Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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2025 Principal® Charity Classic Raised Record $10.6 Million for Iowa Youth

The Principal Financial Group

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

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Software-Defined Vehicles: The Critical Road to a Secure Future

Keysight Technologies

Innovation & Technology

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Impact: Delivering Financial Security

Northwestern Mutual

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Diversity & Inclusion

WSP USA Establishes Equity Center of Excellence to Unlock Access for Underserved Communities

WSP USA has formed the Equity Center of Excellence (ECE) to drive the transformation of American transit and mobility to full and equitable access for underserved, marginalized and disinvested communities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Another Voice: Gaming Firms Are Committed to Responsible Betting

With great opportunity comes great responsibility, as companies like ours now hold the keys to ensuring that New Yorkers safely try this legal form of gaming.

Innovation & Technology

How Mentorship Levels the Playing Field for Bloomberg's Black Technologists

Mentorship is a vital component of inclusion strategies, especially when trying to attract and retain diverse talent.

Innovation & Technology

Whirlpool Corporation: Innovating With Purpose

It’s in our DNA to create industry-leading, reliable products that people can count on day in and day out, with innovations based on what families and households really want and need—rather than innovating for innovation’s sake.

Diversity & Inclusion

Exchange Teams With Comcast NBCUniversal to Provide Free Streaming of Team USA and the Olympic Winter Games for Those Who Serve

Service members and honorably discharged Veterans worldwide will again enjoy free access to NBCUniversal’s full streaming coverage of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, courtesy of the Army & Air Force Exchange Service and Comcast NBCUniversal.

Diversity & Inclusion

CooperCompanies Makes Job Descriptions More Accessible and Inclusive

A job posting is more than an alert about employment opportunity, which is what led CooperCompanies and its business units to update job descriptions with more inclusive and accessible language.

Innovation & Technology

6 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2022 - From Norton Labs

Get ready for more hacking, more scammers, and a bigger need for online security.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Meet 'Believers,' the Employees Activating Purpose in Business-to-Business Companies

The most successful companies of the next decade may all share one common trait: a purpose, or reason for being, beyond profits, that is activated.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Heading for a Circular Economy - Salzgitter AG and Ørsted Launch Strategic Partnership

Salzgitter AG and Ørsted will work together as strategic partners in the future. In a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the companies have defined their joint approach

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

It's Official: Regions Is a Great Place to Work

We’re pleased to announce that we have earned the Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company designation.

Energy

Our Mission, Our Customers, and the Year Ahead

As we enter 2022, the best approach for envisioning what the year will bring is to start with our customers. In many ways, they’re the ones driving us, trusting us, and leading us into the future.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Applied Materials Named As a 2022 Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality

Applied Materials announces it once again earned 100% on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index in 2022 for its LGBTQ+ policies and practices.

Education

FedEx Announces Launch of Student Ambassador Program

Program to provide students from eight HBCUs with a unique, practical experience designed to help prepare them for leadership and the workforce.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Boston Scientific Named a 2022 Fortune World’s Most Admired Company

For the seventh consecutive year, Boston Scientific is recognized on Fortune’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies. Companies are selected based on nine attributes encompassing leadership, innovation, quality, social responsibility and workplace culture.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Human Rights Campaign Foundation Recognizes Duke Energy as an Inclusive Workplace

Duke Energy has received a perfect score for the fifth year in a row on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) 2022 Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking study that annually ranks companies on LGBTQ-friendly corporate practices and policies.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Earns Place in Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for Third Consecutive Year

CBRE Group, Inc.’s continued focus on diversity, equity and inclusion earned the company a place in the 2022 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for the third year in a row.

Education

Siemens Foundation and Discovery Education Open 2022 Possibility Grant Sweepstakes Offering Five K-12 Schools Nationwide $25,000 Total for STEM Initiatives

The 2022 Possibility Grant Sweepstakes, which offers five K-12 schools across the United States an opportunity to win a $5,000 STEM grant to purchase supplies and technology for any STEM-related initiative, is now accepting entries here.

Events, Media & Communications

A Chat With Kevin O'Leary: ESG Investing for a Better Future

With razor-sharp candor and business smarts, Kevin O'Leary of ABC’s Shark Tank draws on his encyclopedic knowledge of finance, investing, economics, and business to discuss a variety of topics without pulling punches

Responsible Production & Consumption

New Sustainability Initiatives and Product Innovation From Dial®

Dial®, a trusted brand of almost 75 years, continues to evolve and look for ways to better the lives of consumers. Across everything Dial, sustainability is a core brand value.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Arrow Electronics Tops Industry Ranking in FORTUNE's World's Most Admired Companies List For Ninth Consecutive Year

Arrow Electronics was named to FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies list, topping the “Wholesalers: Electronics and Office Equipment” category for the ninth consecutive year. Their overall score included a #1 ranking in social responsibility & innovation.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Dow Named One of the World's Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE

Dow (NYSE: DOW) has been named to FORTUNE's World's Most Admired Companies list for 2022.

Energy

New Renewable Energy Deals Position Verizon to Achieve Key Energy Goal

Verizon continues to be a leading corporate buyer of U.S. renewable energy, announcing seven new Renewable Energy Purchase Agreements (REPAs) for an aggregate of approximately 910 megawatts (MW) of projected renewable energy capacity.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Beijing 2022 Venues: Reusing, Reducing and Modernising

The first city in the world to host both Summer and Winter Olympic Games (2008 and 2022), Beijing has been able to reuse many of its iconic sporting venues.

Health & Healthcare

Illumina Collaborates With National Cancer Center Japan to Address a Leading Cause of Death in Asia

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and the National Cancer Center Japan have announced an international joint research project that will use Illumina's high-throughput DNA sequencing to analyse the blood-based genomic profile and clinical information of patients living with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.

Research, Reports & Publications

Spend Matters Vendor Analysis: Technology Review

As popular understanding of the climate crisis and a range of correlational social inequalities has, in recent years, grown exponentially, sustainability has risen to the summit of the executive agenda.

Latest Campaigns

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    Helping individuals and businesses gain access to useful financial products and services to meet their needs—from savings, credit, and insurance to...
  2. 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...
  3. Sustainable Products and Innovation
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  4. Whole Planet
    Whole Planet, a pillar of Whole Foods Market Foundation, helps people living in poverty build long-term financial resilience through income growth...
  5. Performance
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  6. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  7. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...
  8. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  9. 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...
  10. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
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  13. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  14. Integrated Tools
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  15. 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...