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Education

One Week After the Conflict Minerals Filings, Here's What We Know

Transparency is the key to complete traceability in supply chain. When transparency increases, companies have better insights into where their products are coming from and how they’ve been made. Data is the key in supplier networks that provides greater data accuracy, clarity, and insights, leading to more contextual intelligence shared across supply chains.

Health & Healthcare

Sodexo Expanding Offers and Options for Students at Chapman University

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, is revitalizing resident dining at Chapman University this summer by redesigning space and expanding the menu at Randall Dining Commons. The renovations feature two new wellness stations and an outdoor patio that will create a welcoming environment and enhance the overall student experience.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Families in Houston, Chicago Join Aramark, American Heart Association Pilot for Healthy Eating

Aramark and the American Heart Association (AHA) recognize that educating parents and heads of households about making healthy choices for their families is key to reversing an alarming trend toward obesity in both children and adults.

Diversity & Inclusion

Employee Engagement: A Darn Good Reason to Volunteer

Let’s stop calling non-altruistic giving “selfish” and call it what it really is: Pretty darn good for everyone involved, companies included.

Research, Reports & Publications

Challenges and Opportunities of The Urban Transition: A DuPont Advisory Committee Report

A recently released white paper from the DuPont Advisory Committee on Agricultural Innovation & Productivity, “The Urban Transition: Implications for Global Food Security,” explores the urban growth landscape, the opportunities and challenges of global urbanization, and the implications of urbanization on food and nutrition security.

Research, Reports & Publications

MetLife Foundation | 'Fair Finance' Finding Alternatives to Subprime

Diversity & Inclusion

MGMThink Video: Hockey's Take on Teamwork

Ever wonder what makes a successful team? Michelle DiTondo, Senior VP of Human Resources for MGM Resorts International, discusses how good hockey teams show teamwork at its best.

Social Impact & Volunteering

10 Reasons to Attend the 2016 Conference on Volunteering and Service

Each year, thousands of people who really care about the future of volunteer service convene at the Points of Light Conference on Volunteering and Service – to learn from, share with and get inspired by one another, and to work together to increase the number of volunteers in the world and the impact of the work they do.

Innovation & Technology

Corporate Philanthropy Software is Not Client Focused, and Vendors Want It that Way

While I may not have anticipated that an article written by a design ethicist and magician would be relevant to the corporate philanthropy software business, the lessons are certainly there.

Social Impact & Volunteering

What Social Impact Is and How to Measure It Effectively

Impact. What a loaded word. It means so many things to so many people. In my career in nonprofit communications, I have used “impact” so much that I all but want to throw it out the window.

Environment

How Companies Can Create ‘Net Positive’ Products, Services and Environmental Impacts

The Net Positive Project, a coalition of companies that aim to go beyond reducing their negative sustainability impacts to contribute in a “net positive” way to society, the environment and the global economy, launched yesterday. Founding company members are: Advanced Micro Devices, AT&T, Capgemini UK, The Crown Estate, Dell, Dow Chemical, Eaton, Fetzer Vineyards, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, Humanscale, Kimberly-Clark, Kingfisher, Kohler and Owens Corning.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Belmont University Receives Trane Energy Efficiency Leader Award

Environment

Cleaner, Safer, Stronger Cities

AT&T has been in the Internet of Things (IoT) business for more than 8 years. We’re already connecting automobiles, homes and “things.” Now, we’re putting it all together in the places where 60-80% of global greenhouse gases will be generated, and where 66% of world’s population will live by 2050: Cities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Open Call for Nominations: AA1000APS Working Group

The AccountAbility AA1000 Standards Board has issued an open invitation to interested stakeholders to serve on the Working Group for the revised AccountAbility Principles Standard (AA1000APS), to be released with the latest AccountAbility Assurance Standard (AA1000AS) in late-2016. The Working Group will operate under the mandate laid out in its Terms of Reference and will commence its duties in July 2016.

Health & Healthcare

Global Health Corporate Champions Land in Accra, Ghana

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bedford High Seniors Win Environmental Scholarship

Bedford High seniors Trenton Sanders and Avery Kaplan are this year's recipients of the 2016 Environmental Scholarship.

The scholarship is sponsored by the Department of Public Works and Republic Services...

Environment

TransCanada Celebrates Environment Week

With TransCanada’s support, Wildlife Haven will now be able to care for a larger number of injured, sick and orphaned wildlife with a greater number of successful releases back to the wild.

Health & Healthcare

EHSxTech Conference Tackles Risks, Trends and the Value of EHS

Recently, Antea Group presented the fourth annual EHSxTech conference, hosted by Adobe in the United Kingdom on Thursday, April 14. This exclusive event offered a unique opportunity for tech industry EHS professionals to explore regulatory updates from around the globe, talk through specific environmental, health and safety needs and challenges, and discuss leading industry trends in a friendly, noncompetitive forum.

Drawing from some of the most pressing EHS and sustainability challenges facing the tech industry today, this full-day event focused on “EHS Leadership in a Changing World.”

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bill Meyer Inducted into the National Waste & Recycling Hall of Fame

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) announced that industry pillar and one of the Company’s foundational leaders, Bill Meyer, has been inducted into the National Waste & Recycling Association’s (NWRA) Hall of Fame. He was honored earlier this week in Las Vegas at Waste Expo, North America’s largest annual industry tradeshow.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Exploring the Top Three Barriers to Healthcare Plastics Recycling

HPRC recently held our spring 2016 meeting, which was graciously hosted by Johnson & Johnson in New York City. The meeting was a valuable opportunity to focus in on the HPRC mission and our projects in flight, and to redouble our efforts to enact change in the industry.

Environment

Happier Campers

Social Impact & Volunteering

Social Impact Through Employee Engagement

As one recent Fortune 500 client said in describing their one-off volunteer events, “How much engagement can you expect to build through a once-a-year volunteer event?”

Social Impact & Volunteering

Facts About Global Poverty and Education

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