The Latest News From Leading Brands

Corporate and nonprofit news distributed by 3BL, including press releases, op/eds, multimedia, and the full range of stories that shape reputation.

Inclusion & Opportunity

2025 FedEx Cares Report: Equality, Opportunity, & Diversity

FedEx

Environment

Wesco 2030 Sustainability Goals and Progress

Wesco International

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

From Fairways to Filtration: Inside Covia’s Thompson Plant

Covia

Awards & Rankings

Our People: Transport Driver Brett Tallant’s Dedication to Safety Earns National Recognition

Marathon Petroleum

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

KeyBank Foundation Invests $225,000 in Denver Scholarship Foundation Family Engagement Initiative

KeyBank

Corporate Responsibility

Collecting Creativity: Meet Jalyn Prewitt

GoDaddy

Awards & Rankings

Eaton Named to 100 Best Corporate Citizens List for Sustainability Progress and Transparency

Eaton Corporation

Corporate Responsibility

Trusted Chemistry in Action: Chemours Driving Innovation for Fluoropolymers

Chemours

Featured Brands

Wells Fargo & Company

Building Homes, Building Workforces: Inside Wells Fargo’s $5M Tour Across Five States

A $5 million philanthropic investment from Wells Fargo and the Wells Fargo Foundation across five states is helping communities expand affordable housing and build the skilled workforce needed to sustain growth.
Tornado damage to Meridian Elementary school.
3M

After a Tornado, ScotchBlue Painter’s Tape Became an Unexpected Sign of Resilience

After a tornado struck Meridian Elementary School in Blue Mound, Illinois, the school community faced significant property damage, including roof loss, collapsed ceilings and major disruption across several classrooms. Fortunately, no students or staff were injured.
NBC Bay Area: Bay Area Student Follows Passion With Help From Scholarship
Medtronic

NBC Bay Area: Bay Area Student Follows Passion With Help From Scholarship

Berkeley’s Shawn Wei, a freshman at USC, was one of 100 students awarded the Medtronic Spark Scholarship.
People working around a table
FedEx

2025 FedEx Cares Report: Equality, Opportunity, & Diversity

At FedEx, we support nonprofits in the areas of Learning, Leadership, and Economic Opportunity that help students and career seekers build the skills, credentials, and connections to launch upwardly mobile careers.
A healthy breakfast shown with oats, strawberries and bananas.
Guiding Stars Licensing Company LLC

Guiding Stars: Boost Your Breakfast Flexibility

Many of us eat the same breakfast pretty much every day. There is some value in that—convenience, ease and speed, fewer choices to make, and depending on the meal itself, nourishment.
FedEx

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 2026 Impact Report cover
Comcast

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.
Someone holding up a tray of chicken in front of a restaurant
Verizon

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.
Cleaning professional taking something out of a thrive box
Kimberly-Clark Corporation

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
Blender shown with vegetables for a smoothie.
Guiding Stars Licensing Company LLC

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.

Recent Alerts

AI & Technology

Chocolate Maker Theo & Philo Sweetens Its Business with NetSuite.org

As one of the world’s tropical equatorial nations that produce the raw material for chocolate, the Philippines is experiencing growth as an exporter of chocolate. Not coincidentally, Theo & Philo is growing in the Philippines as well.

Environment

The ReNEWW House, a Sustainable Living Laboratory

There has long been an argument that homes and buildings are reliant on 19th-century technologies. The result is that while home climate-control systems and features such has windows have improved over the years, homes and buildings are still inefficient.

Awards & Rankings

CareFirst Earns Top Rating For Workplace Equality From Human Rights Campaign

Environment

National Grid Applauds City of Boston on Climate Ready Boston Report

National Grid applauds the recommendations of Mayor Marty Walsh and the Green Ribbon Commission for their meaningful and detailed report that addresses climate change for the City of Boston.

Awards & Rankings

Whirlpool Corporation Receives Perfect Score on 2017 Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

How Caterers can Help Reduce Food Waste

This is the third in a series about food waste and the social license. You might recall from our first post that the concept of social license is about asking our customers to accept practices in the food experience that reduce waste. So far, we’ve discussed how the concept of the social license can reduce food waste in restaurants. Today we are going to tackle catering – a very complicated and difficult beast.

Volunteering & Community

Lumber Mill Reimagined as Artist Studios in Kentucky

Few places in Covington, Ky., illustrate this city’s proud past, recent struggles and current renewal more eloquently than the Hellmann Lumber building.

Environment

Xylem Bypass Pumping Solution Helps Protect the Mojave Desert

Education & Workforce Development

Holidays, Money, and Family—Check Out These Interesting Holiday Spending Stats

T. Rowe Price recently released the survey – Parents, Kids, & Money, which surveyed more than 1,000 parents as well as their children between the ages of 8 to 14. This survey revealed that most parents actually want to overextend their money and spending in order to get their children what they want for gifts and holiday presents.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Introducing the Antea Group Philadelphia Office!

The Philadelphia office is staffed by practitioners with expertise in all of our Antea Group practice areas. We have particular experience with the chemical, oil & gas, railroad, and food & beverage industries. Project capabilities range from small-scale industrial hygiene monitoring for healthcare clients to extensive remediation projects for chemical companies. We're only a short drive to Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland and are able to support projects across the region.

Education & Workforce Development

Ten to Watch: Trisha Stan, Ph.D.

“We do science for the betterment of society, but too many misunderstandings exist between scientists and the populations we strive to serve. I hope to build bridges of communication and understanding between scientists and the public.”

Events

How Should Hotels Market Green Initiatives?

“Going Green” has become standard practice in a high percentage of hotels and other hospitality facilities. It’s the right thing to do. But it can also create the positive public relations and opinion of your brand that you are looking for. It’s a win-win.

Energy & Infrastructure

Green Infrastructure Approaches Help Mimic Natural Water Cycles

Green infrastructure incorporates natural systems into engineered systems to provide clean water, conserve ecosystem values and functions, and offer a wide array of ancillary benefits to people and wildlife.

Volunteering & Community

Timberland's Victory Garden Cultivates Community Impact

Outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland recently celebrated the close of the ninth consecutive harvest season of its Victory Garden, a plot of fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers outside the company’s Stratham, New Hampshire headquarters. Each year, a dedicated group of Timberland employee volunteers manage and cultivate the 1,000 square foot area of raised garden beds.

Volunteering & Community

How U.S. Bank Makes Community Possible

Earlier this year, our client U.S. Bank launched the Community Possible Relay complete with a mobile baton, or what became known as the Big Blue Bus. The goal was to promote volunteerism and inspire 153,000 volunteers both inside and outside the bank. This represents 1,000 volunteers for each year the bank has been in business!

Volunteering & Community

Marina Bay Sands Supports The Purple Parade

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Here’s The Beef: Wendy’s Joins the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef

We recently took another step in our long-time commitment to sourcing quality beef responsibly by joining the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef. Their goal is simple – to work together with lots of different stakeholders to sustain responsible beef production for years to come. One of our team members who lives and breathes quality beef every day is also one of our rising stars, Manager of Quality Assurance for Beef, Sarah Wells. Sarah is one of the most upbeat and optimistic people you’ll ever meet. Fortunately, she loves to travel because we keep her on the road all the time. She’s an expert in meat science and animal care, and she taught at the collegiate level before joining Wendy’s two and a half years ago.

Corporate Responsibility

The Missing Link: Rewarding Tenant Engagement In Sustainability Benchmarking

A common theme amongst various sustainability benchmarking frameworks, such as the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), is the weight placed on working with tenants. More specifically, landlords are now expected to capture and report on tenant energy use if they wish to achieve top scores.

Corporate Responsibility

Sodexo and American Red Cross Partner in New Hampshire and Vermont for Disaster Response

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life services, and the American Red Cross in New Hampshire and Vermont have entered into a partnership to provide disaster clients of the Red Cross in that region with meals during times of disaster response.

Philanthropy

Big Bet Philanthropy: How More Givers Are Spending Big and Taking Risks to Solve Society's Problems

David Dornsife recalls the first time he took his wife, Dana, to see the work they were funding to provide water to people in Africa, traveling to a village with no wells in Ghana in 2001. "People had scabies all over their faces," he says. "It was hard to talk with them because there were flies everywhere."

Philanthropy

Capital BlueCross Annual Secret Santa Program Provides 600 Gifts for Local Children in Need

Capital BlueCross employees today packed up hundreds of gifts to send to children in need this holiday season. The company's annual "Secret Santa" program provides gifts to children, from infants to teenagers, who otherwise may not have something under the tree.

Education & Workforce Development

Closing the College Gap

For most of the last century, the United States led the world in educational attainment and the economic and social mobility of its people. As our advantage has been slipping in recent decades, leaders from the President to philanthropists have set goals for boosting the percentage of Americans who complete some form of college, so more Americans are prepared for the rigors of the workplace and being engaged members of society.

Awards & Rankings

Film Festival Spotlight: 2016 Fan Favorite Winner Thermo Fisher Scientific

Watch the 2016 Fan Favorite winner Thermo Fisher Scientific, which won for its video titled, "Give Us Hope."

Education & Workforce Development

Ten to Watch: Lela Okromelidze

Lela Okromelidze grew up in the Eurasian country of Georgia, which after years of fighting following the fall of the Soviet Union, didn’t always provide the educational opportunities of many other countries.

Awards & Rankings

2017 Buick Envision AWD Earns 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score for Safety Rating by NHTSA

The 2017 Buick Envision AWD compact SUV has earned a five-star overall vehicle score from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) — an accolade achieved by every Buick model rated for two consecutive model years.

Latest Campaigns

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...

Rethinking EHS Podcast

Join us as we travel the world to uncover real stories of impact—from landfills and energy transition to workplace safety, emerging contaminants, and...

Policy and Advocacy

Policy and Advocacy content from IWBI - International Well Building Institute

Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared

Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared™ was intentionally designed to support the success of Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultants. With a message that...

SCS Consulting

Any news coming from SCS Consulting

Growth Through Sustainability

Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...

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...

Drawdown Georgia

Informed by Project Drawdown, the world’s leading resource for climate solutions, Drawdown Georgia is the first state-centered effort to crowdsolve...

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...

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...