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Research & Reports

MSME Resilience: A New Framework for the New Normal

The MSME resilience framework serves as an organizing tool which governments, philanthropic organizations, development agencies, and large corporates can adopt to help micro, small, and medium enterprises recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

AI & Technology

VR Training for Healthcare Workers on the Front Line and in the Classroom

In Washington state, doctors who typically deal with elective surgeries turned to virtual reality (VR) to relearn emergency-response skills they haven’t practiced since medical school. In New York City, homebound nursing students watched online simulations to learn how to properly don personal protective equipment (PPE).

Philanthropy

San Diego Begins Offering Free Summer Lunches to Children

The city is partnering with…Albertsons Companies' Nourishing Neighbors program to help feed children.

Research & Reports

Schneider Electric Sustainability Report 2019 - 2020: Climate Action Highlights

We made a firm resolution years ago to address the climate crisis. We work toward a cleaner future by building sustainable programs into our business, and in 2019 we continued to turn rhetoric into results.

Health & Healthcare

AB InBev Supports Smallholder Farmers Through the Pandemic and Beyond

As it has globally, COVID-19 has had a massive impact on farmers, especially rural smallholder farms that are typically smaller, family-run operations with limited access to resources, storage options and labor.

Events

Mohawk Group Connects the A&D Community with its DesignFWD Virtual Summit

Commercial flooring manufacturer Mohawk Group, known for thoughtfulness, creativity, and an eco-conscious ethos, hosted the first-ever DesignFWD Virtual Summit to connect the design community — under the inaugural theme of “A New Path Forward.”

Philanthropy

FlexPrint National Managed Print Solutions Proudly Supports Whole Planet Foundation's Power Your Purpose Virtual 5K Run

FlexPrint started supporting Whole Planet Foundation last year with a $25,000 sponsorship and is continuing their support in 2020 through the Virtual 5K as a Silver Sponsor.

Philanthropy

Perseverance and Team HOPE

Hope is exactly what one FIRST Global team embodied, despite having gone through circumstances many people will never experience: war—asylum—becoming refugees.

Corporate Responsibility

Cultivate Strives to Enhance Employee Multigenerational Collaboration Virtually

COVID19 has greatly impacted individuals, teams and companies. Whether companies transitioned all of their employees to working from home overnight or shut down offices temporarily, we’ve all been affected in one way or another.

Corporate Responsibility

Recognizing Our Best: Alyssa Pointer

Multimedia journalists can’t stay outside the fray if they want to tell stories that are impactful. That was certainly true for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Alyssa Pointer, who found herself at the center of the action (and not for the first time) when covering protests over racial injustice and police brutality in Atlanta.

Events

Watch Land Betterment Corporation's Impact Minute Episode 8

Land Betterment Corporation an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites to create sustainable community development and job creation, releases Episode 8 of its Impact Minute video blog.

Awards & Rankings

Proud to Be #21 on DiversityInc’s 2020 Top 50 Companies for Diversity

Few companies on the planet can claim the success of being an iconic company for more than 125 years. Even fewer can authentically show their purpose day in and day out of making moments of goodness for consumers.

Philanthropy

CIT Supports Customer Effort to Address Hunger Relief in Southern Nevada

CIT Group Inc. (CIT) today announced that it has donated 30,000 meals to those in need through Three Square Food Bank, Southern Nevada's only food bank and the area's largest hunger-relief organization.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Leading Colombian Coffee Exporter Expands Mandate to Strengthen Farming Communities

Colombian coffee exporter Lohas Beans has joined Business Call to Action with a commitment to expand their suppliers by 60 percent, from 22 to 35 coffee grower associations and support them in acquiring organic certification by 2022.

AI & Technology

Does It Spark Joy? It's Time to Spring Clean Your Digital Life

Most of us have embraced an increasingly digital life as we carry on through this coronavirus crisis. We are leaning more heavily than ever on our devices to help us work, eat, exercise, socialize and more.

AI & Technology

Stanley Black & Decker Partners with DeepHow to Deploy AI-Powered Technology

STANLEY X, the Innovation hub of Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK), today announced a partnership with DeepHow, the first AI solution to train and transfer knowledge among skilled workers.

Education & Workforce Development

STEM Careers Coalition from Discovery Education Debuts New Video Series Spotlighting Corporate Community Responses to COVID-19

To help students connect the dots between the application of STEM skills, innovating solutions, and important real-world challenges, the STEM Careers Coalition launches “COVID-19 Solution Seekers,” a video series spotlighting how non-profits, corporations, and industries pivot to meet the needs presented by COVID-19.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Black & Veatch CEO Commits Global EPC Company to Quest for Greater Disabilities-Related Inclusiveness

Coinciding with this year’s 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Black & Veatch CEO Steve Edwards has joined a group’s global campaign to enlist 500 companies to make greater inclusion of special needs employees a priority.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Wells Fargo Pledges up to $20 Million to Support New York Economic Recovery Efforts

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) announced today that it pledged up to $20 million to support the New York Forward Loan Fund (NYFLF), an economic revitalization program across New York State.

Health & Healthcare

Bringing Quality Care Closer to Home

AI & Technology

Open to Innovation

HENRi is one of Nestle's open innovation platforms set up to help harness the ideas and passion of external partners, especially from the start-up sector.

Corporate Responsibility

Addressing COVID-19 in Vulnerable Diamond and Gold Mining Communities

“Look at how we work,” said Sylvain, an artisanal diamond miner in Sama near Carnot in the Central African Republic (CAR). “If the coronavirus comes to this site then we’re all going to get it.”

Events

An Inside Look at Day 1 of the Porter Novelli Purpose Summit on July 29th

On Wednesday, July 29, we invite you to join the first day of our two day Porter Novelli Purpose Summit: The Era of Stakeholder-Centered Business to gain insight into the acceleration of a shareholder-only to a stakeholder-centered mandate for business.

Latest Campaigns

Accelerating access to healthcare technology

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Subaru Love Promise: Health

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AEG Celebrates Inclusion

At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...

Housing affordability

We drive solutions to enable people to open doors to a safe and affordable place to call home, the foundation for wellness, dignity, and economic...

SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights

Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...

SCS Consulting

Any news coming from SCS Consulting

Advocacy

Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...

Health and Safety by Antea Group

Antea Group's health and safety consultants understand what it takes to help make a positive impact on safety culture. Read blogs, insights, and more...

Kingfisher Around the World

The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...

AEG Celebrates Inclusion

At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...