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Infographic: 2026 Grant impact at a glance: Strengthening communities globally.

Education & Workforce Development | Motorola Solutions

Supporting Today’s Heroes and Tomorrow’s Innovators

Behind every siren is a first responder facing the emotional toll of protecting their community. In classrooms worldwide, students are facing a different hurdle: a lack of the technology and mentorship required to succeed. These disparate challenges share a common solution.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Cascale Explores Sustainable Finance Enablers at Climate Bonds Initiative Connect Hong Kong

Cascale

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Strong by Form Closes €5.8M To Make Wood as Strong as Steel and Concrete

Ray C. Anderson Foundation

Education & Workforce Development

Entergy, Ampirical Invest $1.5M in LSU New Orleans Energy Lab

Entergy Corporation

Volunteering & Community

From Lumber to Lifelines: Aflac Employees Help Ensure No Child Sleeps on the Floor

Aflac Incorporated

Awards & Rankings

Industry Safety Organizations Recognize Georgia-Pacific for Excellence and Innovation

Georgia-Pacific Corporation

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Biopharma Circular Systems Will Move Beyond Park Benches

MilliporeSigma

Health & Healthcare

Guiding Stars: The Most Underrated & Simple Balanced Meal? A Sandwich

Guiding Stars Licensing Company LLC

AI & Technology

You Don’t Need $1,000 to Start a Business. You Might Not Even Need $100.

GoDaddy

Featured Brands

FedEx & OAA: Strengthening Disaster Readiness in the Caribbean

When natural disasters strike, airports and seaports become lifelines for delivering urgent medical care, food, and relief supplies to impacted communities.

Comcast Announces 2026 Impact Report

Our 2026 Impact Report highlights how we’re investing in our country, communities, employees, and environment through partnerships, programs, and innovations that create meaningful, long-term impact.

AI for Restaurants: Making AI Tools and Digital Strategies a Recipe for Growth

When Patrick Cheng decided to acquire a run-down Chinese restaurant in Dunwoody, Georgia, in 2020, he was at a professional crossroads.

Kimberly-Clark Professional Expands Thrive Program To Divert More Waste From Landfills

Kimberly-Clark Professional expands Thrive sustainability program, giving facility operators more ways to divert commercial product and dispenser-related waste and make measurable progress toward sustainability goals

Guiding Stars: Cooking With Limited Equipment

There are many reasons why you may need to cook with limited equipment or without a full kitchen. Maybe you have a very small space, or it doesn’t make sense to heat up a large oven.

From Lumber to Lifelines: Aflac Employees Help Ensure No Child Sleeps on the Floor

On a Friday afternoon, when many people were looking ahead to weekend plans, 31 Aflac employees gathered in a Columbus, Georgia, warehouse with a different purpose in mind.

Guiding Stars: The Most Underrated & Simple Balanced Meal? A Sandwich

It’s time to stop sleeping on sandwiches—these lunchtime staples have a lot going for them. You have to appreciate the efficiency of packing all the food groups between two slices of bread.

Boutique Optician Uses AI To Save Time and Keep Clients Coming Back

Destynee Turner became an optician because she loves helping people see. But growing The Optical Experience, her boutique optical shop in West Palm Beach, Florida, demanded business skills no opticianry program taught her.

AI for Small Business: How Mannequin Madness Found a New Partner in AI

Judi Henderson has “always been curious about the next, newest thing.” That’s how she found herself buying a single mannequin in 1999 for an art project—and ended up an entrepreneur.

Guiding Stars: An Easy Protein for Low-Effort Meals: Tinned Fish

The American Heart Association recommends consuming fish at least twice per week to lower risk of heart disease. Tinned fish can help you meet this goal. It’s a shelf-stable, cost-effective protein that makes quick meals more accessible.

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Events

Keep America Beautiful Hosts 2018 National Conference in Dallas; Kicks Off 65th Anniversary Celebration With Focus on Future

Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s iconic community improvement nonprofit organization celebrating its 65th anniversary in 2018, is featuring Doug McKenzie-Mohr, Ph.D., internationally-recognized author and founder of Community-based Social Marketing, as its keynote speaker at the 2018 Keep America Beautiful National Conference, taking place Jan. 17-19 at The Fairmont Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

Health & Healthcare

6 Entrepreneurs Whose Innovations Could Make GenH the Healthiest Yet

A necklace that helps doctors ensure a baby is up-to-date on vaccinations. An affordable, child-friendly antibiotic—delivered in a packet of peanut butter—that treats pneumonia and prevents malnutrition.

These are just a couple of the winners of the GenH Challenge: a Johnson & Johnson initiative focused on finding entrepreneurs whose innovations have the potential to help make future generations the healthiest yet.

Corporate Responsibility

Sappi North America's Key Performance Indicators: Social Indicators

Our pulp and paper products are derived from renewable resources, made with high levels of renewable energy, and are designed to be reused or recycled. While it is difficult to identify a more sustainable industry than forest products, not all companies perform equally when it comes to operating safely and sustainably. We track our progress annually, and in the following pages offer an updated view of our performance in important areas of environmental and social responsibility. We monitor key metrics for fiber, emissions, energy usage and the impact of our operations on air, water and solid waste. We use this data when setting improvement goals related either to our operations or our interactions with our key stakeholder groups—employees, customers and our local communities. We uphold the

Research & Reports

BNEF’s Annual Clean Energy Investment Trends Report Released

An extraordinary boom in photovoltaic installations made 2017 a record year for China’s investment in clean energy. This over-shadowed changes elsewhere, including jumps in investment in Australia and Mexico, and declines in Japan, the U.K. and Germany.

Energy & Infrastructure

Ohio Businesses Call on Senate to Protect Renewable and Energy Efficiency Standards

The Ohio Senate is moving quickly to act on legislation that would undercut Ohio’s clean energy economy. In response, major businesses, investors, healthcare providers and trade associations representing nearly 200,000 employees are gathering to voice their firm opposition to legislation that would roll back the state’s clean energy standards.

Awards & Rankings

Hormel Foods Receives Numerous Awards for Corporate Responsibility Report

Hormel Foods announced today that it has received several awards for its 2016 Corporate Responsibility Report. The company’s annual report provides information about the company’s goals and progress as a leading corporate citizen.

Environment

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation Announces Creative Collaboration with Globally Renowned National Geographic Photographer Andrew Mann

Education & Workforce Development

AT&T Aspire Accelerator Alumni: Where Are They Now? CommonLit's Story

In the spring of 2016, CommonLit.org was a collection of about 100 individual PDF reading lessons that English teachers could download and use with their students. Despite its humble start, I had a big vision. I came to the AT&T Aspire team with a simple pitch: Create the best reading and writing program in America and make it available for free so that even the most vulnerable students could access it online.

Corporate Responsibility

Starting a Year-round Employee Giving Program: Benefits, Barriers, and Things to Consider

According to America’s Charities’ Snapshot 2017 report, nearly 71 percent of workplace donors say that they want to work for employers who have missions and values that align with their own personal values. What’s more, nearly 6 in 10 workplace donors say they want to work for companies where the culture supports giving and volunteering.

To accommodate these interests, and to recruit and keep a talented workforce, many companies offer the chance for employees to take part in seasonal giving campaigns or in an annual day of service. But for companies that are truly committed to building a culture that is focused on giving back, a once-a-year event or campaign often isn’t enough.

Research & Reports

Dave Stangis, CSO Campbell's to Speak at Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability on Convergence of Technology and Sustainability

Dave Stangis has been in the sustainability business for over 20 years. As of last year, he quite literally wrote the book on sustainability—twice. The Campbell’s vice president of corporate responsibility and chief sustainability officer first co-authored 21st Century Corporate Citizenship:

Philanthropy

Child Waiting for a Family, Lands Right at Home

To look at little Jayden lands you’d hardly believe he spent nearly his entire life in foster care. For more than three years he didn’t have the certainty of a forever family. But that has all changed for this little boy. His adoption has been finalized and the Lands family says he is finally home.

Volunteering & Community

Service Makes Good Business Sense

Not many executives can say that in their first week on the job they – literally and figuratively – pulled on their boots to help restore a vacant lot in the South Bronx into a community garden. But doing just that is how I quickly began to understand and experience the Timberland philosophy of being an “Earthkeeper.”

Events

CECP Announces Third CEO Investor Forum As Movement to End Short-termism Gains Momentum

CECP's Strategic Investor Initiative (SII) will host the third CEO Investor Forum (CIF) on February 26, 2018, at the Time Warner Center in New York City. Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and 108th Mayor of New York City will join the invitation-only event for a 30-minute fireside chat and will offer his perspective on the need for the financial industry and the corporate sector to embrace long-term-oriented strategic planning and reporting.

Awards & Rankings

Bridgeton Distribution Center Wins Green Business Award

Ingersoll Rand’s Residential heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) & Supply's National Distribution Center (NDC) in Bridgeton, Missouri, won the Award of Merit from the St. Louis Green Business Challenge for the third consecutive year. The Challenge recognizes top companies in the St. Louis area for implementing sustainability measures in their daily operations.

Philanthropy

How Have Devastating Hurricanes Affected Rum?

Like many rum producers, including Diageo and Beam Suntory, Bacardi has given generously to disaster relief, donating US$3 million in the wake of Irma and Maria.

Volunteering & Community

Creating College Experiences That Build Students’ Character While Strengthening the Community

Making a significant difference requires courage, commitment and drive. It is those same principles that are inspiring the next generation of students at University of Detroit Mercy, a Catholic university founded in the Mercy and Jesuit traditions of community service and social justice.

Health & Healthcare

Accelerating Access to NCD Care in Tanzania

In many low- and middle-income countries, it can be difficult for people living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to access the care they need. Those living with NCDs – like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, and mental health conditions – often struggle to take care of themselves and their loved ones. And the situation becomes even more burdensome with age.

Awards & Rankings

CITGO Honored by Coastal Bend Bays Foundation

The CITGO Corpus Christi Refinery recently received the Industry Award at the 15th annual Conservation and Environmental Stewardship Awards Banquet at the American Bank Center. The Coastal Bend Bays Foundation presented the award to CITGO in recognition of the refinery’s efforts to reduce waste generation and air emissions.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Tetra Pak Pledges Support for EU Plastics Strategy

Tetra Pak pledges to support the European Commission’s Plastics Strategy, announced today as part of the EU Action Plan for a Circular Economy.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sustainable Investment in Europe at a Crossroads

The pull from institutional investors for sustainability has virtually doubled since 2012. In this article, Eurosif's Executive Director Flavia Micilotta discusses the trends and challenges of SRI, and issues recommendations for creating a sustainable financial policy framework.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Investing Close to Home

Since Homewise founding in 1986, we’ve helped over 14,000 households become more financially educated, 3,600 become homeowners, 2,100 make energy-efficient home improvements and emergency repairs, 600 refinance to more affordable mortgages, and we have built over 600 high-quality affordable homes. These results are made possible through the support of our investors and donors, who serve as our partners in helping families build financial resilience and stability through successful homeownership.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: So What Epoch Is It Again?

How about today? Is it still true that the natural world exists independently from human influence? Or, on the other hand, maybe human constructs have become so pervasive that our impacts are seen in every corner of the globe.

AI & Technology

Not Your Average IT Work Day

The Pan American Games are a big event: 31 sporting venues, 364 medal events, 7,000 athletes, 1 million tickets sold, 650 hours of online coverage, and 23,000 volunteers. To connect the games to the world, technology-sponsor Cisco tapped local Cisco Networking Academies to build the technology to power the game.

Energy & Infrastructure

Consumers Energy Seeks Public Input in Developing Long-Term Energy Plan

Consumers Energy is taking input from the public as it develops a long-range plan that will help ensure Michigan continues to be powered by affordable, reliable and clean energy. Consumers Energy is developing an Integrated Resource Plan that will serve as a valuable guide for actions for the next 15 years.

Awards & Rankings

CLP Looks Ahead After Shining in Hong Kong’s Sustainability Arena

Another year of pushing CLP Group’s sustainability work to the next level has borne fruit, with industry recognition earned in Hong Kong and beyond.

At the CDP Hong Kong and South East Asia awards, CLP was named the best performing Hong Kong company with a score of A- for its water programmes in 2017. It was ranked top of the Hong Kong-based or listed companies which participated in the CDP survey. The assessment was based on the climate change, water and forest-related data received from 1,073 of the world’s largest companies.

Beyond Hong Kong, CLP clinched the best ESG communications award in the IR Magazine Awards – Greater China 2017. The magazine has honoured excellence in investor relations around the world for over 25 years.

Latest Campaigns

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...

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...

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...

Drive for MPC

At Marathon Petroleum, our professional truck drivers share one common vision: no accidents, no injuries, and no harm to the environment. We’re proud...

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...

GoDaddy | Customers

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, helps millions of entrepreneurs globally start, grow, and scale their businesses. People come to...

P&G | Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Responsibility: We’ve achieved 14 out of 16 of the environmental goals we set in 2010, and we will accelerate our progress as we work to...

SCS Consulting

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Collective Action

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

Carbon Footprint

We are accelerating our efforts to help build a low-carbon economy and avert the worst impacts of climate change. Our goal to reduce our GHG emissions...