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Responsible Production & Consumption

Mastronardi Completes 5th EFI Certification

Mastronardi Produce has certified its fifth operation through Equitable Food Initiative. This certification marks a worthy milestone for Mastronardi, making it one of just a handful of companies to have certified five or more operations.

Research, Reports & Publications

Essity's Annual and Sustainability Report 2019

The Report has been structured in accordance with GRI principles, meaning that the content is determined by the issues that are most material to Essity and its stakeholders, and that the content provides a complete overview of the operations.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Perspectives S2E20: Dana Castro, HP & Justin van Fleet, GBC-Education

Hear how HP and GBC-Education are combining their talents and resources to ensure all children have access to quality education, plus how other companies, nonprofits, and public sector institutions can join the movement to close the digital divide.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Land Betterment Creates Economic Mobility Through Supply Chain Resilience

Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”) believes it is imperative to the sustainability of its business to create resilient supply chains.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A Powerful Interim Step Towards a Single, Coherent Global Set of Reporting Standards

The five global sustainability, ESG and integrated reporting framework and standard setting organizations have today launched a report outlining the elements necessary for more comprehensive corporate reporting.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Q&A With Juliana Johnson, Manager of Inventory Reporting and Sourcing at Gildan

To honour Hispanic Heritage Month, we sat down with Juliana Johnson, who works at our Charleston office in South Carolina, to learn more about what her heritage means to her.

Energy

25% of McCain Argentina Electric Energy Comes From Renewable Sources

McCain Argentina, the leading company in the production of frozen foods, is supplying its plant located in Balcarce, province of Buenos Aires, with renewable electricity, currently covering 25% of its total demand.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Raising Civic-Minded Children to Become Allied Adults as We Remember the Birmingham Bombing

“How can I help?” is a question we often utter when those around us are struggling – even suffering – and we’re actually feeling helpless. We want to do something immediately to make all the pain and discomfort go away, for them and for us.

Events, Media & Communications

SB Brands for Good Announces Three New Developments

SB Brands for Good, a coalition of leading brands convened by Sustainable Brands, today announces three new developments.

Media & Communications

UPS Longitudes | Podcast: Black Business and Transportation Equity

Whether at the local or federal level, Anthony Foxx knows perhaps better than anybody how transportation can forever transform a community — for better or worse.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Civic Engagement Content Ensures Employee Votes Count in 2020 Presidential Election

Benevity and Countable partner to help companies inform people about critical civic issues, educate and encourage critical thinking with regard to media consumption, and make their vote count in the upcoming 2020 U.S. election.

Events, Media & Communications

New Speakers Announced for RBS Europe! CEO of Thomson Reuters, Chief of Staff of Phillips, and More!

The Responsible Business Europe 2020 [22-26 October], is the world’s leading event highlighting the latest ideas, strategies and collaborations shaping the future of sustainable business.

Sustainable Development Goals

Join Jed Emerson and Zita Cobb at #SVM2020

COVID 19 has offered few bright lights, one positive aspect might be how our virtual #SVM2020 conference has enable many new connections.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Arrow Electronics Sponsors Junior Achievement Initiative for K-12 Students in Economically Disadvantaged Communities

Arrow Electronics is supporting a Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain (JA) initiative that will deliver increased programming to K-12 students in economically disadvantaged communities in Denver.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

IBEW Local 47 Members, SCE Employees Help Feed Those in Need

As Robert Madrigal lifted the heavy food donation boxes into a car recently at Long Beach City College, he could see the long line of vehicles waiting in the drive-through line stretching back almost to the nearby freeway.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

IES & IWBI Announce Joint Memorandum of Understanding

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and the International Well Building Institute (IWBI) are pleased to announce a memorandum of understanding enabling future collaboration to improve the quality of our indoor environments...

Research, Reports & Publications

America's Pledge Reveals U.S. States, Cities, and Businesses Accelerated Their Climate Progress Despite Trump, Global Pandemic, and Economic Downturn

Today, America’s Pledge co-chairs, former California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. and Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg LP & Bloomberg Philanthropies, and three-term Mayor of New York City, unveiled America’s Pledge’s fourth analysis, which finds that despite the past four years of environmental rollbacks from President Trump’s administration, non-federal actors have successfully counterbalanced the climate denial and obstruction from the White House. This has made it possible for the U.S. to reach net zero emissions by 2050 with aggressive federal climate re-engagement in 2021.

Health & Healthcare

Alexion Partners With One Mind at Work

Advancing the emotional well-being of the rare disease community, our employees, and the communities in which we live, and work is a core commitment of ours. During Mental Health Awareness Month, we strengthened this commitment by joining...

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

A Coalition on a Mission to Eliminate Persistent Poverty in the U.S.

Education

IBM Envisions Accelerated P-TECH Growth for More Diversity and Opportunity. Is Your Region In?

IBM is proud to do its part to create a more diverse & equal society. We recently committed to 1,000 P-TECH internships in the US through 2021 alone. We have liaisons stationed full time at the many P-TECH schools were are directly affiliated with.

Environment

Climate Action 100+ Calls for Net-zero Business Strategies & Sets Out Benchmark of Largest Corporate Emitters

Letter sent to CEOs & chair of the board at 161 global companies sets out benchmark and calls on firms to commit to net-zero business strategies.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Amicus Therapeutics Wins 2020 ENR Regional Award for Best Project

CRB is proud to announce that the Amicus Therapeutics Research and Gene Therapy Center facility has won Engineering News-Record (ENR) MidAtlantic’s 2020 Best Projects (Award of Merit) in the Healthcare category.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Republic Services Charitable Foundation Finding Innovative Ways to Support Neighborhood Revitalization Amid Pandemic

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Republic Services is finding innovative ways to support neighborhood revitalization efforts across the country through its charitable foundation's National Neighborhood Promise (NNP) program.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Biogen to Invest $250 Million in a 20-year Initiative to Eliminate Its Use of Fossil Fuels and Improve Public Health

Healthy Climate, Healthy Lives™ is a groundbreaking $250 million, 20-year initiative to eliminate fossil fuels across Biogen's operations & collaborate with renowned institutions to improve health, especially for the most vulnerable populations.

Latest Campaigns

  1. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...
  2. Employee and Community Engagement
    At MilliporeSigma, we look for opportunities to use employee and community engagement to spark scientific curiosity and breakthroughs. We know that...
  3. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  4. Green Mountain Energy Sun Club
    Since its founding in 2002, the Green Mountain Energy Sun Club has donated more than $4 million to solar and sustainability projects focusing on...
  5. 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...
  6. Emergency Response
    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  7. CARE Corporate Partnerships
    CARE works with corporate partners globally to invest in innovative, scalable, impactful, community-based solutions.
  8. LATAM Growth
    DP World is significantly expanding its operations in Latin America, focusing on enhancing port infrastructure and increasing cargo handling...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. Corporate Social Responsibility
    Whirlpool Corporation has several CSR partners including United Way, Habitat for Humanity International, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Consulada...
  12. 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...
  13. 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...
  14. CACI Celebrates Veterans and Military Families Month
    This Veterans and Military Families Month, we celebrate the strength, dedication, and sacrifices of former service members and their loved ones. CACI...
  15. CARE Corporate Partnerships
    CARE works with corporate partners globally to invest in innovative, scalable, impactful, community-based solutions.