News from Leading Brands

Keep up with the latest impact news from companies embracing the triple bottom line, shared via 3BL's publishing platform.

Focus for maximum impact

Focus™ is 3BL’s premier product, a comprehensive suite of proprietary tools and expertise to optimize your impact programs with precision and purpose.

Discover Focus

Smarter impact communications

Power your message with data, insights and confidence

Find out more at 3BL.com

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Behind My Title of Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer- And What It Means to Be an Impact Company

At the end of the day, companies that want to do good must also do well – and vice versa. And they need to bring everyone along on this journey.

Environment

Interview: P&G's SVP North America Home Care Talks 2030 Sustainability Ambitions

Proctor & Gamble, having achieved or surpassed many of the goals it wanted to achieve by 2020, has set new, more ambitious targets to reach by 2030.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Funds Redevelopment and Business Opportunities in Greater Cincinnati Through $250,000 in Urban Revitalization Grants

The Duke Energy Foundation announced $250,000 in Urban Revitalization grants to eight projects in southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky.

Environment

Why We Support the SEC's Proposed Climate-Related Investor Disclosures

On March 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new climate-related disclosures for publicly traded companies (Proposed Rule S7-10-22 on the Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors).

Innovation & Technology

Announcing Our Investment in Populus, a Digital Infrastructure Platform for City Curbs and Streets

Comcast is helping shape the cities of the future. From launching a connected lighting pilot in Philadelphia, to delivering the next phase of connected living with Xfinity Communities, we’re on the journey toward truly connected and smart cities.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Home Depot Celebrates National Tradesmen Day and Workforce Development with 100 Black Men of America and HBI

September is Workforce Development Month, and the third Friday of this month marks National Tradesmen Day. There are currently more than 400,000 open roles in the trades nationally.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

KOCH INVESTS: Smarter Supply Chains With Arkestro

Koch Disruptive Technologies is co-leading a $26 million Series A funding round in Arkestro.

Events, Media & Communications

Fifth Third Bank Bringing Immersive Experience to Blink

BLINK, the nation’s largest outdoor light and art experience known for its immersive components, returns for the first time since 2019 to showcase a diverse lineup of talent in October including an exciting exhibit from Fifth Third Bank.

Health & Healthcare

FDA Authorizes Quest Diagnostics' Proprietary Monkeypox Test for Emergency Use

Quest Diagnostic announced that it has received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the company's lab-developed molecular diagnostic test to aid in the diagnosis of infection with the Monkeypox virus.

Social Impact & Volunteering

IOC Approves Strategic Framework on Human Rights

The International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Strategic Framework on Human Rights was approved today by the IOC Executive Board (EB).

Research, Reports & Publications

KKR 2021 Sustainability Report: Global Ambitions

Building on over a decade of work with portfolio companies, we seek to scale our ambitions for ESG performance.

Research, Reports & Publications

Rayonier 2021 Sustainability Report: Sustainable Forest Management

Sustainable forest management involves a perpetual cycle of planting trees, allowing those trees to grow, harvesting those trees for use in various forest products, and then replanting new trees to begin the cycle anew.

Environment

SEC Chair Reinforces Importance of Mandatory Climate Disclosure Proposal

U.S. SEC Chair Gary Gensler testified that the agency has the legal authority to put forth and enact rules that will protect investors from risks in the market, including the financial risks associated with climate change.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

How T-Mobile Is Supporting Hispanic & Latino Communities with Digital Literacy Programs

T-Mobile’s support of digital literacy aims to address inequities experienced by Hispanic/Latino students and business owners and bring digital literacy programs directly to growing Hispanic/Latino communities across the U.S.

Education

HP's HBCU Tech Conference Returns With a Focus on Career Success

When the second HBCU Tech Conference gets underway this week, the leadership, staff, and students of 102 Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the nation will have the opportunity to experience what’s next in higher education.

Events, Media & Communications

Unidos: Inclusivity for a Stronger World

At T. Rowe Price, we work every day to do right by our clients, so that they can invest confidently in their financial futures.

Health & Healthcare

Lessons Learned at Medtronic Help One Employee Improve Healthcare in Vietnam

Medtronic sales manager Joe Lontai is helping improve how Vietnam’s healthcare systems treat patients during natural disasters.

Social Impact & Volunteering

The 1.25% of Employee Volunteers That Will Change Everything (and How To Find Them)

The dirty little secret of corporate volunteering is that your employees are already volunteering…in their own lives, on their own time…but they’re probably not telling YOU about it.

Energy

Shoring Up the Grid for Extreme Weather and Climate Change

In the aftermath of Sandy, PSE&G went to work, developing a plan to better protect our customers from future extreme weather events.

Environment

Sustainable Facilities at FedEx

We strive to sustainably operate our more than 5,000 air and ground hubs, local stations, freight service centers, and retail locations through continued investments in efficiency, renewable energy, and other energy management programs.

Environment

Wild Bison Returns to UK for First Time in Thousands of Years

Wild bison have been released into the UK for the first time in thousands of years as part of a pioneering conservation project to slow the climate crisis.

Events, Media & Communications

A Thousand Empty Plates Outside the U.N. Represent 50 Million Facing Starvation

Global Citizen has laid out 1000 empty plates opposite the United Nations headquarters in New York to draw urgent attention to the global food crisis, and call on world leaders to deliver the $33 billion needed to mitigate the emergency.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sappi CEO Steve Binnie Celebrates Company Achievements In a World Changed Forever by COVID-19

Nature reminds us that life always moves forward and finds a way to advance and thrive.

Diversity & Inclusion

How to Inclusify

Strengthening diversity, equity and inclusion is an ongoing process. What often gets missed in the pursuit of greater diversity are the intentional actions needed to also make a workplace inclusive.

Social Impact & Volunteering

IOC Young Leaders Programme

The IOC Young Leaders programme, launched in 2016, empowers talents to leverage the power of sport to make a positive difference in their communities.

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. Carbon Footprint
    We are accelerating our efforts to help build a low-carbon economy and avert the worst impacts of climate change. Our goal to reduce our GHG emissions...
  3. Environmental Sustainability
    As sustainability leaders, we implement our sustainability strategy across all company activities along the entire value chain, from raw materials to...
  4. Corporate Social Responsibility
    Corporate Social Responsibility
  5. Sustainability Report
    Our latest Sustainability Report highlights recent accomplishments and progress toward achieving goals in the environmental, social and governance...
  6. Kingfisher Around the World
    The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
  7. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...
  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. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  10. Green Mountain Energy Commitment to Sustainability
    At Green Mountain Energy Company, we share our customers’ commitment to the environment and sustainability. We are inspired by the success that we...
  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. 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...
  13. Responsible Investing
    Responsible Investing
  14. FedEx | Awards & Recognition
    We are consistently ranked among the world’s most admired brands and employers. Read more about honors and recognition for FedEx’s ongoing effort to...
  15. FedEx | Delivering for Good
    Doing what we do best for those who need it most. When disaster strikes, and there’s not a moment to lose, our people mobilize the FedEx global fleet...