The Latest News From Leading Brands

Corporate and nonprofit news distributed by 3BL, including press releases, op/eds, multimedia, and the full range of stories that shape reputation.

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Health & Healthcare

How This HIV Activist Prioritizes Wellness in His Day-to-Day

As a community liaison who is trained and certified to discuss Merck’s promoted virology products, Paris works with case managers and other allied health professionals who serve communities living with HIV to improve health care outcomes.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

SCS 007 Sustainable Jewelry Standard to Include Artisanal Gold Mines

SCS Global Services (SCS) and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) today announced their agreement to expand the SCS 007 Sustainability Rated Jewelry Standard to include certification of gold from artisanal and small-scale mines (ASM).

Inclusion & Opportunity

Polo Ralph Lauren Introduces New Collection That Builds Upon Its Historic Partnership With Morehouse and Spelman Colleges

Ralph Lauren (NYSE:RL) today expanded its partnership with Morehouse College and Spelman College, unveiling a limited-edition collection inspired by the schools’ rich heritage and esteemed traditions.

Energy & Infrastructure

Global Reporting Initiative Publish Standard to Address Sustainability Impacts of Coal

How can a sector that is responsible for 30% of global carbon emissions be held to account for its impacts, including ensuring that coal companies meet growing stakeholder demands for transparency in how they align with the low-carbon transition?

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

ImpactAssets' IA 50 2022 Impact Fund Listing Focuses on Deep Impact, Innovative Managers

ImpactAssets has released the ImpactAssets 50 2022 (IA 50), a free annual database for impact investors that features a diversified listing of private capital fund managers delivering social and environmental impact as well as financial returns.  

Environment

ICYMI: Fifth Third Publishes Second TCFD Report

The 2021 TCFD Report demonstrates the Company’s progress in implementing the TCFD’s recommendations and summarizes the Bank’s advancement in climate-related disclosures since its inaugural report in late 2019.

Philanthropy

Black Experience on Xfinity To Offer $1 Million in Grants To Emerging Black Filmmakers in Celebration of Its One-year Anniversary

Comcast NBCUniversal celebrates the one-year anniversary of Black Experience on Xfinity by announcing plans to offer $1M in the form of ten $100K grants to emerging Black filmmakers.

Philanthropy

Water For People Announces New Co-CEOs

Water For People, a global nonprofit working to help develop lasting quality water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, is pleased to welcome Samson Hailu Bekele and Mark Duey as Co-CEOs.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: Interview with Shennel Fuller of Miles and Milan

Energy & Infrastructure

Philadelphia Union Joins Forces With Green Mountain Energy

Philadelphia Union today announced a new multi-year agreement with Green Mountain Energy (GME), the nation’s longest-serving renewable energy provider.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Shareholders Escalate Campaign Pressing Companies to 'Walk Their Talk' on Climate Lobbying

With the stakes posed by the climate crisis higher than ever and public policy solutions clearly needed, investors have filed a record 46 shareholder resolutions for 2022 corporate proxies seeking info about companies’ climate lobbying practices.

Volunteering & Community

Giving Atlanta's Low-income and Homeless Residents a Step Up

First Step Staffing is on a mission to end the cycle of poverty and homelessness by removing barriers to employment in Atlanta.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Celebrate International Women's Day With MAC VIVA GLAM

#MACVIVAGLAM partners with local organizations to fight for equal rights and healthy futures for women and girls, including around reproductive and sexual health education.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Blazing Trails for Success and Achievement

March is nationally recognized as Women’s History Month, celebrating women's accomplishments as part of American history.

Awards & Rankings

T. Rowe Price Named to Fortune Magazine's “World's Most Admired” List for the Twelfth Consecutive Year

T. Rowe Price has again been named to Fortune Magazine’s “World’s Most Admired” list. Its inclusion in the 2022 list marks the twelfth consecutive year that the firm has received this recognition.

Awards & Rankings

World Environment Center to Award 2022 Gold Medal for Corporate Sustainability to AB InBev

The World Environment Center is pleased to announce that its 38th Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development will be awarded to Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), the world’s leading brewer.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Franklin Templeton Celebrates Black History Month With Events Focused on Health and Wellness

Franklin Templeton’s Black Empowerment Network (BEN) business resource group (BRG), and partners at several of its specialist investment managers, hosted 18 virtual events in honor of Black History Month, celebrated in North America each February.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Shifting Power Through Authentic Corporate Community Engagement

5 lessons for how corporations can shift power as they navigate relationships with communities in order to create sustainable social change and to move us to a world where life outcomes are not predicted by an individual’s or group’s identity.

Philanthropy

Keisha Greaves Follows Her Dreams as Owner of Girls Chronically Rock

For as long as she can remember, Cambridge, MA native Keisha Greaves has had a “passion for fashion” and wanted to be her own boss.

Education & Workforce Development

Financial Literacy Challenge From Jackson Charitable Foundation and Discovery Education Empowering Communities to Win $10,000 for Their Schools Now Open

Jackson Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit with the mission to advance financial knowledge on a national scale, and Discovery Education today opened the 6th annual Cha-Ching™ Money Smart Kids Contest.

Corporate Responsibility

Interconnection of CSR and M&A

From stakeholder engagement and across phases of an M&A implementation, examination of ESG elements is critical to the process for both corporate buyers and sellers.

Awards & Rankings

ICIC Opens Nominations and Applications for 2022 Inner City 100

ICIC opens nominations and applications for 2022 Inner City 100 awards

Inclusion & Opportunity

On the Rise: Investing in the Black Leaders of Tomorrow.

The aim of RISE is to support racially and ethnically diverse students as they discover their passions, learn about our business, explore emerging technologies, pursue potential STEM career opportunities and hone their leadership skills.

Environment

3 Steps to Find and Fix Household Leaks

On average, American households waste nearly 10,000 gallons each year as a result of minor water leaks like dripping faucets and poorly sealed plumbing fixtures—that’s enough water to wash 300 loads of laundry.

Environment

ITA Appoints a New CEO to Deliver a Future Vision for the Tin Industry

After supporting the International Tin Association (ITA) with this critical hire - both for the organisation and for the tin industry as a whole - we're delighted to share that the ITA has appointed Helen Prins as its new CEO.

Latest Campaigns

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...

AEG Celebrates Inclusion

At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...

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...

Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

Planet

At Bacardi, we prioritize reducing our impact on the environment – an approach that dates to the very beginning of the company in 1862 when Bacardi...

SCS_EU

SCS Global Services Europe is the European arm of SCS Global Services, an international leader in sustainability certification, verification, and...

Health and Safety by Antea Group

Antea Group's health and safety consultants understand what it takes to help make a positive impact on safety culture. Read blogs, insights, and more...

Leadership

Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...

Sustainable Operations

ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)

Local Communities

The principals of living and working in synergy with the communities in which we operate, as well as collaborating on projects that benefit those...