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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

There’s a Clear Path for Business on Sustainability, Finds United Nations Global Compact-Accenture Strategy Study

The United Nations Global Compact-Accenture Strategy CEO Study 2016, Agenda 2030: A Window of Opportunity, finds business leaders accepting a mandate to take the lead in solving societal challenges. The survey of more than 1,000 CEOs, who are already committed to sustainability through their participation in the UN Global Compact, shows that they now see a unique opportunity to reshape their industries and accelerate progress towards the SDGs.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bloomberg Philanthropies Support 'Extravaganza Macabre' Launch at Battersea Arts Centre

Extravaganza Macabre is the latest in a series of Playground Projects at Battersea Arts Centre supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, which over the last ten years has supported projects with lasting legacies that touch every part of the organisation.

Education

Unlocking Imagination Through Writing

Remember the first time you put pen to paper as a kid to write your first story? It was a world of endless possibility, defined only by your imagination. Flying cars, dogs in suits, chocolate planets -- you could create any world you wanted.

Social Impact & Volunteering

What Do You Do if You are One of the 200 People Each Week Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?

Imagine waking up one morning and you can’t feel your legs… or you have double vision… or you have trouble moving and are too dizzy to stand. You go see your doctor, and you may go to several doctors, but eventually you are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). And you are just one of 200 people in the United States who are diagnosed every week with this debilitating condition.

Research, Reports & Publications

Pfizer Colleagues Volunteer Skills and Expertise to Improve Public Health

Global Health Fellows (GHF), Pfizer’s signature corporate volunteer program, allows Pfizer colleagues to use their skills and expertise to work with international development organizations to strengthen health services for people living in developing and low resource areas.

Environment

GM and U.S. Navy Collaborating on Fuel Cell-Powered Underwater Unmanned Vehicles

General Motors, the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are cooperating to incorporate automotive hydrogen fuel cell systems into the next generation of Navy unmanned undersea vehicles, or UUVs.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Timberland Announces Commitment to Restore and Create Green Spaces in Five Cities over the Next Five Years

As an outdoor lifestyle brand, Timberland has a longstanding commitment to protecting and restoring the outdoors. Not only the great outdoors, but the city parks, community gardens and green spaces its consumers explore every day. As part of this commitment, Timberland announces a goal to double its footprint in five U.S. cities by 2020 -- but not in the way you might think. Each year for the next five years, the brand will choose a different city with a Timberland® store, and match its retail floor space with the creation or restoration of an equivalent amount of green space in that city.

Events, Media & Communications

USBG World Class Sponsored by Diageo Announce Andrew Meltzer as the 2016 U.S. Bartender of the Year

After two challenging days of standout mixology showmanship, the United States Bartender’s Guild (USBG) World Class Sponsored by Diageo has named Andrew Meltzer as the 2016 U.S. Bartender of the Year.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Only One Week Left for the Best BSR16 Rates

To take advantage of the most discounted BSR Conference 2016 rates, register before June 30.

Diversity & Inclusion

Sanofi - Good Morning Sanofi - Meet Yukari from Japan

Meet Yukari, a young employee illustrating intergenerational relationships in the Japanese culture.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sappi North America on How It Evolves with Its Customers

Given our strong record of capital investment to keep our machines modern and flexible, as well as our deep commit­ment to R&D, we are able to bring solutions to the market quickly in all four of our businesses. This year, the following business developments and improvements were made.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The UPS Foundation to Award More Than $ 7.4 Million to Promote Diversity & Inclusion in Communities Around the World

Today, The UPS Foundation, which leads the global citizenship programs for UPS (NYSE: UPS), announced it will award more than $ 7.4 million in global diversity and inclusion grants to 36 different organizations.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Final Days to Nominate Volunteers for Louisiana’s 2016 Cox Conserves Heroes Awards Program

Cox Communications, in partnership with The Trust for Public Land, is seeking nominations for Louisiana’s 2016 Cox Conserves Heroes program.

Health & Healthcare

Global Health Corporate Champions Work to Make Health Services Accessible in Rural Ghana

This week, I’m in Ghana catching up with the Global Health Corporate Champions (GHCC), a dynamic group of eight professionals working to improve the quality of public health in Accra. Drawing from their collective expertise in management, product sustainability, operations, and finance, the GHCC are providing pro bono consulting to three social sector health organizations. This month-long service learning adventure is an activity of the Global Health Fellows Program II (GHFP-II), a USAID program implemented by the Public Health Institute with support from PYXERA Global.

Environment

Healthcare Plastics and the Circular Economy

Hospital plastics show great potential to be part of the Circular Economy movement, in which waste and pollution have been eliminated and products, components, and materials are kept at their highest and most effective use. Plastics in particular, have unique opportunities and challenges in what the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has dubbed the New Plastics Economy. However, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. The challenges associated with recycling healthcare plastics are not just challenges at the hospital level; instead, barriers to recycling exist across the entire plastics value chain, from product design and manufacturing through product use and disposal.

Events, Media & Communications

Transcending Carbon Constraints

The rapidly changing world around us is having a widespread impact on just about everything: global economies, industries, markets, consumer trends and our planet’s resources. As a company, we are embracing this reality with a focused strategy and some very clear objectives.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Final Days to Nominate Volunteers for Central Florida’s Cox Conserves Heroes Program

WFTV Channel 9, in partnership with The Trust for Public Land, is seeking nominations for Central Florida’s 2016 Cox Conserves Heroes program.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Environmental Leader Recognizes Ingersoll Rand with Three ‘Product of the Year’ Awards for Product Sustainability

Ingersoll Rand accepted three “Product and Project of the Year” awards from Environmental Leader at the fifth annual Environmental Leader Conference in Denver, Colorado on Wednesday.

Research, Reports & Publications

Creating Compost with Less Energy

In Yorkshire, U.K., our energy-efficient Flygt top-entry agitators — a propeller type of mixer that can handle thick, high-fiber sludge — are part of a new waste treatment facility that processes and recycles waste.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Wells Fargo Named #3 Most Generous Company of the Fortune 500

Fortune magazine has named Wells Fargo No. 3 on its Top 20 Most Generous Companies in the Fortune 500 for 2015. It is also the highest ranked financial services company on the list of corporate donors.

Education

CITGO STEM Scholarship Puts College in Reach for Houston Students

Twenty Houston-area students are one step closer to a college education thanks to financial aid provided by CITGO Petroleum Corporation through the new CITGO STEM Scholarship. In keeping with a long-term commitment from CITGO to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, the scholarship supports higher education opportunities for students pursuing degrees in these fields.

Research, Reports & Publications

3M’s 2016 Sustainability Report

As the global population marches toward 9 billion people, it is creating an even more urgent need to address sustainability challenges –from air pollution and water shortages to food safety and clean energy.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

How (and Why) to Sponsor Your Nonprofit Partner to Attend VM Summit 16

Your company’s volunteer program couldn’t exist without them.

I’m not talking about your employees — although that’s true, too. I’m talking about the nonprofits your employees dedicate their time to.

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  9. Environmental Sustainability
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  10. Employee and Community Engagement
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  11. Technology for Good
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  13. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
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  15. CARE Corporate Partnerships
    CARE works with corporate partners globally to invest in innovative, scalable, impactful, community-based solutions.