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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Comerica Recognized with Second Consecutive Climate Leadership Award

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE:CMA) is honored to receive a second consecutive Climate Leadership Award from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and The Climate Registry (TCR). Held in Baltimore, MD, The Climate Leadership Awards brought together forward-thinking leaders from business, government, academia, and the non-profit community to address climate change. Specifically, Comerica was recognized with an Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management Award for setting third generation greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals after achieving its first and second generation GHG reduction goals ahead of schedule.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Renew Life is #FundingHerFuture through Whole Planet Foundation

Renew Life has joined the 2019 Supplier Alliance for Microcredit, pledging $50,000 to alleviate global poverty through Whole Planet Foundation.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

How Philadelphia Is Protecting ‘Children’s Right to Read’

Karisa Barlow has always loved to read. So when she learned about an opportunity to advocate for literacy in Philadelphia and help kids discover their passion for reading, she jumped at the opportunity.

Education

With New Tech in Hand, At-Risk Students Dream Big

Brianna has big dreams about a career as an artist, but she didn’t always think that way.

Two years ago, the now 18-year-old high school senior from Queens, N.Y., arrived at a new school in Westchester on the bank of the Hudson River, equipped with state-of-the-art educational technology in the classroom, something that was lacking at her previous school. Studying at the Martin Luther King Jr. High School, which is part of the Greenburgh-Graham school district for students who are at-risk or have special needs in Hastings-on-Hudson, has changed the way she thinks about the future — her future.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Las Vegas Sands Responsible Gaming Ambassador Training Educates Team Members in Problem Gambling

Las Vegas Sands has always focused on making its communities better places to live through Sands Cares and Project Protect, which promote a strong quality of life and foster a positive environment. Through its Responsible Gaming Ambassador program, the company has dedicated itself to educating its Team Members on how to create a positive environment at all of its properties worldwide. Hotel Manager Kai Shield became a responsible gaming ambassador in 2017 after seeing his assistant director go through the training, making him eager to participate.

Diversity & Inclusion

Fly Women: An Interview with JetBlue's Alexandra Panova

For Women’s History Month, JetBlue and the JetBlue Foundation are teaming up to profile some of the airline’s amazing female crewmembers with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) backgrounds who are leaving their mark on the industry. In this spotlight, we are highlighting Alexandra Panova, Manager Administrative International.

Diversity & Inclusion

Video | The Disability Collection: Zahra Chauhan

Verizon, Getty Images and the National Disability Leadership Alliance are creating The Disability Collection, a growing collection of stock images that break stereotypes and authentically portray people with disabilities in everyday life.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Helping Food Banks Achieve Zero Hunger

In 2015, numerous countries made the commitment to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 through the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

A Housing Lift for Those Who Protect and Serve

From the first time he set foot in a fire station, David Budd felt like he was home. As a boy, he had fallen in love with the idea of being a firefighter and spent years working to become one. It was a proud moment when he eventually landed a full-time job as a first responder.

Diversity & Inclusion

Hear Her Story: Q&A With Margarita Najera, Plant Manager at Gildan

Margarita, Plant Manager at Gildan shares with us the joy of coming back to work in her native country and her sudden rise to leadership. Here is her story:

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Why General Mills Want Supply Chains to Become Regenerative Stewards of the Environment

US food producer General Mills plans to equip its supply chain farmers with the knowledge and tools to move from practices that mitigate environmental degradation to regenerative approaches. https://bit.ly/2FHmGB5

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Smithfield Foods Contributes $50,000 to Fund Meat and Poultry Research and Education

The Smithfield Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Smithfield Foods, Inc., announced today a donation of $50,000 to the Foundation for Meat and Poultry Research and Education, a non-profit research, education, and information foundation established to identify strategies that enable the meat and poultry industry to produce better, safer products, and to operate more efficiently.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Nespresso Invites Companies to Join Its Aluminium Recycling Scheme

Nespresso today issued an invitation to other portioned coffee manufacturers to join its recycling program, paving the way for a global recycling scheme for aluminium coffee capsules. With this initiative, Nespresso hopes to improve the accessibility and convenience of aluminium capsule recycling.

Diversity & Inclusion

Fly Women: An Interview with JetBlue's Gisselle Sanchez

For Women’s History Month, JetBlue and the JetBlue Foundation are teaming up to profile some of the airline’s amazing female crewmembers with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) backgrounds who are leaving their mark on the industry. In this spotlight, we are highlighting Gisselle Sanchez, International Finance Compliance Manager.

Diversity & Inclusion

Why PepsiCo Wants to Close the Gender Crop Gap

With the scale and reach of its agricultural sourcing, PepsiCo wants to help farmers across its global supply chain become more sustainable. This is especially true of female farmers, who face significant barriers in what is increasingly being called the “crop gap.”

Innovation & Technology

How 3D Printing Is Transforming Lives with Better Fitting, and Better Looking, Prosthetics

Based in Bulgaria, ProsFit uses HP Jet Fusion 3D printing technology to transform the prosthetic fitting and manufacturing process, designing customized sockets for a more comfortable and faster fit. These prosthetics that fit more precisely, are custom-designed for the wearer and are more affordable, without requiring the physical presence of a prosthetist.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Comerica Earns Top Marks in 2019 Corporate Equality Index

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE:CMA) proudly announced today that for the sixth consecutive year, it received a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. Comerica joins the ranks of more than 560 major U.S. businesses that also earned top marks this year.

Media & Communications

Timberland’s Earthkeepers Lace Up for Global Sustainability

In this episode, Atlanta McIlwraith talks about engaging a global workforce to give back to local communities, and how those efforts are guiding the company to create a more sustainable future.

Environment

The Benefits and Pitfalls of Setting Science-based Climate Targets in Practice: Lessons Learned from Sustainable Brands’ 2018 New Metrics Conference

I had the great opportunity to host a roundtable discussion on setting science-based targets at Sustainable Brands’ 2018 New Metrics conference in Philadelphia in October. Science-based targets (SBTs) have received a growing amount of research interest and company attention over the past five years. Currently, 515 companies worldwide are engaged in setting and validating SBTs through the Science Based Targets Initiative—a steep increase from the 14 companies who were engaged in this process four years ago.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Human Rights Campaign Names CBRE A Best Place To Work For LGBTQ Equality

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) received a perfect score of 100 percent for the sixth consecutive year on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality. With its high score in the CEI, administered by the Human Rights Campaign, CBRE is recognized as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

eBay Officially Kicks Off its Fifth Retail Revival Program in Greensboro, North Carolina

eBay will launch Retail Revival in its fifth partner city: Greensboro, North Carolina. With its rich history as a textiles manufacturing hub and a pioneer in the Civil Rights movement, Greensboro offered the perfect balance of grit and vision to make this program a success.

Diversity & Inclusion

Catherine Hendrian Named As One of Crain's 2019 Notable Women in HR

Since being elected to her position in 2016, Catherine Hendrian and her team of about 220 serve 8,500 Consumers Energy employees.

She leads the utility’s traditional HR functions and its Learning & Development and Strategy Mobilization teams and has ability to create a holistic experience that provides employees with the tools to deliver.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Astellas: Five Consecutive Years of Perfect Equality Scores

For the fifth consecutive year, Astellas has achieved a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's (HRC) annual Corporate Equality Index (the Index).

Innovation & Technology

HEULIEZ BUS Receives Largest Order to Date for Its Newly Launched Electric Citybuses

CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) is committed to investing in and developing a full range of alternative fuel vehicles. The GX437 fully electric city bus from Heuliez Bus is a direct result of this extensive research and development program.

The GX437 was chosen by QBUZZ for its low emissions thanks to its unique Lithium-ion NMC battery system.

Environment

Can We Reduce GHG Emissions by 60 Percent?

In 2016, we set a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from our offices, data centers and small vehicle fleet (otherwise known as scope 1 and 2 emissions) by 30 percent by 2025. By focusing investments on energy conservation and more efficient use of space, Symantec achieved a 32 percent reduction in just three years, surpassing our goal seven years early.

Building on our success, we are participating in the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The SBTi, a collaboration between CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), the UN Global Compact, World Resources Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund, champions science-based target setting as a powerful way of boosting companies’ competitive advantage in the transition to the low-carbon economy.

Latest Campaigns

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  3. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
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    Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...
  10. Forests
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  11. Growth Through Sustainability
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  12. Investing in our Communities
    We invest in sustainable community outcomes that improve lives.
  13. Growth Through Sustainability
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  15. 2024-25 AMD CR Report
    AMD Commemorates 30 Years of Corporate Responsibility with 2024-25 Report