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Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

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What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Social Impact & Volunteering

West Deptford Action Team Swings Right into Action

With 20-plus volunteer projects planned for the 2015-16 school year, the West Deptford (NJ) Action Team hit the ground running and completed two of them before the end of September.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

P&O Cruises Celebrates Whipping up £1million for Macmillan Cancer Support with Chef Eric Lanlard

P&O Cruises celebrates whipping up £1million for Macmillan Cancer Support with celebrity chef Eric Lanlard P&O Cruises is celebrating after successfully raising an incredible £1million for charity partner Macmillan Cancer Support. Staff from the Southampton based company marked the fantastic fundraising milestone alongside celebrity chef and P&O Cruises Food Hero Eric Lanlard on board new ship Britannia.

Research, Reports & Publications

CBRE Publishes Eighth Annual Corporate Responsibility Report

A leader in responsible business practices within the commercial real estate industry, CBRE Group has released its eighth annual Corporate Responsibility Report, which provides an overview of the global social, economic and environmental impacts of its operations.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Migrant Crisis: Support Arrives to Help Region’s Neediest Families

Europe is as unique culturally as it is geographically, and the makeup of FedEx team members in Europe is no different. Alongside that diversity comes a common respect for cultural differences, as well as a desire to collaborate in the communities where we live and work.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Major Leaguers Announce Players Choice Awards Finalists

Major League baseball players today announced the finalists for their highest honors – the Players Choice Awards – in which the players themselves recognize excellence on and off the field. Vying for top honor as 2015 Player of the Year are Josh Donaldson of the Toronto Blue Jays, Zack Greinke of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals.

Education

Corporate Citizenship Progress Through Lifelong Learning

The importance of lifelong learning has been championed by great iconoclasts from Gandhi to Picasso. Through their own curiosity and desire to make things different and better, these people changed the world and the way that subsequent generations think about everything from art to citizenship. In many ways, the work of our members at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship is similar. Bringing the assets of business to the table to solve some of our most intractable environmental and social problems demands new ways of thinking about the world.

Education

ASIMO Heads Honda Robotics Shows for Ohio STEM Students

Honda’s commitment to encouraging the growth of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education among young students is now bringing those concepts off the page and into the real world – courtesy of Honda Robotics.

Environment

Coming Soon: Timberland and Found Object present “KOMBIT: The Cooperative”

The documentary "KOMBIT: The Cooperative", premiering next week at SxSW Eco, tells the story of two unlikely partners and a determined community of 3,200 farmers in Haiti who band together with bootmaker Timberland to help fulfill the company’s vision to plant 5 million trees in 5 years, while building a sustainable and profitable agricultural enterprise.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Informe Anual 2014 de GFNorte reconocido a nivel mundial

La Academy Awards of Annual Reports, quien provee los más altos estándares para la evaluación de informes anuales destacando su excelencia, galardonó este año a GFNorte con 2 premios, los cuales resaltan la calidad de su Informe Anual 2014:

Events, Media & Communications

3BL Media Best Practices Webinar, Oct. 28: ‘Coopetition’ in Sustainability

“Behind Greener Hotel Rooms: Marriott Works With Peers on Sustainability Standards,” will be held at 10 a.m. ET on Oct. 28, is free and open to the public.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

GFNorte’s 2014 Annual Report Recognized on a Global Scale

The Academy Awards of Annual Reports sets the highest standards for evaluations of annual reports spotlighting excellence, awarded GFNorte with 2 awards this year highlighting the quality of its 2014 Annual Report.

Environment

Driving to a Sustainable Future

Public transit, walking, or riding a bike are all great ways to get where you’re going in cities like NYC or San Francisco, but what if your city or town isn’t exactly pedestrian-friendly? If you are looking for a way to minimize your carbon footprint with a new ride, consider a cleaner vehicle. Read the TerraPass blog to find out your options and to learn how transportation can make a move towards sustainability.

Events, Media & Communications

Fox Searchlight Premieres 'He Named Me Malala' to 7,000 Young Women and Girls

At the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live on September 29, nearly 7,000 female high school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District gathered for an exclusive screening of He Named Me Malala, the newest documentary from Fox Searchlight Pictures and Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim. The event served as the film's West Coast premiere, and it gave the young women a chance to hear from activists and community leaders about the power they have to make a difference in the world. 21st Century Fox was a Presenting Sponsor of the event.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Perspectives: Anmol Mehra

Common Impact is excited to launch Pro Bono Perspectives, a series of profiles – featuring people like you – who took a leap into skills-based volunteering. From intrapreneurs, to entrepreneurs, to nonprofit executives, to corporate leaders – these individuals all have their own stories to tell, successes to share, lessons they’ve learned and tools they’ve used.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

What’s Next for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?

This past weekend marked an important milestone in tackling the world’s development challenges: the United Nations (UN) General Assembly approved the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goals. These 17 goals are the successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and aim to tackle poverty, inequality, climate change and other critical challenges around the globe over the next 15 years.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MGM Resorts Named One of America's Most Reputable Companies for Corporate Social Responsibility by Reputation Institute

MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) has been named one of America’s top 100 most reputable companies for corporate social responsibility (CSR), according to research by Reputation Institute, a leading global source on corporate reputation.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Eight Reasons to be Hopeful About the Future of our Food System

In late summer, the ideas started pouring in from every corner of the world.
Thousands of designers, architects, biologists, engineers, students, nature-lovers, and big thinkers had answered the call to completely rethink our food system using design inspiration from nature.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Farm Credit Seeks Ag Communications Students to Lead NAFB Social Media Corps

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CR Magazine Announces 2015 Responsible CEO of Year Award and Lifetime Achievement Award Finalists

Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine announced today the finalists for both the eighth annual Responsible CEO of the Year Awards and the fifth annual Lifetime Achievement Award. These awards will be presented to CEOs that visibly exceed standards in the areas of employee relations, environmental impact and sustainability, human rights, philanthropy, and corporate responsibility practices.

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