Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Six Ways To Engage Internal Stakeholders In Your Citizenship Strategy

Dec 15, 2015 2:05 PM ET

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GRI Launches GOLD Roundtables Program in USA

Dec 15, 2015 2:00 PM ET

GRI, architect of the world’s sustainability data, has announced a series of local roundtable meetings to support the professional development of North American sustainability reporters.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Wells Fargo Commits $5 Million to Boost Maricopa Homeownership

Dec 15, 2015 2:00 PM ET

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), NeighborWorks America® and its network member Trellis, today announced the Wells Fargo NeighborhoodLIFT® program will expand to Maricopa County with a $5 million commitment by Wells Fargo to help boost local homeownership.

Innovation & Technology

As the Holidays Approach, Pernod Ricard Expands Its Measures Promoting Responsible Drinking

Dec 15, 2015 1:10 PM ET

Social Impact & Volunteering

Is Your Nonprofit’s Pro Bono Muscle in Shape?

Dec 15, 2015 12:30 PM ET

To go from zero to four-day-per-week workouts is tough. Really tough. But once you have your thing, whether it’s lifting weights, walking, spinning, or kickboxing, after a while it gets easier. For a nonprofit executive director or manager, when does the craving for a pro bono workout kick in? At what point does bringing in business professionals with particular expertise to help with critical projects at no fee become something you just do?

Diversity & Inclusion

Evolving to Gender Balanced Leadership: Let’s Make 2016 the Year We Let Our Voices be Heard – Loudly.

Dec 15, 2015 12:30 PM ET

Recently, I led two panels at a symposium in Chicago on gender equality on boards and in the C-suite. The event approached the problem and solution through the lens of the investor and social impact organizations – and our power to compel change.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Bloomberg ESG and CSRHub Benchmark - Part 1

Dec 15, 2015 10:30 AM ET

Sustainability professionals spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and months of time developing and managing their sustainability programs. Most dread the almost inevitable question from their manager or their manager’s manager—”How are we performing relative to our peers? Where are we doing well and where do we need to improve?” The iCompli CSRHub ESG Metrics Brief is designed to make it easy to answer these questions in a fact-based and authoritative way.

Research, Reports & Publications

Expertise at Northern Trust

Dec 15, 2015 10:15 AM ET

“In everything we do, expertise has always been at Northern Trust’s core. We know what we do well, and focus sharply on those things. We expand our knowledge and capabilities with an eye on the future. We hire and support talented professionals to help deliver creative solutions. Our expertise is why we’ve been a trusted advisor for five generations, and will continue to be for generations to come.”

Innovation & Technology

Freeport-McMoRan’s Economic Impacts to Indonesia and Enterprise Development

Dec 15, 2015 10:05 AM ET

PT Freeport Indonesia, a Freeport-McMoRan company, commissions the University of Indonesia’s Institute of Economics and Social Research to conduct economic impact assessment of PT Freeport Indonesia’s operations. The most recent study, conducted in 2012, measured PT Freeport Indonesia’s economic impact on a local, regional, and national level from 2006 to 2011. The study revealed that PT Freeport Indonesia contributed to up to 94.7 percent of the gross domestic product of the Mimika Regency, 45.4 percent of Papua Province, and 0.8 percent of Indonesia. The prior study, conducted in 2009, concluded that the multiplier effect of PTFI’s workforce created 227,000 direct and indirect work opportunities, including 128,000 direct and indirect work opportunities in Papua alone.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Prepare for the Day You Step Away

Dec 15, 2015 9:50 AM ET

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Building a Better Future for Children in Sierra Leone

Dec 15, 2015 9:45 AM ET

Last year CBRE announced its partnership with Plan International, the international children’s development organisation, in a shared vision to transform a generation of children – with a focus on girls – in Sierra Leone, and give them hope for a better future.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Clients Honored at 2015 Forest Stewardship Council® Leadership Awards

Dec 15, 2015 9:40 AM ET

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Morgan Stanley's Sustainable Investment Themes 2016

Dec 15, 2015 9:15 AM ET

Audrey Choi of Morgan Stanley's Institute for Sustainable Investing her insights for SRI investing themes for 2016

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CH2M Announced as Recipient of World Environment Center’s 2016 Gold Medal Award for Sustainable Development

Dec 15, 2015 9:00 AM ET

The World Environment Center (WEC) is pleased to announce that the 2016 Gold Medal Award for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development has been awarded to CH2M, one of the world’s premier infrastructure and natural resource management companies. The award will be presented to CH2M Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jacqueline Hinman on May 19, 2016 at the 32nd Annual WEC Gold Medal Gala in Washington, D.C. The Gold Medal Gala will be followed on May 20, 2016 by the WEC Gold Medal Colloquium.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Burnetti, P.A. Supports Pediatric Families at Ronald McDonald House

Dec 15, 2015 9:00 AM ET

In partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tampa Bay, personal injury law firm Burnetti, P.A. is supporting the Light a Light & Share a Night Program to help families with children receiving medical treatment in Bay area hospitals. Burnetti, P.A.’s support is made possible by participation in CBS EcoMedia’s WellnessAd program.

Diversity & Inclusion

The 60-second Interview: Ellen Pollock, Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek

Dec 15, 2015 9:00 AM ET

Read the interview of Ellen Pollock, Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek.

Events, Media & Communications

U.S. Chamber Foundation Heads to Mexico City for Women's Empowerment and Workforce Development Event

Dec 15, 2015 9:00 AM ET

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Corporate Citizenship Center, along with the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, WEConnect International, and our corporate and nonprofit partners, will convene a two-day event in Mexico City on February 9-10, 2016 focused on promoting women’s entrepreneurship.

Innovation & Technology

Electronics Industry Supports Student Workers

Dec 15, 2015 8:30 AM ET

Electronics Industry Supports Student Workers: EICC and Stanford University’s REAP Develop Vocational School Credentialing System in China

Responsible Production & Consumption

NS: Saving Fuel with LEADER

Dec 15, 2015 8:05 AM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Allstate Chairman and CEO Tom Wilson Receives International Award for Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Financial Abuse

Dec 15, 2015 7:30 AM ET

Recognized for his ongoing commitment to halting the epidemic of violence against women, Allstate Chairman and CEO Tom Wilson was one of five men honored last week with a Solidarity Award from global organization Vital Voices.

The only business leader among this year’s honorees, Wilson was recognized for leading The Allstate Foundation’s work to provide long-term safety and security for domestic violence survivors through financial empowerment. The Foundation is the only national corporate foundation focusing on financial empowerment as a way to end domestic violence.

Events, Media & Communications

Corporate Citizenship Conference : Global Citizens / Local Communities

Dec 15, 2015 6:20 AM ET

Effective corporate citizenship professionals are always looking ahead, analyzing the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues that are emerging, and modifying their own efforts to plan and account for them. This is a complex task that only becomes more challenging as the global business context becomes more integrated.

Social Impact & Volunteering

How Can Companies Transform #GivingTuesday into #GivingEveryDay?

Dec 14, 2015 7:30 PM ET

Although the focus of Giving Tuesday is fundraising for worthy causes, the key to success – both for companies and the broader landscape – is about developing a passion for service and giving back.

Innovation & Technology

The Revitalization of the Constructeur, and the Revival Randonneur Bicycle

Dec 14, 2015 6:10 PM ET

The creative spirit needs fuel and inspiration to propel itself forward.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MLBPA, MLB Pledge $200,000 Grant to Caritas Cubana

Dec 14, 2015 6:00 PM ET

The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), through the Major League Baseball Players Trust (www.PlayersTrust.org), and Major League Baseball (MLB) jointly announced that they will provide a $200,000 grant to Caritas Cubana, the U.S.-based, non-governmental provider of humanitarian, social and emergency services to Cuba, in recognition of this week’s goodwill tour arranged by MLBPA and the MLB.

Innovation & Technology

Three Champions Create Social Enterprise from Tragedy

Dec 14, 2015 4:00 PM ET

Frederick Hutson, Co-Founder of Pigeonly; Britnie Turner, Founder and CEO of Aerial Development Group; and April De Simone, Co-Founder of Designing the WE, sit side by side—unlikely people to be sharing a panel together. At the Social Venture Network Fall 2015 Conference, Laura Flanders, successful media guru and host of The Laura Flanders Show, interviewed these three “champions,” showcasing the power of overcoming tragedy through the power of social enterprise.