Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Behind the Scenes of the New Jersey Employees Charitable Campaign (NJECC) With Susan O'Brien

A lot of work goes into planning and running a workplace giving campaign like the New Jersey Employees Charitable Campaign (NJECC). With 15 years' experience running the NJECC, Susan O'Brien, NJECC Campaign Manager, knows this all too well!

Health & Healthcare

My Special Aflac Duck™ Comes to Arkansas Children's!

A few Arkansas Children’s team members met with our local Aflac representative, Melanie Reynolds, and she gave a demonstration on the My Special Aflac Duck. These interactive robotic ducks are available complimentary to any of our patients that are undergoing cancer treatment. The duck provides companionship and acts as a toy, robot and medical device. The My Aflac Duck is a unique way to helps kids cope with the difficulties of undergoing treatment and elevates the patient experience. It brings joy to our patients and provides each child a sense of control by allowing them to be the caretaker of the duck while being treated. The duck communicates based on the child’s mood, and dances, nuzzles and cuddles accommodating the emotional needs of the child in real time.

Events, Media & Communications

Transforming Brands Through Sustainable Innovation Takes Center Stage in Detroit

Business leaders within the Sustainable Brands® community are fast tracking the sustainability agenda. Nearly 3,000 global brand and sustainability executives are gathering at SB’19 Detroit, June 3-6, to learn how advancements in science and technology are disrupting their industries, create uncommon collaborations that foster unique solutions, and discover what consumers are looking for from brands today.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Blackbaud + YourCause | Corporate Foundations & Grant-Making Toolkit

With the help of our friends at Foundation Source, we created this complete Corporate Foundations and Grant-Making toolkit to help you understand the benefits of adding foundations and grants to your corporate philanthropic efforts, along with the operational requirements necessary to implement these programs.

Diversity & Inclusion

Collaboration Across Generations

We know the energy and potential of our millennial employees not only can move Moody’s business forward but also can help us become a vehicle for positive change. To support our young talent, we constantly seek ways to learn about the challenges they face and what motivates and inspires them.

Education

Engineers Empower Girls to Pursue Engineering

During National Engineers Week, girls from four different middle schools got a taste of what it would be like to pursue an engineering career at “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” at Gahr High School, the host of the event.

Diversity & Inclusion

Hear Her Story: Q&A With Maria Frohmader, VP Textiles & Garment Dyeing at Gildan

Maria, a Canadian Honduran, shares her seventeen year journey at Gildan. From manager to VP, read the story of this woman’s rise to leadership and her advice on how to get there.

Research, Reports & Publications

Parker’s 2018 Sustainability Report Highlights Commitment to Social Responsibility

Parker Hannifin Corporation, the global leader in motion and control technologies, has released its 2018 Sustainability Report, which highlights team member-driven initiatives that are helping to strengthen communities, conserve resources and make a positive environmental impact at the local level.

Education

50 New Schools to Join Verizon Innovative Learning for the 2019-20 School Year

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative has reached more than 86,000 students and nearly 6,000 teachers across 100 middle schools in 18 states and Washington, D.C. The 50 new schools joining the program next school year will bring the total to 150 middle schools nationwide.

Events, Media & Communications

3BL Media to Host Corporate Responsibility Stories, April 17, in Atlanta

3BL Media, the world’s leading communications partner for purpose-driven organizations, will hold the next in its series of Corporate Responsibility Stories lunch-and-learn events hosted by UPS on April 17.

Diversity & Inclusion

This Revealing P&G Campaign Takes a Look at Couples' Mental To-do Lists

P&G is taking a revealing look at the gender imbalance in household chores in its latest campaign from Spain.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

UPS Honored With Inaugural Top Corporation Hall Of Fame Award For Supporting Women-Owned Businesses

UPS (NYSE:UPS) has been selected for the Top Corporation Hall of Fame for Women’s Business Enterprises by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). While UPS has been recognized as a WBENC Top Corporation in prior years, this marks the inaugural year for the Top Corporation Hall of Fame. UPS is one of only nine companies achieving this new, pinnacle designation.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Meet the Women Behind Kroger's Simple Truth Tea

Kroger welcomes everyone to travel to the fields of the Sorwathe Tea Estate through a mobile virtual reality experience to explore a day in the life of the women behind Simple Truth tea, who are accomplishingd cultivating change in their commun firsts in their families anities.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

LG Electronics Honored with Gold Tier Award for EPA’s Sustainable Materials Management Electronics Recycling Challenge

LG Electronics recently accepted the Gold Tier Award for EPA’s Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Electronics Recycling Challenge. LG continues its significant contribution to the EPA’s SMM Electronics Challenge goals by collecting a substantial amount of used electronics for reuse and recycle, sending 100 percent of used electronics to certified third-party recyclers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Comerica Returns as Presenting Sponsor for 5th Annual Mi Gente Magazine Spirit of Frida Awards

Comerica Bank, for the fifth consecutive year, has returned as presenting sponsor for the annual Mi Gente Magazine Spirit of Frida Awards, which consists of six different categories including: Civil Rights, Corporate Advocate/Volunteer, Entrepreneur, Grassroots/Community Advocate, Politician and Amiga.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Today’s Leaders Need to Be Great Storytellers

Ken Chenault, the former CEO of American Express, often paraphrased Napoleon in saying that leaders need to define reality and give hope. Essentially, it is up to leaders to tell their people what is happening now and inspire them by outlining the opportunities that the future holds for them both individually and institutionally.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Infographic: Hosting an Energy-Efficient Party

Are you hosting friends or family for the next big TV watch party or a just-for-fun celebration? Whatever the reason, hosting can be costly, but your energy bill doesn’t have to go up as well.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Video | Behind the Wheel: Bringing Water to the Desert

Seen from above, the arid, inhospitable landscape stretches as far as the eye can see, the great swathes of sand interspersed only with the occasional palm tree and small rural community. Kebili, an oasis in this desert, is one such town. Located in south-west Tunisia, it is one of the hottest places on earth and prone to both extreme drought and devastating floods. In 2015, CNH Industrial embarked on an ambitious, three-year, water-management project aimed at helping build and repair traditional water-collection systems, improve agricultural practices and train farmers in the area.

Find out how successful the project was in the latest Behind the Wheel webisode.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Hormel Foods Hosts Three Student Winners of its Annual MLK Essay Contest

Three winners of the eighth annual Hormel Foods MLK essay contest visited the Hormel Foods corporate offices today to read their winning essays to company employees. The students – Patrick Brown from Little Rock, Ark., Blessyn Champ from Minneapolis, Minn., and Ben Kim from Atlanta, Ga. – claimed the top honors among hundreds of entries from 19 different schools this year. Their visit to the corporate office marks the second time the company has invited essay winners in for a reading.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

My Special Aflac Duck™ Wins Big at SXSW

Taking home yet another major award for technology, innovation and corporate responsibility, Aflac today announced the My Special Aflac Duck, an innovative robotic duck that helps children cope with cancer, is the winner of this year’s top Award at SXSW in the Robotics and Hardware category. The prestigious SXSW award is added to a growing list of awards, which includes Engaget’s Best in Show Award at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show and Time Magazine’s recognition as one of the 50 Best inventions for 2018.

Events, Media & Communications

Leading Together and Acting Collectively: How Business Can Make a Positive Impact on Society

I want to begin by congratulating the members and leadership of CECP for 20 years of terrific accomplishment and growth. I’d also like to thank Doug and Daryl and the CECP board for recognizing the Ford Foundation’s early commitment, 20 years ago, and our ongoing partnership.

Green Infrastructure

Powering the Future of Electric Vehicles

The gas-powered car has remained the dominant mode of transportation since it first began fueling motor vehicles in 1886. But the internal combustion engine is finally starting to lose its stranglehold on the market. The disrupter? Electric vehicles (EVs).

Education

Reflections From South by Southwest (SXSW) EDU 2019

First off, a thank you to the Lemelson Foundation for inviting me to speak at their session tomorrow on A New Paradigm for Tomorrow’s Workforce. I look forward to joining my fellow panelists from Lemelson, the Digital Harbor Foundation, McKay High School, and MIT to discuss this important issue.

Environment

How Industry-Specific Experience Drives Stronger EHS Results

Antea Group experts advise on how a global company can use industry-specific experience to successfully manage EHS initiatives across operations.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SC Johnson Central America Named Best Workplace

SC Johnson has been recognized as a Best Workplace in Central America by Great Place to Work®, ranking No. 2 out of 33 companies on the 2019 list. This is the 12th consecutive year SC Johnson has been included on the Best Workplace list in Central America.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  2. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  3. 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...
  4. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  5. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  6. 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...
  7. Recognition of our Company
    As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...
  8. Aflac Insights
    Learn more about Aflac’s survey findings to better understand workplace trends as well as consumer attitudes, habits and opinions toward health and...
  9. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  10. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  11. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  12. Aflac Voices
    Hear from Aflac’s senior leaders and subject matter experts about industry trends and more.
  13. Plastics Footprint
    We aspire to be a leader in driving innovative solutions that address the problem of plastic pollution and enable a circular economy. We are committed...
  14. Accelerating access to healthcare technology
    We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...
  15. Health & Nutrition
    Be the leading nutritious and sustainable product development partner for our customers, developing industry leading solutions that enable the...