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Corporate Responsibility | Webster Bank

Webster Bank Corporate Responsibility Report Highlights Commitment to Sustainability

Webster Financial Corporation, the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. published its 2025 Corporate Responsibility Report highlighting achievements integrating sustainability and investments that drive social, environmental, and economic value across the bank's footprint.
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Trellis Impact 26, Where Innovation Powers Sustainable Business

Trellis Group

Events

Energy & Infrastructure

Energy for a Better Future: Affordability for All

Entergy Corporation

Awards & Rankings

Griffith Foods Selected as a 2026 US Best Managed Company

Griffith Foods

Research & Reports

Rockwell Automation Strengthens Climate Commitment With Science Based Targets Initiative Net-Zero Targets Validation

Rockwell Automation

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Consumer Goods Supply Chain Transformation – Who Pays, Who Profits, and What Changes?

Cascale

Environment

Navigating Global Uncertainty: What EHS & Sustainability Leaders Need to Know in 2026

Inogen Alliance

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

New Industry Study, Identifies Path to Cut Cumulative Automotive Refrigerant Emissions Across Europe by ≈50% Between 2030-2050

Chemours

Environment

Earth Month 2026: How Everpure Employees Took Action Around the World

Everpure

Featured Brands

The Path to the Autonomous Enterprise: SAP Announces New Sustainability AI Agents

In an evolutionary step toward intelligent, autonomous business decision-making, SAP announced this week that it will make new sustainability AI agents generally available by the end of 2026.

Delivering Faster Care Through Point of Care Testing

Access to basic medical care remains out of reach for many people across the United States due to cost, transportation challenges, and limited time away from work.

Taco Bell Foundation Ignites Next Era of Live Más Scholarship With $14.5M Awarded to Record-Breaking Class of 2026

The Taco Bell Foundation announced its Live Más Scholarship winners, awarding a record $14.5 million to its largest class of scholars to date.

Voices From the Field: Helping Farmers Build Resilient Local Economies Across Rural America

Dr. Jonathan (Jon) Lundgren says it’s easy to see evidence of Ecdysis intervention when he’s visiting a farm. He can sense it through the new sounds of birds chirping, bugs whizzing by his ears, fresh hues of greens radiating off the fields in front of him.

Xfinity and Comcast Business High-Speed Internet Now Available to More Than 2,100 Previously Unserved Homes and Businesses in Central Indiana

Together with the Indiana Broadband Office, Comcast announced the completion of construction to connect more than 2,100 new homes and businesses in counties across Central Indiana to high-speed Internet from Xfinity and Comcast Business.

Spotlight on Digital Transformation | FY25 Purpose Report

At Cisco, we see resilience as the ability to turn disruption into growth and innovation. Whether it’s responding to a crisis, building AI skills, or investing in nonprofit partners, our goal is to make people and places stronger for the future. Here’s how.

Mastercard: How Technology Is Turning Sustainability Goals Into Measurable Action

For decades, environmental sustainability was treated as a long-term ambition. In 2026, that framing is changing. Across industries, technology is accelerating progress in ways that are tangible, measurable and increasingly embedded into the day-to-day operations of businesses.

Universal Destinations & Experiences and the University of Central Florida Introduce New School to Develop the Future Leaders of Themed Entertainment and Immersive Experiences

Universal Destinations & Experiences and the University of Central Florida introduce the Universal School of Experience Leadership and Innovation.

Bear-y Good News: FedEx Helps Welcome Cub No. 3 to North Carolina Museum

The Museum of Life and Science received a one-year-old male American black bear cub for its Explore the Wild: Black Bear habitat. The 110-pound cub joins the Museum’s two adult black bears, Little (5) and Murray (3).

Inside PNC’s Bilingual Approach to Early Learning

More than 20% of U.S. households speak a language other than English at home, with Spanish by far the most common. Families are also more likely to engage with educational materials when those resources are available in their first language.

Recent Alerts

Environment

Major Companies Are Calling for Federal Standards Ensuring Open Access and Simple Payment Methods for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Members of the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance are calling on the U.S. government to establish federal standards and protocols that will streamline and speed the adoption of electric vehicles by ensuring that publicly-funded

Philanthropy

Pro Bono Week 2021: Taproot Foundation Doubles Impact for Social Good

This year to celebrate Pro Bono Week, Taproot set out to create 100+ pro bono connections, doubling our average weekly impact. We are thrilled to announce that YOU helped us surpass our goal! Learn more about how Taproot Foundation celebrated Pro Bono Week 2021.

Inclusion & Opportunity

My Path to Champion NortonLifeLock's Black Employee Resource Group

NortonLifeLock's LeShawn Woods discusses her path to co-leading NOBLE (NortonLifeLock Black Life Empowerment) Employee Resource Group, and how she is taking action to create space, fellowship, and support for Black employees.

Health & Healthcare

ViacomCBS Is Prioritizing Mental Health

Media & Communications

COP26 - Five Years on From the Paris Agreement, Where Are We?

This week the COP26 news reports coming out of this city seem to be everywhere. The Conference of the Parties (“COP”) is the annual gathering sponsored by the United Nations (this is the 26th) of world leaders in public, private and social sectors

Philanthropy

Hormel Foods Donation Helps Fight Hunger in Chicago

Fontanini Foods, the local manufacturing facility owned by Hormel Foods Corporation, announced that it has donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository to help fight hunger in the community as part of the company’s Hunger Action Month efforts.

Research & Reports

The Value of Sustainable Procurement: An Overview of Key Value Levers That Can Be Used to Calculate Monetizable Value of SP

Environment

Get Your Feet Wet in These New Jersey Habitat Conservation Efforts

Wetlands—as you may guess—are mostly covered by water. But they do so much more, providing some of the most biologically diverse ecosystems for thousands of organisms.

Philanthropy

Helping Teens Navigate the "New Normal"

The teenage years mark a period of social and emotional growth that can be difficult to navigate even in the best of times.

Awards & Rankings

PSE&G Named Recipient of the 2021 ReliabilityOne® Award for Outstanding Metropolitan Service Area Reliability Performance in the Mid-Atlantic Region; Honor Marks 20th Year

Public Service Electric & Gas, New Jersey’s largest utility, was recognized by PA Consulting as the recipient of the 2021 ReliabilityOne® Award for Outstanding Reliability Performance in the Mid-Atlantic Metropolitan Service Area. ReliabilityOne® Awards are given annually to the utilities that have achieved outstanding reliability performance and have excelled in delivering the most reliable electric service to their customers.

Research & Reports

KeyCorp Releases TCFD Report

KeyBank today announced it has issued a Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) report.

Awards & Rankings

Republic Services Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index for Sixth Consecutive Year

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG), a leader in environmental services, was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for North America for a sixth consecutive year.

Awards & Rankings

Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)

Since 1996, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has been recognizing STEM mentors from across the country through the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)!

Corporate Responsibility

This Team Helps Customers Find Energy Bill Assistance

Duke Energy’s customer experience and engagement team helps develop a plan and works at Duke Energy in customer service to help customers in the pandemic to give more personalized customer assistance.

Philanthropy

Whirlpool Corp and Feeding America West Michigan Partner to Bring “Feel Good Fridges” to Local Communities

Feeding America West Michigan and Whirlpool Corporation are partnering to bring “Feel Good Fridges” to select counties in West Michigan.

Education & Workforce Development

Building Bioinformatics Program for Students at Historically Black University

The United Health Foundation is collaborating with Harris-Stowe State University to help address the gap in the number of diverse college students trained in biomedical sciences.

Environment

Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Must Continue to Prioritize a Cleaner, More Equitable Transportation System

Statements this week from two Northeast governors on their plans to pause advocacy for the Transportation and Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) marks a step backward on efforts to curb vehicle pollution and achieve the region’s ambitious climate goals, according to the sustainability nonprofit Ceres.

Events

Join the ESG-Driven Disclosure Keynote on November 25

Join the ESG-Driven Disclosure Keynote during Reuters Events' Sustainable Finance & Reporting virtual conference on November 25 to hear about the current and future state of ESG disclosure and look at some companies that are doing it right.

Awards & Rankings

For The Fourth Consecutive Year, Stanley Black & Decker Named To 2021 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI)

Stanley Black & Decker has been named to the annual Dow Jones Sustainability World Index by S&P Dow Jones Indices for the fourth consecutive year and included on the DJSI North America Index for the 11th consecutive year.

Volunteering & Community

CNH Industrial Thailand Supports Local Charities With Food Donations

CNH Industrial’s Southeast Asia team continues their “We care, We share” outreach program to support local communities impacted by COVID-19 in Thailand.

AI & Technology

Innovation for Good with Laura Kohler

Programs like Innovation for Good program are effective ways to harness associate passion to innovate and challenge them to explore creative products and solutions for pressing global issues including safe sanitation, hygiene and safe water.

Environment

Qualcomm Plans To Go Net Zero by 2040

Qualcomm will reduce its emissions by 50% by 2030 at least and then plans to be completely net-zero emissions 10 years later.

Corporate Responsibility

MilliporeSigma Introduces Students to STEM Careers With Cooperative Education Program

By providing a direct relationship between the classroom and employment, MilliporeSigma's co-op program helps strengthen the Sheboygan, Wisconsin community by hiring local college students who complete the program.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Executive Leadership Changes Within the US Business Council for Sustainable Development

The US Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD) is pleased to announce the following changes within the Executive Committee that will further drive the organization to accomplish its new equity vision

Awards & Rankings

The OUTstanding Top 100 Executives 2021

Yum! Brands is proud to congratulate Neil Piper, chief people officer of KFC UK & Ireland, for being named to 2021 OUTstanding LGBT+ Role Model List.

Latest Campaigns

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

Collaboration and Partnership

Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...

Corporate Responsibility

Webster Bank's Corporate Responsibility

2025 Performance Report

Entergy’s 2025 performance report, “Energy for a better future” presents an overview of our company’s 2025 achievements, future plans and strategies...

Nutrition and Health

Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...

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...

GoDaddy Global Stakeholder Impact News & Reports

GoDaddy is committed to embedding sustainable practices across our business. Our approach focuses on creating long-term value for our customers...

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...

Heritage

For more than 160 years, Bacardi has been a family-owned company guided by its heritage. From the revolutionary introduction of BACARDÍ rum, the birth...