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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Switching Workplace Giving Providers: Your Guide for Choosing a New Partner for Your Employee Giving Program

You're not new to workplace giving. You know how important it is to your employees to work for a company where giving and volunteering is supported and you understand how much nonprofits rely on your team's support to tackle tough issues and improve the world around us.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Growing Your Reputation: Doing Good is Good Business

Today, companies of all kinds view their commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a key business priority. An impressive 77 percent of business and human resources leaders rated corporate citizenship as important in a recent study by Deloitte.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

To Boost Employee Giving Results, Choose Fun™ Like Carnival Cruise Line!

There are three key ingredients you need for success when it comes to increasing employee participation in your company’s workplace giving program – awareness, simplicity, and fun. Many companies get one or two of these ingredients right, but often overlook the third – fun! So who better to look to for an example of ‘fun’ than Carnival Cruise Line – “The World’s Most Popular Cruise Line®.”

Diversity & Inclusion

3 Changes for Women and Business in 2019

To accelerate workplace gender equality and inclusion, business can leverage its capacity and scale to reach more women. BSRnews and UPSLongitudes share three trends that are changing how business influences women’s empowerment.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

PepsiCo is #FundingHerFuture through Whole Planet Foundation

KeVita, a PepsiCo. brand, has joined the Supplier Alliance for Microcredit, pledging $50,000 in 2019 to alleviate global poverty through Whole Planet Foundation.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Celebrating Our Commitment to Volunteerism and Service

Every day, Comcast NBCUniversal employees commit to making a difference in our communities. We celebrate this amazing spirit through our long-standing company tradition: Comcast Cares Day.

Responsible Production & Consumption

No No No – Coffee Cups Are the Not the Consumer’s Problem to Solve.

Recently an article was posted on LinkedIn with a title that read, “Coffee cup ban: Boston Tea Party’s sales fall by £250k”. The comment attached to the post was this:
“You can put all the bans in the world, but at the end of the day if consumer habits don’t change there won’t be a difference.”
Upon reflection, I have a couple of problems with both the article and how it was framed.

Energy

How Ingersoll Rand Tests Best Practices in Sustainability, From Manufacturing to Marketplace

Scott Tew’s sustainability journey began on his family’s produce farm in Alabama. There, he learned that "natural resources are precious gifts that need to be nurtured, protected and never squandered."

Diversity & Inclusion

Partners in Purpose: Dell Embraces Neurodiversity with Autism Hiring Program

Dell is committed to embracing neurodiversity and celebrating the different ways the human brain can work to solve problems. Through their Autism Hiring Program, the company allows candidates to demonstrate their skills outside of a traditional job interview.

Education

Lockheed Martin Surprises Lake Nona High School Students With Hands-on Project Help

It has been a difficult school year for Lake Nona High School junior Valentina Diaz, who admits to struggling with physics and calculus.

The tough times had nearly derailed her efforts to pursue a career in aerospace engineering.

But a surprise visit to her classroom on Thursday by Lockheed Martin engineers reinvigorated the 16-year-old.

Media & Communications

Corporate Supply Chain Sustainability Strategies & Programs: Count as a Cost or Strategic Investment?

Question: Does a corporate sustainability program “cost” (and thus shows up on the “expense” side of the ledger) or are there measurable “returns” on the investments that companies are making to develop or adjust strategies, assemble teams and launch sustainability programs? (Especially those that have set goals and where progress is measured and then publicly reported.)

We frequently hear this kind of discussion in the phone calls we have with corporate managers, especially those at companies where management is now considering what to do or perhaps just starting out on their sustainability journey.

Innovation & Technology

Conversations With Consequence: Professionals from Hilton and Microsoft Weigh In On Sustainability Innovation

The Erb Institute engaged with several speakers and participants around key questions that relate to business, academia and sustainability, during a partner event with Innovation Forum in Detroit. We asked business sustainability professionals: What new opportunities are on the horizon for business to better “innovate for sustainability”?

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Dow, Keep America Beautiful Open Fourth Hefty® EnergyBag® Grant Program for up to $125,000

Dow is again teaming up with national nonprofit and long-standing collaborator Keep America Beautiful® to award up to $125,000 in grants for organizations to establish the Hefty® EnergyBag® program in their communities. The Hefty® EnergyBag® program, a collaboration between Dow and Reynolds Consumer Products, offers an innovative approach to diverting hard-to-recycle plastics, such as chip bags, standup pouches, foam containers, candy wrappers and juice pouches, from landfills and converting the materials into valuable resources.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Cerritos Student Scores $40,000 Edison Scholarship

Hannah is one of 30 high school seniors selected from among 722 applicants to be awarded an Edison Scholars scholarship this year. To qualify, the recipients must live in SCE’s service area, have at least a cumulative 3.0 GPA, show financial need and plan to pursue studies in the fields of science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) at a four-year accredited college or university.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SC Johnson Ranked Among Best Workplaces in Greece and Switzerland

SC Johnson today announces that two of the company’s European operations have been recognized by Great Place to Work® as 2019 Best Workplaces: SC Johnson Greece and SC Johnson Switzerland. The Greece team was named the No. 1 Best Workplace in the country for the third consecutive year. The Switzerland team earned the No. 8 ranking on the Switzerland Best Workplaces list.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Points of Light Celebrates National Volunteer Week With a Focus on Recognizing Individuals Who Make a Difference

Points of Light, in partnership with The UPS Foundation and TEGNA, celebrates National Volunteer Week, April 7-13, 2019, through volunteer recognition and service events around the country.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Ecocentricity Blog: I Did a Thing

The thing I did was write a book. Well, the second half of a book to be more precise. My grandfather wrote the first half, which he and Interface released as Mid-Course Correction in 1998.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Effective EHS Programs are Integrated Across Functions, Silos

This year, NAEM redesigned its EHS Operational Excellence conference to emphasize how companies are integrating EHS into business operations. Lissa Aquino, Corporate Compliance Assurance Manager at Stepan Co. and a member of the conference planning committee, shared insights about the changing role of EHS within companies and what to expect at the conference.

Environment

AEG Launches #GoGreen Challenge to Support Earth Month

In support of Earth Month, AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company, today launched the “#GoGreen Challenge,” a month-long social media campaign that urges people to calculate their carbon footprint and then take action by conserving more, using less and recycling.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Raise Your Glass: Bacardi Climbs List of World’s Most Reputable Companies in 2019

Family-owned Bacardi Limited, the largest privately held spirits company in the world, celebrates being named once again among the most reputable companies in the world, as part of the annual Global RepTrak® 100 list compiled by the Reputation Institute (RI) and published in Forbes. Ranked at #87, Bacardi Limited climbed two spots and has made the annual global list seven consecutive times.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Moody's Achieves Top Corporate Equality Index (CEI) Score for Eighth Year Running

Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) announced today that it has achieved a perfect score of 100 on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for 2019, marking the eighth consecutive year the company has achieved a top ranking. The CEI has also designated Moody’s as a Best Place to Work for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) Equality.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Arrow Electronics Celebrates Community Engagement Momentum on National Volunteer Week

In 2017, Arrow Electronics launched Arrow Charitable, the community engagement platform supporting employee volunteering and giving. Two years later, Arrow employees continue to activate purposeful community engagement.

Environment

VIDEO | Subaru Loves the Earth 2019

This April, Subaru and participating Subaru retailers nationwide are continuing our partnership with TerraCycle® to keep waste out of landfills and turn it into things like park benches and bike racks. So far, we’ve diverted over 1,000,000 pieces of waste from local landfills.

Energy

Expert Interview With Bryan Stirrat, Landfill Gas Expert

Bryan Stirrat heads Tetra Tech’s Solid Waste Practice Group and has more than 35 years of experience in landfill planning, design, operation, and closure. A respected authority on innovative landfill gas management and landfill closure strategies, he has been Principal Engineer on projects at more than 250 landfills in North America and the Pacific.

Innovation & Technology

CASE Construction Equipment Unveils Methane-powered Wheel Loader Concept – ProjectTETRA

CASE Construction Equipment, a brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE:CNHI / MI:CHI) today gave the public an insight into a sustainable, connected and technologically advanced future of construction at the Bauma trade show in Munich, Germany, with the unveiling of its methane-powered wheel loader concept – ProjectTETRA.

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