Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Impact: Delivering Financial Security

Northwestern Mutual

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

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Science in Action: Kenvue Research Driving Real-Life Solutions

Kenvue

Research, Reports & Publications

Education

One Week After the Conflict Minerals Filings, Here's What We Know

Transparency is the key to complete traceability in supply chain. When transparency increases, companies have better insights into where their products are coming from and how they’ve been made. Data is the key in supplier networks that provides greater data accuracy, clarity, and insights, leading to more contextual intelligence shared across supply chains.

Health & Healthcare

Sodexo Expanding Offers and Options for Students at Chapman University

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, is revitalizing resident dining at Chapman University this summer by redesigning space and expanding the menu at Randall Dining Commons. The renovations feature two new wellness stations and an outdoor patio that will create a welcoming environment and enhance the overall student experience.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Families in Houston, Chicago Join Aramark, American Heart Association Pilot for Healthy Eating

Aramark and the American Heart Association (AHA) recognize that educating parents and heads of households about making healthy choices for their families is key to reversing an alarming trend toward obesity in both children and adults.

Diversity & Inclusion

Employee Engagement: A Darn Good Reason to Volunteer

Let’s stop calling non-altruistic giving “selfish” and call it what it really is: Pretty darn good for everyone involved, companies included.

Research, Reports & Publications

Challenges and Opportunities of The Urban Transition: A DuPont Advisory Committee Report

A recently released white paper from the DuPont Advisory Committee on Agricultural Innovation & Productivity, “The Urban Transition: Implications for Global Food Security,” explores the urban growth landscape, the opportunities and challenges of global urbanization, and the implications of urbanization on food and nutrition security.

Research, Reports & Publications

MetLife Foundation | 'Fair Finance' Finding Alternatives to Subprime

Diversity & Inclusion

MGMThink Video: Hockey's Take on Teamwork

Ever wonder what makes a successful team? Michelle DiTondo, Senior VP of Human Resources for MGM Resorts International, discusses how good hockey teams show teamwork at its best.

Social Impact & Volunteering

10 Reasons to Attend the 2016 Conference on Volunteering and Service

Each year, thousands of people who really care about the future of volunteer service convene at the Points of Light Conference on Volunteering and Service – to learn from, share with and get inspired by one another, and to work together to increase the number of volunteers in the world and the impact of the work they do.

Innovation & Technology

Corporate Philanthropy Software is Not Client Focused, and Vendors Want It that Way

While I may not have anticipated that an article written by a design ethicist and magician would be relevant to the corporate philanthropy software business, the lessons are certainly there.

Social Impact & Volunteering

What Social Impact Is and How to Measure It Effectively

Impact. What a loaded word. It means so many things to so many people. In my career in nonprofit communications, I have used “impact” so much that I all but want to throw it out the window.

Environment

How Companies Can Create ‘Net Positive’ Products, Services and Environmental Impacts

The Net Positive Project, a coalition of companies that aim to go beyond reducing their negative sustainability impacts to contribute in a “net positive” way to society, the environment and the global economy, launched yesterday. Founding company members are: Advanced Micro Devices, AT&T, Capgemini UK, The Crown Estate, Dell, Dow Chemical, Eaton, Fetzer Vineyards, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, Humanscale, Kimberly-Clark, Kingfisher, Kohler and Owens Corning.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Belmont University Receives Trane Energy Efficiency Leader Award

Environment

Cleaner, Safer, Stronger Cities

AT&T has been in the Internet of Things (IoT) business for more than 8 years. We’re already connecting automobiles, homes and “things.” Now, we’re putting it all together in the places where 60-80% of global greenhouse gases will be generated, and where 66% of world’s population will live by 2050: Cities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Open Call for Nominations: AA1000APS Working Group

The AccountAbility AA1000 Standards Board has issued an open invitation to interested stakeholders to serve on the Working Group for the revised AccountAbility Principles Standard (AA1000APS), to be released with the latest AccountAbility Assurance Standard (AA1000AS) in late-2016. The Working Group will operate under the mandate laid out in its Terms of Reference and will commence its duties in July 2016.

Health & Healthcare

Global Health Corporate Champions Land in Accra, Ghana

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bedford High Seniors Win Environmental Scholarship

Bedford High seniors Trenton Sanders and Avery Kaplan are this year's recipients of the 2016 Environmental Scholarship.

The scholarship is sponsored by the Department of Public Works and Republic Services...

Environment

TransCanada Celebrates Environment Week

With TransCanada’s support, Wildlife Haven will now be able to care for a larger number of injured, sick and orphaned wildlife with a greater number of successful releases back to the wild.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bill Meyer Inducted into the National Waste & Recycling Hall of Fame

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) announced that industry pillar and one of the Company’s foundational leaders, Bill Meyer, has been inducted into the National Waste & Recycling Association’s (NWRA) Hall of Fame. He was honored earlier this week in Las Vegas at Waste Expo, North America’s largest annual industry tradeshow.

Health & Healthcare

EHSxTech Conference Tackles Risks, Trends and the Value of EHS

Recently, Antea Group presented the fourth annual EHSxTech conference, hosted by Adobe in the United Kingdom on Thursday, April 14. This exclusive event offered a unique opportunity for tech industry EHS professionals to explore regulatory updates from around the globe, talk through specific environmental, health and safety needs and challenges, and discuss leading industry trends in a friendly, noncompetitive forum.

Drawing from some of the most pressing EHS and sustainability challenges facing the tech industry today, this full-day event focused on “EHS Leadership in a Changing World.”

Environment

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Exploring the Top Three Barriers to Healthcare Plastics Recycling

HPRC recently held our spring 2016 meeting, which was graciously hosted by Johnson & Johnson in New York City. The meeting was a valuable opportunity to focus in on the HPRC mission and our projects in flight, and to redouble our efforts to enact change in the industry.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Facts About Global Poverty and Education

Social Impact & Volunteering

Social Impact Through Employee Engagement

As one recent Fortune 500 client said in describing their one-off volunteer events, “How much engagement can you expect to build through a once-a-year volunteer event?”

Latest Campaigns

  1. Opportunity for All
    At Trane Technologies, uplifting our communities and workforce is the key to our continued success. We focus on broadening access to education...
  2. Subaru Love Promise: Education
    Subaru believes that all students deserve an equal and fair opportunity at a quality education. Through our partnership with AdoptAClassroom.org...
  3. 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+...
  4. Antea Group Webinars and Events
    Come learn from Antea Group experts on a variety of topics. We produce webinars monthly and attend events regularly to keep in touch with current and...
  5. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is embedded in our company values. We actively promote it among our employees, raise awareness, and foster an...
  6. Social Progress
    Social engagement has always been an integral part of our sense of responsibility as a company. We care and we act to do our part to improve the...
  7. 2025: Entergy helps customers beat the heat
    This summer, Entergy helped our customers across our service area beat the heat this summer through a number of initiatives aimed to help them save...
  8. Technology & Engineering Education
    We aim to inspire and cultivate the next generation of engineers and inventors by supporting organizations that foster innovation in education...
  9. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  10. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  11. People
    Empowering Team Members, focusing on safety, and strengthening our communities.
  12. 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...
  13. Southwire 2024 Sustainability Report
    Southwire was founded in 1950 with the goal of bringing electric light to people who needed it. In 2025, as we celebrate the 75-year history of our...
  14. Special Economic Zones
    Driving awareness of Special Economic Zones.
  15. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
    At Franklin Templeton, we are proud of our commitment to communities where we live and work. Each year, we engage with hundreds of organizations...