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Environment

Los Angeles Kings Launch Team Sustainability Program: LA Kings Green

AEG’s Los Angeles Kings today announced LA Kings Green, an umbrella program to encompass the team’s sustainable initiatives.

Awards & Rankings

Rankings Highlight General Mills' Continued Progress and Commitment to Human Rights

This week, the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) was launched. General Mills was part of this pilot benchmark which evaluated the top 98 companies across agriculture, apparel and extractives (those industries considered at highest risk). A collaborative initiative led by investors and human rights organizations, CHRB is the first public benchmark that ranks companies on their policies, practices and actions on human rights.

Corporate Responsibility

Compliance in 2017 - What Are Your Peers Saying?

87% of vendor data contains errors. This staggering statistic is one of the biggest reasons companies run into common compliance deficiencies like bad customer relationships and even monetary penalties.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Promoting Equality for all at Barclays

Wendy Papworth is Director for Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) and also leads Barclays’ group-wide focus on the gender agenda.

She started her career in client-facing roles, including as an insurance systems consultant with IBM, but as her personal circumstances changed she spotted an opportunity to better balance her commitments.

Volunteering & Community

Cox Enterprises' #TeamCox Completes Construction on their 24th and 25th homes in Partnership with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity

On Saturday, March 11, in partnership with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, Cox Enterprises’ #TeamCox completed construction on their 24th and 25th homes.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Meet Ashley Coleman, Civil Engineer

We’re celebrating Women’s History Month this March by introducing you to 10 women who help power your life at Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas. They advance our company with their vision, talent, hard work and creativity. These trailblazing women – including a nuclear engineer, astrophysicist and lineman – reveal inspiring stories of persistence, pluck and achievement in largely male-dominated fields. A diverse workplace isn’t just a nice idea, it’s a competitive necessity. Today, meet Ashley Coleman, a civil engineer based in Charlotte, NC.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Timberland’s New Line is Made from Trash Collected from the Streets of Haiti

“A new backpack started life as 7.5 plastic bottles trashed on streets in Haiti. The backpack—part of a new line of boots, bags, and t-shirts made by Timberland—looks like it's made from canvas. But the material is 50% recycled plastic, sourced from a place that both has excess trash and a desperate need for jobs.”

Philanthropy

Subaru 2016 Share the Love® Event Generates More Than $24 Million in Charitable Donations

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced it has donated more than $23.4 million to national and local charities during its annual Share the Love event in 2016, bringing the total donated throughout the life of the program to more than $94 million.

Education & Workforce Development

The Youth Employment Crisis

Young people play a vital role in fostering global economic development. In the face of weak prospects for global economic growth, their involvement in the formal economy becomes increasingly relevant and urgent. In recent years, there has been much talk about the demographic dividend in most emerging economies and less-developed countries, a scenario where a larger proportion of the overall population is of working age. In Mexico, young people between 15 and 29 represent the largest age group. By 2022, the country will have the largest number of youth in its history and its size will shrink in the years that follow, as the country transitions toward an aging population.

Inclusion & Opportunity

#WomensHistoryMonth at Cox Enterprises: Get to Know Juliette Pryor

In celebration of Women's History Month, female leaders from across Cox Enterprises are sharing insights from their experience throughout the month of March. Juliette Pryor is Cox Enterprises’ senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary.

Corporate Responsibility

UN Global Compact Bulletin (March 2017)

We Call on Business Leaders to Consciously Champion Gender Equality #WEPs Forum 14-15 March.

AI & Technology

Emerging Trends in Food Safety

The Global Food Safety Conference is an important annual event for Tetra Pak, bringing together leaders in the industry, academia and regulation to discuss topics on securing safer food production worldwide.

Awards & Rankings

Freeport-McMoRan Operations Receive Two Wildlife Habitat Council Awards

The Wildlife Habitat Council partners with organizations dedicated to restoring and enhancing wildlife habitat on corporate lands. Freeport-McMoRan has been a member for many years and now has 20 sites with WHC-certified habitat enhancement, conservation education and wildlife management programs.

Awards & Rankings

Arrow Electronics Engages Denver-Area College Students in Case Competition

Arrow Electronics recently hosted students from Colorado State University, Metropolitan State University, the University of Colorado and the University of Denver at the company’s Denver-area global headquarters for a case competition focused on Arrow’s groundbreaking collaboration with Indiegogo, which helps entrepreneurs get their innovative technology products to market quickly and cost-effectively.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Matters, and it is Achievable

HP is counted among the top tech companies with women and underrepresented minorities in executive positions, where 27 percent of HP executives, director, and above are women.

Philanthropy

Whole Planet Foundation®’s 2017 Pre-GRAMMY Showcase & Benefit Was Golden

GRAMMY-nominees La Santa Cecilia, Trailblazer Alaffia, Honoree Living on One and Presenting Sponsor truRoots® rocked the evening with 960+ guests to alleviate global poverty.

Research & Reports

Panalpina Publishes Integrated Management Report

The Panalpina Integrated Management Report 2016 gives an overview of the company’s strategy and business model, the performance of its regions and products, and its approach to sustainability management.

Education & Workforce Development

Supporting the Rodeo Run for Education

Weatherford is a proud partner of the 30th annual Rodeo Run presented by ConocoPhillips, a Houston tradition which has awarded over $4.8 million in college scholarships to Texas high school students through the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund since its inception.

As a Gold Spur sponsor, we were glad to see our employees join thousands of runners and volunteers to raise money for college scholarships.

AI & Technology

Eighth-Grader Donates 27,000+ Books to Disadvantaged Children and Families

Books for Bedtime encourages organizations and schools to hold their own book drives to benefit the nonprofit. It also joined VolunteerMatch, which links people willing to donate their time with a cause.

Volunteering & Community

Ghetto Film School Students Pitch Original Promo Ideas for FOX’s Star to Network Executives as Part of Industry 101 Course

Last month, longtime 21st Century Fox partner Ghetto Film School took its students to Fox Studios to pitch their ideas for short clips promoting FOX’s hot new show, Star. The students’ pitch presentations were part of GFS’ Industry 101 project, a semester-long class where high school students learn to create short video promos for a real client. The project gives them first-hand experience with the business behind film and television, teaches them the art of incorporating traditional storytelling strategies into 30-second promos, and helps them understand the process of working with clients.

Volunteering & Community

Points of Light Expresses Deep Concern Over President Trump’s Budget Proposal and the Potential Impact on Volunteering and Service

Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service, is deeply concerned over President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint and the broad impact the non-defense discretionary program cuts would have on the nonprofit sector’s ability to engage Americans in volunteer service. Specifically, the proposed elimination of the Corporation for National and Community Service would devastate community-based organizations that serve children and families, respond to natural disasters, support military families, and generally serve as the backbone of community efforts to address pressing challenges.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Meet Shabari Basu, Wind Director

We’re celebrating Women’s History Month this March by introducing you to 10 women who help power your life at Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas. They advance our company with their vision, talent, hard work and creativity. These trailblazing women – including a nuclear engineer, astrophysicist and lineman – reveal inspiring stories of persistence, pluck and achievement in largely male-dominated fields. A diverse workplace isn’t just a nice idea, it’s a competitive necessity. Today, meet Dr. Shabari Basu, a director of wind assessment for renewable energy based in Charlotte, N.C.

Education & Workforce Development

Scholarship Opportunities Build Bright Futures

What started out as just a job 10 years ago quickly became a passion for Ngatai Crowchild. Although Ngatai always wanted to go back to school to pursue an education degree, she was so dedicated to her job teaching children in the mainstream and language programs with the Tsuu T’ina Gunaha Institute that taking a break from work to study full-time was a dream placed on the back burner for years.

Corporate Responsibility

CFSI Welcomes European Union Conflict Minerals Regulation

The Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI), a coalition of leading companies dedicated to improving the security and human rights conditions in their raw materials supply chains, welcomes the European Union (EU) regulation on supply chain due diligence obligations for EU importers of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (3TG).

Inclusion & Opportunity

Northern Trust India Leaders Attend the NASSCOM Diversity & Inclusion 2017 Conference

A few of our India leaders attended the NASSCOM Diversity & Inclusion 2017 Conference. The summit explored a variety of different conversations with topics such as legal and compliance framework, diversity, and work productivity.

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The Ray

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Collective Action

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