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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Bank Donates Furniture to Beds for Kids

The mission of Beds for Kids is to provide beds and essential furniture to children and their families who are in need.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Quest Diagnostics Receives 2020 C. Everett Koop National Health Award for Outstanding Employee Health Program

Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced that it has received the prestigious C. Everett Koop National Health Award for 2020.

Environment

The Challenges of Sustainable Food Packaging

Tetra Pak is on a journey to create the ultimate sustainable food package – one that secures food safety and availability while reducing the impact on our planet. What are the challenges and what needs to be done to solve them?

Green Infrastructure

SCE Funds 'Critical Aerial Support' for Daytime, Nighttime Firefighting

Capt. Greg Barta of the Orange County Fire Authority has been on the front lines of firefighting for 13 years. He has one word to describe the 2020 fire season to date: “Explosive.”

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Covid-19 Pandemic Puts Focus on Health Benefits Enrollment Season

Every year, workers make changes to their benefits options during open enrollment season. But this time around, the COVID-19 pandemic had raised the importance of the annual process.

Diversity & Inclusion

Abbott is Expanding Diversity in STEM

Supporting and increasing the number of women and those from diverse backgrounds in the STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – fields is a passion at Abbott.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Socially Responsible Investing: A Global Perspective

We believe that only an "engaged investor class" (form Wall Street to Main Street) can prevent a complete collapse of the fragile ecology of our planet, and provide universal dignity to all people around the world...

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Anna Brings New Power's Innovations to Hydrogen and Transportation Markets

With more than eight years working in the hydrogen industry, Anna Murray has dipped her toes into some of Cummins' biggest fuel cell and hydrogen technologies projects

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

IOC President Bach to Receive Seoul Peace Prize

"It is a great honour to receive this award, and I would like to thank the Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation for its decision."

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CASE Announces “Call for Entries” for the 2021 Dire States Equipment Grant

CASE Construction Equipment, a global construction equipment brand of CNH Industrial N.V., has issued the call for entries for the 2021 Dire States Equipment Grant.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Efforts to Plant Trees After the Wildfires Must Include Corporations

The Arbor Day Foundation, which has committed to planting trees worldwide since 1972, outlines a six-fold process for wildfire response. The Foundation’s steps don’t start and end with planting seedlings. Restoration requires time, dedication and certainly collaboration.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comedy Central, VH1 and MTV Help Previously Incarcerated People Vote

As we move closer to the U.S. presidential election, we have seen more brands join in creating unique voting initiatives. We’ve reported on clothing lines inspired by Rock The Vote, retailers encouraging and even paying employees to work the polls and marketing campaigns calling on citizens to please vote.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

General Mills Partner World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize

We are honored to partner with WFP in China and India to support their child hunger relief programs that ensure children are nourished and able to learn and thrive.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Stanley Black & Decker Named Winner of the 2020 Reuters Responsible Business Award in the Business Transformation Category

The company was named a winner in the Business Transformation category which recognizes companies that are embracing innovative opportunities to address social and environmental challenges and develop sustainable business models for the future.

Environment

La Red de Innovación e Impacto es un conjunto de organizaciones que apoyan micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas con el fin de fomentar el crecimiento y la prosperidad en América Latina y el Caribe.

Todo ello, a través de la generación de instancias de colaboración, asistencia técnica, conexiones con expertos y detección de oportunidades que generan alto impacto social.

Health & Healthcare

How a Local Agency Removes the Barriers That Keep Underserved Families in Poverty

In February 2020, while most of America enjoyed 3.5% unemployment opens in a new tab and unprecedented economic prosperity, Kentucky resident Iyeshia Lattimore was barely getting by. She was working third shift in a low-wage, high-stress job...

Environment

HanesBrands Announces 2030 Global Sustainability Goals Focused on People, Planet and Product

HanesBrands, a socially responsible leading global marketer of everyday basic apparel, today announced new, wide-ranging 2030 global sustainability goals that include a commitment to setting science-based environmental targets, a goal of improving the lives of at least 10 million people, and addressing the use of plastics and sustainable raw materials in products and packaging.

Education

Introducing Cisco's Educator Resource Center

Autumn is considered back-to-school time in the United States and other parts of the world. But this year, the return to the classroom looks dramatically different than ever before.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

In Celebration of the First Arhaus Studio Opening, Arhaus Is Partnering With American Forests To Plant 10,000 Trees

As a brand founded on sustainable beliefs, and as part of its ongoing Green Initiative, Arhaus is honored to continue supporting American Forests and its mission.

Environment

Morgan Stanley Announces Commitment to Reach Net-Zero Financed Emissions by 2050

Morgan Stanley announced a new commitment to reach net-zero financed emissions by 2050. The Firm joins many of its clients in this strategic goal and is committed to providing financing, expertise and thought leadership to support the transition to a low-carbon world.

Diversity & Inclusion

General Mills Celebrates International Day of the Girl

Through our CARE partnership in cocoa-growing communities in Ghana & Cote d’Ivoire, we are empowering farmers to improve the well-being of their families & communities, including helping their daughters pursue an education & fulfill their dreams.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Medtronic Donates Nearly $1 Million in Personal Protective Equipment to International Medical Corps for COVID-19 Response Efforts

Medtronic Donates Nearly $1 Million in Personal Protective Equipment to International Medical Corps for COVID-19 Response Effort

Diversity & Inclusion

Inequity in the Nonprofit Funding Gap: How Strategic Pro Bono Can Help Counter Systemic Inequity

There is a funding gap in the nonprofit world—a gap that is deepened by systemic inequity, particularly for nonprofit leaders of color. Pro bono is one tool we can use to help build a more equitable nonprofit world

Green Infrastructure

Qualcomm Technologies Advances Smart City Solutions

The makings of tomorrow’s smart cities are already visible today, and Qualcomm Technologies is helping to pave the way by creating the technology that connects these solutions to the internet of things (IoT).

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Collaborates with NeighborWorks America to Prevent Foreclosures and Evictions

The Fifth Third Foundation is collaborating with NeighborWorks America to support efforts addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in local communities across 18 NeighborWorks America network organizations throughout Fifth Third’s 10-state footprint.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Nutrition and Health
    Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
  2. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  3. Kingfisher Around the World
    The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
  4. Mary Kay Ash Foundation: Creating a Safer, Healthier World for Women
    In the U.S. and around the world, Mary Kay remains steadfast in its commitment to ending the cycle of domestic violence and finding cures for cancers...
  5. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  6. Key Supports Affordable Housing
    KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment helps fulfill Key’s purpose to help clients and communities thrive by financing projects that...
  7. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  8. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  9. PSEG People & Communities
    PSEG is committed to improving the lives of our customers, our employees and the diverse communities we serve throughout New Jersey and Long Island...
  10. FedEx | Advancing Climate Solutions
    Connecting the world responsibly and resourcefully. Sustainable logistics is a health, safety, environmental and economic issue, particularly in...
  11. 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...
  12. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  13. Wesco Cares
    Life-changing events can happen to any of us, often when we least expect them. Employees in need can turn to the Wesco Cares. Its mission is to be an...
  14. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  15. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...