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.

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Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Kellogg Company and Grocer Albertsons Companies Drive Awareness for In-Store Recycling

Kellogg and Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, are teaming up to help change customers’ recycling habits in honor of Earth Day.

Philanthropy

Truist Invests Over $5 Million Into Atrium Health Foundation To Advance Health Equity and Workforce Development in Charlotte

Atrium Health announced a $5.05 million gift to the Atrium Health Foundation “Giving Hope” campaign from the Truist Charitable Fund and Truist Foundation.

Corporate Responsibility

SAP and EKOenergy Partner for a Renewable Future

SAP has been using 100% renewable electricity to power all its data centers and offices since 2014. In the journey to 100% renewable electricity, SAP chose the internationally recognized EKOenergy label.

Education & Workforce Development

Bacardi Expands Shake Your Future to Madrid Where Young Unemployed Will Be Given Fresh Start in World of Bartending

Shake Your Future graduates receive an internationally recognized diploma and access to permanent employment opportunities within the sector, empowering them to transform their lives and build a brighter future.

Volunteering & Community

Cummins Removed Tons of Waste, Including E-waste From Jamestown, New York Community in 2022

Cummins continues its Destination Zero path by helping its communities reduce waste. The company’s Jamestown Engine Plant will have another community recycle day on Saturday, June 10.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Generation Change's Hands Off Presents: Gina Tonic

Generation Change (GenChange) is an audience-inspired, audience-led initiative at Paramount designed to elevate and empower young people who are driving change around the world.

Education & Workforce Development

Fifth Third Bank Finance Academy® Impacts Minority Students

Fifth Third’s Finance Academy program, one of its Fifth Third L.I.F.E. (Lives Improved through Financial Empowerment®) programs, reached nearly 70,000 students that attend schools in low- and moderate-income communities in the 2021-2022 school year.

Inclusion & Opportunity

“Equity in Action” – Building a More Inclusive Tomorrow

In celebration of International Women’s Month, Bloomberg New Voices (a Bloomberg News initiative) and the Bloomberg Women’s Buy-Side Network (BWBN) Singapore chapter recently organized “Equity in Action” – Building a More Inclusive Tomorrow.

Inclusion & Opportunity

How To Define Inclusive Growth — And How To Get There

YouTube influencer and philanthropist Lilly Singh and Mastercard’s Shamina Singh took the stage in a packed room in Washington, D.C., to share how we can all encourage greater gender equity.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Recycling Plastics, Reusing Water

Recycling plastics can save landfill space and conserve energy and water that would have been used to make new materials, among other benefits. But mechanical recycling also comes with its challenges.

Corporate Responsibility

How Qualcomm is Prioritizing Waste Management

Through our Environmental Program Management Standard, we focus on identifying activities, services and processes that generate waste and strive to reduce the impact of our waste disposal practices on the environment.

Volunteering & Community

Podcast: A Blueprint for High-Engagement CSR Programs

Get an inside look at a growing social impact program. Patricia walks through the innovations she’s pioneered and lessons she’s learned leading Splunk’s volunteering, giving and matching, and community investment programs.

Corporate Responsibility

5 Practical Steps for Advancing DEI in Your Medical Device Company

In 2017, our Boston Scientific leadership team found ourselves faced with a dilemma. Poring over our annual employee survey results, we were taken aback to learn — much to our chagrin — that not all of our female employees felt they had equal opportunities for promotion as their

Energy & Infrastructure

The Sustainable Data Centre: How To Curb Soaring Energy Use

With cloud now the default way of working for businesses in almost every sector, the amount of energy used by data centres is ever increasing: currently up to 1.5% of global electricity demand, according to the International Energy Agency.

AI & Technology

EHSxTech Takes Dublin: Discussing the Future of EHS in Tech

The end of March saw EHS professionals from some of the biggest names in the tech industry gather for the Antea Group USA’s EHSxTech® one-day event.

Education & Workforce Development

Michigan Ross School of Business and Ceres Announce New Sustainability Education Program for Corporate Boards

The University of Michigan Ross School of Business, a top-ranked global executive education provider, in collaboration with Ceres, a leading nonprofit organization driving equitable solutions to the world’s greatest sustainability challenges,

Environment

Nippon Otis Installs Large Solar Panel Grid at Factory

Nearly a quarter of annual electricity consumption at the Nippon Otis Elevator Company logistics and engineering center can now be offset by power generated with newly-installed solar panels. 

Research & Reports

Companies Worldwide Are Not Setting Near-Term Goals To Radically Change Business and Save the Planet

head of Earth Day, a new Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose® (CECP) Investing in Society report finds environment, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure rates among top companies are increasing: Fortune 500® companies increased ESG disclosures 6.21% between 2019 to 2021

Education & Workforce Development

Cadence Recognizes Technology Leaders of Tomorrow

Meet a group of highly accomplished women who have received the Cadence’s Women in Technology Scholarship.

Philanthropy

Celebrating National Volunteer Week: Four Team Depot Captains on Giving Back to Communities

For 30 years, Team Depot, The Home Depot’s associate volunteer force, has been giving back to communities across the country. All year long, Home Depot associates volunteer their time and sweat equity to address the needs of local communities.

Corporate Responsibility

Don’t Believe the Hype on EHS: It’s Not Just Another Name for ESG

There’s a lot of confusion in the sustainability market right now, and I think a lot of it has to do with acronym overload. GRI? TCFD? CSRD? It’s a lot to keep track of, even for specialists.

Volunteering & Community

Covia Cares: Improving our Local Communities

Every day, Covia helps improve our local communities by donating to local food banks, advancing the safety and health of first responders, and building key relationships in our local communities. To further support impactful community engagement and encourage Team Member voluntee

Inclusion & Opportunity

Pizza Hut Spotlight: Meet Premila Vishwanath

We recently sat down with Pizza Hut franchisee Premila Vishwanath, owner of Tex Food, LLC, to learn more about her background and career journey, hear some of the challenges she’s faced in business and discover what advice she would give aspiring business owners.

Volunteering & Community

6 Communications Principles To Boost Engagement in Your Employee Giving and Volunteering Programs

It’s hard for employees to engage with giving and volunteering programs…when they don’t even know they exist. Which is why an effective communications strategy is critical. Discover 6 Communications principles to boost engagement in your programs...

Health & Healthcare

The African Continent Ramps Up Efforts To Crack the Code on Outbreaks

On a recent afternoon in Nairobi, Kenya, about two dozen scientists gathered, peering at a screen that to the untrained eye looked like gibberish — rows of letters but no coherent words.

Latest Campaigns

Nutrition and Health

Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...

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...

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...

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...

Collective Action

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

Community Impact

Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

Collaboration and Partnership

Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...

Corporate Responsibility

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