Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bacardi USA Donates $5 Million to Florida International University

Feb 20, 2020 12:00 PM ET

The Bacardi Center of Excellence will provide student scholarship opportunities, promote community events and provide pathways to entrepreneurship.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sysco Announces Inaugural Sustainability Bond Issuance

Feb 20, 2020 12:00 PM ET

Net proceeds from the $500 million offering will fund projects that help advance the company’s 2025 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Goals.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Alexion Employees Give Back with Holiday Toy Drive Competition

Feb 20, 2020 11:00 AM ET

In the spirit of Holiday Season and giving back to our local community, Alexion hosted a toy drive to benefit The Home for Little Wanderers, collecting 650 toys and gifts for Boston-area children.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fostering Our Youth

Feb 20, 2020 10:30 AM ET

Vanessa Collins is passionate about opening her heart and home to foster children, and thanks to T-Mobile benefits was recently able to fully adopt a 12-year-old daughter.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Sands is Founding Sponsor of Women’s Hospitality Initiative

Feb 20, 2020 10:30 AM ET

In Las Vegas, a new program is launching to help more women achieve leadership positions within the culinary and restaurant fields in the hospitality industry, with the support of Sands and other Las Vegas area partners

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Blackbaud Launches Innovation Partnership with Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose

Feb 20, 2020 10:30 AM ET

In new first-of-its-kind partnership, opportunities will be created for Blackbaud customers and CECP-affiliated companies to be more effective with their CSR measurement data through streamlined reporting and knowledge sharing.

Events, Media & Communications

CECP Launches Innovation Partnerships

Feb 20, 2020 10:00 AM ET

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) announces Innovation Partnerships, a new model of collaboration designed to support how companies use their corporate social investment data for greater impact.

Innovation & Technology

Keysight Technologies Joins Orbital Security Alliance (OSA) as Full Member

Feb 20, 2020 9:25 AM ET

Keysight Technologies, Inc., a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers & governments accelerate innovation to connect & secure the world, announced that it has joined the Orbital Security Alliance as a full member.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Wells Fargo Foundation Increased Access to Housing, Jobs, Financial Coaching in 2019

Feb 20, 2020 9:00 AM ET

In 2019, the Wells Fargo Foundation launched a new philanthropic strategy anchored around unlocking economic opportunity for people and communities by addressing housing affordability, small business growth and financial health.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Eco-Friendly Ways to Celebrate National Love Your Pet Day

Feb 20, 2020 9:00 AM ET

February 20 is National Love Your Pet Day. It’s another reason to shower our pets with attention and, with Earth Day approaching, consider eco-friendly ways to recycle and repurpose the pet products we’ve accumulated for Fido and Whiskers.

Responsible Production & Consumption

This Glass Is for the Birds

Feb 20, 2020 8:45 AM ET

Engineers with Guardian Glass – a subsidiary of Guardian Industries, a Koch company – partnered with architects, industry groups, and the American Bird Conservancy to develop glass that reduces bird strikes – new Guardian Bird1st™ glass.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Benevity and CECP Announce Innovation Partnership, Will Support Annual Giving in Numbers Report

Feb 20, 2020 8:15 AM ET

Benevity, Inc. announced a new strategic partnership with Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP), a CEO-led coalition of more than 200 of the world’s largest companies.

Innovation & Technology

UPS Longitudes | Innovation and Entrepreneurship Can Cut Waste and Fuel the Circular Economy

Feb 20, 2020 8:00 AM ET

It's time for a system reboot. The trends are clear. We have moved toward an economy of disposability where the valuable resources we extract are going to waste and causing harm to people and planet.

Energy

Chevron is Powering the World Forward With California Sunshine

Feb 20, 2020 8:00 AM ET

Thanks to California’s sunshine, San Joaquin Valley Business Unit (SJVBU) will soon be reducing CO2 emissions associated with oil production at its Lost Hills oil field.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

A Journey to Sustainable Finance

Feb 20, 2020 6:05 AM ET

What good is a well-funded retirement in a world of extreme inequality and climate disaster? After searching for solutions from personal action to ecology, I now believe the answer is to change the paradigm of the investment community.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Here's Why Companies Are Joining Schneider Electric's NEO Network

Feb 19, 2020 4:35 PM ET

Scott Macmurdo, Director of Business Development at Duke Energy and NEO Network member, shares why companies are joining the NEO Network and how it can help your organization get smart about its renewable energy strategy.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

University of Ottawa AI Initiative Investigates Inclusion, Regulation

Feb 19, 2020 3:20 PM ET

Dr. Martin-Bariteau and a team of researchers will examine challenging issues as part of a new AI & Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa supported with a $750,000 donation over four years from Scotiabank.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Aramark Employees Discuss What It Means to Have a Career at One of the "Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality"

Feb 19, 2020 3:05 PM ET

For the sixth consecutive year, Aramark earned a 100 percent rating and the designation of being a “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality,” from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI).

Innovation & Technology

Meet the People Behind GM’s All-Electric Future PART 1: 1:1 With Chief Engineer Jesse Ortega

Feb 19, 2020 3:00 PM ET

This National Engineers Week, GM celebrates the employees who continue to innovate and push the company closer toward its vision of Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion. Part 1 profiles GM Chief Engineer Jesse Ortega.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Medtronic Honored for Supporting Military Veterans

Feb 19, 2020 2:00 PM ET

The State of Minnesota recognized Medtronic as a Beyond the Yellow Ribbon company during a formal ceremony at the company’s operational headquarters. That designation recognizes the company’s commitment to recruiting, training, hiring and supporting military veterans at Medtronic.

Innovation & Technology

Shared Solutions Unlock Economic Prosperity for Communities

Feb 19, 2020 1:20 PM ET

Today, 3.4 billion people, almost half the world’s population, still struggle to meet basic needs such as access to food and life-saving healthcare.

Innovation & Technology

Advice From Nadya: Want to Find Success? First Find Your Communities

Feb 19, 2020 1:00 PM ET

I wake up every day knowing that I am trying to change something that has been the norm for far too long – and this concept of changing the world is what makes me excited to get out of bed every day!

Diversity & Inclusion

Northern Trust Asset Management President Shundrawn Thomas Speaks at Black History Month Event

Feb 19, 2020 11:45 AM ET

Diversity & Inclusion

3% Conference Heads to Atlanta in Effort to Solidify Commitment to Intersectionality

Feb 19, 2020 11:15 AM ET

Atlanta native Shannon Watkins, senior vice president of brand and creative services at Aflac, said that the city’s diversity and its stance as a sort of an outsider to traditional Madison Avenue advertising drive more creativity.

Green Infrastructure

Bechtel Returns To New York To Help Solve the City’s Biggest Infrastructure Challenges

Feb 19, 2020 11:15 AM ET

Bechtel Chairman and CEO Brendan Bechtel's goal for New York is to help "realize its vision of reducing carbon emissions, improving transportation, expanding its digital technology and ensuring equal access to safe, reliable infrastructure."