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PNC Volunteers Bring Basic Financial Knowledge to New Volunteer Opportunity

For about two years now, the PNC Center for Financial Education (CFE), an effort led by Community Development Banking, has been collaborating with community-based nonprofits to offer financial education to individuals, first-time homebuyers and small businesses.

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Creative Renewal at Hallmark

Hallmark’s Creative Leadership Symposium, a full day of professional development with external speakers, performances and inspiring stories to spark inspiration and creative renewal, brings the company’s creative community together annually to forge new connections and perspectives.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Since 2015, Wells Fargo Has Donated $100 Million to Nonprofits Serving People with Disabilities

In honor of the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) announced the Wells Fargo Foundation has donated more than $100 million since 2015 to nonprofits that serve people with disabilities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Mergers Are Coming: How to Manage ESG Through the M&A Process

We are living through a time of tremendous external disruption, technological innovation, and increased political, social, and climate risk. As a result of this ongoing disruption, we are seeing increased mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity as companies seek to buy into the latest innovation, to disrupt the competition—or to prevent being disrupted by the competition.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sodexo Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion for the 5th Consecutive Year

Sodexo, a food and facilities management company committed to improving Quality of Life, announced today that it has been named as one of the “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion” by the Disability Equality Index (DEI)

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Research, Reports & Publications

Teck Releases 2018 Economic Contribution Report

Teck has released its third annual Economic Contribution Report, detailing the direct economic benefits created in the communities and jurisdictions where we operate, including payments to suppliers, employee wages and benefits, and payments to governments.

Social Impact & Volunteering

A Look at the 2018 PositiveNRG Week

PositiveNRG Week is our annual week-long philanthropic initiative where companywide volunteer opportunities are available for employees. For the 11th year, NRG employees dedicated a week to making a positive impact in their communities. During positiveNRG Week, 952 NRG employees in 16 states volunteered at more than 70 nonprofit organizations and donated $36,500 to charitable causes.

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Environment

Amy Harder: Investments in Nuclear Power + Plastics

If you had a million dollars what would you do with it? OK, now what if it were $100 billion?

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Environment

Meet e-Commerce’s Sustainability Problem That Isn’t the Cardboard Box

With the click of a button, our groceries, clothes, personal care products, household items – just about anything – could arrive on our doorsteps in a neatly packaged cardboard box. It’s convenience, delivered. But at what cost?

Responsible Production & Consumption

Announcing the Smallholder Access Program, an Innovative Approach to Responsible Forest Certification

“The SAP is an important step forward for the forest products industry,” said Paige Goff, Vice President of Sustainability for Domtar. “We at Domtar see it as an investment in the future of our forests, and an investment in forest communities throughout the south-central Appalachians.”

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Annettee Luchene, CFO, Describes How Sappi North America Contributes to Global Group Success

Sappi North America (SNA) takes a holistic stance on prosperity, understanding that a myriad of factors will define our financial success.

Research, Reports & Publications

Gender Equality: Committed to Elevating Women in Business and Society

Gender equality – one of the four key global megatrends BNY Mellon addresses in its 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report – improves lives, families, communities and economies.

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Sustainable Development Goals

ON Semiconductor Joins UN Global Compact to Further Corporate Social Responsibility Program

At ON Semiconductor, corporate social responsibility is integrated into who we are as a company and our culture across the globe. We are proud to announce that we are officially a part of the United Nations (UN) Global Compact

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Keeping Warm During the Brazilian Winter: Desapega Solidário

It has become an annual tradition for employees at CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE:CNHI / MI:CNHI) locations in Brazil to take part in a clothing collection campaign in advance of the Brazilian Winter.

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Research, Reports & Publications

HP Inc. Continues Rich Legacy Of Sustainability As Outlined In 2018 Report

HP is a company that is showing how adopting more environmentally responsible, sustainable ways of doing business can pay actual dividends—what’s good for the environment is good for business and society.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

ScottsMiracle-Gro and ProAmpac Win 2019 AmeriStar Award

The 2019 AmeriStar Award has been presented to ScottsMiracle-Gro in partnership with packaging leader ProAmpac for their bio-plastic based design of the Miracle-Gro® Performance Organics™ growing media packaging, which made its commercial debut this spring.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Here's the Impact of Timberland Boots Made from Recycled Plastic Bottles

Did you know more than 340 million plastic bottles have found new life in Timberland shoes? That's 7.5 million pounds of plastic kept out of oceans and landfills.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Reel Works' UP Creative Program Showcases Students' Nickelodeon Shorts at Viacom HQ

Viacom’s Corporate Social Responsibility wrapped up the second year of it’s UP Creative mentoring program at Viacom headquarters with a final session and competition. UP Creative is a program that was created in partnership with an organization called Reel Works. Reel Works is a local non-profit based in Brooklyn that teaches underserved teenagers filmmaking skills that help propel them to career paths in media. Viacom has supported Reel Works for over a decade with sponsorships for programs and events, providing mentorship and job-shadowing opportunities, and access to production personnel and facilities. Apart of Viacom’s recent contributions, UP Creative is one of two sponsored programs with the goal to pair students with Viacom brand teams to create mini projects.

Social Impact & Volunteering

P&O Cruises Guests Help Save Lives of Newborn Babies in PNG With Their Contributions to P&O Pacific Partnership

A tiny bracelet is helping to save the lives of thousands of newborn babies in PNG and P&O Cruises’ guests are playing a part through the power of their one dollar contributions to the P&O Pacific Partnership.

Diversity & Inclusion

Broad Diversity Categories Obscure Industry's Most Underrepresented Groups

Some financial services firms are making progress toward achieving gender parity, but most still lag in other types of diversity, industry data shows. The next step may be looking beyond broad and binary classifications, like gender or minority and non-minority designations, to examine how these categories intersect to improve diversity and inclusion for the most underrepresented groups.

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Education

Merck Partners with INROADS to Launch College Links

Merck hosted the next generation of talent recently when a group of high school students toured the company’s Kenilworth site as part of the INROADS College Links program. Merck partnered with INROADS, an international nonprofit organization that prepares talented, diverse youth

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Innovation & Technology

Deliver Lasting Change at The Responsible Business Summit West 2019 - Revamp

A movement of visionary C-level speakers recently joined Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit West [October 9-10, San Diego].

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ESG Scorecard: Keeping Ourselves Accountable To Benefit All

New this year, we created a stand-alone ESG Performance Scorecard. This enhanced disclosure of our 2018 performance provides a clear summary of fundamental, quantitative data on key business metrics our stakeholders and outside ratings firms seek to evaluate our overall performance.

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Environment

In Full Swing: A 2019 TSCA Update

Find out what’s new for 2019 with regard to TSCA and the Lautenberg Act, and how your business could be impacted!

Energy

EV Veterans Honor SCE’s ‘Dean’ of Electric Vehicles

One of the very first employees of Southern California Edison’s electric transportation program, Taylor wasn’t giving up. He was part of a small band of EV die-hards that continued to toil against all odds, doing their level best to keep their fading hope of mainstreaming electric cars on life support.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

John Lanier at Climate One: The Circular Economy - More than Just Recycling

John Lanier of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation talks about recycling and the circular economy at a Climate One panel and podcast.

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