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Awards & Rankings

The Drucker Institute Releases the Management Top 250 Rankings

CSRHub is proud to announce The Drucker Institute launch of a new measure of corporate performance—one that gives executives and investors a more complete, longer-term view of how companies are being managed. The Management Top 250 ranking, as published in The Wall Street Journal, is based on a holistic measure of corporate effectiveness that was developed by the Drucker Institute, a part of Claremont Graduate University, and based on the writings of the late management guru Peter Drucker.

Awards & Rankings

CBRE Group, Inc. Named One of Fortune’s 100 Best Workplaces for Diversity

CBRE Group, Inc. today announced that it was named a 2017 Best Workplace for Diversity in the United States by FORTUNE and Great Place to Work®.

“We are honored to be named a FORTUNE Best Workplaces for Diversity,” said Bobby Griffin, CBRE’s Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion for the Americas. “This award highlights the work CBRE is doing to continue to fulfill our mission of providing a work environment that attracts, develops and celebrates the professional success of every individual.”

Health & Healthcare

HPE PODCAST: The “Average Patient”, Prescribing for One, and Memory-Driven Computing

What if we could look at a patient’s entire medical history, plus the data from their smartwatch, plus the records of 100 people most like them in the world to drive insights and predictions about their health? This idea of prescribing for one—known as Precision Medicine—would provide hindsight analysis, insight into existing conditions and predictive analysis on future conditions based on a patient’s current lifestyle. Precision medicine would allow doctors and medical staff to determine the best course of action and predict how to help patients down the road, or steer them away from potentially hazardous paths.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Empowering Entrepreneurs: Interview with Health-Ade Kombucha CEO Daina Trout and CSO Vanessa Dew

Health-Ade Kombucha was started in 2012 by best friends Daina Trout and Vanessa Dew. In this interview, they discuss how they support female entrepreneurs, and how they stay inspired as they grow their business.

Philanthropy

All-In Philanthropy: The Story of Bloomberg LP's Rebuilding Team in the U.S. Virgin Islands

After hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria devastated communities in the southern U.S. and the Caribbean, America’s CEOs reacted by orchestrating one of the single largest philanthropic moments in recent memory. Their contributions were unique both in the scale of their generosity and the method of their execution: many companies went beyond traditional check-writing philanthropy and embraced a more active role.

Corporate Responsibility

UN Global Compact Bulletin (December 2018)

Select your 2018 Engagement with the UN Global Compact. Find the right level of engagement to suit your company's need.

Awards & Rankings

2017 Nickelodeon HALO Awards: Doing Good Never Sounded So Great

The HALO Awards celebrates young leaders who are changing their communities and the world by “Helping and Leading Others.” Rapper Nick Cannon created the awards show in 2011, and returned this year to host the ceremony.

Philanthropy

Homeless No More: A Friendship that Turned a Life Around

The homeless shelter wasn’t David Williams’ rock bottom; it was his springboard to a better life. Today, he’s a Wells Fargo home loan servicer who says a Wells Fargo volunteer helped him turn his life around.

Environment

Putting an Economic Value on Forests in the United States: New Report by The Nature Conservancy and TD Bank Group

Since 2012, TD Bank Group (TD) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) have collaborated to help grow the amount of protected forest habitats across the eastern seaboard of the United States. TD’s support has helped The Nature Conservancy protect over 19,000 acres of critical forest habitat.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Loan Officer Helps New Residents Find Home, Sweet Home

The process of buying a home can be daunting for those born and raised in the United States, so imagine being new to this country eager to pursue the American dream, but not knowing where to start.

Research & Reports

Beyond Philanthropy Releases "Value² - Social Innovation for Business and Society"

Beyond Philanthropy and Social Impact, supported by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, conducted the study “Value² - Social Innovation for Business and Society” analyzing the potential of the so-called Base of the Pyramid (BOP) concept in Germany. Developed in 2002 by C.K. Prahalad, the BOP concept is based on the idea that businesses integrate low-income households as customers, suppliers or intermediaries in their value chain.

Corporate Responsibility

How You Can Help Restore Communities and Forests Devastated by Recent Hurricanes

When disaster strikes, the need to act is dire. It could be months until final disaster numbers are reported, but what we do know is the affected communities need our help to rebuild and recover.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

The Business of Food Security

Taking a market systems approach is one of the most promising routes to linking complex interventions and generating sustainable impact. Using this approach, we must continue the effort to make economic growth more inclusive and resilient and also to make health; nutrition; and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions more sustainable.

Health & Healthcare

Helping Develop Thriving and Resilient Communities: Nestlé's Partnership with the IFRC

Nestlé is committed to enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. To do this it works alongside partners to create shared value, contributing to society while ensuring the long-term success of its business.

The company’s longest partnership is with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Together they are delivering safe water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH) to rural communities across Africa.

Research & Reports

Hasbro Celebrates 5th Anniversary of Global CSR Practice With Release of CSR Report, Playing With Purpose

Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS), announced today the release of its 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, titled Playing with Purpose.

Corporate Responsibility

Barclays and Dynamic Working: "Staying Home with My Kids Helped Us Connect"

A small but growing number of fathers are taking up shared parental leave, a policy that allows mothers to transfer part of their maternity leave to their partner. We spoke to Barclays employees Cameron Kirkwood and Benjamin Tancock about taking time out to care for their children – and how perceptions about childcare are changing.

Research & Reports

A View from the Outside | British American Tobacco

An independent stakeholder viewpoint from Professor Dr Heiko Hosomi Spitzeck on British American Tobacco's Sustainable Agriculture & Farmer Livelihoods Focus Report.

Philanthropy

Chargers Running Back Melvin Gordon and Rally Health Team Up with AEG to Host a "Holiday Bike Build" for Youth from the Boys & Girls Club of Carson at StubHub Center

Rally Health and Los Angeles Chargers running back Melvin Gordon teamed up with AEG to host a "Holiday Bike Build" at AEG’s StubHub Center on Dec. 5 for 150 kids from the Boys & Girls Club of Carson. Among the event's many activities, the kids were joined by Gordon and pro-riders from Rally CyclingSM in building and decorating brand new Diamondback bikes that they got to take home following a ride around the StubHub Center concourse and hot meal provided by AEG and StubHub Center.

Events

Humana Tour Focuses on Healthy Employees, Healthy Communities

Humana has dedicated itself to making business decisions that improve the health and well-being of members, employees, the communities it serves, and the planet. For employees, there’s a tour that has stopped in Humana work locations around the country. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Roadshow shows employees how they can incorporate social responsibility into their everyday jobs and support Humana’s Healthy People, Healthy Planet and Healthy Performance CSR efforts.

Events

Bloomberg Philanthropies Signs on as Headline Sponsor of 2018 Climate Leadership Conference

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and The Climate Registry (TCR) are pleased to announce that Bloomberg Philanthropies will serve as headline sponsor of the 2018 Climate Leadership Conference. Bloomberg Philanthropies is stepping in to fill the void left by long-time sponsor, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which announced in August that it was discontinuing its support.

Research & Reports

The ROI of Health and Well-Being: Business Investment in Healthier Communities

The World Economic Forum estimates a cumulative economic output loss of $47 trillion over the next two decades from noncommunicable diseases, like cancer, diabetes, and mental health. As businesses acknowledge the importance of health in the workplace, they are also beginning to recognize the relationship between their employees' health and the communities where their employees and customers live.

Philanthropy

Smithfield Foods Video: Helping Hungry Homes Overview

Since its inception, our Helping Hungry Homes program has addressed the issue of hunger in America by donating nearly 100 million servings of protein to food banks across the country.

Philanthropy

Imagine What Is Possible When We’re Giving Back Together

“At VMware, we believe that each person has something unique to contribute. Thus, everyone can be a Citizen Philanthropist,” says Jessamine Chin, director of the VMware Foundation. “With those unique contributions, each person has the ability to effect positive change in the world.”

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Policy and Advocacy

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GoDaddy Empower

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Sustainable Operations

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Kingfisher Around the World

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Enriching Women's Lives

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Nutrition and Health

Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...

Social Progress

Social engagement has always been an integral part of our sense of responsibility as a company. We care and we act to do our part to improve the...

Subaru Share the Love® Event

Since the launch of the Subaru Share the Love Event in 2008, Subaru of America and our retailers have donated more than $256 million to charity, with...