Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Keep up with the latest news from 3BL’s clients.



Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The DICK'S Sporting Goods Foundation Quarterly Giving Series: Q2 2025

DICK'S Sporting Goods

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Wesco Recognized as a 2025 Blackbaud Impact Awards Finalist

Wesco International

Events, Media & Communications

How AI Is Disrupting Sustainability Reporting

3BL

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The ROI of Sustainability: A CFO's Perspective

Trane Technologies

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

DaVita Marks Major Milestone in 100% Renewable Energy Commitment

DaVita





Editors Pick

Environment

Tackling Sustainable Development Goal 6: How Beverage Industry Giants Are Accelerating Water Action Through Collaboration

Sixteen leading companies with a common goal. Learn how some of the beverage industry’s biggest companies are taking action on water security and sanitation.

Diversity & Inclusion

Intel Brings First WiSci Girls STEAM Camp to the U.S.

WiSci (Women in science) Girls STEAM Camp brings together a group of girls, from middle school or high school, who have the same mindset for learning essential STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) skills.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Place Makers Episode 3 - CBRE Office, Tokyo

Watch Amanda Steele, CBRE’s Executive Managing Director, Property Management, chat with Chinatsu Kaneko from CBRE Tokyo and Daniel Harris Rosen from Tokyodex, on how art and open spaces are redefining Japanese corporate culture.

Education

AstraZeneca, Learning Undefeated and Discovery Education Launch New Generation Health Program to Encourage Healthy Living Through Science-Based Learning

AstraZeneca, Learning Undefeated and Discovery Education launched Generation Health: How Science Powers Us, a dynamic program designed to make the connection between students’ health and the science behind the prevention and treatment of disease.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Alexion Partners With PluSport for Second Year

July in Zurich began with five Alexion employees traveling to Magglingen for the 58th PluSport Day, a recreational sports event that brings together 1,500 athletes with disabilities.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

LIXIL Marks a Year of Partnership with UNICEF, Working Together in Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania

LIXIL marks the first anniversary of Make a Splash! Toilets for All, its partnership with UNICEF.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Aflac "Goes Gold" for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

From giving My Special Aflac Duck® to more than 5,000 children so far to donating over $136 million toward the cause, Aflac is dedicated to these young heroes.

Green Infrastructure

How Public-Private-Philanthropic Partnerships are Driving Transportation Technology

Funding for a project can be split between a government agency and a nonprofit organization. Together, the two can seek out a partner from the private sector to execute on the project. This blend of public and philanthropic capital combined with private-sector competencies and efficiencies makes for a novel way to address the changing transportation mobility issues that the country is facing.

Education

Comerica's Financial Education Initiative Expands

The Gift of Knowledge, a part of Comerica's Money $ense Program, is an initiative that educates students on financial matters as well as provides the opportunity to open their first savings account, access to Comerica personnel and a banking center tour.

Green Infrastructure

The Coca-Cola Foundation, Keep America Beautiful Announce Public Space Recycling Bin Grant Recipients

National nonprofit Keep America Beautiful® and The Coca-Cola Foundation today announced the recipients of their 2019 Coca-Cola Public Spaces Recycling Bin Grant Program in a combined effort to improve recycling collection in more public space locations throughout the country.

Environment

Nestlé Accelerates Action to Tackle Climate Change and Commits to Zero Net Emissions by 2050

Nestlé today announced its ambition to achieve zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Innovation & Technology

Nestlé Inaugurates Packaging Research Institute, First-of-Its-Kind in the Food Industry

Nestlé today officially inaugurated the Institute of Packaging Sciences, the first-of-its-kind in the food industry

Education

Supporting 500 Students and Closing the Mentoring Gap

One in three young people grows up without a mentor outside their family. Dr. Derald Davis, assistant superintendent, Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS), refers to this as the mentoring gap in America.

Health & Healthcare

Albertsons Companies Offers Customers Easy Home Opioid Drug Disposal Option at Nearly 1,800 Locations

As part of its commitment to prevent opioid misuse, Albertsons Companies now offers DisposeRx—an at-home, eco-friendly medication disposal service—at its nearly 1,800 pharmacy counters in 34 states and Washington, D.C.

Events, Media & Communications

UN to Receive Event Industry Contribution at Sustainable Development Goal Summit in New York

On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government will gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to review progress against the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Following the Business Roundtable Statement

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) congratulates the companies that took a bold step to sign on to the Businesses Roundtable (BRT) statement.

Research, Reports & Publications

Responding to the Bigger Picture: Telstra’s 2019 Sustainability Report

Telstra has released its Bigger Picture 2019 Sustainability Report, detailing the company’s progress in implementing its Sustainability Strategy

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Empowering Entrepreneurs: Interview with Ashley Kvamme

Kimo Sabe Mezcal has been supporting Whole Planet Foundation since 2016 with product donations of mezcal for fundraising events and starting this year contributing $1 per bottle sold in select Whole Foods Market locations.

Environment

Protecting Soil: Reasons for Hope

Last week, I shared the news that, due to drenching rains this spring, over 19 million acres in the US went unplanted this year, especially in 12 midwestern states –the highest acreage on record (see my post here)

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

How Do You Get Ahead in America?

“What creates financial success?” “How do you move from zero savings to financial security?” Those were my burning questions for many years.

Green Infrastructure

SCE Harnesses Technology to Hone Wildfire Forecasts

Enter Tom Rolinski, Southern California Edison’s fire scientist, is leading the company’ wildfire forecasting efforts.

Green Infrastructure

Premiere in Barcelona: AIDAnova Is First Ever Ship to Be Supplied With Low-Emission Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the Mediterranean

On the same day AIDAnova was fueled for the first time in the Mediterranean with the lowest-emission fuel currently available to shipping industry, in Europe's biggest cruise port.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Power of Expression

One of the unique features of our Princeton campus is that we feature artwork by local artists on our walls in six-month rotations. One artist currently featured on our walls is Lorenzo DiAndrea, a SAORI weaving and silkscreen monoprint artist, who produces work under the simple alias of “Lorenzo.”

Innovation & Technology

Japan Science and Technology Agency Announces Expanded Research and Development Project to Support Wireless Charging Systems for Electric Vehicles

Fujimoto Lab at the University of Tokyo, NSK Ltd., and Bridgestone Corporation announced the expansion of a joint research program by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

The IPCC Climate Change and Land Report: Three Things Every Investor Should Know

Resource scarcity in our globalized economy jeopardizes the abundance of countless goods, but one resource — as spotlighted by the recent coverage of the fires in the Amazon — underpins them all: land

Latest Campaigns

  1. 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...
  2. Sustainability by Antea Group
    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
  3. Southwire Giving Back
    Our neighbors depend on us, just as we depend on them, so we are committed to improving the quality of life in the communities in which we work. At...
  4. KeyBank: Responsible Banking
    Everyone’s financial journey is different. We make intentional efforts to meet the individual needs of clients and communities through a diverse range...
  5. 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...
  6. Goals That Inspire: Positive Social Impact
    Through our Goals That Inspire we strive to make a positive difference in our communities by relying on our ability to understand their needs and then...
  7. KeyBank's Community Investment
    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...
  8. Nutrition and Health
    Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
  9. Enriching Women's Lives
    60 years ago, Mary Kay Ash created an unparalleled opportunity for women to define their own successes and control their own futures. Her vision of...
  10. 2024-25 AMD CR Report
    AMD Commemorates 30 Years of Corporate Responsibility with 2024-25 Report
  11. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  12. SCS Standards and Assurance Systems
    All news coming from SCS Standards
  13. Investing in our Communities
    We invest in sustainable community outcomes that improve lives.
  14. Corporate Social Responsibility
    Whirlpool Corporation has several CSR partners including United Way, Habitat for Humanity International, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Consulada...
  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...