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The health giant’s Freedom 2 Save program matches employees’ student loan payments with 401(k) contributions, helping them navigate their student debt. Other companies plan to follow its lead.

11.Infosys

BENGALURU, INDIA

The huge consultancy has taken digital training far beyond its walls. Its Springboard system has reached 5.9 million students in India alone, offering master classes, programming challenges, and life-skills courses.

12.Patagonia

VENTURA, CALIF.

A sustainability pioneer devotes nearly all of its profits to a healthier planet—in perpetuity

Since outdoor apparel brand Patagonia started donating revenues to environmental initiatives in 1985, it has contributed more than $161 million to sustain - able causes. Today the company donates 1% yearly of net revenues to mostly grass-roots environmental nonprofits.

Those are the kinds of numbers that allow backpackers and finance bros alike to wear their $200 vests with pride. But the 50-year-old company, which generated an estimated $100 million profit last year, made a far bigger and more radical gift in September 2022. In the apex of corporate good, Patagonia’s founder, Yvon Chouinard, donated a 98% stake in the company to a climate nonprofit called the Holdfast Collective in 2022, ensuring that almost all the company’s future profits will fund some form of environmental salvation. “Hopefully this will influence a new form of capitalism that doesn’t end up with a few rich people and a bunch of poor people,” Chouinard told the New York Times as he gave his company away.

13.Mastercard

PURCHASE, N.Y.

After Russia’s invasion spurred an exodus of Ukrainians to Poland, Mastercard analyzed data to figure out which towns could best help. Its Where to Settle app helped 240,000 people decide where to go.

14.Santander

MADRID

The global bank’s Santander Universities program supports scholarships and entrepreneurship programs in 25 countries. Since its 1996 launch, the program has reached more than 1 million beneficiaries.

15.Apple

CUPERTINO, CALIF.

Since 2015, the iPhone maker has cut its overall CO2 emissions by more than 45%. The company just unveiled a carbonneutral Apple Watch, and it plans for every Apple product to be carbonneutral by 2030.

16.Tencent

SHENZHEN, CHINA

Tencent’s WeChat is omnipresent on phones in China. Its 99 Giving Day turns that reach into philanthropic impact: Since its inception eight years ago, the event has channeled almost $1.8 billion to charities.

17.RECYCLING REVITALIZERS

Three companies fighting to keep plastic out of landfills.

DIGIMARC / DOW / EASTMAN

Of the almost 400 million tons of plastic produced each year, only about 9% gets recycled. The remainder accumulates in our landfills, our oceans—and, increasingly, our bodies. Scientists and activists are racing to build a “circular plastics economy” where most plastic gets reused repeatedly or even perpetually, and these companies are in the thick of the effort. Digimarc, which specializes in anti-counterfeiting “watermarks” for currencies, driver’s licenses, and other products, recently launched Digimarc Recycle. That program pairs digital watermarking with software that enables sorting machines to quickly identify what type of plastic any given item is made of—avoiding the mismatches that lead recyclers to reject tons of plastic every year. Plastic can’t be recycled when it’s too dirty, which inspired Dow, a major plastic producer, to develop the cleaning formula Evowash: Dow estimates Evowash, which became commercially available in March 2023, will help recyclers divert 150,000 tons of waste out of landfills this year alone. Another plastic maker, Eastman, aims to regenerate materials that today are mostly unrecyclable, including polyester fabric, carpet fibers, and colored plastics. Eastman’s process breaks those materials down to their molecular components, from which it can make highly durable, reusable products. It has recycled about 50 million pounds of plastic since 2020 and plans to scale up to 500 million pounds a year by 2030.

18.FERRING

Distributing a durable tool for a pervasive maternal health threat.

SAINT-PREX, SWITZERLAND

For many years, the first-line defense against postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), a dangerous complication of childbirth that kills 70,000 women per year, has been an abundant, low-cost drug called oxytocin. Trouble is, the drug doesn’t work well if it hasn’t been kept cold—which can be hard to do in the many parts of the world that lack cold transport and storage or a reliable power supply. In 2010, Swiss pharmaceutical firm Ferring began work on a more resilient alternative: heat-stable carbetocin. A massive clinical trial, funded by Merck for Mothers and conducted by the World Health Organization, showed that carbetocin was comparably effective in preventing PPH after vaginal births. The drug is now on the Essential Medicines List, and Ferring since 2021 has de - livered more than 800,000 doses to 15 low- and middle-income countries—many in the midst of humanitarian crises—where the burden of maternal mortality is high. Ferring has committed to providing the drug at a sustainable and affordable price, along - side training to ensure it’s used correctly and safely. —Erika Fry

19.Octopus Energy Group

Connecting more customers with green power and cheaper energy.

LONDON