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Social Impact & Volunteering

LIXIL Volunteers Drive Change on Third Annual LIXIL Community Day

LIXIL Community Day, which began in 2017, sees executives and employees from all workplaces and regions around the world take part in social contribution activities during working hours.

Diversity & Inclusion

Q&A with Pamela Strobel: Women Are Making Corporate Leadership Gains

Are women catching up in the race for equality at the corporate leadership level? We asked one of our board members to share her thoughts on this as well as her experiences as a woman leader in a male-dominated corporate world.

Environment

Your Guide to Building a Business Case for Sustainability

Antea Group gives you all the reasons that make sustainability of paramount importance, as well as the steps you can take to being more sustainable.

Environment

Sustainability Drives Innovation, Cost Savings at Saltstone Disposal Unit 6

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), a longtime Bechtel customer, has the mission to safely clean up the environmental legacy from decades of producing nuclear materials for national defense.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Maine University Team Awarded $250,000 Grant to Create Sustainable Food Solution

he University of Maine Farmington (UMF), The University of Maine Presque Isle (UMPI), and Food Services Provider Sodexo was one of only six teams to win the 2019 New England Food Vision Prize Award. The $250,000 prize will go toward increasing the amount of locally sourced food on campus menus.

Events, Media & Communications

3BL Media to Help ‘Supercharge’ Communications at Dec. 5 Lunch-and-Learn Session

Your company can have the best environmental, social and governance (ESG) story in the world. But sometimes, having a good story isn't enough to reach the world.

Events, Media & Communications

World Environment Center Partners with Better World Leadership to Present a Forum on “Nonprofit Board Programs to Develop Business Leaders for a Sustainable Future”

The World Environment Center (WEC) invites sustainability executives to learn and discuss the results of the new Better World Leadership (BWL) study of company practices for nonprofit board training and matching.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sustainable Investing at Northern Trust

While sustainability factors may be broad in nature, we focus on certain key issues and approaches in our Core Aspects investment framework.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Podcast: Advancing Gender Equality in Investment Management

On July 2, 2019, Jamesbeck’s Melissa Norris spoke with Cheri Belski of T. Rowe Price and Meg Staczek of Capacity Group about changes that have resulted from a November 2018 panel discussion on women in leadership, hosted by Jamesbeck.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bringing a Pediatrician's Perspective to Philanthropy

Lauren Smith, Co-CEO of FSG, recently joined Denver Frederick, Host of The Business of Giving. Listen to their conversation about systems change, equity, and more.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Are You Ready for a World of Purpose-Led Companies?

The purpose tide is irreversible now that governments, investors, and consumers are giving preference to better companies.

Innovation & Technology

Toolkit to Advance Reporting on Modern Slavery

GRI & RLI Toolkit to Advance Reporting on Modern Slavery

Events, Media & Communications

Celebrating CECP's 20th Anniversary

Since launching in 1999, CECP has grown to a global coalition of companies creating a better world through business. Here's to the next 20, and beyond!

Health & Healthcare

Helping Deliver Mobile Healthcare in Underprivileged Communities in South Africa

Our IVECO South Africa leadership team recently donated an ambulance to the Solo Deo Gloria Health mobile clinic.

Diversity & Inclusion

Marie Cyr: From Engineering Pioneer to Mill Manager

As an engineering pioneer who has navigated a successful journey to mill manager, Marie Cyr’s advice to younger women in manufacturing is to pursue the jobs they want.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

NRG Energy Named in the Inaugural Texan by Nature 20

Texan by Nature (TxN) announced that NRG Energy has been named as an honoree of the first-ever Texan by Nature 20 (TxN20) - an official ranking of 20 companies with Texas operations that have made a demonstrative commitment to conservation.

Events, Media & Communications

AEG Hosts 8th Annual Thanksgiving Celebration at L.A. LIVE's The Novo

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Five Reasons We Are Thankful This Year

Tis the season to give thanks. At NRG, we are thankful for so much in our lives, but here are five things we’ve decided that have had a particularly positive impact on our past year.

Sustainable Development Goals

Companies, Communities Come Together To Rethink Blighted Spaces For An Equitable Future

Vacant and underused spaces tear holes in cities around the world. When large swaths of neighborhoods are left to decay, residents who can, move away—and what is left are urban deserts void of opportunities reenforcing a cycle of poverty for many.

Sustainable Development Goals

Setting the Standard for Fiber

Each year we survey our performance in important areas of environmental and social responsibility by monitoring key metrics for fiber, emissions, energy usage and the impact of our operations on air, water and solid waste.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Albertsons donates Thanksgiving meals to Idaho Foodbank

Social Impact & Volunteering

Sonsray Machinery Supports Team Rubicon Wildland Fire Cleanup in Las Vegas

CASE Construction Equipment, the global construction machinery brand of CNH Industrial N.V., dealer Sonsray Machinery donated the use of a CASE TV380 compact track loader for a wildland fire and wind damage response operation in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

ON Semiconductor's RSL10 Solar Cell Multi-Sensor Platform Wins LEAP Award

This year, we are pleased to announce that our RSL10 Solar Cell Multi-Sensor Platform has been awarded Silver within the Connectivity category.

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