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BLOG: The Latest on Hurricane Harvey Support and Response

Sep 6, 2017 9:30 AM ET

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Walmart associates all over the country are working around the clock to address the needs of those affected by the storm.

Research, Reports & Publications

A Changing Global Workforce

Sep 6, 2017 9:20 AM ET

Social Impact & Volunteering

Skills-Based Volunteering: A Game Changer for Corporate Philanthropy

Sep 6, 2017 9:15 AM ET

New research from Common Impact, a nonprofit that pioneered corporate skills-based volunteering (SBV), demonstrates the sustained impact that SBV has on the social sector by creating transformational partnerships between nonprofits and companies.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

MetLife Foundation: Empowering Veterans Through Financial Inclusion

Sep 6, 2017 9:15 AM ET

Health & Healthcare

Sentinel Awards Recognize 21CF TV Projects for Outstanding Efforts to Engage Audiences on Mental and Physical Health

Sep 6, 2017 9:00 AM ET

Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S) has named television projects from across 21st Century Fox businesses as honorees for this year’s Sentinel Awards, an annual ceremony recognizing TV storylines and movies that inform, educate, and motivate viewers to make choices for healthier and safer lives. FX Networks’ You’re the Worst, National Geographic’s documentary Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric, and the Twentieth Century Fox Television production This Is Us will all receive awards at a ceremony in Los Angeles on September 27.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Aflac | Doing Good for Our Communities and Our Planet

Sep 6, 2017 9:00 AM ET

As a member of the company’s employee-led Green Committee, Susan Goodsell applies her communications skills to help promote Aflac’s environmental sustainability initiatives and activities. This chapter showcases our commitment to reducing our carbon footprint through education, community activities and volunteerism.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Mars CEO: Industry Must Fix ‘Broken’ Engine of Global Business to Tackle Urgent Climate & Social Threats

Sep 6, 2017 9:00 AM ET

Mars CEO Grant F. Reid today said business needs to lead “transformational change” in order to tackle the most urgent threats facing the planet and its people.

Speaking ahead of this month’s UN General Assembly and Climate Week in New York, Mr. Reid said the responsibility had never been greater for industry: “If we are to help deliver on the targets agreed in Paris and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, there has to be a huge step change. While many companies have been working on being more sustainable, the current level of progress is nowhere near enough.”

Green Infrastructure

Sands ECO360 | Green Buildings

Sep 6, 2017 9:00 AM ET

Our goal is to develop resorts that become destinations and create everlasting memories for our guests. At the same time, we also try to do it with the utmost respect for our host communities. We all have a stake in protecting the planet’s natural resources, which is why our team is working hard to design buildings with high performance and sustainability in mind.

Environment

Embracing and Combating Climate Change: HP Sets Science-Based Target

Sep 6, 2017 8:55 AM ET

Few issues are more universally pressing than climate change. The resulting increase in global temperatures, warming oceans, shrinking ice caps, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events severely disrupts people’s health, safety, well-being and livelihoods. As natural disasters grow in frequency and intensity worldwide, they have the potential to not only destroy people’s lives, but to spur the upheaval of communities, businesses and entire industries.

Social Impact & Volunteering

TransCanada to Match Donations to Houston’s Relief Efforts

Sep 6, 2017 6:00 AM ET

Research, Reports & Publications

Performance and Commitment: the Two Facets of Value Creation for Orange

Sep 6, 2017 5:00 AM ET

On the occasion of the publication of its integrated annual report, Orange looks back at the achievements of 2016, a year that saw a return to growth, and describes its “Human Inside” philosophy.

Environment

Tell Me Something Good: Volt Energy’s Gilbert Campbell

Sep 5, 2017 7:50 PM ET

Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio, Gilbert Campbell, the Co-Founder of Volt Energy, is here to remind us that sustainable energy is good, not only for the earth, but also for business. Campbell's company, based in Washington, D.C., builds and operates solar projects, electric-vehicle charging stations, and offers energy storage solutions. We discuss how Volt Energy's business model works, why there are not nearly enough minority-owned businesses in the renewable energy space, and the challenges of interacting with a new Administration that is openly hostile to science and minorities.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Sappi North America's Environmental Responsibility: Forestry

Sep 5, 2017 5:30 PM ET

We approach environmental responsibility from a holistic perspective grounded in life cycle thinking—looking carefully at raw material use, energy generation, manufacturing and the end of life of our products. We work across the supply chain to drive change within our spheres of influence.

Events, Media & Communications

How Has CSR Trended So Far in 2017?

Sep 5, 2017 5:25 PM ET

To date, 2017 has been a roller coaster ride for companies dedicated to commitment to corporate social responsibility. Membership data compiled this summer by CECP – the CEO Force for Good shows that despite a dip in public advocacy for progressive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues immediately following the election of President Donald Trump, the movement of “brands taking stands” has dramatically resurged.

Innovation & Technology

Collaboration on Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Sep 5, 2017 4:55 PM ET

Boeing is an industry leader in fostering sustainable aviation fuel development around the world. Biofuel represents a significant, untapped opportunity to reduce aviation emissions, meet the industry’s environmental goals and support long-term sustainable growth.

Social Impact & Volunteering

20,000+ Young People Are Leading the Way to Make Their Communities Healthier With Get HYPE Philly!

Sep 5, 2017 4:00 PM ET

Philly students go back to school – and back to Get HYPE Philly! This is the third year of our GSK IMPACT Grant with a collective of 10 nonprofits that are engaging youth as leaders in underserved Philadelphia neighborhoods to promote health through urban agriculture, healthy eating, physical activity and entrepreneurship.

Events, Media & Communications

Artists and Entertainers’ Hurricane Harvey Relief Telethon to Support Habitat for Humanity’s Recovery Efforts

Sep 5, 2017 4:00 PM ET

Habitat for Humanity’s response to Hurricane Harvey will get a boost as one of six beneficiaries of “Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Harvey Relief” telethon that will air nationally on Tuesday, Sept. 12, from 8-9 p.m. EDT. The telethon will feature some of the nation’s biggest stars coming together to raise funds for those affected by Hurricane Harvey. Funds raised for Habitat for Humanity will go directly to support the organization’s response to Harvey.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Kohler Associates Experience Water Scarcity, Explore Global WaSH Issues.

Sep 5, 2017 4:00 PM ET

Kohler associates explored solutions for UN Sustainable Development Goal #6 (access to clean water and safe sanitation) by experiencing water scarcity firsthand.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Who's Afraid of MIFID 2?: Fixing Wall Street’s Broken Plumbing

Sep 5, 2017 3:15 PM ET

The European Union (EU) has sweeping reforms of financial markets coming into force January 3, 2018. They will affect Wall Street firms in many ways, covering all transactions of EU securities wherever traded worldwide. Whether the firm is on the buy-side: portfolio managers, mutual funds, institutional investors, or on the sell-side: broker-dealers, investment advisors, researchers, consultants, MIFID II will affect business models, research, trading, reporting and order execution.

Innovation & Technology

Five Years Out: The European Space Agency’s Rosetta Spacecraft

Sep 5, 2017 2:40 PM ET

In September of 2016, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta probe successfully ended its 12-year journey with a planned landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Implementing a Successful Public-Private Partnership | Part 2: Determining When and How Long to Engage

Sep 5, 2017 2:30 PM ET

How does a company or organization develop and sustain successful public-private partnerships to achieve large-scale impact?

Determine when, and how long, to engage: Successful public-private partnership programs are strategic multi-year, multi-phased engagements, not single transactions. It’s important to provide flexibility in the level and length of engagement. But, to have large-scale impact, a core set of partners should be committed for the long-term.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Qualcomm Announces $1 Million Donation to Hurricane Harvey Relief

Sep 5, 2017 2:15 PM ET

Our thoughts are with all those who have been displaced and severely impacted due to the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Harvey, and we are strongly committed to supporting relief, response, and rebuilding efforts.

Education

Introducing the Rural Spark Project: A Chance for Rural Students to Have Bright Futures in STEM

Sep 5, 2017 2:00 PM ET

For students growing up in rural communities, access to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs can be limited. Poor retention of teachers and lack of technology are just two factors that often times leave rural schools unable to provide the same type of STEM education that students in urban or suburban districts receive. To address this issue, Astellas USA Foundation launched the Rural Spark Project through a multi-year grant with Project Lead The Way (PLTW) over the next three years.

Health & Healthcare

Gilead Implements Emergency Disaster Response Procedures to Ensure Medicine Access

Sep 5, 2017 1:40 PM ET

Education

Scotiabank Financial Knowledge: Talking with Kids about Money

Sep 5, 2017 1:35 PM ET

Scotiabank’s sponsorship of the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education’s Talk With Our Kids About Money promotes financial literacy and helped reach over half a million students in 6,000 schools across Canada over the past year.