ESG News For Morgan Stanley

Only 20% of Large Companies Increased Promotion Opportunities, According to 2024 American Opportunity IndexW.W. Grainger, Costco, Capital One, Meta and ServiceNow Top This Year’s Ranking

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”) and Opportunity Finance Network (“OFN”) today announced the deployment of a portion of the second annual contribution related to MSIM’s money market funds’ Impact Class shares. The total amount of MSIM’s annual contribution made earlier this year, was $350,000 and was directed to OFN’s Finance Justice Fund, MSIM’s diversity and inclusion partner for the Impact Class shares.“We are pleased to see the growth and impact of our partnership with Morgan St

Calvert Research and Management (Calvert) announced today the first contribution in the amount of $25,000 from Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. (MSIM) to America Needs You (ANY), an organization focused on driving economic mobility for first-generation college students. The contribution is part of MSIM’s effort to donate annually to diversity, equity and inclusion-related organizations from its own resources in connection with the Calvert US Large-Cap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Ind

Natixis Investment Managers welcomed the Boston-area students who were awarded its 2024 Global Equal Opportunities Advancement Scholarship.

The new platform was created to help immigrant professionals advance their careers and make their American dream a reality, garnering support and content from over 100 top immigrant executives

Webster Five adds Spiral to allow customers to round up their everyday purchases to effortlessly save and support charitable causes, all while boosting digital donations to local nonprofits.

Majority of surveyed companies globally (85%) see sustainability as a value creation opportunityHigh investment needs cited as top barrier to sustainability efforts, making access to capital a key enablerNearly 25% believe climate change is impacting their business today, on par with risks like technological change and geopolitical conflict

Gainbridge®, Parity, and Women’s Sports Foundation® partner for second annual Parity Week to award grants to organizations that support girls and women, including one in Billie Jean King’s honor

Sustainable Investing Challenge brings together future leaders addressing critical sustainability issues through innovative financial solutionsUniversity of Utah's David Eccles School of Business awarded top prize for proposal to save Utah’s Great Salt LakeSecond- and third-place prizes awarded to students from the University of Navarra’s IESE Business School and Columbia Business School

New funding brings Morgan Stanley’s total commitment to $50 million since the launch of its Alliance for Children’s Mental Health in 2020The American Academy of Pediatrics and Sesame Workshop join Alliance to help expand programming to early childhood care and workforce development

Amal Alliance, Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Give Us The Floor, Our Minds Matter and Upstream Education named Innovation Award winnersNew Leadership Learning Series aims to help more charities build capacity for greater impact

Seventh annual ranking of companies selected by Calvert on a variety of sustainability measures featured in Barron’s

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New solution allows employers to customize and scale charitable giving within the workplaceCorporate clients and employees can open, fund, and manage their own giving account

TruFund Financial Services, Inc. is proud to announce the expansion of the Impact Developers Fund (IDF). The additional $11.5 million includes commitments from three new investors, in addition to increased commitments from the Ford Foundation and Tru-Capital Investment Fund, the general partner of the fund. This results in a >40% increase in the fund's size to a total of $37.5 million.The fund's mission is to empower real estate developers who have traditionally lacked access to capital and supp

"We are proud that our robust ESG programs and high level of transparency have earned us the Prime rating that places us among the top 10% in our industry”

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”) and Opportunity Finance Network (“OFN”) today announced the first contribution related to MSIM’s money market funds’ Impact Class shares. The contribution in the amount of $250,000 was made to OFN’s Finance Justice Fund, MSIM’s diversity and inclusion partner for the Impact Class shares.“We are pleased to join Morgan Stanley Investment Management in this innovative partnership for impact,” said Beth Lipson, Interim CEO and Chief Financial Officer of

Alliance’s Innovation Awards fund impactful, scalable solutions supporting youth mental healthIn its third year, awards program expanding to include capacity building platform for broader group of applicants in 2024

NationSwell Collaboratives, an initiative that connects committed actors across sectors and resources for scaled action, was recognized by Fast Company in two categories for laying the foundation for the Future of Work.

NationSwell Summit, the premier gathering for impact practitioners from the nation’s most influential, purpose-driven organizations, will return to New York following a nearly three year hiatus. Past speakers include Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff, former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, and environmentalist Bill McKibben.

Leading industry firms join GWI’s Leadership Circle demonstrating their commitment to gender diversity, equity and industry retention initiatives

Rissman will lead the impact organization’s rapidly growing membership community of leaders at the vanguard of social, economic and environmental progress

C-suite executives at Verizon, Target, Salesforce; Harvard Business School professors; and social sector activists among those chosen for top honor.

Asad Kausar of Dabaran Inc. has joined the Marketing Committee at Chicago Zoological Society Associates.

The virtual event is set for November 18.

Five leading organizations and their founders developing breakthrough social innovations will each receive a $250,000 award and participate in a new program to advance systemic solutions to complex social justice issues.With support from Morgan Stanley, national nonprofit Centri Tech Foundation has selected five winners from across the United States, each taking an innovative approach to promoting social justice and inclusive economic opportunity.Each of the award winners will receive a $250,000 award and bespoke support aimed at accelerating their ability to scale their solution and drive systemic change.Awardees will take part in a nine-month-long collaborative program designed to support transformative systems-level solutions to some of America’s most complex social justice issues.

Rating given by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. (“Hudson Pacific” or the “Company”) (NYSE: HPP), a unique provider of end-to-end real estate solutions for dynamic tech and media tenants in global epicenters for these synergistic, converging and secular growth industries, today announced that its operating partnership, Hudson Pacific Properties, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”), has priced an underwritten public offering of $350.0 million aggregate principal amount of 5.950% senior notes due 2028. The notes wi

United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) (“U. S. Steel”) today announced the closing of $290 million unsecured Arkansas Development Finance Authority environmental improvement revenue bonds, which carry a green bond designation (the “Green Bonds”). Proceeds of the bonds will be used for “eligible Green Projects” within the meaning of the Green Bond Principles of The International Capital Market Association.Separately, the Company successfully repurchased approximately $300 million of outstandin

The 2022 cohort brings together five teams of innovators focused on tackling global sustainability challenges, from protecting our oceans and fighting climate change and plastic waste, to increasing educational opportunities across the African continent.Each of the winning teams will receive a $250,000 award and participate in a year-long program that will aid and guide them as they work to scale their systemic solutions.

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Employees contributed over 11,000 hours to strategy development for 15 nonprofits during the 2022 Strategy Challenge programProgram has benefited over 170 nonprofits since launch

Chair C. Robert Kidder to Retire from Board of Directors

The Sustainable Investing Challenge brings together future leaders seeking to help address today’s toughest sustainability issues through innovative financial solutions

Morgan Stanley today announced the return of the Eagles for Impact Challenge taking place at THE PLAYERS Championship, March 10-13, 2022, at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. This year, the Firm is partnering with its brand ambassadors Justin Rose and Cheyenne Woods, as well as First Tee, a youth development organization that has a 25-year history of using golf to teach lessons about life. For every eagle made during the tournament, Morgan Stanley will donate $5,000 to First Tee in sup

Natixis Investment Managers today announced that Ron Taylor has joined the firm as Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the US.

Six-member independent council to bolster KKR’s ESG expertise and capabilities and advance the firm’s ESG strategy and practices

Natixis Investment Managers is joining The Equity Collective, a collaboration launched by Morgan Stanley to educate and reach diverse talent.

New awards seek out innovative solutions to promote social justice and inclusive economic opportunity in the United States.In strategic partnership with Morgan Stanley, national nonprofit Centri Tech Foundation will select 5 winners to receive $250,000 award and customized support to accelerate their ability to scale and drive systemic change.Awardees will become part of the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Solutions Collaborative, a Firmwide initiative focused on identifying breakthrough innovations to address complex global sustainability challenges. 

Diverse Group of Leading Philanthropies Unite to Foster an Equitable Economic RecoveryDarren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation and Eric Braverman, Chief Executive Officer of Schmidt Futures, to Serve As Co-Chairs

Fluence, a leading provider of energy storage products and services and digital applications for renewables and storage, announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relating to a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. Fluence Energy, Inc. has applied to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “FLNC.” The number of shares to be offered and the price

Green Bond Proceeds will Support Key Environmental Initiatives, Reinforcing Walmart’s Mission to Drive Collective Climate ActionMinority- and Women-Owned Firms Served as Active Bookrunners

The Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health releases new findings and recommendations regarding high school educators’ concerns for the 2021-2022 school year

Fisker Inc. announced today it will webcast its participation in "Fireside Chats" at two upcoming investor conferences.

Recognition of partners just one of many ways Exelon encourages DEI practices

Employees Walked Over 690 Million Steps to Raise Awareness of Hunger Globally

Five breakthrough innovations from across Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe and North America will each receive a $250,000 award and participate in a strategic new collaborative to focus on systemic solutions to complex sustainability challenges.

Since launch, U.S. employees have contributed over 94,000 hours of service to 122 U.S. nonprofitsThis year, the U.S. program contributed over 6,300 hours of service to six nonprofits

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management today announced the launch of a Racial Equity Investing Tool Kit as part of its Investing with Impact Platform. Investors will now have access to a range of investments and supporting resources to advance the goals of racial equity and social justice.According to a survey conducted by Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, 71% of individual investors identify multicultural diversity, which incorporates elements of race, ethnicity and culture, as an a

The Morgan Stanley HBCU Scholars program is providing full-ride scholarships for 60 HBCU students over four yearsMorgan Stanley to launch career preparedness program designed to support the career skills and readiness of HBCU students