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Inclusion & Opportunity

Why I’d Love All Women to Be Able to Thrive in a World That Values and Encourages Talent, Irrespective of Gender

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is #pressforprogress, and though we’re undeniably advancing toward gender equality in our workplaces, I think there’s still more to be done. Often, one of the issues that holds many women back begins in childhood, when certain behaviours are labelled.

Awards & Rankings

Sodexo Recognized As a Top Company for Female Executives

Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company committed to improving Quality of Life, announced today that it has been named to the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) 2018 Top Companies for Executive Women list for the fifth consecutive year. The list commends companies that champion women and empower them to make decisions that affect their company’s future and its bottom line. 

AI & Technology

HydroWeb Smart Data Monitoring Platform | Keeping Afloat of Big Data

HydroWeb provides our clients with full access to a powerful, personalized solution for their water systems data management needs. Tetra Tech developed the HydroWeb tool, a free web platform that enables the efficient management of our customers’ monitoring systems. It allows for real-time data collection, analysis, display, and reporting of key performance indicators.

Events

Listen to Your Employees: How to Craft a Volunteer Program That Meets Their Needs

In overwhelming numbers, employees want their companies to offer ways for them to volunteer. Yet, one-third of employees won’t give through their workplace because they’re not able to choose the causes that matter to them. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018, VolunteerMatch will present ways to gauge employee preferences and mobilize employees to give back in the way they want to.

Volunteering & Community

The Walt Disney Company Commits More Than $100 Million to Bring Comfort to Children and Their Families in Hospitals

Robert A. Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company, today announced an innovative plan to dedicate more than $100 million in company resources, including cash, products and services, to reinvent the patient and family experience in children’s hospitals across the globe. This initiative will roll out over five years, expanding the Company’s rich legacy of supporting children’s hospitals, which dates back to Walt Disney.

Research & Reports

Managing for Business and Societal Impacts: Erb Institute and World Environment Center Roundtable (Washington D.C)

The University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Sustainability in Business (Erb) and the World Environment Center (WEC) brought together 40 senior-level thought leaders and executives from business, academia, government and nonprofits, as well as selected Erb Institute students, for a roundtable discussion.

Education & Workforce Development

Stemming the Leak: 4 Ways to Encourage STEM in Your Middle Schooler

Maintaining students' interest in science during the middle school years is crucial to increasing the likelihood they'll pursue STEM careers. That's important, since studies show our nation will need to produce an additional one million STEM workers between 2012 and 2022 alone.

Philanthropy

Viacom to Support Courageous Youth Activists Who Have Had #Enough of Gun Violence

In the weeks since a gunman claimed 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, courageous young people have marched and raised their voices to demand action on gun violence in the United States. They have had #enough.

Viacom and its brands have a long history of supporting young people’s movements around the world, and today the company is extending that tradition by leveraging its substantial multi-platform footprint to support these extraordinary individuals and amplify the reach and impact of their activism.

Awards & Rankings

Top U.S. Construction Firm Proud of Adoption Benefits

Each year the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption ranks the nation’s employers based on their adoption benefits. This self-reported list is a way to highlight the organizations in the United States who stand with us in our support of adoption and adoption benefits that allow more and more families to grow through adoption.

Socially Responsible Investing

Managing Your Company's Employee Giving Charitable Payroll Contributions

According to America’s Charities’ Snapshot 2017 report, 87% of companies understand there is an expectation to support causes that are important to employees. So for many employers, giving employees the opportunity to donate to charities through workplace giving is a no-brainer. The big challenge is execution. Are you managing your company's charitable donations as cost-efficiently as you could be?

Volunteering & Community

Timberland X Thread: Meet Sevenet

Global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland recently released three new Timberland X Thread men’s footwear styles for spring, made with Thread’s recycled Ground to Good™ fabric. Each product made with Thread™ fabric supports a vibrant network of dignified jobs in the developing world - jobs for Haitian entrepreneurs like Sevenet Pierre.

Volunteering & Community

Avery Dennison Ohio Employees Giving Back in a Warm Way

Our Label and Graphic Materials North America team (LGM-NA) recently worked to make winter warmer for those in need. The LGM-NA Extended Leadership Team partnered with domestic violence shelter Forbes House to provide blankets and backpacks with school supplies to families in the shelter.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Women’s History Month – Looking Back to Chart a Path Forward

March means saying goodbye to winter, turning our clocks ahead, watching the best of college basketball and celebrating Women’s History Month. In 1987, Congress declared March as National Women’s History Month to challenge us to reflect upon and recognize the achievements – great and small – of American women.

Corporate Responsibility

Reflections on India

It was hard to imagine what sort of impact my first trip to India would have on me, a 16 year-old high school student from the United States. I traveled there earlier this year with a team from PYXERA Global, a Washington DC-based nonprofit, to visit development projects in the northern region of the country. Over the course of eight days, we visited the hectic city of Mumbai, rural farms and villages at the height of the dry season near Udaipur, the historic and exotic city of Jaipur, and the country’s bustling capital, New Delhi.

Philanthropy

Superheroes Unite to Protect the Future of Children Diagnosed With Cancer

Superheroes Unite to Protect the Future of Children Diagnosed with Cancer. How Your Business Can be the Ultimate Sidekick to Help CureSearch Make Treatment Possible and Cures Probable for Children with Cancer.

Energy & Infrastructure

The Ray Receives Additional Funding

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation will grant an additional $2 million to The Ray over the next two years for research, pilot projects and innovative technologies that have the potential to shape transportation infrastructure. The foundation carries on the legacy of Ray C. Anderson, founder and former chair of Interface Inc., a flooring company committed to sustainability.

Environment

Huntington Beach Ospreys Get a Home Improvement

Inclusion & Opportunity

Bloomberg Hosts 5th Annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit

On Saturday, March 3, Bloomberg hosted its 5th annual Startup Young Women’s Leadership Summit, convening 500 high school and college-aged girls at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a day of networking and mentoring. More than 200 employees in the Bloomberg Startup program joined together with students from 34 diverse partner organizations, including CUNY’s Macaulay Honor College, the Young Women’s Leadership Network, PENCIL, and our partner school University Heights High School, Girls Who Invest, the Ghetto Film School, and other high schools that participate in our FIRST Robotics programs.

Corporate Responsibility

RMI Deploys New Approaches for Due Diligence

he Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), formerly the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI), a coalition of leading companies dedicated to improving the security and human rights conditions in their minerals supply chains, today announced new tools to enable responsible sourcing from conflict-affected and high-risk areas.

Philanthropy

The Marfan Foundation Helps Baby Andy Progress Through His Journey With Neonatal Marfan Syndrome

Learning that your child has a disorder is very scary. Read how one family has coped with their sons Neonatal Marfan syndrome diagnoses, and learn how your company and its employees can help today!

Environment

5 Expert Insights Food & Beverage Companies Can Use to Inspire Sustainability Efforts

Antea Group provides insights to help food and beverage companies gain a fresh perspective and find inspiration for their sustainability strategy.

Environment

Amid Transition to Clean Energy, Utilities Tackle Water Conservation

Last month, Jackson-based Consumers Energy pledged to save another billion gallons of water over the next five years beyond the savings seen by closing seven coal plants in 2016. While the goal is part of the company’s broader clean energy and environmental pledge over the next two decades, it also highlights an overlooked aspect of the energy sector: The industry is a major consumer of water.

Environment

Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council Begins Mixed Flexibles Recyclability Assessment

HPRC commences a project to determine viable strategies for recycling mixed flexible plastic packaging currently discarded as hospital waste.

Awards & Rankings

NBCUniversal Leads Sustainable Production at the 2017 EMA Awards

NBCUniversal was awarded the most Environmental Media Award (EMA) Green Seals of any other producing studio.

NBCUniversal kept its lead in sustainable production by being awarded the most Environmental Media Award (EMA) Green Seals of any other producing studio.

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Community Impact

Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

IWBI | Environment, Social, Governance

Collaboration and Partnership

Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...

Corporate Responsibility

Webster Bank's Corporate Responsibility

2025 Performance Report

Entergy’s 2025 performance report, “Energy for a better future” presents an overview of our company’s 2025 achievements, future plans and strategies...

Nutrition and Health

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

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

GoDaddy Global Stakeholder Impact News & Reports

GoDaddy is committed to embedding sustainable practices across our business. Our approach focuses on creating long-term value for our customers...

Enriching Women's Lives

60 years ago, Mary Kay Ash created an unparalleled opportunity for women to define their own successes and control their own futures. Her vision of...