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Logitech’s One-of-a-Kind Accessible Gaming Rig

Two years ago, while awaiting surgery to address a unique medical condition, 12-year-old Daire Gorman desperately needed to find a new way to game.

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Environment

James Hoggan: Politics in Polite Company

Has this ever happened to you: You are talking with a friend or family member, and as the topic moves to politics, things start to get a little heated. You make what you think are excellent points, based on data, logic, and what you fervently believe to be the absolute truth. Yet, when the debate concludes, somehow neither of you has budged an inch, and no one leaves any wiser.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Gilead Supports Future Leaders During Week of Service

Today, our Week of Service volunteers performed maintenance and landscaping duties with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Making the Business Case for Workplace Environmentalism

New research from EarthShare found three key trends in addressing what Fortune 1000 employees expect at work when it comes to environmental action. Download the free report and recommendations today to learn more, including the top environmental issues employees care about, and case studies from AT&T, Danone North America, and Caesars Entertainment.

Black & Veatch

Research, Reports & Publications

The Stormwater Resilience Roadmap: Integration of Delivery Frameworks and Financial Capacity

In an era when climate change, organizational capacity constraints, funding challenges and limited public support continue to test the resilience of a community's stormwater system, images of flooded neighborhoods and arterial streets turned into rivers highlight the urgency for a strategic vision and alternative approaches to stormwater management service delivery.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Perspectives Episode 24: Erica Tavares, International Medical Corps

In the latest episode of Common Impact's Pro Bono Perspectives podcast, host Danielle Holly and International Medical Corps (IMC) Senior Director of Institutional Advancement Erica Tavares explore cross-sector partnerships focused on disaster relief.

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Health & Healthcare

TD Calls for Innovative Solutions to Help Increase Equitable Health Outcomes in Second Year of TD Ready Challenge

TD announced today that applications are open for the 2019 TD Ready Challenge, its annual North American initiative that has a total of 10 grants of $1 million (CDN) each, available to be awarded to ten future-forward organizations offering innovative solutions for a changing world.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Chobani is Changing the World One Yogurt At A Time

Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya’s new TED TALK centers on “the Anti-CEO Playbook” – his advocacy for a new way of doing business around community, responsibility, gratitude, and accountability.

Research, Reports & Publications

Leesman and Delos Launch Workplace Wellbeing Benchmark

Leesman, a global leader in assessing employee experience, and Delos, a wellness real estate and technology company, are collaborating to investigate how real estate strategy can better support wellbeing at work. With a wide variety of strategies being promoted as a secret to ‘wellness at work’, this collaboration aims to test and validate the impact of leading real estate strategies on worker wellbeing on an ongoing basis, not only when the office is new.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Making Sustainable Homes a Reality

Kingfisher, the home improvement company, today publishes its latest Sustainability Report to update on how it is delivering against its commitment to help customers have sustainable good homes.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Nonprofit Unlocking Millions in Savings

Developed by EARN, a fintech focused on improving the financial health of working families, SaverLife helps Carolyn and thousands of others across America put a little money aside each month to prepare for life’s unexpected costs. By incentivizing people to regularly save a small amount of money, SaverLife sees people take their savings accounts from empty to a small cushion to protect them from car breakdown costs, medical expenses or overdue electricity bills.

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Events, Media & Communications

TerraCycle, Rainforest Alliance, Coca-Cola, Lego and Nestle Inspire Transform Summit

Ethical Corporation just released the agenda for the Transform Summit – the new and improved Responsible Supply Chain Summit (Amsterdam, October 16-17, 2019). Download your newly released brochure now!

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

“Go Skateboarding Day” for Good: eBay and The Skateroom Partner on Exclusive Artist-Designed Skateboard Sale for Charity

Just in time for national Go Skateboarding Day, eBay, one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse marketplaces, and The Skateroom, an art for social impact project that supports community development programs, are partnering on an exclusive eBay for Charity sale.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement at Smithfield Foods

Human Resources team members at Smithfield Foods are focused on promoting an atmosphere of diversity, inclusion, and engagement. Smithfield’s employees come from a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences, and cultures, which makes the company stronger.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bloomberg New Economy Launches Open Call for Solutions

Today, Bloomberg New Economy launched an open call for entrepreneurs, business leaders, academics, and practitioners around the world to share their innovative solutions for a world in transition — a world in which the balance of economic power is continuing to shift from the West to fast-growing economies in Asia, Africa and emerging countries around the globe.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Ortho and Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation Team Up for National Pollinator Month to Gro More Good

To help raise awareness and community involvement in the pollinator crisis and decline, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation teamed up with its Ortho brand to educate children, families and community members about what they can do to help pollinators.

Research, Reports & Publications

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Releases 4th Annual ESG Report

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today released its annual Living Progress Report for 2018, demonstrating that leveraging technology to tackle our world’s major human and environmental challenges drives business value and can open new long-term economic opportunities.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

IOC Announces List of Refugee Athlete Scholarship-holders Aiming to Be Part of IOC Refugee Olympic Team Tokyo 2020

The current 37 Refugee Athlete Scholarship-Holders include the 10 athletes who were part of the first IOC Refugee Olympic Team Rio 2016, 13 new individual athletes, and a group of athletes preparing at the Tegla Loroupe Refugee Training Centre in Kenya. All are being assisted by Olympic Solidarity through its Refugee Athletes Support Programme.

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Events, Media & Communications

Technology and the Environment With Microsoft

To meet the 1.5-Degree target and reverse environmental impacts investments in innovation and technology are required. The advancements in technology alone present themselves as a solution to the environmental issues we face. But in practice, how can technology accelerate the move to a sustainable economy and conserve the natural environment?

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Foldable Bikes Make Cycling to Work for CNH Industrial Employees in Turin Even Easier

CNH Industrial employees at its European Head Quarters in Turin Italy, had the opportunity to participate in an exciting cycling pilot project. Brompton, the UK’s largest bike manufacturer, with over 45,000 bikes sold per year, made its folding bicycles available as part of the pilot.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

SDGs in Action: Companies Step Up to Minimize Single-Use Plastic

If you follow the sustainability media, you’ve likely heard a lot more about plastic straws over the past two years.

Diversity & Inclusion

Protecting and Advocating for LGBTQ Rights

In honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan - considered the tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States - each June Americans come together to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month.

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Energy

National Grid's Strategy to Decarbonize the Heat Sector in New England

Director, US Strategy, for National Grid Mackay Miller presented on National Grid's strategy to decarbonize the heating sector in the Northeast at the #RaabRT event earlier this week.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Growing Organics Market Presents a Natural Investment Opportunity

As Americans become more aware of the environmental and health benefits of organics, we are presented with an increasing number of opportunities to align our investments with our lifestyle choices – by investing in the companies and agricultural operations that are driving organic innovation and bringing natural products to the marketplace.

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Sustainable Development Goals

IWBI Joins the United Nations Global Compact

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) today announced that it has signed on to the United Nations Global Compact, a voluntary leadership platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible business practices.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Challenge for Business and Society

Stan Litow, the former head of corporate citizenship programs at IBM, has written a new book entitled The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward.

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