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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

How Investing in Women Helps Everyone During a Pandemic

When we support women, everyone wins. Use your investments and your voice to provide direct impact and make a difference for working women.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Smashing It, Sustainably!

Our Life Science business ships over 30,000 packages each day. So, how does our SMASH Packaging initiative ensure it’s done responsibly? We caught up with Fabien Thibault, Global Manager of Product and Packaging Sustainability, to find out…

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

One Baby Boy and Many Pairs of Jeans

Helping associates comes from an unlikely source: wearing jeans at work.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Everything Means More When We Give Together

On Giving Tuesday, employees across the globe donated more than $66,600 through 399 total donations to causes they care about. With NortonLifeLock’s match, we contributed a total of $196,792 on this global day of giving.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Why We Need Low Carbon Steel for the Green Energy Transition

Renewable energy company Ørsted sees low-carbon steel as critical to achieving the company's ambition of a carbon-neutral supply chain by 2040, and important to meeting global climate goals. The company wants to work with the steel industry on the roadmap towards carbon neutral steel and foster innovation and collaboration needed to get there.

Social Impact & Volunteering

The Difference Great Pro Bono Can Make: How Per Scholas Uses Pro Bono to Do More

Damien Howard, Executive Vice President of Social Ventures at Per Scholas, shares how pro bono has been a key ingredient in their work.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Enhancing Sustainability Reporting Capacity in Sri Lanka

The UN Conference on Trade and Development has awarded the Colombo Stock Exchange the International Standards of Accounting and Reporting award in recognition of its engagement with GRI to improve sustainability reporting capacity in the region.

Education

Educators Invited to a New, No Cost Virtual Professional Learning Event Focused on Computational Thinking

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization – and Discovery Education invite educators nationwide to participate in a new, no cost virtual professional learning event focusing on computational thinking.

Education

Going the Distance: Unique Collaboration Makes Remote Learning More Successful for Wichita Teens

Being out of the classroom and cut off from teachers made it difficult to learn, so she was frustrated when Wichita Heights High School announced it would remain remote this fall.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Henkel Employees Care and Act in the Community

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Logitech Gives Back for More Fulfilling Lives and A Better Planet

Together we can drive big change. Through our give back program, we enable people to design more fulfilling lives and a better planet. We believe giving back and driving change are not only our social responsibility, but a key aspect of our culture.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Companies All-In on #GivingTuesday During Uncertain Year

With the economic strain of the pandemic causing people to give less and in different ways, events like GivingTuesday are even more important than ever. While point of sale donations may be seeing a decline, the virtual nature of GivingTuesday means individuals can donate from their laptops or in their homes, which is especially important as COVID cases rise. Today we explore three companies that contributed to areas of greatest need and extended efforts past just this Tuesday.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Working Mother Media Names VF Corporation One of the “Top 75 Companies for Executive Women”

VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel, footwear and accessories, has been named one of the 2020+ Top Companies for Executive Women by Working Mother Media (WMM).

Responsible Production & Consumption

Fair Trade USA Appoints Ricardo Crisantes as New Board Chair

Crisantes, a Fair Trade Certified™ grower, will help the nonprofit launch a major technology transformation initiative to deepen its impact with almost 1 million farmers and workers around the world.

Events, Media & Communications

FPT Industrial and Artissima, Promote the FPT for Sustainable Art Award to Support Sustainability in Contemporary Art

FPT Industrial, a leader in the powertrain industry and a brand of the CNH Industrial, consolidates its commitment to contemporary art and its vision linked to sustainability, promoting, in collaboration with Artissima, the first edition of the FPT for Sustainable Art award, a fusion of sustainability, innovation and art.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sappi North America Receives Platinum Rating From Ecovadis

Sappi North America, Inc. has been awarded a platinum score in the latest EcoVadis rating, alongside the company’s regional counterparts Sappi Europe and Sappi Southern Africa.

Diversity & Inclusion

New Coalition Aims To Close The Opportunity Gap In Bioscience

BIIG was formed after a forum hosted by the organizations outlined critical practices for advancing representation of women & minorities. The participants are committed to change and will share proven practices to develop solutions for the sector.

Social Impact & Volunteering

One Day To Celebrate Volunteers and a Lifetime of Thanks

Despite the challenges of 2020, IBM volunteers have so far logged over 1,750,000 hours of time helping others; activity that resulted in nearly 2,000 organizations receiving IBM grants.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Find More Kindness This Holiday With Gifts That Give Back

Diversity & Inclusion

P&G Powered by Purpose Podcast: “It Does Allow Us That Little Piece of Mummy and Me Time.”

Dorothy has a beautiful relationship with her son Anthony, who has Down syndrome.

Environment

Freeport-McMoRan Helps Bring Renewable Water Resources to Arizona Communities Through Joint Pipeline Project

Freeport-McMoRan's Sierrita operations and Farmers Investment Co are celebrating the completion of a pipeline that will deliver Central Arizona Project water for agricultural purposes and help restore the local aquifer in the Sahuarita/Green Valley area.

Diversity & Inclusion

Consumer Goods Retailers and Manufacturers to Drive Workplace Equality and Inclusion Through The Consumer Goods Forum

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has today confirmed its ambition to create a world where the workplace ensures equal opportunity and inclusion for all, valuing differences between people, including those of different genders, races, ethnicities, ages, religions, disabilities, and sexual orientations.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Gildan Receives Its 13th FUNDAHRSE Seal for ESG Work in Honduras

Gildan Activewear Inc. (GIL: TSX and NYSE) announced today that it is once again a recipient of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Seal by the Fundación Hondureña de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (FUNDAHRSE) in Honduras. This is the 13th consecutive year that Gildan receives this award.

Environment

Climate Change Laggards Put the Planet - and Their Businesses - at Risk

The issue of climate change presents one of the most difficult decision-making challenges a CEO might face - a case study in balancing uncertainty with costs to bring about changes that will require significant lead times.

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