ESG News from Leading Brands

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Paris Olympics

Environment | Inogen Alliance

How the Paris Olympics Highlighted Critical EHS Issues

The 2024 Paris Olympics have been hot. While the heat has not, thus far, shattered any records, it has brought attention to two EHS issues at the center of this year’s Olympics: Indoor air quality and water safety.
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Responsible Production & Consumption

Sysco Launches “Sysco Knows Fresh” Campaign to Help Foodservice Operators Connect With Its Expansive Assortment of Fresh Products

The landscape of the foodservice industry might be changing, but Sysco’s fresh food products remain unmatched, and our operations uninterrupted. Learn more through the new Sysco Knows Fresh campaign.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Common Impact Connections: Supporting Our Communities During COVID-19

The latest Common Impact Connections newsletter details how companies and nonprofits can leverage virtual service and disaster resiliency to safely continue their skills-based volunteering during COVID-19, when communities need them most.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Kimberly-Clark Outlines Support for COVID-19 Global Relief Efforts

In response to the current health crisis, Kimberly-Clark and its trusted global brands have announced a series of cash and product donations through the Kimberly-Clark Foundation to help support COVID-19 relief efforts around the world.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Providing Critical Resources to HCPs in Time of Crisis

Today, the heroic healthcare professionals (HCPs) on the front lines of care in communities around the world need our support more than ever before.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Intel Commits $50 Million with Pandemic Response Technology Initiative to Combat Coronavirus

Intel pledges an additional $50 million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat COVID-19 through accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care, speeding scientific research and ensuring access to online learning.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Dow Thanks All Frontline Employees and Workers

This crisis has shattered so many hearts around the world and our thoughts & prayers are with those victims. We have a responsibility to support the people & supply chains that are vital to containing COVID-19 & maintaining our collective well-being.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Open Works Has Been in the Community, Helping to Build a Stable Foundation for Baltimore

One of Legg Mason’s newest partners, Open Works, is a 34,000-square-foot community makerspace in Baltimore, founded in 2016 to help rebuild Baltimore’s manufacturing economy.

Discovery Education

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Top 10 Finalists Announced by Toyota and Discovery Education in the 2020 TeenDrive365 Video Challenge

Nearly 1,000 teens produced their own public service announcement on safe driving as part of the Toyota and Discovery Education TeenDrive365 Video Challenge.

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Events, Media & Communications

T-Mobile Update on COVID-19 Response

Over the past few weeks, T-Mobile has been working on a response plan to mobilize every area of our business to support customers, employees and the community as we face the new challenges of COVID-19

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Koch is Fighting COVID-19

Let me begin by commending you for what you are accomplishing during these uncertain and challenging times.

Innovation & Technology

HPE Powers Small Businesses and Remote Office Locations With Monthly Subscription for Secure, Easy-to-use It Solutions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it is making it easier for small businesses to make the virtual switch to focus on driving growth and make digital transformation a reality with new technologies.

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Innovation & Technology

COVID-19’s Helping Hand, Medical Ventilators, Require Semiconductor Components to Function

As I write this, I’m working in my home office sequestered like most of the world’s population. I take this time to write while it is quiet, as quietness has quickly become a rarity in this household.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

International Paper Provides Funding to American Red Cross

International Paper (NYSE: IP), the world’s leading producer of renewable, fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper, has made a $180,000 donation to the American Red Cross to support year-round humanitarian relief efforts.

Black & Veatch

Green Infrastructure

Knostrop Energy & Recycling Facility: Delivering Sustainability Throughout the Infrastructure Lifecycle

Sustainability is at the heart of Yorkshire Water’s £72 million Knostrop Energy & Recycling Facility generating enough electricity to power 7,600 homes. The project to create the facility was delivered on time & to budget

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Sustainability Teams Can Meet the Moment

It’s still too early to know the full human and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. But eventually, we will need to begin to ponder the question: how will we rebuild once the crisis has passed? What can sustainability teams in companies expect?

SSG

Social Impact & Volunteering

Canadians to Engage in International Social Value Movement

Social Value Canada (SVC) is proud to announce the launch of membership opportunities in the Canadian social value network – an essential resource in the advancement of social value thinking among leading corporations, government bodies, non-profits and charities.

Health & Healthcare

Athletes at the Forefront of the COVID-19 Response

At a time when populations are being asked to stay at home to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, athletes are not only setting examples on how to #StayActive and leverage physical activity to face this unprecedented situation.

Energy

Ecocentricity Blog: COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis, Part II

Michael Liebreich shares good examples of how longer-term stimulus can play out in various industries. As important as whether we will have any “green stimulus” is how those dollars will be utilized.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Dallas Community Rallies to Register 1,100 New Donors for Team Harrison

Nine-year-old Harrison Marcus is fighting acute myeloid leukemia, but he’s not alone in his battle. He has the support of his family, DKMS, Parish Episcopal School students, and the Dallas Youth Advisory Board.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Broken Arrow Bar Now Offering Drive-Thru Grocery Service

Scooter South 40 is part of a pilot “pop-up-shop” program with Sysco, a restaurant supplier.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Apparently the World Is Craving Some Real Goodness Right Now

Benevity's "We Are We" movement to harness the power of collective action, fuels $2.3 million in donations to 812 nonprofits, through their Community Impact Portal.

Events, Media & Communications

Spelling Out CLP’s Dedication to Reporting

Effective communication is crucial in today’s complex and fast-changing business world. We need to not only do our jobs well and efficiently, but also inform the public and our many stakeholders so they clearly understand our objectives and progress.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

SC Johnson and Save the Children Join Forces to Equip a Generation With the Life Skills to Battle COVID-19 and Future Public Health Threats

With a goal of enabling this generation of children to better protect themselves and their communities, SC Johnson and Save the Children are partnering to educate and enable children worldwide to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Research, Reports & Publications

OMV Publishes Sustainability Report 2019

On April 3, 2020 OMV, the international, integrated oil and gas company based in Vienna, published its 15th sustainability report – for the first time also in digital form, available here.

Media & Communications

#ThanksforDelivering

Logistics heroes globally are delivering critical personal protective equipment and life-saving medicines during this pandemic. Share your support for dedicated UPSers by visiting ups.com/thanks.

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