Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

A New Space for Creating Community Opens in Dickinson

A repurposed area of downtown Dickinson, North Dakota, is providing the community with a central gathering space for outdoor movies, concerts, recreation and educational programs.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

AccountAbility Recognized for a Second Time Among Forbes World’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2023

AccountAbility is pleased to announce that for a second consecutive year it has been recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Management Consulting Firms, this time for 2023.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Antea Group Receives Avetta's Operational Excellence Leader Award

Antea Group is honored to have been awarded the Operational Excellence Leader award from Avetta!

Environment

Eaton Wins $6M Contract To Supply and Build Electrical Infrastructure for New South Lake Water Treatment Plant in Georgetown, Texas

Intelligent power management company Eaton today announced a contract valued at approximately $6M to provide the city of Georgetown, Texas, with turnkey electrical engineering services, power distribution, control and protection equipmen.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Changing the Face of a City

For thousands who worked on the London Games (and, I suspect, any Olympic Games), our experiences – challenging, exhausting and euphoric – are seared forever into our DNA, life-changing, career-defining, and deeply engrained with the physical space of the Olympic Park.

Education

Virginia Early Childhood Foundation President Joins PNC Grow Up Great Advisory Council

Virginia early childhood education leader Kathy Glazer has joined the PNC Grow Up Great Advisory Council.

Diversity & Inclusion

Disrupting the Genre: An Unexpected Artist at Truist Headquarters

Justin Ellis remembers creating art with his dad and brother, the three of them sitting on his grandmother’s floor. His dad illustrated hyper-realistic cars while his brother drew comics. Justin just wanted to become as good as both of them.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

LA Kings and SoCal Gas Partner With North East Trees to Beautify the Augustus F. Hawkins Nature Park in South Los Angeles

Once the site of a cement storage yard, the Augustus F. Hawkins Nature Park is a dense space filled with walking trails, rolling hills, wildflowers, and trees. 

Responsible Production & Consumption

Focus on Reducing Food Waste, Carbon Emissions in New Farm Bill

When Congress returns from recess, lawmakers are aiming to craft a new farm bill that reauthorizes billions of dollars in federal spending and sets priorities for national agriculture, nutrition, conservation and forestry policies.

Events, Media & Communications

World Environment Center Names Dr. Neil C. Hawkins as Interim President & CEO

The World Environment Center (WEC) announced today that Dr. Neil Hawkins, President of Michigan Sustainability Associates and Research Advisor/Instructor at Harvard, has been appointed interim president and CEO of WEC.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Operational Management: Safeguarding Asset Integrity and Reliability at Enbridge

Enbridge continues to uphold safety as a core value and topmost priority across our business. In our training, management and internal communications practices we aim to foster a culture of safety and reliability.

Innovation & Technology

In Regenerative Agriculture, One Size Does Not Fit All

Technology is at the heart of specialized, precision agriculture that enables farmers to make the right decisions resulting in higher yields at lower costs at longer term.

Green Infrastructure

Southwire’s Atlanta Battery Office Featured in Cabling Installation & Maintenance Magazine

A recent issue of Cabling Installation & Maintenance Magazine highlights the Power over Ethernet (PoE) lighting system at Southwire’s office at The Battery Atlanta and the company’s investments with Sinclair Digital Services and VoltServer.

Innovation & Technology

CSRHub Consensus ESG Data Integrates With Archer’s ESG Score Connect Product

CSRHub's ESG data is being incorporated into Archer’s ESG Score Connect, which simplifies risk analysis and increases transparency for third-party portfolios.

Health & Healthcare

How Corporate Partnerships Scale Health and Wellness Around the World

The U.S. has had a child hunger problem for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic turned that problem into a crisis.

Environment

Protecting Our Climate

Through our Decarbonize and Grow strategy, we are looking across our operations and value chains to lower our carbon footprint while growing our business.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Leidos Helps the U.S. Army Eliminate Chemical Weapons Stockpile

Earlier this month, the White House, Defense Department and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed the U.S. has completed destruction of its enormous Cold War-era chemical weapons stockpile as well as the facilities that manufactured them.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Champion Supports 2023 Special Olympics With Newly Designed Team Gear

Champion has supported the Special Olympics and millions of athletes who represent inclusion and acceptance for two decades. This year, Champion Teamwear created new uniform designs for Special Olympics USA.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sappi’s 2023 ‘Employee Ideas that Matter’ Winners Drive Impact Across Local Communities

Sappi North America, Inc., a leading producer and supplier of diversified paper, packaging products and pulp, announced the winners of its 2023 Employee Ideas that Matter (EITM) grant program, donating up to $50,000 to causes that are important to employees.

Research, Reports & Publications

Gildan Publishes Its 19th Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report

Gildan Activewear Inc. (GIL: TSX and NYSE) is pleased to announce that it has published its latest Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, marking the Company’s 19th year of public ESG disclosures.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

LPGA Tour Champion Minjee Lee and Las Vegas Sands Join Forces To Showcase the Power of Women’s Sports

Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) announced eight-time LPGA Tour champion Minjee Lee as the company’s first female brand ambassador.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Former Intern Credits Supervisor for Helping Pursue Her Passion at Georgia-Pacific

Meet Kiana Townsel, HR business partner at the Cumberland City, Tennessee, gypsum plant. Kiana has held several roles within Georgia-Pacific, where she started as an intern and worked her way through the organization.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Walgreens Boots Alliance Named Disability:IN’s 2023 Employer of the Year

The award recognizes a company’s achievement in exemplary policies, strategies and initiatives that have resulted in measurable results in the areas of disability inclusiveness in the workplace, marketplace and supply chain.

Sustainable Development Goals

Webster Bank Corporate Responsibility Report: Environmental Sustainability

We continue to advance plans to create further efficiencies in our operations and reduce our emissions, including increasing the amount of green energy used for our facilities. Across our footprint, we seek to maintain low-emission and energy-efficient working environments.

Research, Reports & Publications

The State of Corporate Purpose 2023 Trend 5: ESG Is Evolving Toward Positive Impact

ESG issues have rapidly risen in relevance in recent years and are increasingly topping board agendas. But when it comes to ESG reporting, corporate purpose leaders are split on its effectiveness and intended purpose.

Latest Campaigns

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...

Aflac Stories

Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.

Halo Awards

The Halo Awards are the social impact sector’s longest-running recognition of excellence in corporate–nonprofit partnerships. For more than two...

Integrated Tools

Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...

IWBI | WELL Building Standard

Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...

Housing affordability

We drive solutions to enable people to open doors to a safe and affordable place to call home, the foundation for wellness, dignity, and economic...

Sustainable Products and Innovation

Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...

Nutrition and Health

Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...

License to Operate

Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...

Subaru Share the Love® Event

Since the launch of the Subaru Share the Love Event in 2008, Subaru of America and our retailers have donated more than $256 million to charity, with...