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Tree City USA: Celebrating the Importance of Urban Tree Canopies

Research, Reports & Publications

The Tree City USA program has strengthened and sustained urban forests across the country thanks to support of Foundation members and partners. From the Gulf of Alaska to the Gulf Coast, more than 155 million Americans are living in Tree City USA towns and cities that pay particular attention to tree planting, management, and care.

ASPCA® Participates In The Subaru Share the Love® Event For Twelfth Year In A Row

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

For the twelfth year in a row, the ASPCA® is participating as a national charity partner in the 2019 Subaru Share the Love® Event, which will benefit thousands of animals across the country through animal welfare events in local communities.

Advancing Corporate Sustainability in the Philippines

Research, Reports & Publications

The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been acknowledged for their efforts to raise the sustainability reporting capacity of businesses, for which GRI has provided wide-ranging support.

New BCG Report: Sustainably Securing the Future of Agriculture

Research, Reports & Publications

Across the world, agriculture plays a crucial role not only in supplying food, but in shaping rural areas, preserving landscapes and cultural practices and heritage.

ON Semiconductor Holds First CSR Day

Social Impact & Volunteering

To showcase and educate employees on local and global efforts, we held our first-ever CSR day during our annual Responsibility Week in early November, with CSR activities taking place around the world.

Carnival Corporation Pilots Food Waste Bio-Digester Technology to Improve Environmental Compliance

Green Infrastructure

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest leisure travel company, recently announced it is pilot-testing food waste bio-digester technology to improve environmental compliance and the food waste disposal process

Mohawk Veterans Haul Load for Wreaths Across America

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

For Ronald and Lea Eppich, Wreaths Across America is personal.

The Eppichs, who are Mohawk truck drivers and Calhoun residents, know firsthand how much it means to the families of fallen soldiers when a wreath is placed at their graves each year.

Getting Corporate Human Rights Regulations Right Means Finding a “Smart Mix”

Social Impact & Volunteering

We’re in an age where anyone with a cell phone can break a story. And when it comes to human rights violations, we’ve seen time and again how one video, even one tweet, can make a public relations team struggle to respond.

Moving Away from Landfills

Sustainable Development Goals

Total solid waste to landfill (kg/admta) Beneficial use of solid waste (tonne/yr) and Intensity metrics reflect the impact per air-dried metric ton of saleable product (including market pulp).

‘Tis the Season for Giving, Receiving, and Recycling

Responsible Production & Consumption

According to estimates, Americans produce about 25 percent more waste between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day compared with the rest of the year.

eBay for Charity Raises $1 Billion: Thank You to Our Community

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

eBay for Charity has reached a major milestone ahead of its 2020 goal: $1 billion in total funds raised for charities around the world.

AEG Spreads Cheer With Playworks to Host a “Day of Play” and Beautification Projects at Towne Avenue Elementary School in Carson, Calif. for Annual Service Day

Social Impact & Volunteering

In celebration of AEG’s Season of Giving, more than 300 AEG employees from Southern California came together to participate in the company’s annual Service Day on Dec. 6 at Towne Avenue Elementary in Carson, Calif.

Alliance Data Associates Help Fight Holiday Hunger

Social Impact & Volunteering

Every year during the holiday season, Alliance Data associates in Columbus, Ohio come together at the Company’s Holiday Give Back event to help eliminate student hunger over winter break.

Sustainability: A Moral Case Is Now a Business Case

Sustainable Development Goals

UN Foundation President and CEO, Kathy Calvin, shares with Verizon about the incredible work and dynamics behind the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

‘I Want to Give Back to the Next Generation of Athletes

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Olympic bronze medallist Jamie Greubel poser tells olympic.org why she was so keen to be an Athlete Role Model "ARM" at the upcoming Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Lausanne 2020.

The Tech Interactive and Discovery Education Launch ‘Tech for Tomorrow’

Education

The Tech Interactive and Discovery Education partnered to create Tech for Tomorrow, an education program providing virtual access to exhibits from The Tech Interactive, Design Challenge Learning activities and interactive classroom resources.

Schneider Electric is in the Top 50 of the World’s most Diverse and Inclusive Employers in Universum’s Diversity & Inclusion Index

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Schneider Electric, the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, is recognized in Universum’s Diversity & Inclusion Index (D&I Index).

Hormel Foods Announces the Completion of Solar Array at Its Swiss American Sausage Company Facility in California

Energy

The new solar array will help the environment by reducing GHG emissions by an estimated 288 metric tons per year. The emissions avoided is equivalent to removing 61 cars from the road annually or avoiding burning over 314,000 pounds of coal.

Chevron is Empowering the Workforce of the Future

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

In these and other communities where Chevron operates, we partner with innovators who increase opportunities for young people by teaching them about science, technology, engineering and math—STEM.

How IBM Is Investing in STEM Education and Skills

Education

IBM's initiatives are intended to help address challenges posed by AI and intelligent automation by promoting STEM skills to kids, supporting new collar skills education, and collaborating to create new paths into the tech workforce.

Bridge Schools

Responsible Production & Consumption

Bridge schools in Côte d’Ivoire help children who miss schooling catch up and return to mainstream education. Find out more.

Application Opens for 2020 Scotts Field Refurbishment Grant Program

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Scotts and MLB have a long history of giving back to local communities, teaming up to provide youth with modern, playable baseball and softball fields under the Scotts® Field Refurbishment Program.

Tire CEOs Reaffirm Commitment to Research for Sustainability, Recognize Tire Industry Project Achievements

CEOs of eleven leading tire manufacturers met to review progress and confirm the ongoing mandate of the leading global forum for tire manufacturers on sustainability issues.

Arrow Electronics Employees Team with Salesforce to Support Habitat for Humanity

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Employees from Arrow Electronics and Salesforce traded keyboards for floorboards when they participated in a Habitat for Humanity charitable home build on Nov. 6.

Building a Healthier Workplace with Lessons from America’s Veterans

Diversity & Inclusion

Mental health is an issue that impacts everyone, but veterans understand the implications associated with unaddressed mental health challenges in a very personal way.