Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Why Employee Volunteer Recognition is Important

If your employee volunteer program is perceived as important, it goes a long way to making the employee feel important. Employee volunteering can have far-reaching individual, workplace, and community impact – it can do a lot. It’s also asking a lot. So, it’s important that companies see this, and recognize it appropriately. The big question is – how?

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sacramento Homeownership to Get $6 Million Boost

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), NeighborWorks® America and its local network member, NeighborWorks HomeOwnership Center Sacramento Region, today announced an additional $6 million donation by Wells Fargo to boost homeownership through the NeighborhoodLIFT® program for Sacramento County and the city of West Sacramento. This effort to create approximately 225 local homeowners follows the success of the 2012 NeighborhoodLIFT program for Sacramento that included a $7 million philanthropic investment by Wells Fargo and created 329 homeowners.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Record Number of Dresses Collected for Comerica Bank’s Detroit Prom Dress Drive

With more than 2,000 dresses collected, Comerica Bank’s Detroit Prom Dress Drive distributed a record total to Hope Closet. To further support Hope Closet and its community outreach, Comerica presented a $5,000 donation to Hope Closet President Whitney Drake.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Los Angeles Convention Center Unveils Largest Public Art & Civic Project in the United States by Portraits of Hope

The Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC), owned by the City of Los Angeles and managed by AEG Facilities, recently revealed a massive, hand-painted mural created by Portraits of Hope, titled Shaping LA. The mural, spanning the length of four football fields, and accompanying artwork will be displayed for approximately six months on the LACC’s South Hall facing the 110 freeway and on the ground level of the facility in and around the West Hall parking garage and walkway facing STAPLES Center.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Law Day 2019: Celebrating Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society

Taking place on May 1st each year, Law Day is a national day established by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958 to mark the nation's commitment to the rule of law. Law Day provides an opportunity to understand how law and the legal process protect our liberty, strive to achieve justice, and contribute to the freedoms that all Americans share.

Education

Partners in Purpose: Consumers Energy Supports the Robotics Revolution

This past weekend, Consumers Energy sponsored the FIRST Championship for high school robotics teams across the world. The competition was held in Michigan, with 90 local teams participating - more than any other state! By supporting events like the FIRST Championship, Consumers Energy hopes to advance the development of skills employers in the area need, from manufacturing and engineering to marketing and communications.

Diversity & Inclusion

Discovery Education, USC Shoah Foundation and DC Web Fest Kick Off First-Ever Excellence in Social Impact Category to Inspire Youth to Fight Against Hate and Discrimination

Discovery Education, USC Shoah Foundation and the DC Web Fest have collaborated, for the first time ever, to uplift USC Shoah Foundation’s Teaching with Testimony Stronger Than Hate Challenge. During, D.C. Web Fest’s 7th Annual Festival hosted this April, film makers engaged in a meaningful dialogue about leveraging the power of testimony and film to fight against discrimination, hate and injustice.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Building A Stronger Community Food System in North Minneapolis

General Mills is committed to ensuring our hometown communities are food secure by supporting vibrant community food systems. That’s why we partnered with Greater Twin Cities United Way to launch the Full Lives Program, which supports a healthy and equitable community food system by increasing food access in North Minneapolis. A $1 million philanthropic grant from the General Mills Foundation enabled 14 projects across 11 organizations to increase the strength of the North Minneapolis community food system as a whole.

Education

Meet 3 Inspiring Teens Feeding A Better Future

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Michael B. Jordan Wins $100,000 for Feeding America as Honey Nut Cheerios' Good Rewards Comes to a Close

Honey Nut Cheerios has crowned the winner of its first-ever Good Rewards program, with Michael B. Jordan claiming the top prize of $100,000 on behalf of Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization leading the charge to help end hunger in our country. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) received $50,000, and the Gronk Nation Youth Foundation received $25,000 as the second and third place charity beneficiaries of Good Rewards.

Latest Campaigns

AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism

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Kingfisher Around the World

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KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service

KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...

Aflac Voices

Hear from Aflac’s senior leaders and subject matter experts about industry trends and more.

Local Communities

The principals of living and working in synergy with the communities in which we operate, as well as collaborating on projects that benefit those...