ESG News from Leading Brands

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Innovation & Technology | SAP

3 Ways AI Accelerates Sustainability Efforts

While climate risk, social equity and ethical governance used to be peripheral concerns, they are now central to long-term business success.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Astellas Brings Light to the Lives of Cancer Patients

To help brighten the darkest moments of patients’ cancer treatment journeys, LLS created the Light The Night campaign. A series of fundraising walks across the country, Light The Night benefits research to find blood cancer cures and improve the quality of life for patients and their families.

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The New Roadmap for Corporate Citizenship

In the 166 years since its founding, Wells Fargo has proved to be much more than a financial services company. It’s an institution that has invested billions in communities all across the U.S., promoted diversity and inclusion initiatives both big and small and led the industry in reducing its own environmental impact. We recently spoke to Campbell about how Wells Fargo chooses its philanthropy projects, what it’s doing to increase access to affordable housing and how it is reducing its carbon footprint.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Using Extended Reality to Improve Safety on Construction Sites

According to the International Labour Organization, more than 340 million occupational accidents are reported each year around the world. Statistics show the construction industry has a disproportionately high rate of recorded accidents in comparison to other industries.

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Energy

Helping Companies Finance a Clean Energy Future

NRG Energy's VP of sustainable solutions discusses how the company's Renewable Select program simplifies the renewables procurement process, and makes it easier for companies to choose clean energy.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Sands Cares Fresh Start Mobile Showers Provides 10,000th Shower to the Homeless in Las Vegas

When the Sands Cares Fresh Start Mobile Showers Powered by Clean the World began operations, we wanted to provide immediate relief and resources to those in need as part of our commitment to combatting homelessness. The Fresh Start Mobile Showers travel across the Las Vegas Valley, working together with several homeless services providers, offering showers five days a week. On its one year anniversary in July, the mobile hygiene unit had provided more than 7,500 showers to the homeless community.

Now Sands Cares and Clean the World can announce that Fresh Start Mobile Showers provided its 10,000th shower!

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Gildan Signs New AAFA/FLA Apparel and Footwear Industry Commitment for Responsible Recruitment

In October, Gildan joined industry peers as a signatory of a multi-stakeholder initiative to safeguard workers in the global apparel supply chain.

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Innovation & Technology

Mission Critical Systems Expert Vali Sorell Joins Glumac, Part of Tetra Tech’s High Performance Buildings Group

Glumac, A Tetra Tech Company, part of Tetra Tech’s High Performance Buildings Group, today announced it has hired data center design veteran Vali Sorell, PE, as its newest Mission Critical Vice President, Mechanical Engineering and Design.

Prior to joining Glumac, Vali spent 12 years with Syska Hennessy Group as Principal and Chief HVAC Engineer for its Critical Facilities Group. Since 2016 he has helmed his own firm, Vali Engineering, providing high-level consulting to mission critical clients around the world.

Health & Healthcare

Building Health and Wellness Into Healthcare Buildings

Since the medical care system first embraced health and wellness as a core business paradigm, hospitals, healthcare workers and patients alike have reaped the benefits. Healthcare workers have fewer sick days, reduced medical expenses and greater workplace satisfaction, leading to increased employee retention.

Events, Media & Communications

LL Cool J and Gwen Stefani Help the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption Celebrate 20 Years of "A Home For The Holidays"

Each year, stars come together to celebrate families who have adopted from foster care in the CBS Holiday Special: A Home for the Holidays.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Taking Off at Boeing | Erb Institute Alumni Kelsea Ballantyne on Leadership and Positive Impact

Kelsea Ballantyne earned her MBA/MS in 2016, as part of the Erb Institute and the Tauber Institute for Global Operations. She’s now in an executive development program at Boeing, working on the 777 and 777X airplanes, and she talked with Erb about her work there.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Points of Light Seeks the Most Community-Minded Companies in the United States

Today, Points of Light opens The Civic 50 survey, an annual initiative that recognizes the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States. Now in its seventh year, The Civic 50 serves to recognize stronger corporate commitment to community through engagement, volunteerism, and social impact strategies.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Mayors of Leading Cities in North America Join Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit New York 2019

Leading US mayors join CEOs and business leaders from North America’s most innovative, responsible brands to discuss how to lead the change to a sustainable future through investments, collaboration and innovation at Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit New York, March 18-19.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Smithfield Foods Donates $15,000 to Help Build Outdoor Amphitheater

Smithfield Foods, Inc. is pleased to announce a $15,000 donation to the Sullivan County Exposition Center & Fairgrounds to support the construction of an outdoor amphitheater overlooking Lake Cowgill that will be utilized for events throughout the year.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bloomberg Expands New Voices Initiative to Sydney, Mumbai, Dubai and San Francisco to Ensure Diversity of Newsroom Voices

Bloomberg today announced the expansion of the news organization’s New Voices initiative to Sydney, Mumbai, Dubai and San Francisco in 2019, following on the success of similar launches this year in New York, London, Toronto, and Hong Kong.

Events, Media & Communications

NAEM to Introduce Innovations, Emerging Technologies at Its 2019 TECH Conference in New Orleans

The future of environment, health, safety and sustainability (EHS&S), management will be driven by technology, and NAEM today announced plans to showcase that future at its 2019 Software Innovation and Technology Showcase on March 12-14 at the Hilton Riverside in New Orleans.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Johnson & Johnson Works with U.S. PEPFAR Program to Expand Access for HIV Treatment-Experienced Children in the Developing World

Johnson & Johnson announced that Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, part of its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, is working with the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with the intention of expanding access to lifesaving HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) for children in the developing world. The initiative seeks to address the fact that only about half of children under age 15 in the developing world are benefiting from ART. This was announced at a conference on pediatric HIV care taking place today in the Vatican City.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bringing a Community, and Country, Together Through Art

Lexington, Kentucky, was once one of the largest slave auction sites in the U.S. Today, the same site where African American men, women, and children were once sold as property is telling a different story, thanks to the civic art project “I Was Here.”

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Kids Foundation Awards Bee Hive Grants to Two Washington, D.C. Schools

Whole Kids Foundation announced today that it has awarded Bee Hive Grants to two schools in Washington, D.C. with money raised from the inaugural Give Bees a Chance campaign held this summer. Grant recipients include District of Columbia International School and Hearst Elementary School. Each school will receive support for an educational bee hive on campus, providing students with learning opportunities around science, ecology, nutrition, business and agriculture learning opportunities.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

GRI Reporting’s Impact on ESG Ratings

Two years ago, the sustainability business community elected me to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Stakeholder Council (SC). Thank you, it has been an honor to represent you. I recently traveled to Amsterdam to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Council. I thought our readers might like to hear some of what we discussed and learned.

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Environment

How to Get Your Organization’s ‘Abide-in’ for Hiring an EHS Consultant

Convince management of the wisdom of hiring an EHS consultant- with inspiration from Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski!

Education

Education for High School Students

We work with high schools and nonprofits around the world to help students overcome learning challenges and envision themselves in promising careers. Many of our employees serve as mentors for young people from a range of backgrounds. Others from Moody’s help create learning and leadership experiences that empower students with the skills to navigate life successfully.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

5 Questions Every Effective Leader Should Ask Herself

As the Chief People Officer at Nestlé USA, I understand that being an effective and strong leader is itself a full-time job. The best managers I’ve known or worked for over my career know how to be effective: creating the right culture and communicating clear objectives and strategies cultivates a highly motivated and performance-driven workforce. Strong leaders also understand that leading others is a privilege that is earned every day. At Nestlé, we know we can only serve our consumers if our employees are all-in at every level of the business.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

From Our Family to Yours

For the sixth consecutive year, Bristol-Myers Squibb employees in Germany, in partnership with the city of Munich, participated in “Patenprojekt München,” an initiative to provide homeless and refugee families with gifts at Christmas.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Cisco’s FY18 CSR Report | The Path You Are Meant to Take

I’m particularly cognizant of this today as we launch our 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. This is a big change from the first CSR Report that I stewarded and co-authored in 2005. Like any first-generation product, there was a great room for improvement. However, every year as we meet a goal and work towards the next, as we expand existing partnerships and establish new ones, as we uncover new ways our technology can be leveraged to benefit our world, we have a stronger story to tell. Here are highlights of where we’ve come, and where we are going.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Catalyst For Giving

As a child, Tim Rios remembers going food shopping with his parents. He and his siblings weren't allowed to enter certain aisles in the supermarket because the adults didn't want their children to get tempted by unhealthy snacks and especially food the family couldn't afford. "My parents worried all the time about getting enough healthy food on the table," Rios, whose family came to the U.S. from Mexico in the early ‘80s, says. "When I got married, for the first year, I would ask my wife for her permission to open a bag of chips."

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    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...

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    Entergy’s 2024 performance report, “Energy for a better future” presents an overview of our company’s 2024 achievements, future plans and strategies...

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    Managing our forests sustainably and protecting water, wildlife, and species at risk.

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