ESG News from Leading Brands

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Diversity & Inclusion | CARE

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.
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Environment

Tackling the Decarbonization of Transportation

We have a map of viable pathways for decarbonizing transportation but, we’re going to need many more to start down this road if we’re going to make a true impact on lowering our transportation emissions.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ON Semiconductor Celebrates the Magic of Family Volunteering

In 2018, ON Semiconductor donated over $2 million globally to support health, human services, education, disaster relief and environmental causes. Of that total, we have invested close to $1 million in Arizona through workplace giving.

Black & Veatch

Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainability Solutions Take Center Stage at Demo Day for Black & Veatch Cleantech Accelerator

Seven U.S. entrepreneurs participating in the Black & Veatch IgniteX Cleantech Accelerator recently took the stage in Kansas City to showcase their business models and show how they’re poised to rewrite how the enterprise focuses on sustainability.

Events, Media & Communications

Second Sustainable Finance Week Convened by Bloomberg to Accelerate the Next $10 Trillion of Sustainable Investment

The second annual Sustainable Finance Week convened by Bloomberg will expand beyond events in New York to Toronto this year.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

A Decade of Care: Hanes Launches 10th National Sock Drive to Help the Homeless; Tops 3 Million Donated Pairs

America’s No. 1 basic apparel brand marks 10 years of bringing comfort to those living without shelter by donating more than 250,000 pairs of socks to agencies fighting homelessness in all 50 states

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Points of Light Honors St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Volunteer with Daily Point of Light on 30th Anniversary of Award

Points of Light is honoring Jason Farmer, a Memphis, Tennessee volunteer for ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, with the Daily Point of Light Award on the 30th anniversary of the first award.

Education

JetBlue Foundation Celebrates National STEM Day

November 8 was National STEM Day, a day focused on inspiring young people to explore and pursue careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math—and the JetBlue Foundation participated in two fantastic events to commemorate the day.

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Education

Educators: It’s Time to Close the “Homework Gap”

The New T-Mobile will create Project 10Million, a program designed to eradicate the homework gap by making a pledge worth $10 billion over the next 5 years that will deliver free internet access to 10 million households in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

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Health & Healthcare

She Explores the Outdoors

Gale Straub was working a finance job in Boston, her home of nearly a decade, when her partner, Jon, suggested they take a yearlong road trip.

Education

P&G teams with GE Aviation to encourage girls to pursue STEM careers

Procter & Gamble Co. and GE Aviation will be among local businesses that encourage more than 200 girls in grades six through nine to pursue careers in science via an all-day workshop on Nov. 20 at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Comerica Employee Fundraisers Impact Special Causes

Colleagues raised approximately $130,000 for four major Detroit-based community initiatives in 2019

Media & Communications

SCS Global Services Now Offers FSSC 22000 Certification

SCS Global Services is pleased to announce that it has added FSSC 22000 certification, a complete food safety management systems certification scheme, to its comprehensive suite of professional auditing, training & support services for the food industry.

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Education

STAR Initiative: Strengthening Local STEM Ecosystems

STAR is intended to strengthen and support the educational landscapes by helping increase access to STEM resources and opportunities for students most underrepresented in STEM college or career pathways.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Serving Her Country, Mentoring Tomorrow’s STEM Leaders: Booz Allen’s Kimberly Page

When a back injury prevented her from continuing her Navy service, she joined Booz Allen. After 15 years, two children, and five moves as a military spouse, she’s a chief systems engineer supporting the firm’s Navy/Marine Corps account.

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Education

Novartis Supports EDCTP’s Career Development Programme, Focusing on Maternal and Child Health

Basel, Switzerland, November 2019 – Novartis will support the career development programme of the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). The programme aims to provide early- to mid-career researchers in sub-Saharan Africa with an opportunity to train and develop their clinical research skills.

Energy

Collective Power for Good: EnergyAustralia Customers Go Neutral

EnergyAustralia introduced the Go Neutral programme in 2016 to encourage customers to combat climate change by offsetting the carbon emissions of their electricity use, at no cost to them.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

LA Kings to Host Annual Food Drives at STAPLES Center Leading Up to Thanksgiving

AEG’s LA Kings will team up with Blue Shield of California to host four Food Drives during the club’s home games at STAPLES Center leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Living Standard Research Shows Storytelling Advances the Sustainability Conversation

“Everybody has been all about generating data. What was lost was the whole social aspect of why are we doing this at all,” Bandy says.

Green Infrastructure

The Ray Receives Recognition and Accolades for Smart, Sustainable Highway in Georgia

Atlanta Magazine, The Shorty Awards and Newsweek honor the innovative P4 building the future highway, today.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Power Of Purpose: How The eBay Community Has Raised $1 Billion For Charities Around The World

eBay for Charity announced that the program reached a major milestone: $1 billion in total funds raised for charities around the world.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Schneider Electric Included in the Top 50 for The Diversity Leaders 2020 Ranking Held by the Financial Times

Schneider Electric is recognized by the Financial Times Diversity Leaders 2020. Schneider Electric ranks 41st overall and 4th in its industry category out of 700 companies included in the new annual ranking.

Education

Qualcomm™ and FIRST™: A Long-Term Collaboration to Foster Tomorrow’s Innovators

Our ongoing strategic collaboration with FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) provides hands-on experience with Qualcomm technology to engage students in more than 25 countries.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 123: Aligning Business Strategy and Purpose

Companies are under increasing pressure to be socially conscious, if not socially active. But what’s the best way to do this authentically?

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Diversity & Inclusion

K-Tec Systems CEO Cathy Koch “Believed She Could, and So She Did”—with Help from wegg® and FedEx

“Every morning,” K-Tec Systems CEO Cathy Koch says, “I put on a bracelet that says: ‘She Believed She Could, and So She Did.’ I believe a woman must believe ‘she can’ from the day she opens her business.”

Sustainable Development Goals

CBRE Named Top 50 Company for Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Matters

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) today announced that it has been named to the Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) list of Top 50 Best ESG Companies. CBRE is #23 and the only commercial real estate services firm on the list.

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