Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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2025 Principal® Charity Classic Raised Record $10.6 Million for Iowa Youth

The Principal Financial Group

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

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Software-Defined Vehicles: The Critical Road to a Secure Future

Keysight Technologies

Innovation & Technology

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Impact: Delivering Financial Security

Northwestern Mutual

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Responsible Production & Consumption

Serving and Sourcing Fresh Food

At Wendy’s, quality and food safety go hand-in-hand as our first priority when it comes to serving customers in our restaurants. Seems like an obvious priority for a restaurant company, right? Well, in our case, we have an added layer of complexity because we bring in FRESH ingredients to our restaurants – multiple times a week – to craft the items on our menu. And we’ve been doing this ever since we first opened our doors in 1969.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Net Impact Announces the Winners of the Impact at Work Challenge

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CBRE Video | “Save a Child’s Life” Philanthropy Program at 10 Years

This is the 10th year that CBRE has launched “Save a Child’s Life” philanthropy program. Working closely with “Operation Blessing”, CBRE has saved 85 children’s lives who suffered from congenital heart disease. To celebrate the 10-year milestone, we feature an original theme song MV produced by CBRE employees.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Nestlé Acclaimed as World’s Most Diverse Food Company

Nestlé has been recognised as the leading food and beverage company in the Thomson Reuters Diversity and Inclusion Index (D&I), for its efforts in creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Tetra Tech Joins Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti to Promote Women in STEM

Highlighting accomplished women from around Los Angeles that have pursued science, technology, engineering, and mathematics career

Innovation & Technology

Electrifying: The New Generation smart!

Better than reducing CO₂ emissions is not producing any emissions at all. The solution is electric mobility. smart is now implementing this throughout the whole product range as the first manufacturer worldwide to take such a decisive step toward environmentally friendly driving.

Environment

Sea Creatures Thank Bacardi for Its #NoStraws Initiative

Join creatures of the sea in thanking Bacardi for its No Straws pledge to remove straws from cocktails at company events. Six months into the initiative, Bacardi has already removed more than one million straws from its cocktails.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CSX Employees Give Back “Beyond Our Rails” at Service Day in Parkersburg, W.Va.

Furthering CSX’s commitment to actively support the communities served by the company, employee volunteers were joined by national service partners City Year, Action for Healthy Kids and Arbor Day Foundation to spend Saturday morning volunteering on school improvement projects at Emerson Elementary School.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bristol-Myers Squibb Supports Haitian Hurricane Relief Efforts

Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation are supporting emergency relief effort in Haiti following the Category 4 hurricane which hit the island on October 4, destroying homes and crops, flooding streets and cutting off transportation across the island. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and has been plagued by natural disasters over the past decade.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Our Conflict Minerals Data Solution recognized with Oracle Excellence Award

Qualcomm has been committed to responsibly sourcing conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and surrounding areas for more than six years. We published our first Conflict Free Minerals Policy in 2010 and have filed a Conflict Minerals Report with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) annually since 2013. For compliance year 2015, we reported that 96% of the known smelters in our semiconductor supply chain were DRC conflict-free.

Events, Media & Communications

24 T. Rowe Price Associates Biked from London to Paris to Raise More Than £100,000 for the Royal British Legion

In a sea of 350 cyclists riding across the English and French countryside during this year’s Pedal to Paris charity bike ride, 24 T. Rowe Price associates from both sides of the Atlantic could be spotted working their gears and cheering each other on.

Education

NY Daily News: To Fix Our Schools, Build On P-TECH

The U.S. House of Representatives' overwhelming bipartisan vote to reauthorize the Perkins Act (which funds Career and Technical Education) signals to the Senate that education reform must top the national agenda.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption Celebrates Companies that are Industry Leaders in Adoption Benefits

Each year, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s annual Best Adoption-Friendly Workplace list recognizes U.S. companies that support families growing through adoption. The annual survey is judged first on financial assistance and second on paid time off given to employees after they adopt. While not all of the companies that applied make the list, we appreciate all organizations that offer adoption benefits and support families.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Power of Giving Back

Isn't it funny how much bigger everything seemed when you were a kid? I recently had the chance to revisit the house I grew up in as a child – the same house my family lost when I was just 15 years old. Walking inside again all these years later, I was stunned at how small it felt. In my memories, through my eyes as a child, everything seemed so much bigger.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

UN Global Compact Bulletin (October 2016)

The UN Global Compact Bulletin is designed to keep participants up to date on news, actions you can take, resources and events. Participants are encouraged to look to this monthly communication for important information. Please note that actions and events are intended for Global Compact stakeholders, unless otherwise indicated. The Bulletin is published in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Russian.

Health & Healthcare

Three Quality of LifeHacks to Help You Go Vegetarian for a Month

Green Infrastructure

Feathered Friend Helps Launch Green Career

It was 1983 when an engineer from Michigan met a Yellow-Naped parrot from Honduras. Little did Joe Azzarello know that “Otis” would be a part of the family for 33 years (and counting) and would affect not only his personal life but his career as well.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Carnival Shipboard and Shoreside Employees Participate in International Coastal Cleanup Day

Hundreds of Carnival Cruise Line employees, both on board and ashore, did their part to help our environment by participating in the annual International Coastal Cleanup Day, the world’s largest single day cleanup event spearheaded by the Ocean Conservancy.

Health & Healthcare

Zinc Deficiency & Why It Matters [Infographic]

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SCA Joins the Ellen MacArthur Foundation CE100 Program

The transition to a circular economy – powered by renewable energy and in which resources and energy are used as effectively as possible – is the core of any low-carbon society. The CE100 membership will help accelerate SCA’s circular economy ambitions and further enhance SCA’s ability to contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, and Goal 13: Climate Change.

Latest Campaigns

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    Helping individuals and businesses gain access to useful financial products and services to meet their needs—from savings, credit, and insurance to...
  2. Cascale Events
    Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
  3. Sustainable Products and Innovation
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  4. Whole Planet
    Whole Planet, a pillar of Whole Foods Market Foundation, helps people living in poverty build long-term financial resilience through income growth...
  5. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  6. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...
  7. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  8. 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...
  9. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
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  12. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  13. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  14. 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...
  15. TCS | goIT
    Tata Consultancy Services is proud to bring you goIT In 2009, TCS North America launched goIT, its signature community engagement initiative.The...