Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Duke Energy Empowers Economies Through Workforce Development

A growing issue for Duke Energy and many businesses is the gap between demand for skilled STEM workers and available talent to fill open positions. One of the ways the company is closing the gap is through our investments in education and workforce development.

Education

Discovery Partnerships Pave Pathways Toward College Access and Career Success

At Discovery Education, we have established collaborative relationships with a variety of like-minded partners who are dedicated to ensuring equitable access to college for all students—while also highlighting examples of the diverse career paths available to them.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Small Change, Big Impact: Using Crowdfunding to Invest in Neighborhoods

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Planet Foundation Annual Campaign Will Alleviate Poverty for 93,800 People

Thanks Whole Foods Market shoppers, employees, and generous supplier partners, the Whole Planet Foundation 2018 Prosperity Campaign during March raised over $3 million to alleviate global poverty for the world's poorest people through microcredit loans.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Hiball Energy Is Powering Her Potential Through Whole Planet Foundation

Whole Planet Foundation’s global impact has reached the world’s poorest people – mostly women – in the United States and 70 other countries thanks to supplier donors like Hiball Energy who have collectively contributed more than $10 million for poverty alleviation.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Bold Investments Changing the Future of Social Good

Sustainable Development Goals

This Woman Is Building Products to Encourage Tunisians to Use Public Spaces

In April 2013, Khouloud Jarraya and her father founded the family business SOTUFER, a company based in Kairouan, Tunisia, that produces a wide range of steel pieces for construction.

Diversity & Inclusion

Organic India is Powering Her Potential through Whole Planet Foundation

Whole Planet Foundation is proud to salute Organic India for renewing its commitment to global poverty alleviation and joining our annual $50,000 giving level. Organic India’s generosity of $160,708 to date is funding approximately 1,800 microloans to create 9,220 opportunities for microentrepreneurs and their family members to live a better life through microcredit.

Sustainable Development Goals

GRI Embarks Upon New Phase of Partnership With Swedish Government

GRI and the Swedish International Development Agency are embarking on a new joint program, which includes a partnership with the Danish Institute for Human Rights. This new phase has a specific focus on ​poverty alleviation, equality and human rights, and will stimulate responsible business towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

How Barclays Is Increasing Access to Financial Services to Boost Societal Progress

In 2017 over 4.8m people took action to protect themselves from online fraud as a result of our Digital Safety campaign.

Latest Campaigns

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...

Whirlpool Corporation & Sustainability

At Whirlpool Corporation, we have a history of advances in sustainability founded on a simple principle: "Do the right things, the right ways. Always...

IWBI | WELL Building Standard

Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...

Greener Products and Solutions

We actively integrate sustainability into the product development process and look at all phases of the product life cycle for opportunities to...

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...

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...

Sustainable Operations

ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)

Housing affordability

We drive solutions to enable people to open doors to a safe and affordable place to call home, the foundation for wellness, dignity, and economic...

FedEx | Empowering Entrepreneurs

Advancing women and minority-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs around the world. Small to mid-sized businesses power their local economies and...

Drawdown Georgia

Informed by Project Drawdown, the world’s leading resource for climate solutions, Drawdown Georgia is the first state-centered effort to crowdsolve...