ESG News from Leading Brands

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

HanesBrands Recognized as One of Most-Admired Companies in Central America and the Caribbean

Aug 7, 2018 1:45 PM ET

Forbes magazine has recognized HanesBrands, a socially responsible manufacturer and marketer of leading everyday basic apparel, as one of the most-admired companies in Central America and the Caribbean. Hanes is the only apparel company included in the region’s inaugural ranking.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Chicago, Cook County Homeownership to Get Boost with $8 Million NeighborhoodLIFT Program

Aug 7, 2018 12:45 PM ET

Wells Fargo's NeighborhoodLIFT program will offer $15,000 down payment assistance grants and homebuyer education for eligible Cook County homebuyers.

Environment

Indra Nooyi: Recycling Rates Are Declining. PepsiCo Has a Plan to Change That

Aug 7, 2018 12:30 PM ET

As CEO of a global company, I do a lot of traveling. Every time I go abroad, I meet new people, absorb different cultures, and gaze in awe at the beauty of our extraordinary planet.

Environment

Go to the Pros: Highlighting Decades of PFAS Management Experience

Aug 7, 2018 11:40 AM ET

PFAS contamination is a massive problem. Learn how Antea Group's decades of experience set them up for management success.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bloomberg Interns Give Back for Annual Day of Service

Aug 7, 2018 11:25 AM ET

Bloomberg’s summer interns are immersed not only in the company’s day-to-day business but also in our culture of service and giving back. As part of Bloomberg Philanthropies, we are dedicated to helping our communities around the world and work with a wide range of partners on programs ranging from mentoring students to preserving natural resources and protecting our planet.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

How Changing the World’s Food Systems Can Help to Protect the Planet

Aug 7, 2018 11:05 AM ET

Going into debt with nature is a dangerous thing. When our stocks of water, land and clean air are spent – we don’t have a second planet to borrow from. But that’s exactly the way that Earth is heading. 1 August 2018 marks an annual event, “Earth Overshoot Day”: the day on which the natural resources the planet can regenerate within one year are exhausted. This is the earliest date on which Earth Overshoot Day has ever been reached.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Ecocentricity Blog: Certifiably Certified

Aug 7, 2018 11:00 AM ET

Ah, the power of certifications. None of us has the time to research every last aspect of all of the products in our lives, so certifications let us be reasonably conscious consumers despite our time crunch.

Media & Communications

About Sustainability Ratings: CPAs Are Being Educated by Their Profession’s Journal – a Good First Effort to Push Information to All Levels of CPAs

Aug 7, 2018 11:00 AM ET

The professional CPAs working inside a public company, or in the outside accounting firm working with a company may or may not yet be involved in assisting corporate managers in responding to a growing number of third-party surveys focused on the company’s ESG strategies, actions and achievements. Responses to these periodic surveys and engagements by other means with the ratings and rankings organizations are increasingly shaping outcomes – that is, investor opinions of the company.

Health & Healthcare

VIDEO | Paralympic Skier, Best-Selling Author, and Childhood Cancer Survivor Josh Sundquist Helps Spread the Word About My Special Aflac Duck™

Aug 7, 2018 10:55 AM ET

Paralympic skier, best-selling author, and childhood cancer survivor Josh Sundquist understands the physical and emotional toll of facing childhood cancer.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Jordan Bell Tips-off JetBlue’s Soar with Reading Event in San Francisco

Aug 7, 2018 10:35 AM ET

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

eBay and ESPN Support Cancer Research With the 14th Annual ESPY Day Auction

Aug 7, 2018 10:35 AM ET

For more than a decade, eBay and ESPN have partnered to host an annual ESPY Awards Charity Campaign in support of the V Foundation, an organization that creates an urgent awareness among all Americans of the importance on the war against cancer through education, advocacy, fundraising and philanthropy.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Learning to Lead at Las Vegas Sands

Aug 7, 2018 10:20 AM ET

Growing into leadership began early on for Sang Han, who has been with Las Vegas Sands since 2012. He started out as the front office hotel manager for The Venetian and The Palazzo before taking on his current role as assistant director of housekeeping.

Media & Communications

6 Times Fair Trade Funds Supported Education

Aug 7, 2018 10:00 AM ET

Look at any community around the world that works with Fair Trade, from the smallest village in Uganda, to a coastal fishing town in Mexico, and you'll see that no two have the same exact set of needs. That’s why Fair Trade USA leaves power in the hands of committees of farmers and workers to decide for themselves how the additional funds earned through Fair Trade—called Community Development Funds—will be spent. Regardless of those unique challenges, many see education as the most promising solution. Our neighbors around the world are longing to write a better future for themselves and their children by creating opportunities to learn and grow.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Cabins, Campfires and STEM

Aug 7, 2018 10:00 AM ET

The warm summer months bring back fond memories. For some of us, the fondest include leaving our families for weeks at a time to head off to summer camp.

Recently, Will Dickson, iHub University Innovation champion and MIT lead talent scout for General Motors, had the opportunity to do just that at the National Youth Science Camp (NYSC) in Bartow, West Virginia.

Each year this STEM-focused camp invites more than 120 incoming college freshman “delegates” from across the country and around the world to explore the vast career opportunities a STEM degree can provide.

Research, Reports & Publications

HPE CEO Antonio Neri Addresses Sustainability in Living Progress Report

Aug 7, 2018 9:55 AM ET

In his first sustainability report as CEO, Antonio Neri shares HPE's approach to corporate citizenship in this age of digital disruption.

Events, Media & Communications

One-planet Prosperity: The Business Case for Addressing 'Earth Overshoot'

Aug 7, 2018 9:45 AM ET

Aug. 1, marked this year’s Earth Overshoot Day, the day of the year by which humanity has exhausted its annual resource budget. Between Jan. 1 and Aug. 1, humanity used more from nature than the planet’s ecosystems are able to renew in the entire year.

Events, Media & Communications

VIDEO | Mark Your Calendar for 3BL Forum October 23-25

Aug 7, 2018 9:40 AM ET

On October 23-25, 2018, 3BL Forum will once again convene a diverse group of business, policy and NGO leaders to share insights, advance best practices and workshop forward-thinking solutions to the most pressing sustainability challenges of our tim

Energy

Northern Trust Introduces Electric Cars to India Locations

Aug 7, 2018 9:10 AM ET

Research, Reports & Publications

Caesars Entertainment Launches 9th Annual CSR Report

Aug 7, 2018 9:00 AM ET

Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ:CZR), the world’s most diversified gaming and entertainment company, today announced the launch of its 9th annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) report, PEOPLE PLANET PLAY, which details sustained progress against the company’s CSR goals in 2017 and the early half of 2018, and its continued commitment to its employees, suppliers and communities.

Environment

National Grid Northeast 80x50 Pathway: THE PATHWAY TO 2030

Aug 7, 2018 8:05 AM ET

Innovation & Technology

America’s Charities and Pinkaloo Unveil New Employee Giving and Engagement Solution

Aug 6, 2018 7:55 PM ET

America’s Charities, which inspires employees and organizations to support causes they care about, today unveiled a new employee giving solution in partnership with Pinkaloo, a Baltimore-based technology company that uses data and technology to power growth in philanthropic giving all across the planet. The new America’s Charities’ Modern Giving Solution is designed to help employers grow their workplace giving programs and social impact while giving employees exactly what they want – a way to donate to charities and causes that matter to them whenever, however, and wherever they want.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

From Royal Inspiration to Royal Recognition

Aug 6, 2018 5:30 PM ET

Symantec’s Volunteer of the Quarter initiative highlights and rewards those employees who dedicate their time and talents to address societal and environmental issues. Today we highlight our Volunteer of the Quarter Nick Coates, Principal ITSM Solutions Engineer, Production Engineering, in our Reading UK office.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Changing the Mindset from Old Power to New Power in the Arts

Aug 6, 2018 5:20 PM ET

It would be difficult to think of a field that is more old-power than the arts.

Closely connected with this old-power/new-power dynamic is the way that technology has been embraced in these organizations (or not). Traditional performing arts institutions are lagging behind other kinds of groups when it comes to embracing interactive technology in their performances, particularly methods that empower their audiences.

We tried a new-power approach to philanthropy at American Express with our Partners in Preservation program, which we sponsor with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

After 11 years, this partnership has awarded nearly $20 million in preservation funding to 250 diverse historic sites in 20 National Parks, fourteen different cities, and 12 Main Street communities.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Nestlé Employees Across the U.S. Team Up with Feeding America® to Fight Hunger

Aug 6, 2018 5:15 PM ET

Nestlé today marks its third annual Nestlé Cares day of service, an effort that unites its eight operating companies in 47 states to make a difference through more than 150 events nationwide. This year, Nestlé will expand its work with Feeding America®, the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the U.S., to support local food banks and non-profit organizations that provide nutritious foods to families in need. Today’s day of service is part of an exciting week at Nestlé. On July 31, the company hosted a neighborhood celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony in Rosslyn, Virginia to mark the grand opening of its new U.S. headquarters.

Energy

Working Together for a More Stable Grid—Here’s What You Can Do

Aug 6, 2018 5:05 PM ET

As energy demand and temperatures continues to rise, both commercial and residential customers have the opportunity to work with their energy partner on solutions that help keep the grid stable for everyone. Here are some direct ways you can act on behalf of your home or organization to ensure power consumption stays low.