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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Call for Nominations for Jurors for World Environment Center Sustainability Award

The World Environment Center (WEC) is seeking recommendations for sustainability experts to serve as members of the independent jury to select its yearly Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development. The Gold Medal Award is presented annually to a global company that demonstrates systemic commitment to sustainability in business practice.

Events, Media & Communications

Interview with Jennifer Risi, Managing Director at Ogilvy Media Influence

Jennifer Risi is a seasoned communications executive with more than 15 years of experience. She oversees global media relations at Ogilvy and serves as senior advisor to many of the firm’s clients. She is an expert in nation branding, CEO positioning, crisis communications, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business-to-business strategy development. She is a worldwide board member of Ogilvy Public Relations.

Diversity & Inclusion

Choosing to Find Your Happy Place at Work

Sometimes finding happiness must be very intentional but simply knowing happiness is a choice is not enough. Experiencing it requires a conscious decision every day and it is not always easy.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

KIRO 7 and The Trust for Public Land Announce Finalists for Western Washington’s Cox Conserves Heroes Program

KIRO 7, in partnership with The Trust for Public Land, today announced finalists for Western Washington’s 2016 Cox Conserves Heroes program. The public is being asked to vote now through August 19 at http://www.kiro7.com/heroes.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Nominate Your Company for the 2017 WEC Gold Medal Award for Sustainability (due Sept. 7)

Nominations are now being accepted for the World Environment Center’s (WEC) 2017 Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development. The Gold Medal Award is presented annually to a global company that demonstrates systemic commitment to sustainability in business practice.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Investors See Strong Link Between Corporate Sustainability and Financial Performance

Up to 90% of professional investors measure a company’s sustainability performance before making investment decisions.

Research, Reports & Publications

HPE Releases Its First Living Progress Report

HPE announces first Living Progress Report as Hewlett Packard Enterprise. With our new company comes a new three part format intended to make relevant information more easily accessible to our many stakeholders.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Rubber Ducks and Water Neutrality

As part of the upcoming NAEM 2016 Corporate Sustainability Management Conference, Antea Group will be helping make participants water neutral for the day.

Research, Reports & Publications

Caterpillar is Shaving Weeks Off Delivery Time

Social Impact & Volunteering

VolunteerMatch and YourCause Now Partner to Connect Companies with Community Volunteer Needs

VolunteerMatch, the web’s largest volunteer engagement network, and YourCause LLC, provider of CSRconnect Employee Engagement and Enterprise Philanthropic Platform, announce today a partnership that will give YourCause clients the option to add the VolunteerMatch network to their existing suite of corporate social responsibility (CSR) management tools.

Research, Reports & Publications

Sands ECO360 | New Technologies and Innovation

Research, Reports & Publications

Annual Review of CR Reporting and Comms Summit Featuring Unilever, AkzoNobel, CocaCola Enterprises & ABN Amro

The Annual Review of CR Reporting and Sustainability Communications from Ethical Corporation has just been released.

Research, Reports & Publications

Pearson Launches 2015 Sustainability Report

Pearson, the world’s learning company, today launches its 2015 Sustainability Report, which aims to advance the conversation about what sustainability looks like in the education industry.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Team LIVESTRONG Spotlight: Team BlaineRidesOn

We’re highlighting some of the amazing individuals and teams that have made our events so special, and who do incredible work fundraising to support LIVESTRONG’s cancer programs and services.

Social Impact & Volunteering

How to Increase Your Employee Volunteer Rates Through Word of Mouth

For me, there’s nothing quite like the rush of recruiting a new volunteer! Having a conversation, chatting about my experience, and seeing someone take the leap to volunteer… I love it so much that I’ve made my career out of it! Here at VolunteerMatch, I help lead the effort on growing the base of our volunteer, nonprofit, and corporate ‘members.’

For some, however, this is a terrifying idea. That’s why I wanted to share some ways to enhance your word-of-mouth recruitment efforts to increase employee participation in your volunteer program!

Here are 3 reasons (and ways) to enhance your organic word-of-mouth efforts.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Republic Services Earns Top Industry Award for Recycling Systems Excellence

Republic Services (NYSE: RSG) is pleased to announce that the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has named Republic’s Southern Nevada Recycling Center winner of the Gold Excellence Award in the Recycling Systems category. The award will be presented at SWANA’s annual conference, WASTECON®, on Tuesday, August 23, 2016, in Indianapolis, Ind.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Jay Bruce of the Cincinnati Reds Takes a Swing for Those at Home

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CSR Expert Q&A: Nielsen's Wendy Salomon, VP, Consultant, Reputation & Public Affairs

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

GSK is Proud to Announce the 2016 Opportunity Scholars in Philadelphia

Diversity & Inclusion

Why Your Office Should Be More Like The Office

The Office, NBC’s hit comedy that aired from 2005 to 2013, led to millions of viewers laughing on a week to week basis. It was one of my favorite shows and even all these years later, it still makes me laugh…and rings true of what goes on in most office environments, albeit a little exaggerated. The show documents the life of a rather dysfunctional office and their daily antics. While as a whole, the extreme personalities of The Office, lead to an incongruous environment, there are traits from each of the characters that can be quite beneficial when applied in the workplace.

Health & Healthcare

Blue Shield Of California's Narcotic Safety Initiative Helps Plan Participants Avoid Opioid Dependence

Blue Shield of California's Narcotic Safety Initiative, the health plan's three-year program to help its plan participants avoid opioid abuse and addiction, is seeing significant results in its first year.

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