Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Editors Pick

Investing In Health Pays Back report cover
New IWBI Report Underscores the Powerful Business Case for Health in Buildings and Organizations

International WELL Building Institute (IWBI)

Research, Reports & Publications

3BL Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2025
3BL Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2025

3BL

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Circularity in Action: Decarbonization for Refrigerated Transport
Circularity in Action: Decarbonization for Refrigerated Transport

Trane Technologies

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Environment

Republic Services and The Mirage Hotel & Casino Unveil New Recycling Exhibit

A new recycling exhibit inside the Sustainability Discovery Center at Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat.

Diversity & Inclusion

Creating a Culture of Caring During National Safety Month

Every day, I see incidents and injuries around me waiting to happen. Maybe I’m clairvoyant. Or perhaps I have a heightened sense of awareness because I lead the North American Safety team for a global organization.

Innovation & Technology

Making an Impact: CNM Connect Launches Customized Outcomes Technology Services for Nonprofits

“We believe this technology will drive transformative change in our communities as nonprofits address social issues more efficiently and powerfully,” said Tina Weinfurther, president and chief executive officer at CNM Connect.

Environment

Tri-Marine Skipjack and Yellowfin Tuna Fisher Earns MSC Certification

The Tri Marine Western and Central Pacific skipjack and yellowfin tuna fishery has achieved MSC certification for free school tuna caught using its purse seine vessels. Independent assessors and expert staff from SCS Global Services, who produced the fishery’s 350-page assessment report, found that the fishery meets the MSC’s requirements for healthy stocks, minimizing environmental impacts, and promoting good management.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

National Grid Ranked Top Green Utility for Second Straight Year

Events, Media & Communications

3BL Media Releases New Analytics, Reporting and Benchmarking Module, Adding Strategic Insights for CSR and Sustainability Communicators

3BL Media, the corporate communications platform for CSR and sustainability content, has released a new automated analytics module that gauges stakeholder engagement and helps brands optimize their messaging, the company announced today.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

BSR, Forum for the Future Launch Project to Inspire Companies to Go ‘Net Positive’

BSR and Forum for the Future have launched the Net Positive Project, a cross-sector coalition that aims to expand the number of companies that go beyond reducing their negative sustainability impacts to contribute in a “net positive” way to society, the environment, and the global economy.

Social Impact & Volunteering

TechnoServe's Haiti Hope Project: Message in a Mango

Meet some of the farmers behind the world's sweetest mangoes! Launched in 2010, the Haiti Hope Project was a five-year public-private partnership between TechnoServe, Coca-Cola and a coalition of business, government and civil society partners to create sustainable economic opportunities for Haitian mango farmers and their families.

Green Infrastructure

Green Procurement: What #Eventprofs Need to Know

What is Green Procurement? It’s where you, and your organization (whether you are a meeting planning firm, or work for a corporation or association) have the greatest influence over the amount of waste generated and diverted from your event. This can be done through smart purchasing: products and services from companies and manufacturers that have demonstrated their commitment to both you, the industry and the environment.

Research, Reports & Publications

Nestlé in the U.S. Releases 2015 Creating Shared Value Report

Nestlé in the United States today released its 2015 Creating Shared Value Report announcing the company’s achievements in nutrition, health and wellness; environmental sustainability; water; rural development and responsible sourcing; and social impact in 2015, as well as its new objectives and commitments for the U.S. market.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Carnival Cruise Line Gets a Wiggle On for New Charity Partnership with The Children’s Hospital at Westmead

Carnival Cruise Line has announced a new charity partnership in Australia, with its guests set to start wiggling for joy as they donate money to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

Events, Media & Communications

Sustainable Brands Celebrating a Decade of Global Brand Innovation Leaders

Sustainable Brands® largest community gathering kicked off with Sustainable Brands ’16 San Diego at Paradise Point Resort & Spa. Nearly 2,000 community members from 30 countries around the globe are participating in the conference, Activation Hub and live stream. This year’s theme, Activating Purpose, focuses on how companies are developing real tools, techniques, methods and models for embedding purpose into the core of a brand and finding business success.

Environment

BJ's Wholesale Club Announces Winners of #ItsMyTree Photo Challenge

BJ's Wholesale Club announces today the three winning images from the #ItsMyTree photo challenge. The second annual photo challenge invited people to submit a photo of their favorite tree for a chance to win a Canon EOS Rebel T6i DSLR Camera. The winning photos captured trees in Hawaii, Michigan and North Carolina.

Environment

The UPS Foundation Awards Tree Planting Grants to 30 Keep America Beautiful Affiliates Nationwide

Keep America Beautiful, the national nonprofit that envisions a country in which every community is a clean, green and beautiful place to live, and The UPS Foundation, which leads the global citizenship programs at UPS (NYSE: UPS), today announced the distribution of 30 grants totaling $160,000 for its 2016 Keep America Beautiful/UPS Community Tree and Recovery Tree Planting Grants program. The grant recipients’ projects will result in more than 10,500 trees being planted in support of locally-relevant initiatives.

Education

New National Survey Sheds Light on How to Better Engage Students in Science Education

The Amgen Foundation and Change the Equation (CTEq) today announced results of a survey conducted to better understand what motivates U.S. high school students to study science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The report, titled “Students on STEM: More Hands-on, Real-World Experiences,” shows that students want additional opportunities that will inspire them to explore careers in scientific fields, and teachers are uniquely positioned to stimulate students’ interest in STEM.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Finally, A Place To Call Home

Samantha had been in foster care for eight years and during that time was separated from her brother. It was a traumatic experience made worse when a pre-adoptive home broke down, but little did Samantha know there was a ray of sunshine around the corner.

Research, Reports & Publications

Apuesta GFNorte por las PyMes y por la educación

Research, Reports & Publications

GFNorte Bets on SMEs and Education

Social Impact & Volunteering

#WorldOceansDay: Cox Conserves Heroes Raising Awareness, Protecting Oceans

World Ocean’s Day is tomorrow. Across the nation, volunteers are generating awareness of coastal issues and helping protect our oceans. Here are some examples of how Cox Conserves Heroes are making a difference. View the videos to learn more about their projects.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Allstate Named 2016 Corporate Citizen of the Year by The Executives’ Club of Chicago

Allstate Insurance Company is the 2016 Corporate Citizen of the Year, topping a record number of nominees to take home the coveted annual award from The Executives’ Club of Chicago. The company was honored for the impact its youth empowerment programs had on Chicagoland youth in 2015.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Minding the Generational Digital Literacy Gap

Founded in 1999, the Comcast Foundation focuses on connecting and strengthening communities by supporting programs that expand digital literacy, promote community service, and build tomorrow’s leaders.

In 2015, the Foundation donated more than $18 million to more than 1,100 nonprofit organizations nationwide that focus their efforts on the communities Comcast serves. The Gads Hill Center, founded more than a century ago and based in a struggling Chicago neighborhood, is one of those nonprofits.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Facts About Global Poverty and Health

Research, Reports & Publications

Walmart | Our Approach to Global Responsibility: Shared Value

Working with others, we aspire to reshape whole systems to achieve significant and lasting improvement in social, environmental and economic outcomes.

Latest Campaigns

  1. 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...
  2. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  3. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is embedded in our company values. We actively promote it among our employees, raise awareness, and foster an...
  4. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  5. IWBI | Workplace Wellness
    A WELL Certified™ project has the potential to add measurable value to the health, well-being and happiness of people in the buildings. It can also...
  6. 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...
  7. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  8. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  9. 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...
  10. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  11. Katrina 20th Anniversary
    This year marked the 20th anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Katrina, one of the worst, deadliest and most costly natural disasters to ever...
  12. ESG Recognition
    While our commitment to being a responsible corporation is not dependent on recognition, it is a great validation of our work when external...
  13. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  14. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  15. America's Charities Employee Engagement & Social Responsibility
    More than ever, retaining and recruiting employees is a top priority for companies. Aware of the link between workplace giving and employee engagement...