Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

What Investors Look for in ESG Programs

What are investors looking for in a company’s ESG performance? When companies are managing, measuring climate change, employee engagement and other ESG data points, they are showing a business with excellent management practices.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

How to Improve Your ESG Performance

Does your business have an #ESG program? How do you improve your ESG rating, score and overall performance? In this episode of The Social Impact Show, we chat with Stewart Rassier and Janna Irons from thinkPARALLAX and explore five key areas

Environment

Setting the Benchmark for Sustainable Agriculture

Organic farming is both good for the environment and can generate attractive returns.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Rent vs Buy: Fifth Third Bank Supports American Dream Of Homeownership, Offers Tips for Renting Versus Buying

When you own a home, it helps grow equity and you may be able to deduct mortgage interest on your taxes.

Research & Reports

ICIC Releases Latest Report Analyzing COVID-19 Recession and Recovery in the Nation's 100 Largest Metropolitan Areas

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) today published the fourth and final report in its series analyzing "How the Coronavirus Recession and Recovery Have Affected Businesses and Jobs in the 100 Largest Metropolitan Areas". The report highlights that the first quarter of 2022 saw the strongest job growth at Black-owned businesses.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

New Fifth Third Mortgage Program Offers $1,000 Toward Closing Costs for VA, FHA, 203K, USDA Mortgages

To support affordable housing options, Fifth Third has announced it will pay $1,000 toward closing costs for VA, FHA, 203K and USDA Owner Occupied Purchase and REFI loans.

Philanthropy

KeyBank, NeighborWorks and The Fair Housing Center Celebrate First Closed Loan in Program to Expand Access to Home Loans for Single-family Properties Throughout Toledo

This week KeyBank, NeighborWorks and The Fair Housing Center celebrated the first loan closed under a new program aimed at making financing single-family homes easier and more affordable for low- to moderate-income individuals and families throughout the city of Toledo.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

AllianceBernstein's Guide to ESG Strategies for Municipal Bond Investors

Municipal bond investors increasingly want to apply environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations to their portfolios.

Events

Fifth Third To Present at Bank Director Conference

Fifth Third Bank’s Chief Sustainability Officer Mike Faillo will be presenting at Bank Director’s Bank Audit & Risk Committees Conference this week in Chicago.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

A Davos Spring: A First-Timer's Impressions From the World Economic Forum

I was invited to the Annual Meeting of the Forum to share a business perspective on the role nature-based solutions play in strategies to achieve net-zero, like VMware’s 2030 Agenda.

Latest Campaigns

Leadership

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

Economic Growth

CARE’s Economic Growth team works to increase women’s wealth by changing the system

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...

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...

Employee and Community Engagement

At MilliporeSigma, we look for opportunities to use employee and community engagement to spark scientific curiosity and breakthroughs. We know that...

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...