The Latest News From Leading Brands

Corporate and nonprofit news distributed by 3BL, including press releases, op/eds, multimedia, and the full range of stories that shape reputation.

Environment

New Digital System Gives Fairtrade Co-ops an EUDR Compliance Edge

Fairtrade America

AI & Technology

Skills-Based Volunteering for the AI Era: Inside Cisco’s First Tech for Social Good Hackathon

Cisco Systems Inc.

Environment

Fire Safety Beyond Compliance: Global Insights From Europe and India

Inogen Alliance

Environment

Why P&G, Maker of Bounty and Charmin, Hired a Forester

Procter & Gamble (P&G)

Research & Reports

Kenvue, Maker of Neutrogena®, Aveeno®, OGX®, and Zyrtec®, Beats 2025 Packaging Goal, Demonstrates Continued Progress With More Sustainable Innovation

Kenvue

Inclusion & Opportunity

Wesco Cares and WIN BRG Advance Opportunities for Women Through EmpowerHer Scholarship Program

Wesco International

Environment

Tire Industry Project Pilots How Wastewater Treatment Can Potentially Remove Tire and Road Wear Particles

Tire Industry Project

Health & Healthcare

Direct Relief Sending Over a Quarter Million Pieces of Protective Gear to DRC To Fight Ebola

Direct Relief

Featured Brands

Home Field Advantage: Seizing Philadelphia’s Greatest Moments

Philadelphia holds a unique place in the American story. It is the city where the nation’s founding ideals were debated, defined, and declared—a place where history continues to inspire the future. And for those of us at Comcast, it’s more than a historic place. It’s home.

Check for Cancer Champion Brian Ryll Is a Fighter for Those Who Fight Fires

Firefighters accept extraordinary risk in the line of duty. But for Brian Ryll, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire, the most insidious threat is the one that often goes unseen: cancer.

FedEx & Heart to Heart: Strengthening Disaster Response

When we think of disaster relief, we often picture the immediate aftermath: delivering critical supplies and life-saving aid to affected communities. However, at FedEx, our Delivering for Good initiative goes far beyond responding after a crisis strikes.

Truist Patent Boom Fueled by AI & Machine Learning

Truist is accelerating how innovation is developed and deployed across the organization. More teammates are submitting ideas, which helped drive a 63% increase in patent application filings over the past year.

Skills-Based Volunteering for the AI Era: Inside Cisco’s First Tech for Social Good Hackathon

Many nonprofits know they need to embrace AI, and most are already feeling the pressure to move faster than their resources allow. AI is advancing at a speed that’s hard for them to keep pace with, let alone adopt responsibly.

Catherine Bessant Joins Truist Board of Directors

Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) announced that its board appointed Catherine Bessant to join as a director. Bessant will serve on the board's risk committee.

LG Brings User-Friendly Design to the Laundry Room With ‘LG Comfort Kit’

Furthering its vision of a more inclusive home, LG Electronics USA has introduced the “LG Comfort Kit” for its U.S. laundry appliance lineup, making its inclusive “Design for All” philosophy a reality in one of the most essential rooms in the house.

3M Innovates To Help the Automotive Industry Navigate What’s Ahead

The automotive industry is under pressure from every direction. Electrification, software-defined vehicle architecture, lightweighting, manufacturing transformation, repair and recycling are not isolated challenges.

Guiding Stars: Dairy & Live & Active Cultures in a Balanced Diet

Have chronic congestion? “Stop consuming dairy.” Unrelenting belly problems? “Mmmm, could be cow’s milk.” Have you let this thinking guide your decision to avoid dairy? If so, you may lose out on essential macro and micronutrients.

Guiding Stars: I’m Done Losing Weight on a GLP-1—Now What?

Using GLP-1 agonist medications can improve health outcomes for a growing number of conditions including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, liver disease, and kidney disease. However, it’s no secret that lots of people take them primarily for weight loss.

Recent Alerts

Corporate Responsibility

2020 Pandemic: Responding to An Unprecedented Event

Awards & Rankings

Illumina Wins Reddot 2021 Award: Genomic Sequencing System NextSeq 1000/2000

Illumina's NextSeq 1000/2000 sequencing systems are based on a technology that leverages light to decipher the genome. The instruments are used, among other things, to determine the genetic profile of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants.

Inclusion & Opportunity

AEG's LA Kings and LA Galaxy Participate in Alliance LA's First Unity March and Dialogue in Fight Against Racism

On July 18, AEG’s LA Kings and LA Galaxy joined the nine other professional sports teams in Los Angeles that comprise THE ALLIANCE: Los Angeles in engaging in meaningful conversations with local youth and civic leaders during the first Alliance Unity March & Dialogue in the fight against racism.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Rockwell Automation's Griffin Discusses How Companies Can Support Commitments Against Racism

In a special BizTimes Milwaukee report, Rockwell Automation’s Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Bobby Griffin, reflects on steps Rockwell took over the past year following the death of George Floyd.

Philanthropy

Championing Arizona Sustainability Alliance's Innovative Food Tech for the Future Program

ON Semiconductor’s corporate social responsibility program works to advance sustainability within the company’s own footprint and supports environment-focused organizations in the community through grant making.

Research & Reports

Meet Karen; Chevron's Senior Advisor of Social Investment

Through Chevron’s educational investment programs and equity-forward partnerships, Karen is helping Chevron advance long-term social equity efforts in communities where they operate.

Energy & Infrastructure

Keysight's Test Solutions Selected by Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells to Understand the Behavior and Characteristics of Biofuel Cells

Keysight Technologies announced that Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells has selected and integrated multiple Keysight solutions to better understand the behavior and characteristics of biofuel cells.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Sustainable Resource Commitment from Schneider Electric

100% of our packaging will use recycled cardboard and be single-use plastic free by 2025. It's how we are bridging progress and Sustainabilty for all as the world's most sustainable corporation.

Energy & Infrastructure

Paving the Way for a U.S. Infrastructure Supercycle

Why the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan could spark a decade-long supercycle for building materials, spilling over to the rest of the U.S. economy. 6 takeaways for investors.

AI & Technology

Black & Veatch Management Consulting Launches New Cybersecurity Maturity Model Readiness Service

To address growing cybersecurity concerns, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has introduced the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) requirement for federal contractors. To help federal contractors prepare for their Level 1 - 3 assessment, Black & Veatch Management Consulting, LLC, has achieved accreditation as a Registered Provider Organization (RPO) from the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body (CMMC-AB).

Philanthropy

Las Vegas Sands Announces $300,000 Investment in Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth

Long-term, multi-faceted partnership with NPHY includes more than $1.7 million in cumulative sands cares funding to address southern Nevada’s high youth homelessness rate.

AI & Technology

Simprints: Using Touchless Biometrics to Facilitate Access to Healthcare

More than 1.1 billion people around the world still lack an official identity. Biometrics presents a way for governments and NGOs to use digital technologies for accurate and inclusive identification of program recipients.

Research & Reports

UnitedHealth Group's 2020 Sustainability Report: Modernizing Health Care

UnitedHealth Group is committed to expanding access to care, improving health care affordability, enhancing the health care experience and achieving better health outcomes.

Research & Reports

JBS USA Announces New Global Sustainability Targets and Shares 2020 Accomplishments

JBS USA today released its 2020 Sustainability Report: Celebrate Your Foodprint, which includes new aggressive global targets and completion of its 2020 sustainability goals.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Novartis Pledges 10-year Commitment With Morehouse School of Medicine, 26 Historically Black Colleges, Universities, Medical Schools and Other Leading Organizations to Co-create Effective, Measurable Solutions for Health Equity

Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation today announced a planned 10-year collaboration with Coursera, the National Medical Association, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Morehouse School of Medicine and 26 additional Historically Black Colleges, Universities and Medical Schools (HBCUs)

Research & Reports

Ferrero Publishes Its 12th Sustainability Report

The Ferrero Group (“Ferrero”), a global leader in the sweet packaged foods market, has today published its 12th Sustainability Report updating on its progress towards its sustainability goals.

Research & Reports

En+ Group Sustainability Report Sets Stretching New Targets

EN+ GROUP, the world’s largest producer of low carbon aluminium, today published its 2020 Sustainability Report.

Volunteering & Community

Think Globally, Act Locally: This Mom's Fight for Digital Equity is a Lesson For Us All

Energy & Infrastructure

Black & Veatch Awarded Federal Funding to Advance Direct Air Capture Technology

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Black & Veatch $2.5 million in federal funding to participate in a research and development (R&D) project aimed at advancing direct air capture (DAC) technology.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Announcing Dr. Andrew Steer As Keynote Speaker for CleanEquity Monaco 2021, in Person and Streaming Live on EarthxTV

As the next generation sustainable technology conference nears, CleanEquity Monaco announces Dr. Andrew Steer, President & CEO, Bezos Earth Fund, as its keynote speaker.

Corporate Responsibility

Leveraging the Power of Design to Progress Sustainable Development Goals

Manufacturing facilities are crucial for life sciences companies to deliver life-enhancing medicines and can support the industry initiative to enact the SDGs.

Environment

World Ocean Day: 10 Tips for Conserving Our Oceans

We often call our world the blue planet as over 70% of the surface is covered by the ocean. Oceans are vital to us, no matter if you live upland, urban or somewhere landlocked.

Volunteering & Community

WATCH: Tega Cay Family Rescued From Burning Home by Two Neighborhood Heroes

Energy & Infrastructure

London Is on Board With England's First Hydrogen-powered Double-deckers

A fleet of 20 hydrogen double-decker buses has been released onto the streets of London to help cut toxic fumes and tackle climate change.

Energy & Infrastructure

Electric Aircraft Set to Take Flight by 2026 Under New Agreements With United Airlines Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Mesa Airlines, Heart Aerospace

United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced today it, along with Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) and Mesa Airlines, has invested in electric aircraft startup Heart Aerospace.

Latest Campaigns

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...

Profiles of Good Character and Inspiring Innovation

There are two pillars to CACl’s culture: character – our commitment to ethics and integrity in all we do, and innovation – our dedication to...

FedEx Cares | Overall

FedEx Cares is our global community engagement program and one way that we live out our purpose of connecting people and possibilities. Our goal is to...

Health and Safety by Antea Group

Antea Group's health and safety consultants understand what it takes to help make a positive impact on safety culture. Read blogs, insights, and more...

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...

Corporate Social Responsibility Reports and Updates

At T. Rowe Price, living our values means always putting our clients first; fostering a collaborative, respectful, and inclusive work culture for all...

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...

Advocacy

Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...

Innovation at Truist

Designed at the intersection of technology and human touch, Truist creates innovative client experiences that build trusted relationships and help...

Policy and Advocacy

Policy and Advocacy content from IWBI - International Well Building Institute