events, Media & Communications

Arrow Electronics Sponsors 2020 Colorado Women in Technology Conference

Arrow Electronics sponsored the Colorado Technology Association’s Women in Technology Conference, a long-running forum for women to discuss the opportunities and challenges of being a woman in the technology industry.

Research, Reports & Publications

National Grid Releases Net Zero by 2050 Plan

National Grid today released its Net Zero by 2050 Plan, aimed at achieving net zero by 2050, including emissions from the sale of electricity and gas to customers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Curt Brown Receives RMEL's Industry Leadership Award

Curt Brown, Associate Vice President and Central Region Director - Power Gen Services, Black & Veatch, was announced as a recipient of RMEL’s 2020 Industry Leadership Award.

Education

Ceres and Berkeley School of Law Announce New Executive Education Course for Corporate Directors on Overseeing ESG Risks

The sustainability nonprofit Ceres and the Business in Society Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, are proud to announce the launch of a new executive education course ESG: Navigating the Board’s Role designed for directors of corporate boards.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MTV, VH1 And Comedy Central Join Forces To Help Formerly Incarcerated People Vote In Florida

Announcement of the donation was made public on National Black Voter Day, where BET, the National Urban League and a number of other partnering organizations pulled joined forces to address the issues that Black Americans face while voting.

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. ESG Recognition
    While our commitment to being a responsible corporation is not dependent on recognition, it is a great validation of our work when external...
  3. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  4. America's Charities Employee Engagement & Social Responsibility
    More than ever, retaining and recruiting employees is a top priority for companies. Aware of the link between workplace giving and employee engagement...
  5. KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service
    KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...
  6. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  7. 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...
  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. 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. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  11. 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...
  12. Recognition of our Company
    As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...
  13. Tork, an Essity brand
    Tork is an Essity brand. Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company. Wherever there is a need for wiping, drying, cleaning or polishing...
  14. Aflac Insights
    Learn more about Aflac’s survey findings to better understand workplace trends as well as consumer attitudes, habits and opinions toward health and...
  15. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...