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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Diversity & Inclusion

Legg Mason is pleased to announce the launch of UNIDOS, the newest Employee Resource Group (ERG), which represents the Hispanic and Latino Community within our employee base, clientele and the communities where we do business.

Scotiabank Supports Employee Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

Scotiabank is adding two additional paid personal days for eligible Canadian employees in support of mental health and broader wellbeing.

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership In Turbulent Times

Environment

What makes a great leader? This week on Sea Change Radio, we are honored to have Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin here to give us her take on that question.

2019 Fall CSR Conference Lineup: Meet up with America's Charities at These Events

Events, Media & Communications

Can't attend one of these events, or want to meet with our team beforehand? Click here to request a call with our team.

The Diversity Project

Diversity & Inclusion

The Diversity Project aims to accelerate progress towards an inclusive culture in the investment industry. An inclusive culture supports more effective teamwork, gives wider perspectives, better investment decisions, better results for our clients and ultimately more sustainable businesses.

Join the Operation Warm Heroes for Warmth to Bring Confidence and Hope to More Children

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Earlier this year we shared a story about a little girl who Operation Warm was trying to help by giving her a larger size coat. The coat she had fit ok, but was starting to get a little snug & this girl was growing & would soon need a larger size

The Impact of Design Through Social Good

For the past 19 years, Sappi has empowered great ideas by supporting designers that use their time and talent for good.

Give Kids The World Village Makes a Difference for the Bravest Kids and Their Families

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Each year 27,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. For these children, simple surprises and joys of life are eclipsed by doctors’ visits, hospital stays, medical tests and treatments.

SPLC: Upholding the Right to Due Process for Detained Immigrants Across the Southeast

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Every day, people from across the world come to the United States hoping to find safety or a better life. Some travel for hundreds of miles, crossing through the borders of Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala before reaching the U.S.-Mexico border.

How to Build an Employee Volunteer Program That Makes an Impact

Social Impact & Volunteering

Thanks to a KaBOOM! project and 150 volunteers organized by Marriott International and America’s Charities’ member PHILLIPS Programs for Children and Families’ networks, a kid-designed, community planned playground was built in a single day.

Reinforcing Our Responsibility to Sustainability

Innovation & Technology

Everything we do today needs to harness the power of manufacturing to make a better tomorrow for everyone.

The IVECO Plant in Sete Lagoas, Brazil Achieves Silver Level Designation in World Class Manufacturing

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

The IVECO commercial vehicles manufacturing facility in Sete Lagoas, Brazil, has attained silver status in the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) program.

An Innovative Future Factory for S.Pellegrino

Green Infrastructure

To celebrate the 120-year anniversary of S.Pellegrino, work has begun on the new production plant of one of the best-known and iconic Italian brands in the world.

National Grid Unveils New England’s Largest Battery Storage Facility, Back-up Energy Supply for Nantucket

Energy

National Grid today unveiled one of the largest battery energy storage resources in the Northeast United States.

Blue Buffalo Donates Truckload of Food for Pets Impacted by Hurricane Dorian

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

When Feeding America asked Blue Buffalo for support, the pet food company generously agreed to donate a truckload (38,000 pounds) of dog and cat food and treats to help the pets impacted by Hurricane Dorian.

American Standard Wins 2019 WaterSense® Sustained Excellence Award

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

For the second consecutive year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized American Standard with a 2019 WaterSense Sustained Excellence Award for its heroic efforts to defeat water waste and promote WaterSense in 2018.

Solar Turbines Welcomes an Untapped Source of Talent

Research, Reports & Publications

When a team from Solar Turbines toured the National Foundation for Autism Research facility, they quickly realized the students could be an excellent fit for Solar.

Bridgestone Holds 10th Annual Bridgestone Group Global TQM Conference

Bridgestone Corporation held the 10th Bridgestone Group Global Total Quality Management (TQM) Conference on September 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States.

The Young People Move to the Streets to Protest Slow or Lack of Action on Climate Change Challenges…

Media & Communications

When young people take to the streets in significant number, there is usually a revolution of some type in store, history tells us. Revolutions belong to the young, we can say with some certainty if history is our guide.

Nation’s Illiteracy Woes Won’t Be Solved by Government Alone

Education

Through its Soar with Reading program, JetBlue has been tackling the issue of book availability in underserved communities since 2015. The program provides free children’s books through vending machines in a different city every summer.

Back to the Future

Environment

It has been a long, long time since automobile dashboards were made from wood. But your next may very well have a dashboard made, in part, from wood.

This GHG Measurement Model Could Be a Game-Changer for the Agriculture Industry

Environment

There is a good reason why Smithfield Foods was the first major protein company to measure its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The protein supply chain is front-loaded with GHGs long before livestock arrives at the processing facility.

P&G’s Family Care Brands Share New Sustainability Goals Focused on Forestry

Environment

All P&G’s Family Care products are made with 100% certified pulp, sourced from responsibly-managed forests. Charmin and Puffs are also Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) and Rainforest Alliance certified. For every tree we use, at least one is regrown. We will go even further to increase acres of certified forests, strengthen certification globally, and accelerate research into alternative fiber approaches.

Kal Tire’s New Carbon Calculator & Maple Program Quantify Environmental Savings When Retreading

Environment

Kal Tire has announced the certification of its new carbon calculator that is able to determine fuel and carbon emissions saved by retreading earthmover tyres compared to buying new.

Indonesia Adds Value to Mining Industry, Invests in Downstream Processing Facilities

Responsible Production & Consumption

Creating mining and minerals processing infrastructure to increase Indonesia’s mineral value while strengthening downstream processing capabilities has been at the core of the Indonesian mining authority and mineral export laws since 2009.