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AI & Technology | Chemours

Transforming the Future of Data Center Cooling

For generations, Delaware has been a place where scientific discovery and manufacturing excellence come together to solve real-world challenges. The First State has built a reputation for transforming research into technologies that have a global impact.

Education & Workforce Development

From Caregiver to Engineer

Medtronic

Environment

Turning Shared Challenges Into Shared Solutions: Inside BIER’s Fall 2026 Roundtable

Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable

Energy & Infrastructure

PSE&G Introduces GridSmart Battery Program, a New Residential Battery Storage Pilot

PSEG

Health & Healthcare

Rabies Prevention: From Ancient Fear to Modern Solutions

Boehringer Ingelheim

Education & Workforce Development

Free Digital Courses Helped This Grad Student Make the Leap Into AI Studies

Verizon

Volunteering & Community

CVS Health Is Making a Difference in Local Communities, One Classroom at a Time

CVS Health

Education & Workforce Development

From the Gridiron to the Server Room: Meet the 49ers’ Cisco Networking Academy Apprentice

Cisco Systems Inc.

Philanthropy

Care Within Reach: How the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation Is Strengthening Health Systems Across Africa

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Featured Brands

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FedEx

2025 FedEx Cares Report: Memphis Headquarters Giving & Volunteering

In 2025, our FedEx Cares team worked closely with city experts, nonprofit leaders, our team members, and other Memphians to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges facing the current and future Memphis workforce.
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Comcast

Comcast NBCUniversal Announces $2.5 Million in Unrestricted Grants to 80 Nonprofits

Comcast NBCUniversal and NBCUniversal Local announced that a total of $2.5 million has been awarded to 80 nonprofit organizations servicing one of the 11 NBC- and Telemundo-owned stations’ markets across the U.S.
3M™ Adhesive Mix Monitor
3M

A Customer Challenge Inspired the 3M Adhesive Mix Monitor

New products can come from anywhere – formal meetings, lab discoveries, customer conversations, or even running into a colleague in the hallway.
Shawn Wei
Medtronic

From Caregiver to Engineer

This fall, Wei, a recent high school graduate from Berkeley, California, will begin studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California as a recipient of a Medtronic Spark Scholarship.
Rifat Kabir Sharna
Verizon

Free Digital Courses Helped This Grad Student Make the Leap Into AI Studies

When Rifat Kabir Sharna moved with her husband from Bangladesh to Columbus, Ohio, in November 2023, she hoped to build her career in technology.
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Cisco Systems Inc.

From the Gridiron to the Server Room: Meet the 49ers’ Cisco Networking Academy Apprentice

Former Division I football player Michael Lowe is gaining hands-on network engineering experience with the San Francisco 49ers, applying skills from Cisco Networking Academy in one of the most connected environments in sports.
T-Mobile 2025 Corporate Responsibility Report
T-Mobile

T-Mobile 2025 Corporate Responsibility Report: Affordable Connectivity

While connectivity is increasingly embedded in day-to-day life, financial barriers to access remain. We believe that no one should be left behind. That belief drives our commitment to offer affordable and no-cost options to help more people get connected and expand access to oppo
Verizon

With Data-Driven Decisions, Goat House Gym Increases Profits

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FedEx

2025 FedEx Cares Report: Delivering for Good

FedEx uses our global network to help ship and strategically place preparedness supplies, and our planning expertise to help organizations run complex training scenarios so communities, clinics, and volunteers are ready before the next crisis arrives.
Fashion designer Rachel Zoe works on a limited-edition jacket she designed with Aflac that includes a QR code prompting people to Check for Cancer, because early detection can help save lives.
Aflac Incorporated

Aflac + Rachel Zoe Make Bold Fashion Statement To Prompt Americans To Check for Cancer

A pioneer in cancer insurance, Aflac has spent seven decades helping people manage the emotional and financial burden of a cancer diagnosis.

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Inclusion & Opportunity

#WomensHistoryMonth: Insights from Women Leaders at Cox

In celebration of Women's History Month, three of Cox's women leaders took a few moments to share their insights and help others.
Great companies never change who they are - their soul or their core values. Cox businesses lean on our values and have created environments where different perspectives and ideas are allowed to flourish. This

AI & Technology

Sustainable Brands Seeks Entrepreneurs for Startup Business Competition

Sustainable Brands® recently opened submissions for its internationally recognized startup business competition Sustainable Brands Innovation Open (SBIO). Presented and sponsored for a fifth year by Target, the competition culminates at SB’16 San Diego, June 6-9, with venture finalists presenting their early operational plans to business leaders and investors in the Sustainable Brands community. Mission-driven entrepreneurs are encouraged to apply before March 25.

Volunteering & Community

YouthBuild Students From U.S., Mexico and El Salvador Cross International Borders for First Prudential YouthBuild Global Service Day

Bound by their common lack of opportunity and struggles to get a quality education and job training, seventy YouthBuild students from Arizona, Mexico and El Salvador met in San Luis today for the program’s first transnational event. YouthBuild students and graduates joined together to build walls for two green homes that will be owned by low-income families.

Philanthropy

Jimmy Kimmel and Chevrolet Unite to #DayItForward

Teachers at Whaley Middle School in Los Angeles were starting an online campaign to raise significant funds for necessary supplies when Chevrolet and Jimmy Kimmel Live! surprised them by stepping in.

Health & Healthcare

Versaic Delivers Solution to Streamline Medical Affairs for Pharmaceuticals

Versaic, a leading provider of grant and donation management solutions, has designed and deployed systems for healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to streamline processes in Medical Affairs including Investigator Initiated Studies (IIS) and Continuing Medical Education (CME) grants.

Volunteering & Community

Trevor Plouffe Inspires Action Team Captains During Second Conference Call of the School Year

Joining the second Action Team conference call of the 2015-2016 school year, Trevor Plouffe stressed the importance of inspiring others to take active roles in their communities.

Education & Workforce Development

Inspiring Future Engineers

Recently, a few Southern California Edison engineers met with the Charging Champions, a team of middle and high school students building a robot to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge robotics competition this spring.

Environment

Bard CEP to Host Live Webinar Weds., 3/2 at Noon on Renewables, Efficiency and Carbon Pricing

On March 2nd, the Bard Center for Environmental Policy will be speaking with Rachel Cleetus, Lead Economist at the Union of Concerned Scientists about Renewables, Efficiency and Carbon Pricing.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

IHOP and Applebees Will Serve Cage-Free Eggs

DineEquity, the parent company of IHOP & Applebees, is committed to going 100 percent cage-free in its egg supply chain.

Awards & Rankings

Meeting the Gold Standard in Corporate Sustainability

Fact is, organizations like TransCanada in the energy sector have been operating in a socially responsible way for decades. We just haven’t been very good at telling people about it.

Philanthropy

JetBlue Launches Charity Capsule Wardrobe Accessories

Awards & Rankings

MGM National Harbor President Honored As Minority Business Leader

Lorenzo Creighton doesn’t just lead. He makes history.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Astellas Promotes Catherine Wertjes to Head of Ethics & Compliance

Astellas today announced the promotion of Catherine Wertjes to Head of Ethics & Compliance, with responsibility for ethics and compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption initiatives worldwide, effective April 1, 2016. She will be based at Astellas' headquarters for the Americas in Northbrook, Illinois and report to Yoshirou Miyokawa, Chief Compliance Officer.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

KKR Portfolio Companies Get New Green Solutions Platform

As Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues continue to grow in importance for mainstream investors, KKR’s pioneering environmental initiative provides the resources and tools necessary for its participating private equity portfolio companies to determine materiality and the means to measure it.

Events

Timberland and VF Corporation Talk Sustainability Collaboration at GreenBiz ‘16

During GreenBiz’s 2016 conference in Scottsdale last week, Stewart Whitney, president of Timberland and Letitia Webster, senior director of sustainability at VF Corporation, shared how a collaborative effort led to strengthened sustainability practices after VF’s acquisition of Timberland in 2011.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

The North Face Expands Made In The U.S.A. “Backyard Project” Collection

In its second year, The Backyard Project has scaled production nearly 15x, tapped new partners across the U.S.A. and evolved production to bring eco-preferred fashion to more consumers

Inclusion & Opportunity

How I became a techie: Frances Chen

“I wasn’t afraid of any math or science problem.” —Frances Chen

Environment

Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable Highlighted in Pacific Institute Sustainability Synthesis Report

A new synthesis report, interactive tool, and special collection (Incentive-Based Instruments for Water Management) from the Pacific Institute and the Foundation Center features BIER.

Awards & Rankings

Junior Achievement of New Jersey Presents a 2015 Top Business-Education Partner Award to Quest Diagnostics

Each year, Junior Achievement of New Jersey (JANJ) recognizes the top 20 organizations that take a leadership role through volunteer engagement and make a major financial contribution to the JA mission in New Jersey.

Health & Healthcare

Our Mission: Helping Patients Prevail Over Serious Diseases

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines for patients with serious and life-threatening diseases.

Environment

5 Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship and How to Overcome Them

Antea Group consultant Nick Martin recently facilitated the second of a series of webinars in partnership with CDP. The first session, focused on Corporate Water Stewardship 101, provided an introduction and overview of some of the basic concepts. This time, Nick took a deeper dive into the five most common barriers to corporate water stewardship and how smart companies are addressing them.

Philanthropy

National Black Farmers Association Opens 2016 Scholarship Application Period

The National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) Scholarship Program today opened the application period for 2016 scholarships. The application site, https://scholarsapply.org/blackfarmersassociation, will remain open from March 1 to May 2, 2016, or until 100 applications have been received, whichever comes first.

Funded through a grant from the FCA Foundation, the charitable arm of FCA US LLC, the program provides scholarships of up to $5,000 to students pursuing agriculture-related study at an accredited two-year or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school.

Volunteering & Community

National Bike Challenge Crosses Borders and Helps Employees Reduce Carbon Footprint, Get Fit and Boost Engagement

Employees from Ingersoll Rand locations in the U.S. and Europe have collectively biked over 173,000 miles. See how much money and CO2 this saved.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Albertsons Companies Sets Goal for Cage-Free Eggs by 2025

Albertsons Companies announced today it will be working with its suppliers toward a goal of sourcing only cage-free eggs for its store operations by 2025, based on available supply. The company, among the first and largest in the conventional retail grocery sector to make such a commitment, is making the move not only as part of its ongoing commitment to animal welfare but also in response to customer buying habits.

Volunteering & Community

Girl Day 2016: Role Models Play a Big Part in Introducing Girls to Engineering

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Policy and Advocacy

Policy and Advocacy content from IWBI - International Well Building Institute

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...

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...

Thermal & Specialized Solutions

Chemours’ Thermal & Specialized Solutions (TSS) business sits at the intersection of chemistry, physics, and design, making it a leading provider of...

GoDaddy | Customers

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

PSEG People & Communities

PSEG is committed to improving the lives of our customers, our employees and the diverse communities we serve throughout New Jersey and Long Island...

Leadership

Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...

Subaru Love Promise: Community

Subaru is dedicated to supporting those who need it the most in our communities. From donating food to Feeding America, providing essential items to...

AEG Celebrates Inclusion

At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...

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...