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Trellis Group

Events, Media & Communications

sustainability: 2025 Report - Rockwell Automation
Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

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What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Media & Communications

Purpose – It Was the Buzzword of 2019 for the Corporate Sector & Investment Community. The Debate Will Continue in 2020

The year 2019 began with an important challenge to corporate leaders from Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock (with more than US$6 trillion in AUM).

Innovation & Technology

What Learning Should Be: Skillsbuild Creates a Path for Lifelong Learning Journey

SkillsBuild is a digital platform providing jobseekers—including those with long-term unemployment, refugees, asylum seekers and veterans—a multimodal journey.

Environment

Makerspace Safety in a Nutshell

Antea Group explains the health and safety implications of a makerspace.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Hanesbrands Family Celebrating a Priceless Gift This Holiday Season

The best gift around the Hunter family’s Christmas tree this year will be the presence of a happy family wrapped up in their new daughter.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Virtual Classroom Brings Real Benefits

Education by SMS! How a novel service from Eneza Education helps kids in Côte d'Ivoire shine. Find out more.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Over 850 Volunteers Help Build the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Village

Over 850 volunteers armed with tools in the newly inaugurated Youth Olympic Village, known as the “Vortex”, to help furnish the 952 rooms that will house 1,700 athletes during the Winter Youth Olympic Games taking place in Lausanne, 9 January.

Events, Media & Communications

UPS Horizons: Listen, Learn, Lead

Check out the December issue of UPS Horizons, UPS's #newsletter covering all things sustainable #logistics. Subscribe to get the next edition of #sustainability insights and stories delivered right to your inbox. https://bit.ly/35DGSP8

Events, Media & Communications

Subaru Winterfest Brings Music, Food and Adventure to Nine Ski Resorts in 2020

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced the return of Subaru WinterFest presented by Harman Kardon®, the automaker’s highly anticipated, music and lifestyle tour offering one-of-a-kind experiences for winter warriors across the country.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

New Benevity Labs Report Highlights Hot Button Issues Impacting Charitable Giving

Benevity releases a report analyzing hot button political and social issues and the impact on the charitable giving patterns of today’s top corporations – and what that means for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Freeport-McMoRan Foundation Grant Preserves and Honors New Mexico Mining History

In March 2019, the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation awarded a $65,000 grant to be used toward much-needed preservation work at the cemetery in Dawson, New Mexico.

Environment

Unexpected Risks: Bloodborne Pathogens in Retail Settings

Read our blog to discover how you can develop a bloodborne pathogen plan for your retail location to protect your employees.

Responsible Production & Consumption

UPS Webinar: How to Become a Returns Rockstar

This holiday season is setting a new records for returns volume. Is your company making customers cheer with a great returns strategy? Or are you hitting some sour notes with shoppers? Join @UPS for a new webinar on January 16.

Environment

Dignity Health Sports Park Partners With Volta to Provide Free Electric Vehicle Charging

In conjunction with the Protect the Pitch program, which continues to lead the industry in stadium sustainability and clean energy efforts, Dignity Health Sports Park has installed 12 new Volta electric vehicle charging stations that will be available to guests free of charge at all events.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Data and Logistics Expert Vicki O’Meara Joins Black & Veatch Board

Reflecting the growing connection between data-driven decision making and infrastructure development and operations, Vicki O’Meara, Executive Chairman at AdSwerve, Inc., and former CEO of Analytics Pros, Inc., has been selected to join the Black & Veatch Board of Directors. A former U.S. Justice Department Assistant Attorney General and White House Fellow, O’Meara joins the Board having successfully developed and led organizations focused on client services, logistics, digital commerce and more.

Diversity & Inclusion

eBay Spotlights Women Entrepreneurs in Central America

Environment

Nature Needs Heroes: Jon Freidman & Brad Mcnamara Bring Farming to Inner Cities

Together, Brad and Jon created Freight Farms to empower people and organizations around the world to grow fresh produce year-round in reclaimed and modified shipping containers.

Media & Communications

CECP's Global Exchange Welcomes Three New Organizations

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose’s Global Exchange continues to unite country-based, mission-driven corporate engagement organizations to advance business as a force for good around the world with the addition of three new nonprofits

Education

Bringing Technology of the Future Into the Classroom – CNH Industrial Grant Supports New Learning Lab for Students

Students at Pequea Valley High School in Kinzers, Pennsylvania have access to new hands-on learning opportunities thanks to support from CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNHI/MI: CNHI).

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Two Keysight Technologies Board Members Selected as WomenInc.’s Most Influential Corporate Directors

Jean Halloran and Joanne Olsen, members of the company’s Board of Directors, have been recognized for their leadership to corporate brands and the technology industry as members of 2019’s Most Influential Corporate Directors by WomenInc. Magazine.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Kimberly-Clark Costa Rica’s Public-Private Recycling Program, “Ambientados,” Recognized for Pioneering Efforts

Kimberly-Clark Costa Rica's sustainability program, Ambientados, received a special recognition from the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) for 10 years of investing and promoting a culture of recycling in the country.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Wells Fargo Contributes More Than $11.5 Million to Habitat for Humanity

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is teaming with Habitat for Humanity to help families stay in their homes and neighborhoods, and to champion advocacy work that helps people meet basic shelter needs, among other initiatives.

Education

IBMers Build STEM Skills in One of Latin America's Fastest Growing Tech Economies

My city of Guadalajara is known as the Mexican Silicon Valley for its rapidly increase and use of technology, solutions in the cloud, AI, and IoT. To continue growing, we have to invest in skills – early on. That’s where IBM saw an opportunity.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

T. Rowe Price Foundation Partners With Cash Campaign of Maryland to Open the Bmore CoLab

T. Rowe Price is opening a new space, the Bmore CoLab, under an ambitious partnership with the CASH Campaign of Maryland and other nonprofits, to provide a variety of community services focused on empowering entrepreneurship and financial well-being

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Policymakers Across the World Turn Their Attention to Sustainable Finance

As climate change continues to make headlines, sustainable investing – once a niche investment strategy – is now setting the agenda.

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  1. Opportunity for All
    At Trane Technologies, uplifting our communities and workforce is the key to our continued success. We focus on broadening access to education...
  2. 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...
  3. Corporate Social Responsibility
    Whirlpool Corporation has several CSR partners including United Way, Habitat for Humanity International, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Consulada...
  4. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  5. 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...
  6. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  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. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. Wesco Cares
    Life-changing events can happen to any of us, often when we least expect them. Employees in need can turn to the Wesco Cares. Its mission is to be an...
  11. People
    As a family-owned business, Bacardi values the importance of creating a warm and welcoming workplace. We do so by fostering an environment where...
  12. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  13. Community Investment
    all community engagement efforts (e.g., Teach for All, volunteerism, etc.)
  14. Advocacy
    Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...
  15. IWBI | Community News
    We believe that people's health and wellness should be at the center of design. That’s why we’re working with industry professionals in real estate...