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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Lifelong Advantages of a Career in Manufacturing

The speed at which manufacturing technology, people development and community stewardship has advanced is amazing. And now more than ever, manufacturing offers more career growth for anyone looking to succeed.

Innovation & Technology

ITA and RMI Demonstrate Assurance Leadership in Tin Due Diligence

The International Tin Association (ITA) and the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) have jointly developed and published new “Assessment Criteria for Tin Smelting Companies"

Social Impact & Volunteering

Domtar EarthChoice Ambassadors in Action

Employees in Jesup, Georgia, partnered with first-grade teacher Kristyn May and James E. Bacon Elementary to develop an outdoor classroom for the school’s garden project.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator Expands to Include Housing Affordability Solutions

The Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator today announced that it is expanding its focus to include clean technologies for residential buildings.

Environment

Better Business, Better World: Download the Antea Group 2018 Sustainability Report

Better Business, Better World: Download the Antea Group 2018 Sustainability Report

Events, Media & Communications

LA Galaxy Teams up With Shoes That Fit to Provide 100 Elementary School Students With New Shoes

AEG’s LA Galaxy Foundation recently teamed up for the third consecutive year with the non-profit organization, Shoes That Fit, to provide 100 students at Catskill Elementary School in Carson, Calif. with brand new shoes on Friday, Nov. 1.

Research, Reports & Publications

BlackRock, JP Morgan, J&J on ESG Going Mainstream: Briefing

The economist Milton Friedman famously said that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits”.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Keeping it Fresh: Following Food as Community Gives Back Throughout the Treasure Valley

"We take items that are fresh in the store, that are close to expiration date, close to their best by date and get those out to three big partner agencies within the community who can use them the same day, give them to the families who actually need them," Holland said.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Ecocentricity Blog: At Full Strength

Ellen MacArthur, Andrew Morlet, and their team are true visionaries in the circular economy movement. Spend some time digging into their work and I promise you’ll come away wiser for it.

Environment

Sammy Roth: Salton Sea Lithium

If you follow tech news, it’s pretty hard to miss stories reminding us of the tremendous potential that lithium-ion batteries have in store for the world

Sustainable Development Goals

Novartis annonce une nouvelle stratégie pour fournir des traitements innovants à plus de patients en Afrique subsaharienne

Novartis a annoncé aujourd’hui une nouvelle stratégie visant à élargir l’accès des patients et la disponibilité de sa gamme de médicaments en Afrique subsaharienne, qui regroupe la plus vaste population au monde de patients mal desservis. Novartis souhaite également être le partenaire de choix des gouvernements et des ONG pour renforcer les systèmes de santé dans toute l’Afrique.

Sustainable Development Goals

Novartis Announces New Strategy to Provide Innovative Medicines to More Patients in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basel, November 13, 2019 — Novartis announced today a new strategy to broaden patient reach and availability of its portfolio of medicines in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which is home to the largest underserved patient population in the world. Novartis also aspires to be the partner of choice for governments and NGOs to strengthen healthcare systems across Africa.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Aurora Organic Dairy Commits to 100% Carbon-Neutral Energy in Its Fourth Sustainability Report

Aurora Organic Dairy, the leading producer of organic dairy products for the store brand market, today published its 2019 Sustainability Report.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Biogen Celebrates Care Deeply Day

Over 3,000 Biogen employees give back to the global community for Care Deeply Day.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

UPS Honored as One of America’s Most Just Companies by Forbes and Just Capital

UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced it was named to Forbes and JUST Capital’s annual “JUST 100” list for the fourth consecutive year. The company was again recognized as the industry leader in the transportation sector.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Xoom Rolls Out Domestic Money Transfer Services in the U.S.

Xoom, PayPal’s international money transfer service, today rolled out the ability for customers to send money to recipients in the U.S. for the first time. Through strategic alliances with Walmart and Ria, Americans can now use Xoom to send money...

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Just Business Is Better Business

This achievement is the result of consistent leadership and dedication to all of our stakeholders: our employees, customers, communities, the environment, and our shareholders.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Aflac CSR Hero: Matt Loudermilk

The Aflac Way is more than just a promise for CSR Hero Matt Loudermilk. It’s the firm foundation of ethics upon which Aflac was built 64 years ago. That’s why we’re a company guided by integrity and grounded by purpose.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Intel Named One of America’s Most JUST Companies

Intel’s high ranking on this list is due to the company’s strengths in issues affecting communities, the environment and its workers.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Consumers Energy Foundation Provides $250,000 to New Effort to Create Housing Opportunities in Flint

The Consumers Energy Foundation celebrated its commitment to Michigan’s communities today by providing $250,000 for a new effort to upgrade and sell over three dozen vacant homes to first-time homebuyers in Flint.

Energy

SCE Supports California Climate Goals With New Electrification Pathway to 2045

SCE released its white paper, “Pathway 2045,” a report that examines the profound changes that will need to take place for the state to reach carbon neutrality by 2045. The pathway builds on the utility’s "The Clean Power and Electrification Pathway”

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

How L’OCCITANE Promotes an Holistic Approach of Development in Favor of Its Women Producers in Burkina Faso

It's quite something to be invited to New York to speak at the Business Call to Action Annual Forum. And it's a huge responsibility too, because I want to do justice to the women of Burkina Faso who work so hard...

Events, Media & Communications

Close of Business Podcast, Episode 33: Bruce Betts of the Planetary Society

The Close of Business Podcast, featuring three professionals at Black & Veatch, is the leading STEM practitioner-produced podcast, engaging a global audience of professionals and students who are creating the future.

Diversity & Inclusion

Veterans Help Us Be Our Best

At General Mills, we’re proud to employ and support hundreds of veterans and transitioning military members in the U.S.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Entrepreneurs and the Racial Wealth Divide: A Q&A With Jessica Norwood

African American entrepreneurs have a significantly harder time than their white counterparts do in securing funding from friends and family to launch their businesses.

Latest Campaigns

  1. CACI Celebrates Veterans and Military Families Month
    This Veterans and Military Families Month, we celebrate the strength, dedication, and sacrifices of former service members and their loved ones. CACI...
  2. CARE Corporate Partnerships
    CARE works with corporate partners globally to invest in innovative, scalable, impactful, community-based solutions.
  3. Southwire Giving Back
    Our neighbors depend on us, just as we depend on them, so we are committed to improving the quality of life in the communities in which we work. At...
  4. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  5. Community Impact
    The communities where Chemours operates are also where we live, work, and play, and our mutual success is one and the same. We have a vested interest...
  6. Sustainability by Antea Group
    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
  7. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  8. KeyBank: Responsible Banking
    Everyone’s financial journey is different. We make intentional efforts to meet the individual needs of clients and communities through a diverse range...
  9. GoDaddy | Customers
    GoDaddy is the world’s largest services platform for entrepreneurs around the globe. We’re on a mission to empower our worldwide community of 20+...
  10. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  11. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  12. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  13. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  14. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  15. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...