Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Big Change for Box Tops

Since Box Tops for Education launched in 1996, 70,000 schools have earned more than $913 million. That has helped pay for much-needed art supplies, field trips, playground equipment, library books and much more.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Power Of Purpose: How Virginie Helias And P&G Are Making Sustainability 'Irresistible'

P&G's Chief Sustainability Officer Virginie Helias's journey to sustainability began with her being faced with a challenge when she was leading the detergent business in Europe in the 2000s with their lead brand Ariel down for three years in a row.

Sustainable Development Goals

Get With the Goals: Corporate Reporting on the SDGs

The business value of using the Sustainable Development Goals to inform corporate reporting

Innovation & Technology

Internet Essentials: 2019 Program Kickoff and Announcement

Comcast's Internet Essentials program is the nation's largest and most comprehensive high-speed Internet adoption program for low-income Americans.

Research, Reports & Publications

Wells Fargo Releases 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) today released its 2018 Corporate Responsibility report, Purpose in Action.

Diversity & Inclusion

Interview With Shannon Brattebo, Environmental Engineer

Shannon Brattebo has worked at Tetra Tech since 1999 as an environmental engineer specializing in lake and reservoir restoration and management, water quality monitoring, modeling, and assessment.

Diversity & Inclusion

Fifth Third Bank Named to Diversity Best Practices Inclusion Index

Fifth Third Bank is pleased to announce that for the second consecutive year, it has been recognized by Diversity Best Practices, a division of Working Mother Media, for creating an inclusive workplace.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Business Leaders, Investors and Industry Experts Will Meet in Amsterdam in October to Discuss the Future of Sustainability Reporting

Over 300 CEOs, business leaders, investors, Government representatives and NGOs will share their latest strategies and drive discussions on how companies can fully assess, report their impacts and demonstrate leadership on key social and environmental issues.

Energy

Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods Break Ground on Largest Renewable Natural Gas Project in North Carolina

Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods, Inc. are pleased to announce that the companies are breaking ground on North Carolina’s largest renewable natural gas (RNG) project through their joint venture, Align Renewable Natural Gas.

Energy

Adoption of Zero Emission Vehicle Program Will Drive Colorado’s Transition to a Clean Transportation Future

Influential investors and companies commend the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission today on their decision to adopt the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program and increase the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on Colorado’s roads.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Awards More Than $200,000 in Grants for Workforce Education and Training Across Greater Cincinnati

Duke Energy today announced $203,315 in grants to eight organizations focused on workforce development across Greater Cincinnati.

Media & Communications

A Splash of Color to Brighten Your Journey

IVECO – based in the Czech Republic – invited over 150 local kindergarten students to enter its “Color Your Bus” contest.

Social Impact & Volunteering

How the General Mills Foundation is Mobilizing a Global Volunteer Workforce

The General Mills Foundation’s (GMF) executive director, Nicola Dixon discusses GMF’s award winning partnership with Partners in Food Solutions (PFS).

Responsible Production & Consumption

Costa Crociere Foundation and Sahara Forest Project Join Forces for Sustainable Farming in the Desert of Jordan

For the first time guests onboard Costa Cruises and AIDA Cruises ships calling at Aqaba, Jordan, will taste vegetables produced by using saltwater and solar power in the desert. The initiative contributes to the revegetation of desert areas in Jordan

Environment

3D Printing Factors Big in HP’s Sustainability Game Plan

3D printing will continue to play a key role in HP’s mission to create a circular and low-carbon economy—a vision and set of initiatives benchmarked in its most recent 2018 Sustainable Impact Report.

Research, Reports & Publications

Working to Offer More Efficient Solutions

Caterpillar has a long history of and a strong process for innovation in research and development.

Diversity & Inclusion

Northern Trust Achieved a 100% Score on the Disability Equality Index This Year

Northern Trust was recognized as a ‘Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion', this year achieving a 100% score on the Disability Equality Index.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

In Effort to Support Childhood Cancer Research, Aflac Addresses Facebook’s Algorithm Change

Recent efforts have resulted in Aflac winning first place in the “Use of Facebook” category of PR Daily’s 2019 Digital Marketing & Social Media Awards.

Research, Reports & Publications

When Water is the Product, How Do We Afford Sustainability?

Data analytics, properly aggregated and visualized to give operators actionable insights to inform better decision making, can put facilities on a path to sustainability and resilience.

Responsible Production & Consumption

ON Semiconductor’s Plastics Go Electric!

Did you know that all finished goods plastics from our 22 manufacturing sites and most sub-contractors globally are shipped to ON Semiconductor’s Reclamation Center (OSRC) located at our headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona?

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Watch the P&G ACTIVATE Documentary Series Starting Next Month

ACTIVATE is a six-part National Geographic documentary series about Global Citizen's efforts to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. Each episode delves into a different issue connected to poverty as world-renowned artists like Hugh Jackman, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Pharrell Williams; corporate leaders like P&G; grassroots activists and impacted people work to ignite change.

Green Infrastructure

The Place Makers Episode 3 - Barangaroo, Sydney

Watch how Aboriginal people have been living sustainably in the area known as Barangaroo for at least 80,000 years, home to one of Australia's most important urban regeneration projects.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Freeport-McMoRan Wins Product Stewardship Award for Safety

Freeport-McMoRan was honored with a Product Stewardship Award from BNSF Railway for the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail in 2018.

Media & Communications

Astellas SVP of Health Systems Shantelle Dodson is PharmaVoice Woman of the Week

Listen to PharmaVoice's Woman of the Week podcast featuring Shontelle Dodson, senior vice president Health Systems at Astellas Pharma US discussing her leadership role and the C3Prize, a challenge created to change cancer care

Health & Healthcare

VIDEO | Tour Mohawk Group's Showroom at NeoCon 2019 with Interior Design

Live from Mohawk’s NeoCon 2019 showroom, company execs share insights into a new collection, called Relaxing Floors, which is designed to help reduce stress by mimicking patterns in nature – a concept known as fractal fluency.

Latest Campaigns

Collective Action

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

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

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...

Accelerating access to healthcare technology

We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...

KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service

KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...

KeyBank's Community Investment

In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...

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...

2025 Performance Report

Entergy’s 2025 performance report, “Energy for a better future” presents an overview of our company’s 2025 achievements, future plans and strategies...

Aflac Stories

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

GoDaddy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...