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Responsible Production & Consumption

Less Is More: Small 3D-Printed Parts Boost Marine Fuel Efficiency, Lower Emissions

Koch engineers have harnessed 3D metal printing to redesign large carrier ships' engine fuel atomizers, a small metal component that boosts the efficiency of a carrier’s propulsion system and lowers its emissions

Green Infrastructure

Ironrock Green Squared Certification on All Products

Ironrock is pleased to announce the expansion of the Green Squared certification to all of their quarry tile and thin brick products, including Metropolitan Ceramics® Quarry Tile, Metrobrick® Thin Brick, and Royal Thin Brick®.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Webinar Explores Tasty Ideas for Pandemic PR and Beyond

In the end, customers want to do business with companies they have a relationship with, Hernandez-Blades said. Creative, purpose-driven companies build relationships despite the pandemic.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Safeway Raises $454,018 As Part Of Feeding America's 2020 Great American Milk Drive

Safeway and Safeway Foundation partnered with Feeding America®…and raised $454,018 through this year’s Great American Milk Drive. Safeway stores in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware collected customer donations at check stands to help alleviate childhood hunger.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Local Student Saves Life Through DKMS Stem Cell Donation

"I knew what is was like to rely on someone outside of your family to give your loved one the gift of life and I wanted to be available to return that favor if it ever came up.”

Innovation & Technology

Keysight's Connected Car Test Solutions Enable FAW to Ensure Reliability and Performance of In-Vehicle and V2V Communications

Keysight's connected car test solutions accelerate development of enhanced connectivity. As a result, FAW and other automakers can seamlessly evolve with the latest standards in V2V communications critical to delivering world class safety.

Environment

ECOncrete® Wins $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize®

The Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson Foundation are proud to announce that this year’s Ray of Hope Prize® has been awarded to ECOncrete Tech LTD., a science-based company that develops high performance, environmentally-sensitive concrete products for coastal and marine infrastructure projects.

Energy

Ørsted's U.S. Offshore Wind Projects: Block Island Wind Farm

In the U.S., we have the potential to deliver clean energy to the seven states on the East Coast that have committed to build more than 15GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Beyond Gourmet Sandwiches and Into Full-Scale Community Support: GD Bro Burger

As the owner of GD Bro Burger, Hue has expanded his operation over the past few months — far beyond gourmet sandwiches and into full-scale community support — with the help of nonprofits, like-minded businesses, and digital technology.

Diversity & Inclusion

Working As One Team: My Never Stand Still Conversation with Diana Taurasi

For many, Diana Taurasi is a household name. She’s a forward for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and one of the most important female athletes in the past 20 years according to ESPN.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses and MetLife Foundation Partner With Leading Pro Bono Expert Taproot Foundation to Support Small Businesses

Taproot Plus, Taproot’s open-access online platform, launched in 2015 and has since directed over $35 million worth of pro bono services to organizations in need.

Education

Hormel Foods to Provide Free College Education to the Children of its Employees

The program comes at a time when paying for college has become a hardship for many people, and as community colleges, the foundation of so many communities in the United States, struggle with enrollment.

Education

Showing Up for Arizona Students, Families and Teachers

National PTA president Leslie Boggs describes how NortonLifeLock pivoted existing funding and made an additional contribution to provide COVID-19 relief grants to all the eligible PTAs that applied in the state of Arizona.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Recognition, Rewards and Incentives

Recognition, incentives and rewards can be used in your Corporate Citizenship program to motivate your employees' prosocial activities, even when they are experiencing competing priorities.

Health & Healthcare

Fighting Food Scarcity Amidst the Pandemic

Thanks to local and corporate partners, including ScottsMiracle-Gro, who awarded us the 2017 and 2019 GroMoreGood Grassroots Grant, the Drew Horticulture Program has become the largest farm to school program in the country and continues to grow every year.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

CSRHub and Craft Launch Supply Chain Partnership

CSRHub, a leader in consensus ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) ratings and information, announced today a partnership with Craft, the enterprise intelligence provider, to integrate data from CSRHub into Craft’s offerings.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Watch Land Betterment Corporation's Impact Minute Episode 12

Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”) is proud to release Episode 12 of its Impact Minute video blog.

Green Infrastructure

Bakers Island Light Station celebrates new solar array and battery system

Solar panels are becoming an increasingly popular choice for nonprofit organizations looking to reduce their carbon footprint.

Environment

Conserving the Environment: A Look at Gildan's 2019 Sustainability Highlights

With the announcement of Gildan’s 2019 ESG report, the Company looks back on the progress it has made towards its goal of Conserving the Environment.

Research, Reports & Publications

How Family and Private Forests Can Help Companies Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

The American Forest Foundation (AFF), a national conservation organization, has released a new white paper Family-owned Forests: How to Unlock the Carbon Potential in America’s Backyard aimed at the corporate community interested in enacting natural climate solutions as part of their comprehensive climate strategy.

Green Infrastructure

Rooftop Solar Array at Global Links Headquarters Funded by Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Goes Live August 27

Pittsburgh-based medical relief and international development nonprofit Global Links and Green Mountain Energy Sun Club will flip the switch on a 63.2 kilowatt (kW) solar array to celebrate Global Links’ 30th anniversary.

Responsible Production & Consumption

UPS Infographic | Sustainability by the Numbers

This infographic is from UPS's 2019 Interactive Sustainability Report: Accelerating Sustainable Solutions.

Innovation & Technology

Meet Some Participants in the Qualcomm Small Business Accelerator Program

This global crisis is having an unprecedented effect on communities and small businesses, and as creators of wireless communication technologies, we know we’re in a unique position to help.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Why Women Start New Businesses: Reasons, Challenges, and Opportunities

More women are turning to entrepreneurship, and according to Herbalife Nutrition’s second annual Global Entrepreneurship survey, 72 percent of women want to open their own business. Women entrepreneurs create a source of income for themselves...

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