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A New Data Set from Covalence Helps Monitor Corporate Norms

CSRHub has integrated Covalence's Norms-Based Exclusion Monitor into its Roadmap Report, giving investors a new tool to identify corporate norms violations across 15,000+ global companies.

Environment

Water Stewardship in the Beverage Industry: BIER’s 20-Year Foundation

Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable

Energy & Infrastructure

Comcast Beats Network Energy Efficiency Goal Five Years Early

Comcast

Environment

EPA's Superfund Cleanup Reforms: 3 Changes That Will Accelerate Timelines

Antea Group

Health & Healthcare

Check for Cancer Champion Brian Ryll Is a Fighter for Those Who Fight Fires

Aflac Incorporated

Corporate Responsibility

FedEx & Heart to Heart: Strengthening Disaster Response

FedEx

Corporate Responsibility

WK Kellogg Co Joins First-of-Its-Kind Good Food Coalition With Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA)

WK Kellogg Company

AI & Technology

Truist Patent Boom Fueled by AI & Machine Learning

Truist

Research & Reports

Half of Americans Have Little to No Knowledge of Grasslands, the Country’s Largest Natural Habitat

World Wildlife Fund

Featured Brands

Matching Grant Program Supports Homebuyer Education and Counseling

Wells Fargo and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines helped NeighborWorks Montana secure $685,952 through the Member Impact Fund to expand homebuyer education and counseling across Montana, supporting residents navigating housing affordability challenges. The grant builds on

Building a World-Class Employee Experience | Cisco FY25 Purpose Report

The world of work is changing faster than ever, but our greatest strength remains our Cisconians. They are the heart of our culture, the driving force behind our innovations, and a critical part of how we make a positive impact around the world.

Comcast Beats Network Energy Efficiency Goal Five Years Early

Connectivity is essential to our lives, whether it’s for work, school, or entertainment.

Guiding Stars: Men, Time to Meat Halfway?

Meat-eating has been connected with masculinity for a long time in Western countries. There are even studies on what drives the meat-masculinity link.

Home Field Advantage: Seizing Philadelphia’s Greatest Moments

Philadelphia holds a unique place in the American story. It is the city where the nation’s founding ideals were debated, defined, and declared—a place where history continues to inspire the future. And for those of us at Comcast, it’s more than a historic place. It’s home.

Check for Cancer Champion Brian Ryll Is a Fighter for Those Who Fight Fires

Firefighters accept extraordinary risk in the line of duty. But for Brian Ryll, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire, the most insidious threat is the one that often goes unseen: cancer.

FedEx & Heart to Heart: Strengthening Disaster Response

When we think of disaster relief, we often picture the immediate aftermath: delivering critical supplies and life-saving aid to affected communities. However, at FedEx, our Delivering for Good initiative goes far beyond responding after a crisis strikes.

Truist Patent Boom Fueled by AI & Machine Learning

Truist is accelerating how innovation is developed and deployed across the organization. More teammates are submitting ideas, which helped drive a 63% increase in patent application filings over the past year.

Skills-Based Volunteering for the AI Era: Inside Cisco’s First Tech for Social Good Hackathon

Many nonprofits know they need to embrace AI, and most are already feeling the pressure to move faster than their resources allow. AI is advancing at a speed that’s hard for them to keep pace with, let alone adopt responsibly.

Catherine Bessant Joins Truist Board of Directors

Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) announced that its board appointed Catherine Bessant to join as a director. Bessant will serve on the board's risk committee.

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Inclusion & Opportunity

Northern Trust Manila Partners Participate in Annual Pride March

Our Manila partners marched alongside Philippine Financial Industry Pride member companies in the annual pride march, supporting the theme “Rise Up Together”.

Corporate Responsibility

Five Good Reads on Closing the Skills Gap in STEM

This article is part of a series on “solvable problems” within the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Global Engagement Forum: Live takes place this October 10–11, 2018, bringing together leaders from across the private, public, and social sectors to co-create solutions and partnerships to address four urgent, yet solvable problems—closing the skills gap in STEM, reducing post-harvest food loss, ending energy poverty, and eliminating marine debris and ocean plastics.

Energy & Infrastructure

National Grid Provides One-Stop Solar Shopping For Upstate New York Customers

Inclusion & Opportunity

‘Breaking Down Barriers’ With Braille

In his work with blind and visually impaired people in Utah, Everette Bacon has noticed something. As some young adults decide it is time to start their careers or attend college, they suddenly realize they are not prepared. In fact, they might be functionally illiterate.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Aflac's SmartGreen® Initiative Helps Reduce the Company's Environmental Impact

Although our corporate environmental impact is minimal due to the nature of our business, we’re always looking for innovative ways to reduce that impact. The Aflac Board of Directors Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Committee leads our program, which is called Aflac SmartGreen®.

Corporate Responsibility

Brands Taking Stands | Luxury Brands Turn to the Triple Bottom Line

Luxury brands and brands taking stands are topics not usually included in the same conversation. But in another sign of a world turned upside down, top tier fashion labels are now talking CSR and sustainability. From materials to packaging, from supply chain to environmental footprint, luxury consumer goods companies are updating their strategies to ensure long-term viability.

Media & Communications

L’Oréal and Avery Dennison Collaborate to Eliminate Label Waste

Global materials science and manufacturing company, Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY), leading beauty company both globally and in Australia, L’Oréal Australia, and Australia’s leading waste management company, Wasteflex, are collaborating on a recycling programme to deliver zero waste to landfills.

Philanthropy

Minimizing Distracted Driving Through Partnerships

According to the World Health Organization, about 1.25 million people are killed and millions more are injured on the world’s roadways each year. Research has shown that distracted driving is a preventable contributor to this toll. As we work toward our vision of a future with zero crashes, we are always looking for more ways General Motors can collaborate with others committed to creating safe roads for drivers.

Education & Workforce Development

Getting Syrian Students Back to School through Tech-Enabled Learning

Through an innovative partnership with the Clooney Foundation for Justice and UNICEF, HP is helping support the education of nearly 4,000 Syrian refugees and thousands of Lebanese students at nine schools in Lebanon.

Philanthropy

Johnson County Library and Black & Veatch Renew MakerSpace Partnership

Modern American libraries are centers of access to ideas, books, AV – and technology. Global engineering and construction company Black & Veatch is continuing a successful partnership with Johnson County Library as part of the company’s growing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) outreach with a renewed 3-year, $90,000 commitment, announced Wednesday, to the Black & Veatch MakerSpace at Central Resource Library.

Health & Healthcare

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals: Behind the Scenes of a Video Shoot with Chloe

As a national ambassador for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, Chloe, age 11, is just one of 10 million children treated each year at Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. This past week, Chloe took to the sky to fly to Columbus, GA, home of Aflac, a Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals partner to participate in a video shoot to create her story on surviving cancer, thanks to donations which helped her treatment at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center.

Environment

INFOGRAPHIC | How to Minimize Your Ecological Footprint

To address the impact of our ecological footprint, Schneider Electric recently hosted a webinar that considered the various ways humans can utilize the earth’s resources in a more responsible manner.

Education & Workforce Development

Building a Legacy at the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) Summit

This week, we hosted our 9th annual Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Summit (DWEN) in Toronto, Canada, bringing together more than 100 women entrepreneurs from 16 countries and 25 industries, the investment community and the next generation of innovators and trailblazers through our Girls Track!

Environment

Aramark to Reduce Single-Use Disposable Plastics Across Global Operations by 2022

Aramark (NYSE: ARMK), a global leader in food, facilities management and uniforms, has announced a commitment to significantly reduce single-use disposable plastics, across its global food service operations, by 2022. Single-use plastic items include straws, stirrers, bags, cutlery and various packaging materials. Aramark will implement actions across the 19 countries where it serves 2 billion meals annually in schools and workplaces, sports and leisure venues, hospitals and other locations.

Education & Workforce Development

Supporting Science Fairs While Keeping Data Safe

Volunteering & Community

Assessing the Effectiveness of Our New Community Response System at Eleonore

In an effort to increase collaboration and transparency, our Éléonore operation formally established a site-based grievance mechanism in 2016 using the principles set out in our Sustainability Excellence Management System (SEMS). Through discussions with our Cree Nation of Wemindji partners, a joint decision was made to refer to it as a “dialogue mechanism,” with the intent of facilitating meaningful conversations with our stakeholders. In 2017, Éléonore volunteered to pilot a new internal tool developed by the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team to assess the effectiveness of the dialogue mechanism.

Corporate Responsibility

Aligning Pfizer’s Business with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Chris Gray, Senior Director, Global Institutions and Public Reporting, Pfizer, will join Dave Armon, CMO of 3BL Media, to discuss Pfizer’s commitment to the SDGs on July 26, at 2:00 pm ET.

Philanthropy

Wells Fargo Pledges to Give Away $400 Million This Year

AI & Technology

Digital Fluency: An Intelligent Approach to A.I.

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is not the future. A.I. is the now, delivering real benefits for people and businesses today, in addition to holding extraordinary potential for accelerating innovation and creating even greater efficiencies down the road. At Monsanto, we recognize that the world of agriculture is being transformed by data science, and A.I. is a major part of that.

Education & Workforce Development

Milliporesigma in Massachusetts

MilliporeSigma CEO Udit Batra talks about the company's footprint here in New England. If they are located in 66 countries around the globe, why is their global headquarters in Massachusetts? Plus, what is a "curiosity cube?"

Health & Healthcare

Meet the 2018 Cisco GPS Challenge Grand Prize Winner: CareNX Innovations

Philanthropy

Amplifying the Call for Help

To truly make a difference during a disaster, we know providing information — from the latest weather updates and best evacuation routes to tips for people staying in place — is just step one. Step two is action. Our 2017 news coverage emphasized the magnitude of the challenges faced by people in affected areas. It also helped mobilize citizen action as we connected viewers with relief organizations offering financial and logistical aid.

Opening the nation’s eyes to the dire circumstances, infrastructure damage, and human struggle was vital to rallying support.

Research & Reports

Yum! Brands’ Recipe for Good: 2017 Global Citizenship & Sustainability Report Showcases Company’s Efforts to Serve Food People Trust, Grow Sustainably to Protect the Planet and Unlock Potential in People

Yum! Brands, Inc. today released its 2017 Global Citizenship & Sustainability Report, citizenship.yum.com, highlighting the company’s progress in 2016 and 2017 and outlining efforts by KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell to make a meaningful impact in three areas of strategic focus: Food, Planet and People.

Media & Communications

Urban Centers – Preferable Place for Billions of Us to Settle Down -- So What About Helping Growing Cities Become More Sustainable?

With the majority of the population moving into urban centers in coming decades…how can the action of today’s city planners create a better future for us? Scientific American shares some perspectives.

Philanthropy

Hallmark Responds in Times of Need: Disaster Relief 2017

Responding to the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, Hallmark matched employee donations to the American Red Cross of $35,000 at its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, and $4,000 at Crayola in Easton, Pennsylvania. Additionally, Hallmark Gold Crown stores across the U.S. accepted donations from their valued consumers through year-end, totaling $28,000 for the Red Cross.

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Housing affordability

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Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...

Guiding Stars blog: Health & Wellness

About the Guiding Stars Health & Wellness Blog The Guiding Stars Health & Wellness blog is your place for the latest in health and nutrition news...

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...

Collective Action

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

Cascale Events

Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...

Profiles of Good Character and Inspiring Innovation

There are two pillars to CACl’s culture: character – our commitment to ethics and integrity in all we do, and innovation – our dedication to...

FedEx Cares | Overall

FedEx Cares is our global community engagement program and one way that we live out our purpose of connecting people and possibilities. Our goal is to...

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...

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...