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Join Leaders From Google, Microsoft, REI & More at GreenBiz 26

Trellis Group

Events, Media & Communications

sustainability: 2025 Report - Rockwell Automation
Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

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What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Education

Three Reasons to be Optimistic about Early Care and Education

“Where do we even start?” “How can we expand access when we don’t have good quality?” “How do we build a skilled workforce when we can’t pay them what they deserve?” “How do we reach the informal providers who are caring for half of our community’s children?”

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Get to Know Allina Health, Finalist for 2016 Employee Volunteer Program of the Year

Health care is more than just treating people when they are sick. As such, Allina Health is committed to improving the health of the communities they serve by investing in community health promotion efforts as well as its employees to support people on their path to better health.

Health & Healthcare

Ending Hunger and Malnutrition: How to Leverage Partnerships That Work

The Sustainable Development Goals were created with the mindset that business as usual would not be enough to end poverty in all its forms and fight inequality. At its root, poverty is a result of inequality. In today’s food systems, the poor cannot access power, resources, and opportunities. The system is controlled by few, and poor and vulnerable people are further marginalized.

Environment

Powering The Wastewater Renaissance

Hidden away or underground, wastewater infrastructure is an essential component to growing, sustainable communities. Around the world, this infrastructure enables cities to develop, economies to grow and communities to thrive.

Research, Reports & Publications

CBRE’s Shared Advantage: The Inside Story

Some firms understand that their influence extends beyond the boundaries of their own work. They recognize that the impact of small, positive acts multiplied across a broad global enterprise can improve the communities they serve, while at the same time grow their bottom line. When those positive acts flow naturally from the business process, the organization evolves beyond its public persona to deliver a mutual benefit to all of its stakeholders.

Environment

Big Companies are Taking Climate Change Very Seriously

Big companies are taking climate change very seriously.

Events, Media & Communications

At Industry Conference, Publishers Vent About Power of Social Media Companies

Education

Norfolk Southern: Reaching People Where They Live

Norfolk Southern trains run through thousands of communities in the eastern U.S., delivering goods that support local economies and residents. To promote safe rail operations, NS invests in community awareness programs that target two troublesome areas: trespassing on railroad tracks and unsafe motorist behavior at highway-rail grade crossings.

Environment

National Grid Intervenes in Support of EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Today National Grid joined eight other power companies at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Together we urged the Court to uphold the rule as a lawful application of EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the power sector.

Health & Healthcare

Gilead Sciences and The World Health Organization Announce Five-Year Visceral Leishmaniasis Collaboration

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced it has entered into a partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide $20 million in funding and drug donations over five years to expand access to diagnostic services and treatment for visceral leishmaniasis (VL).

Social Impact & Volunteering

Moving Forward: CSX and City Year Celebrate More Than 20 Years as Partners

CSX believes that a strong partnership is built on shared values – and according to CSX CEO Michael J. Ward, these have been key to the success of CSX’s 21-year partnership with City Year, a national education organization that provides tutoring, mentoring and supports to more than 200,000 students in schools located in high-poverty communities across the country.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru of America Continues Its Commitment to City of Camden Through Donation of More Than 1,700 Award-Winning Science Textbooks to Community Schools

Subaru of America is proud to announce its donation of more than 1,700 award-winning science textbooks to 17 Camden schools, continuing the brand’s commitment to education as part of its “Subaru Loves Learning” initiative.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Helping Our Communities Prepare, Recover and Flourish from Disaster

Astellas USA Foundation president Jeff Winton understands that disaster can strike when we least expect it, and that being prepared can ease the burden of those affected. He explains how Astellas USA Foundation is helping communities prepare, recover and flourish when the unexpected happens.

Events, Media & Communications

VM Summit 16 Ticket Prices Go Up This Saturday!

VM Summit 16 — VolunteerMatch’s signature event and the conference on corporate volunteering — is less than one month away! That also means that regular registration rates will end soon, and we’ll cross over into last-minute registration territory.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bacardi USA Receives U.S. EPA 2016 Smartway® Excellence Award

For the second year in a row, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honors Bacardi USA with a SmartWay® Excellence Award as an industry leader in freight supply chain environmental performance and energy efficiency in transportation logistics. The SmartWay Excellence Award, reserved for the top performing SmartWay Partners, is EPA’s highest recognition for demonstrated leadership.

Research, Reports & Publications

Stakeholders Call for More Action as Businesses Slow to Take up Global Goals

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Point of Impact: Where Corporate Philanthropy and Social Impact Collide

With outcomes in mind, corporations of all sizes are taking a fresh look at their strategic approach to their giving and employee engagement programs. In our latest position paper, we dig in to how things are evolving in this space and detail five distinct hallmarks of strategic, successful corporate giving and engagement programs. Is your strategy enabled for impact? Download the paper to learn more.

Innovation & Technology

Driving Security into Digitized, Connected Cars

As cars become digitized and connected to enable a better driving experience, enhance safety and relieve congestion, the threat of a cyber event is ever present. But General Motors goes to great lengths to protect both customer lives and their personal information.

Social Impact & Volunteering

How Companies Can More Effectively Use Storytelling to Inspire Employee Giving and Engagement

Companies and nonprofits that manage employee giving and volunteering programs are quite adept at the processes and practices that keep these programs humming.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Voice from the Field: Cassie Scarano, CEO and Co-Founder, Commongood Careers

Do you think that there’s a “talent gap” in the nonprofit sector? If so, what’s the nature of it? If not, why do you think there’s a misconception in the field?

Social Impact & Volunteering

St. Croix Hotel & Tourism Association, St. Croix Chamber of Commerce & Diageo USVI Award $17,500 in Scholarships

On Friday, September 23, 2016, the St. Croix Hotel & Tourism Association, the St. Croix Chamber of Commerce and Diageo USVI awarded $17,500 in scholarship funds to four local students.

Education

She Builds: Giving Women the Confidence and Skills to Maintain a Safe and Healthy Home

She Builds is a nationwide event series, created by Rebuilding Together, featuring community revitalization projects that create real change for women - providing critical home repairs and community restoration to women in need, while giving women the confidence and skills to maintain a safe and healthy home.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  2. SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights
    Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...
  3. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. Wesco Cares
    Life-changing events can happen to any of us, often when we least expect them. Employees in need can turn to the Wesco Cares. Its mission is to be an...
  8. People
    As a family-owned business, Bacardi values the importance of creating a warm and welcoming workplace. We do so by fostering an environment where...
  9. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  10. Community Investment
    all community engagement efforts (e.g., Teach for All, volunteerism, etc.)
  11. Advocacy
    Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...
  12. IWBI | Community News
    We believe that people's health and wellness should be at the center of design. That’s why we’re working with industry professionals in real estate...
  13. Nutrition and Health
    Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
  14. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  15. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...