sustainability Archives - Wells Fargo Stories

Two workers wearing white helmets and fluorescent yellow safety vests are installing solar panels on a building's roof.

GRID Alternatives: Powering change in communities

Why is free, clean electricity from the sun not available to everyone? GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit in Oakland, California, is working to make solar energy more accessible.

A sunny photo of a man on a farm, wearing a flannel shirt and holding a basket of produce.

Volunteering & Giving

Wells Fargo’s progress toward its $200 billion sustainable finance commitment

The company has provided $23 billion in its first year of financing sustainable businesses and projects through 2030, according to its 2018 Corporate Responsibility report.

One of Bangalore's revitalized lakes with city buildings in the background.

Environment

Revitalizing the ‘city of lakes’

Wells Fargo’s environmental stewardship extends across the globe, as India-based team members help rejuvenate the lakes of Bangalore.

Mickey Coffino leans against one of her recycling company’s trucks; written on the truck door it says Queen City Metal Recycling, not for hire.

Small Business

From hair brushing to car crushing

After 30 years, Mickey Coffino made the leap from hair salon owner to recycling center CEO, but the loan that made that move possible almost became her undoing until she found Wells Fargo banker Chris Underwood.

Two Wells Fargo team members wearing yellow hard hats are walking on the roof of a home carrying a solar panel.

Environment

Using sunlight to lower bills for low- to moderate-income families

Homeowners in California, including Monica Sirri, will receive solar panels from GRID Alternatives, thanks to a grant from the Wells Fargo Builds℠ program.

Volunteers work in a garden greenhouse. There is a man in the background wearing a black shirt, two women talking, and another woman kneeling.

Volunteering & Giving

Planting seeds of inspiration

When Marge Cabasagan is not at work supporting Wells Fargo’s global operations in the Philippines, you will likely find her growing vegetables at a home for orphans and the elderly.

A woman wearing a hard hat, sunglasses, and a red Wells Fargo volunteers T-shirt carries plywood at a construction site.

Volunteering & Giving

A year of giving: Wells Fargo donates $444M to nearly 11,000 nonprofits in 2018

Wells Fargo continued its commitment to communities by increasing philanthropy and supporting affordable housing, small business, education, sustainability, and local issues.

Three large white structures are side by side on grass. On the side of one of them is: ESS INC and EW, 100kW400kWh. Behind the structures are solar panels and wind turbines.

Environment

Helping to power large-scale operations with iron and saltwater

Energy Storage Systems Inc. is providing safer and longer-lasting batteries at a lower cost and introducing its technology to the world after participating in the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator program.

Three teenagers — Evelyn Arriaga, Brenton Williams, and Martha Gonzalez-Campos — of STS Academy stand at a stove, cooking stir-fry vegetables in a kitchen as part of University of California-Davis’ gardening and nutrition program.

Volunteering & Giving

Transforming inner-city youth — mind, body, and food literacy

For years, Success Through Self Academy has mentored and enriched the lives of inner-city children. Now the nonprofit looks to harness the transformative power of nutrition.