ESG News from Leading Brands

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Transforming Daily Lives Through Digital Savings

In Sierra Leone, small savings groups have a long history of supporting farmers and marginalized communities, especially women. In short, saving groups have transformed lives, offering financial support and fostering community resilience.

Health & Healthcare

MTV Partners With Lena Waithe to Save Mothers' Lives

One of the most dangerous places in the developed world to give birth is the United States, and MTV wants to help create awareness.

Research, Reports & Publications

New Guide Becomes the Compass for Business in Latin America to Navigate Sustainability Management

A team of international experts detailed the key elements of a management system that makes it easier for companies to implement the growing environmental and social requirements that are being demanded by clients from industry, investors, governments and civil society.

Research, Reports & Publications

Nueva guía se convierte en la brújula de la empresa en America Latina para navegar en la gestión de la sostenibilidad

Un equipo de expertos internacionales detalló los elementos clave de un sistema de gestión que facilita a las empresas implementar los crecientes requisitos ambientales y sociales que están demandando los clientes de la industria, inversionistas, gobiernos y sociedad civil.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comerica Bank and NAACP to Launch Financial Education Campaign Hosting Programs Throughout Detroit

Comerica Bank, the longest-serving bank in Michigan for 170 years, and the NAACP will launch a new financial education program beginning Wednesday, Aug. 7, providing Detroit residents with empowerment sessions focused on money management, checking and savings, budgeting, investing and credit management.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Two Brothers Make Helping Others a Priority

Starve Poverty is a wonderful organization that is doing wonderful things. Since getting involved, we have continued to donate our time every year because we love it so much. We’ve developed great relationships with the Bahamian people as well, and the trips are making us appreciate everything we are doing so much more. The fact that PSEG’s new Power of One campaign is spotlighting what the volunteers in our organization are doing on their own time to help others makes us both proud. PSEG is committed to strengthening communities and supporting employee volunteerism, and we are honored to be a part of such a great company.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Behind the Wheel: Laying the Ground for a Bright Future

As a longtime advocate for fostering and improving the communities in which it operates, CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNHI /MI: CNHI), encourages its employees around the world to help make a difference in their local areas.

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Progressing Towards the Sustainable Development Goals with Sands ECO360

Las Vegas Sands’ Sands ECO360 program approaches the SDGs pragmatically, which allows the company to strategically dedicate resources to key environmental issues that matter the most.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck Receives Top Score of 100 on 2019 Disability Equality Index

For the fifth year in a row, Merck was recognized as a Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, receiving a score of 100% on the 2019 Disability Equality Index (DEI). The DEI is a unique, joint initiative of Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). It serves as the nation's most comprehensive annual benchmarking tool for corporations.

Health & Healthcare

A Different Kind of Vision: Why We’re Working to Make Prescription Labels More Accessible

I’m proud to work for a company that values me for who I am, and that I’m given the opportunity to use my unique skills and perspectives to create better experiences for associates and customers with disabilities. One of the ways Walmart and Sam’s Club are doing just that is by working with En-Vision America, a leader in pharmacy accessibility for blind, low-vision and print-disabled individuals. Through this partnership, Walmart and Sam’s Club pharmacy customers who might have difficulty reading their prescription labels can request audible labels that utilize ScripTalk technology developed by En-Vision America.

Research, Reports & Publications

Republic Services Unveils 2030 Sustainability Goals

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) has announced its next generation sustainability strategy, which includes seven ambitious, long-term goals designed to address critical global macrotrends related to the Company’s most important sustainability risks and opportunities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Turin Was Transformed by Hosting an Olympic Winter Games

While most people were familiar with the general attractions of London, Rio or Vancouver prior to them putting on recent Games, the 2006 Olympic Winter Games radically changed international perceptions of Italy’s industrial north. As a result, Turin 2006 helped unearth the city’s little-known touristic charm.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Chevron Recognized as one of the Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion

Chevron announced it has been named to the 2019 Disability Equality Index® (DEI) “Best Places to Work for People with Disabilities.” In its first year as a participant in the index, the company earned a top score of 100% for its efforts in promoting an inclusive workplace for people with disabilities.

Diversity & Inclusion

Finding Your Inner Wolf: Dan Schulman's 'Never Stand Still' Conversation with World Cup and Olympic Champion Abby Wambach

Last year, my wife—who is a professor at Barnard College—came home from the school’s spring commencement ceremony and said to me, “I just listened to the best commencement address I’ve ever heard.” Considering I was giving the commencement speech at Rutgers University a few days later, I jokingly tried to clarify that opinion with her, but she didn’t skip one beat before correcting me: “Nope, the best commencement I have ever heard.” It had been delivered by World Cup and Olympic Champion Abby Wambach.

The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada

Environment

Finding New Life for Single-Use Biopharma Plastic Waste

The picnic table at which you’re enjoying your summer BBQ may have been a plastic glove, shoe cover or chemical container involved in the manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals in its past life.

Diversity & Inclusion

A Personal Passion, a Powerful Impact: Booz Allen’s Kristine Martin Anderson

What can happen when you believe anything is possible and are fueled with a passion to change the world?

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

BCtA Partner Perspectives on Emerging Trends and Top Priorities in the World of Inclusive Business

Agenda 2030 constitutes a new framework, an increase in the ambition for a sustainable development. It necessitates new partnerships, more resources, new, innovative approaches and solutions to global challenges such as poverty and climate change. Solutions must always be owned and driven by those actors that are locally established in the actual development context to be relevant and sustainable.

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Environment

Expanding Ergonomics: Why EHS Leaders Need to Think Beyond Office Layout

Antea Group explores how EHS leaders can think beyond layout and take a comprehensive and holistic approach to ergonomics in the workplace.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Secret Montreal Lab Makes Used Plastic New Again

A secret Montreal laboratory has developed a breakthrough technology that may help save the planet – and keep your local taxes low at the same time.

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Innovation & Technology

Arrow Electronics Helps Injured Racecar Driver Robert Wickens Get Back Behind the Wheel

Nearly a year after a suffering a severe spinal cord injury, IndyCar driver Robert Wickens returned to the track – leading the high-speed parade lap at the 2019 Honda Indy Toronto in a hand-controlled car modified by Arrow Electronics.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Over 30 of San Francisco Business Times’ Top 100 Corporate Philanthropists are Benevity Clients

Over 30 of San Francisco Business Times’ 2019 Top 100 Corporate Philanthropists are Benevity clients—16 of which placed in the Top 25. The list honors the most generous contributors to Bay Area nonprofits and celebrates the impact of corporate purpose.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Intel's Commitment to Responsible Minerals Sourcing

We are proud of the significant progress we have made in addressing the issue of responsible minerals in our supply chain, and the positive impacts our efforts have brought to people who live and work in the DRC and surrounding region.

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Energy

Clean Power in Sports: What Fuels Your Game?

Professional sports leagues are in the unique position of communicating with fans of all ages.

Research, Reports & Publications

Embracing Change: Alliance Data’s 2018 Sustainability Progress

Change is not new, it’s merely the new norm. Within our 2018 Sustainability Report you’ll see that Alliance Data is embracing change by rethinking, re-strategizing and creating shared value for our associates, clients, investors, communities and other key stakeholders. Our approach to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) matters illustrates our commitment to ensuring we are well-positioned for the future. In today’s shifting business environment, we must continue to invest in practices that meet or exceed stakeholder expectations, effectively manage risk and enable us to focus on long-term growth and sustainability.

Sustainable Development Goals

Reporting Drives Corporate Change to Achieve SDGs

An ambitious project has been launched to explore how the private sector can actively contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – and what the role of reporting and partnerships is to support this process.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Interview With Carol Nissen, Environmental Engineer

Carol Nissen is a professional engineer and geologist who specializes in brownfields redevelopment. She joined Tetra Tech in 1997 and applies her years of experience to the environmental management market.

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