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Innovation & Technology

Morgan Stanley Selects 9 Startup Companies for 4th Cohort of Innovation Lab Targeting Multicultural and Women Founders

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today announced the fourth cohort of the Multicultural Innovation Lab, an accelerator program for technology and technology-enabled start-ups in the post‐seed to Series B funding rounds.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Joint Letter: What Is the Courageous Opportunity for Companies in This Crisis?

We are faced with a choice. The world’s leading corporations will play an outsized role in either exacerbating the crisis or rising to demonstrate bold leadership.

Health & Healthcare

Helping Employees Cope With COVID-19

Keosha Barnett knows firsthand some of the stresses of the pandemic. “It’s hard right now, and it feels like I’m going through a depression,”

Events, Media & Communications

Webcasts Focus on Role of Buildings, Communities and Organizations to Respond to Today’s Global Health Challenges Webcasts With IWBI: April 13 -- 17, 2020

With the gravity of the situation regarding COVID-19, today, more than ever, places matter to the future of protecting our families, our businesses and the public at large.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

COVID-19: Companies, Let’s Get Practical

FSG's blog series for companies starting to think of longer-term responses to the COVID-19 crisis. THE GUIDING QUESTION: "How can our company leverage our unique strengths to serve those most impacted by the crisis?"

Innovation & Technology

Learn to Identify Coronavirus Phishing Attacks

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has led to fear and anxiety among the public, giving birth to a new subgenre of phishing attacks.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Goodyear Uses 3D Printing Capability to Deliver In-demand Medical Gear

A Luxembourg initiative was created to seek manufacturing companies and private persons that could contribute to the production of components used in face shields for medical personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Media & Communications

Watching for the Signals That Corporate Sustainability and Sustainable Investing Trends Continue to Advance in the Time of the Virus Crisis

Our objective in structuring our communications over the past decade-plus is to help to inform, educate and encourage the embrace of sustainability concepts and principles throughout society’s public, private and social sectors.


Research, Reports & Publications

Allstate Releases New Prosperity Report

Allstate has released its new Prosperity Report. This year's edition contains additional content on climate change.

Innovation & Technology

Lessons From a Pandemic: We Need Distance Learning at the Front of the Class

T-Mobile will double down to eradicate the homework gap through a $10 billion commitment to deliver free Internet access via hotspots and other reduced-cost devices to 10 million households over the next five years.

Research, Reports & Publications

2019 Annual and ESG Report

Trane Technologies - a global climate innovator - released its 2019 Annual and Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, Focusing for the Future. The report celebrates the early achievement of 30 specific and ambitious 2020 Targets for world-class ESG performance and introduces the company’s next-generation 2030 Sustainability Commitments.

Media & Communications

Arbor Day Foundation Launches Campaign to Celebrate Arbor Day at Home

The Arbor Day Foundation has announced a social media campaign to plant 50,000 trees on behalf of people celebrating Arbor Day while following social distancing measures during the coronavirus pandemic.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

International Paper Boxes Fighting Hunger Amid School Closures in Southern California

International Paper (NYSE: IP) is taking action to address critical needs in the communities in which its employee live and work during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.

Media & Communications

Subaru of Las Vegas | 4/6/20

Subaru of Las Vegas is taking steps to promote the health and safety of employees and customers whether you're buying a vehicle on the lot, or shopping virtually

Environment

HelloFresh Announces Plans to Offset 100 Percent of Its Carbon Emissions

In honor of Earth Month, HelloFresh announced today that it will offset 100 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions (CO₂) generated from its operations, outbound shipping and corporate travel.

Research, Reports & Publications

Accelerating Climate Action in the Built Environment, CDL Is Changing the Climate to Change the Future

City Developments Limited (CDL) has released its Integrated Sustainability Report (ISR) 2020 titled “Changing the Climate. Changing the Future.”, it's thirteenth sustainability report since 2008.

Events, Media & Communications

Hormel Foods Brings its Pantry Project Live to Instagram

The event is part of The Pantry Project, an initiative Hormel Foods pioneered during the COVID-19 outbreak. The company has invited chefs and kitchen experts to support home cooks by showing them how to put their pantry stashes to good use.

Events, Media & Communications

Handprints Over Footprints: Combining Social Impact with Environmental Stewardship to Create Net-Positive Enterprises

This CEU introduces the concept of Handprinting, and its increasing importance in the transformational movement of regenerative sustainability.

Health & Healthcare

Ramping Up Manufacturing to Help Address COVID-19

As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases increased in Asia and began to spread to other regions around the world, a team of employees at Gilead’s manufacturing site in La Verne, California met in the early morning of Monday, Feb. 3.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Market Disruption is Affecting Global Corporate Renewables

The unprecedented impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is being felt across industries, including renewable energy. These market dynamics will especially affect corporations that are evaluating, or have contracted for, power purchase agreements (PPAs).

Health & Healthcare

Bayer Supports Fight Against the Corona Pandemic in Spain With Measures Totaling Approximately 1 Million Euros

Bayer is supporting the fight against the corona pandemic in Spain with a comprehensive aid package. The company is donating 800,000 euros to the national health system in Spain for the purchase of urgently needed medical equipment and hospital beds.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Coronavirus: Helping Medical Professionals, Students and Our Community

JetBlue is working with non-profits & NGOs to get medical professionals & much-needed supplies to places where they are needed most, as well as providing flights to students who need help getting to family & friends or a permanent housing situation.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Medtronic Foundation Announces 2:1 Match for Employee Charitable Giving During COVID-19 Response

In the midst of a global health crisis, the Medtronic Foundation is committed to supporting front line health workers and nonprofit organizations around the globe.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Shifts Temecula Operations to Produce Face Shields for COVID-19 First Responders

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company has shifted production in its Temecula, California manufacturing plant to produce face shields to help protect healthcare workers and first responders in critical need areas across the country.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bedford Brewery Opens Beer Garden, Pop-Up Food Bank for Restaurant Workers

Sysco donated food that would’ve been shipped to restaurants that are now closed.

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