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Corporate Responsibility

What’s Your Office Kryptonite?

You might be a superhero at the office, spearheading projects, coming up with great ideas and flying through your to-do lists. But even superheroes have a weakness, something that saps their energy, focus or strength. At the office, these power-reducing habits often begin with good intentions, but they end up wasting time instead of saving it.

AI & Technology

2016 V4 Hackathon: Driving The ‘Connected Life’

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, March 25, 2016 /3BL Media/ — AT&T* and the Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) are joining to host a hackathon event in Prague on April 22-23, 2016. The event hopes to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the Visegrád Group, or V4 region.

The hackathon is open to developers and non-developers. The mission? Create new apps to harness Connected Life in 1 of 4 categories—in just 24 hours:

Health & Healthcare

HPRC Conducts LCA Literature Review of Plastics Disposal Options

Non-regulated mixed plastic waste represents a large portion of the solid waste generated by healthcare facilities. Healthcare waste management decision makers and influencers must choose from a number of disposal options to deal with this growing environmental burden. To aid in this process, HPRC conducted a literature review of life cycle assessment (LCA) studies comparing the environmental impacts of recycling to other waste management options. The final paper presents the different types of waste management for plastics along with their advantages and disadvantages from an environmental perspective.

Inclusion & Opportunity

CBRE Group, Inc. Ranked Among Military Times Best for Vets: Employers 2016

Health & Healthcare

How Businesses are Taking Action to Ensure Health & Promote Well-Being #SDG3

This week, Global Sourcing Council's 17 Weeks for 17 SDGs Intiative explores Goal 3 with examples of action from organizations and businesses to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all in their business strategy.

AI & Technology

Why The Cat Spring Tea Sisters Value Heritage, Mentorship and Accountability

I don’t think most mission-driven innovators grow up thinking, “Someday, I’d like to be a social entrepreneur.”

Volunteering & Community

Want Real Impact From Your CSR Program? Listen to Your Community!

The key to a great corporate social responsibility program is deceptively simple. Listen to your community. This is especially important for volunteer programs.

Energy & Infrastructure

This 4-Year-Old Video Star Knows Her Solar Facts

When she grows up, the preschooler, an avid animal lover, hopes to become a baby animal rescuer or President of the United States (so she can give speeches about saving the world). She enjoys yoga and fairies and is committed to preserving fairy habitats.

Environment

Talk with Green Guy Show - 3/20/16 - Mayors Climate Summit Series - Alicia Zatcoff, Sustainability Mgr, City of Richmond, VA

Radio interview: Mayors Climate Series, City of Richmond, VA Sustainability Dir. Alicia Zatcoff - 3/20/16

Volunteering & Community

Mentoring: In Real Life

We believe that every young person should have a caring adult to turn to. This provides a foundation for students to succeed in all that they do – in school and their future careers. That’s why we’re connecting our employees to students around the world through Aspire Mentoring Academy.

Philanthropy

Internet Essentials Reaches New Milestone: 600,000 Families Connected

This morning, at Rainbow Village, a public housing development in Miami, Florida, Julián Castro, our forward-thinking and energetic Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and I announced a pilot program with ConnectHome to extend eligibility for Internet Essentials, Comcast’s signature broadband adoption program, to public housing residents in Miami-Dade County and the cities of Nashville, Philadelphia, and Seattle.

Events

ACCP 2016: Outcomes and ‘The Power of And’

With a full schedule of thought leadership and connection time with our CSR peers across various industries, we continued our ongoing effort to find the best ways to help companies that are doing good in the community. One question we received from many attendees is how can we partner with grantees more effectively?

Inclusion & Opportunity

JetBlue Assembles All-Female Crew for 'Power Trip'

AI & Technology

Believin' on a Jet Plane, to Test Cleaner Technologies

Inclusion & Opportunity

Forum Looks at Criminal Justice Reform and Role of Faith Communities

A new series of community events was launched in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on March 12 with a forum titled “Criminal Justice Reform: Motivating and Mobilizing the Faith Community for Restorative Justice.” The forum explored reforms needed to improve the fairness and effectiveness of the criminal justice system in New York State and the U.S.

Health & Healthcare

Global Leadership in Human Services

Keystone Human Services recently developed a five year Strategic Plan to guide the organization forward. The Plan reaffirms our vision and values with a solid focus on global leadership in human services and a life-span perspective for the services and supports we offer. Keystone Human Services International is proud to be moving KHS’s strategy forward by developing a global presence for the organization.

Awards & Rankings

HanesBrands Has Five Additional Manufacturing Plants Achieve U.S. EPA Recognition for Energy Efficiency Gains

HanesBrands (NYSE: HBI) announced today that five additional company manufacturing plants have earned U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star Challenge for Industry awards by reducing energy use by an average 18 percent.

Environment

4 Must-Know FAQs for Sustainability Consulting in the Tech World

So whether you’re looking to gain a competitive edge or reduce your company’s environmental impact, a sustainability consulting firm can provide invaluable practical expertise and broad industry perspectives. Here are four frequently asked questions - and answers - to get you moving toward your sustainability goals.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

The Face Behind Your Food: Three Farmworkers Share Their Stories

Lupita López Dearcia Comitán is a farmworker in Sonora, Mexico. She’s forty-four years old, has five children, and just so happens to grow the cucumbers you put in your salad last night. It’s a job she has a lot of pride in. Most people don’t know that cucumbers grow on vines like tomatoes, requiring constant care to ensure that the plant grows in the proper direction. It’s a technique called “training”, and Lupita has the practice down to a science.

Volunteering & Community

Bloomberg Brings Popular Square Mile Relay To New York

Education & Workforce Development

LifeSkills to Develop Futuristic Work Experience Pod, Giving School Children a Crash Course in the 21st Century Skills Needed in the Evolving World of Work

LifeSkills created with Barclays, which has over 72 per cent of secondary schools registered across the country, today announces that it is developing the LifeSkills Pod, an immersive work experience simulator.

Corporate Responsibility

Flash Report: G&A Institute & Trust Across America Partner to Examine Trustworthiness for S&P 500® Companies Not Reporting on Sustainability

Continuing the in-depth analysis of S&P 500 (r) companies' sustainability reporting activities, Governance & Accountability Institute teamed with the Trust Across America / Trust Around the World program to explore potential relationships of the trustworthiness of companies that do and do not report utilizing the TAA/TAW's proprietary FACTS® scoring. FACTS® analyzes approximately 2000 US based public companies on five quantitative indicators of corporate trustworthiness. TAA/TAW has found that companies with higher FACTS® scores are more profitable and over time their stocks outperform major indexes.

AI & Technology

GM on Fast Track to Redefine Mobility with Lyft, Maven & Self-Driving Cars

There’s never been a more exciting time to work in the automotive industry. The traditional owner-driver model of ownership and usage of the vehicle are changing, and GM views this as an opportunity to be a disruptor.

Health & Healthcare

Cancer Survivors Should be a Priority

In our state, cancer is the leading cause of death for Texans age 85 and younger. It is also the leading cause of death from disease among Texas children.

According to the National Cancer Institute, at some point in their lives, nearly 40 percent of Americans will hear the words, “You have cancer.” And this year alone, nearly 1.7 million U.S. residents are expected to be diagnosed with the disease. The number is likely to rise as the baby boomer population ages.

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