Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Build Your Nonprofit’s Holiday Giving Plan With Help From GivingTuesday and Taproot Foundation

Taproot Foundation and GivingTuesday have teamed up for a free webinar on Tuesday, July 16 on campaign best practices, donor trends, and how your organizations can harness the expertise of marketing, graphic design, videography, and communications professionals who want to volunteer to help your cause.

Environment

Duke Energy Renewables to Use New Technology to Help Protect Bats at Its Wind Sites

Texas leads the nation in wind energy generation with thousands of wind turbines throughout the state. This is a boon for clean energy generation but not for the state’s large population of bats, which are often drawn to the spinning turbines.

Green Infrastructure

Electrify America, Walmart Announce Completion of Over 120 Charging Stations at Walmart Stores Nationwide with Plans for Further Expansion

Electrify America’s continued collaboration with Walmart is expected to make the retailer one of the largest retail hosts of electric vehicle charging stations across the United States, and reinforces Walmart’s broader mission to spark collective action – alongside key partners – to drive environmental sustainability and provide customers access to sustainable options.

Sustainable Development Goals

Pfizer Australia Hosts Local Activation of IMPACT2030

[July 1, 2019, Sydney, Australia] Today Pfizer Australia hosts a gathering of 40 of its non-traditional industry partners to discuss volunteerism and potential collaborative efforts with the United Nations, corporations, nonprofits, academia, and other stakeholders to address Australia’s needs as part of the IMPACT2030 initiative. This meeting is being facilitated by Chris Jarvis, International expert in mobilizing corporate volunteering to achieve benefits for companies and communities.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sappi Becomes an International Stakeholder Member of PEFC

Sappi Limited (Sappi) is pleased to announce that we have become an International Stakeholder member of the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification™

Education

AEG and BET Team Up for Seventh Annual BET Experience Youth Program Presented by AEG

AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company, and BET Networks teamed up to host the seventh annual BET Experience Youth Program presented by AEG last month in conjunction with BET Experience at L.A. LIVE and the BET Awards.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Scotiabank Charity Challenge Raises a Record $1.2 Million Dollars at The 2019 Scotiabank Vancouver Half-Marathon and 5k

The 2019 Scotiabank Vancouver Half-Marathon and 5k had many highlights, with $1.2 million dollars being raised for local organizations through the Scotiabank Charity Challenge, capping off a spectacular, record-setting day.

Innovation & Technology

Digging Out: How Concepts Of Minecraft And A Silly Name Are Transforming A Serious Business

If construction sites can visualize the progress of excavation from beginning to end, including real-time adjustments for unforeseen obstacles, the project will be able to optimize execution and quickly and efficiently modify work plans based on changing site conditions.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Rethinking Business and Circular Economy with John A. Lanier

In this podcast interview with Katie Whalen, John discusses Ray’s legacy, what has happened in the 20 years since Ray first documented his journey, and John’s vision for the future.

Research, Reports & Publications

Predictive Maintenance Offers Promise in Asset Management

When it comes to understanding how water utilities approach asset maintenance, survey data shows that, on average, they tend to weight their efforts more heavily toward preventive maintenance.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Reporting Frameworks Share Common Founding Principles

Report finds the world’s leading #corporatereporting frameworks have the same common foundations, based on the key objectives of transparency and accountability

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CyberGrants Announces 2019 Ovation Winners

CyberGrants, the leading provider of corporate social responsibility software, today announced the winners of the Ovation Awards at their annual Social Impact Leadership Conference in Nashville.

Research, Reports & Publications

The Secret Life of Waste: Uncovering Recycling Opportunities at Las Vegas Sands Resorts

What happens to a paper coffee cup, plastic straw, or a disposable utensil once it has served its purpose? These are the conversations Las Vegas Sands is having with restaurants, internal stakeholders, decision makers, and 50,000 Team Members globally.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Nestlé Breaks New Ground With Open Blockchain Pilot

Nestlé will break new ground in supply chain transparency through a collaboration with OpenSC – an innovative blockchain platform that allows consumers to track their food right back to the farm.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Arrow Electronics Employees Support Residential Center for Developmentally Disabled Children and Adults in the Philippines

Arrow Electronics employees in the company’s Manila, Philippines office donated sports equipment, clothing, furniture and other essential items to the Elsie Gaches Village, a residential care facility for children and adults with intellectual disabilities and neuro-developmental disorders.

Sustainable Development Goals

Business Leaders Join Other Global Decision-Makers in Abu Dhabi to Ramp up Climate Ambitions

Over 1,700 people from over 160 countries — representing Government, business, civil society and youth — convened at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi from 30 June to 1 July for a milestone moment in the lead-up to the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit on 23 September. The UN Global Compact, together with partners, convened a roundtable discussion with business leaders on a just transition to a net-zero future in line with 1.5°C scenarios.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest Well Underway

With just a little under four weeks until the deadline to submit business plans, the 2019 Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest is heating up this summer.

Diversity & Inclusion

Tyler Perry, Lee Daniels, Queen Latifah and More Lead Panel at BET’s META Conference

At META Convened by BET, leading Black entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and cultural icons gathered in Los Angeles to discuss how they can work together to use technology to advance the Black community.

Social Impact & Volunteering

A Passion for eCommerce & Education: Q&A With Wilko Reinholz, Director of eCommerce

Wilko Reinholz, a German native and avid world traveler, joined Gildan in Barbados just over one and a half years ago as Director of eCommerce, with the responsibility for overseeing the consumer experience and website optimization of the company’s brands.

Social Impact & Volunteering

PSEG Employees Planted Crops with America’s Grow-A-Row to Help Feed Community and Beyond

The event was organized by the BALANCE Employee Business Resource Group. In total, the volunteers planted about 12,000 sweet potato plants, which will yield 35,000 pounds or 140,000 servings of farm-fresh produce that America’s Grow-A-Row will donate to food banks and hunger relief agencies serving food desert areas (areas where people lack access to healthy, fresh, affordable produce) in Newark, Jersey City, East Orange, Camden, Morristown, and eastern Pennsylvania – customers within our service territory and in need of produce.

Sustainable Development Goals

A Train Ride to Perris, CA: Investing in a Sustainable Future Now

The 2028 Olympics in LA will occur as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development approaches. What might a train ride to Perris, CA look like through a lens of sustainable urban agriculture? Will passing neighborhoods display small-lot gardens, homes with grey water and rain catchment systems? Will large open spaces be organized into working landscapes, blooming with ecosystem benefits?

Innovation & Technology

Children Battling Cancer Can’t Always Express Their Feelings. Now a Robotic Duck Is Doing It for Them.

It was hard enough that Savi Abdallah-Sinha was only a 2-year-old when he began undergoing chemotherapy treatment to rid his body of leukemia.

Health & Healthcare

Making Strides in the Responsible Manufacturing of Antibiotics

Pfizer is committed to ensuring that the manufacturing, use and disposal of our products, including antibiotics, does not adversely affect human health or the environment. Core to this commitment is taking action to assess and reduce, as needed, the risk of antibiotics in wastewater from Pfizer and supplier manufacturing facilities

Research, Reports & Publications

HP Inc.'s 2018 Sustainable Impact Report

This report includes HP’s performance data through FY2018 (which ended October 31, 2018), unless stated otherwise. It also describes HP’s Sustainable Impact policies, programs, and goals.

Latest Campaigns

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...

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...

Retail Logistics

DP World provides end-to-end retail logistics solutions including comprehensive Purchase Order management from origin consolidation to retailer PO...

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...