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Social Impact & Volunteering

Decorating Safely for the Holidays

Nobody wants to spend the holidays in the ER. Last year, more than 90,000 people are treated in the ER for ladder-related injuries and nearly 4,000 injuries associated with extension cords.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Hospice: The Best Kept Secret in American Healthcare

Since our founding in 1977, Capital Caring’s mission has been to simply improve care for the more than 1,200 people living with advanced illness that we care for each day via our world-class hospice and palliative care programs. While we focus on alleviating pain, anxiety, breathlessness, and all causes of distress, we also equip families and loved with the tools they need to feel confident in their own ability to comfort their loved ones.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Pfizer Foundation Partners with Save The Children to Support Gender Equality in Malawi

Freda Lewis-Hall, MD, Pfizer’s Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President, has been a member of Save the Children’s Board of Trustees since 2012. She shares Save the Children’s dedication to creating immediate and lasting change in the lives of children and families around the world.

Diversity & Inclusion

How to Recruit, Hire and Retain Female Engineers

Leaders at tech startups are alarmed by the absence of women from mission-critical roles — software engineering, especially — at their own companies. Their boards are saying, “We gave you the money to grow, grow, grow, but you’re not.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Children’s National: Helping Kids Grow Up Stronger

As the nation’s children’s hospital, Children’s National Health System serves the D.C. region, the nation, and the world by caring for critically and chronically ill children. We aim to excel in clinical care, advocacy, research, and education. We provide a quality healthcare experience for our patients and their families and lead in the creation of innovative solutions to pediatric health challenges.

Research, Reports & Publications

Sanofi Rises 2 Positions in the 2016 Access to Medicine Index

In 2016, Sanofi has risen 2 positions in the Access To Medicine (ATM) Index, from 8th to 6th rank. The ATM Index analyses the top 20 research-based pharmaceutical companies on how they make medicines, vaccines and diagnostics more accessible in low- and middle-income countries.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Local Businesses Grow with Sodexo and University of Maine System

Sodexo, world leader of Quality of Life services, and the University of Maine are bridging the gap between local business owners and food distributors through an information expo on serving locally sourced seafood and produce on college campuses. On November 1 and 3, Sodexo and the University of Maine hosted Scaling Up, a networking and professional development event aimed at helping local farmers, businesses, and fishermen secure a larger market reach for their products.

Events, Media & Communications

Bloomberg Hosts “The Future of RMB” with the Hon. Mary Schapiro

Bloomberg hosted an exclusive luncheon with the Hon. Mary Schapiro in Hong Kong on November 29. More than 60 of the city’s top business and finance leaders came together to discuss the RMB’s future following the recent U.S. elections.

Education

Understanding and Scaling the Impact of Design

Energy

Getting to the Big Picture

We’re a big fan of puzzles in my household. It started off with the small ones – the cartoon trains and characters that took my kids a few minutes to put together. We’ve increased our difficulty since then, and are up to the 500+ pieces.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Studying a Growing Niche: What Does Being a CR or Sustainability Professional Mean?

Corporate responsibility (or its sister concepts such as sustainability, corporate citizenship, and the like) may have won “the battle of ideas”, being awarded with the status of its own in business schools and having dedicated departments in the world largest companies, it still remains a tucked away exotic island compared to well established continents of other management disciplines, such as strategy or marketing.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Group, Inc. Earns Top Score on Corporate Equality Index For Fourth Consecutive Year

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG) announced that it received a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2017 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality that is administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. With its high score, CBRE is recognized as a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality. This marks CBRE’s fourth consecutive year of achieving a perfect score, and the company continues to pave the way for increased diversity across the entire commercial real estate industry.

Events, Media & Communications

The Purpose Imperative: Integrating for Sustainable Impact

The three “Ps” of sustainability—People, Planet, and Profit (or Prosperity—which engenders more inclusivity)—have become the standard for leading companies for a decade or more. Aaron Hurst has just added a fourth “P:” Purpose.

Diversity & Inclusion

Pledging to Help Close the National Gender Pay Gap

Nestlé companies in the U.S. affirmed their commitment to employees’ health and wellness today, including the opportunity to work in an environment where everyone feels empowered, appreciated and respected. Announced at the 4th annual Women Rule Summit, Nestlé and more than 40 private sector businesses took the White House Equal Pay Pledge to close the national pay gap.

Events, Media & Communications

11 Awesome EHS & Sustainability Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2017

Staying on top of the latest environment, health and safety (EHS) and sustainability news, trends and innovations is essential for EHS&S professionals like you who strive to continually improve your company’s processes and programs.

Fortunately, there are a number of upcoming EHS&S events that can serve as incredible resources to help you gain new insights, find new opportunities, and ultimately ensure a safer and healthier workplace and world.

Innovation & Technology

First UPS U.S. Delivery eBike Debuts In Portland, Ore.

UPS today announced its first eBike in the U.S. This new electrically-assisted tricycle began delivering packages in Portland, Ore., on November 21. UPS anticipates this eBike prototype could become a component of its delivery capabilities in some other cities across the country.

Diversity & Inclusion

Cargill Joins New Paradigm for Parity℠ Coalition, Pledging Gender Parity in Leadership by 2030

Cargill CEO and Chairman David MacLennan today joined a diverse group of current and former CEOs and business leaders in launching the Paradigm for Parity℠ coalition, an organization committed to achieving gender parity across all levels of corporate leadership by 2030.

Innovation & Technology

Arrow Electronics Highlights CSR Efforts at Social Innovation Summit

Arrow Electronics is committed to guiding innovators forward to a better tomorrow. The global technology company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program supports this mission and has evolved from providing general support to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education programs, to actually teaching students how to innovate.

Health & Healthcare

3 Organizations Fighting Hunger Year-Round

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sanofi Pasteur Receives Wellbeing Award From The Commonwealth Medical College

Sanofi Pasteur is proud to announce it is the recipient of The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC) Wellbeing Award. Frank Epifano, vice president, North America and global finance, commercial operations, accepted the award on October 16 at Mohegan Sun Pocono. Dr. David Greenberg, associate vice president and regional medical head, North America, and Ellyn Schindler, director, North America Corporate Social Responsibility and community engagement, accompanied Epifano.

Research, Reports & Publications

Community Investments Bring Domtar Out of the Mill and into Local Communities

It’s important to know where your paper comes from, and we urge customers to understand how their choices benefit not just our company, but entire communities.

Environment

HP Recognized as World Leader for Corporate Action on Ending Deforestation

HP has been identified as a global leader for the actions and strategies it is taking to manage its use of timber products more sustainably by CDP, which named HP one of only eight companies to earn a position on the inaugural CDP “Forest A List” for its deforestation management efforts. HP is the only information technology (IT) company to make this year’s Forest A List.

Environment

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