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Research, Reports & Publications

Leesman and Delos Launch Workplace Wellbeing Benchmark

Leesman, a global leader in assessing employee experience, and Delos, a wellness real estate and technology company, are collaborating to investigate how real estate strategy can better support wellbeing at work. With a wide variety of strategies being promoted as a secret to ‘wellness at work’, this collaboration aims to test and validate the impact of leading real estate strategies on worker wellbeing on an ongoing basis, not only when the office is new.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Nonprofit Unlocking Millions in Savings

Developed by EARN, a fintech focused on improving the financial health of working families, SaverLife helps Carolyn and thousands of others across America put a little money aside each month to prepare for life’s unexpected costs. By incentivizing people to regularly save a small amount of money, SaverLife sees people take their savings accounts from empty to a small cushion to protect them from car breakdown costs, medical expenses or overdue electricity bills.

Research, Reports & Publications

Making Sustainable Homes a Reality

Kingfisher, the home improvement company, today publishes its latest Sustainability Report to update on how it is delivering against its commitment to help customers have sustainable good homes.

Events, Media & Communications

TerraCycle, Rainforest Alliance, Coca-Cola, Lego and Nestle Inspire Transform Summit

Ethical Corporation just released the agenda for the Transform Summit – the new and improved Responsible Supply Chain Summit (Amsterdam, October 16-17, 2019). Download your newly released brochure now!

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

“Go Skateboarding Day” for Good: eBay and The Skateroom Partner on Exclusive Artist-Designed Skateboard Sale for Charity

Just in time for national Go Skateboarding Day, eBay, one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse marketplaces, and The Skateroom, an art for social impact project that supports community development programs, are partnering on an exclusive eBay for Charity sale.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement at Smithfield Foods

Human Resources team members at Smithfield Foods are focused on promoting an atmosphere of diversity, inclusion, and engagement. Smithfield’s employees come from a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences, and cultures, which makes the company stronger.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bloomberg New Economy Launches Open Call for Solutions

Today, Bloomberg New Economy launched an open call for entrepreneurs, business leaders, academics, and practitioners around the world to share their innovative solutions for a world in transition — a world in which the balance of economic power is continuing to shift from the West to fast-growing economies in Asia, Africa and emerging countries around the globe.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Ortho and Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation Team Up for National Pollinator Month to Gro More Good

To help raise awareness and community involvement in the pollinator crisis and decline, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation teamed up with its Ortho brand to educate children, families and community members about what they can do to help pollinators.

Research, Reports & Publications

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Releases 4th Annual ESG Report

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today released its annual Living Progress Report for 2018, demonstrating that leveraging technology to tackle our world’s major human and environmental challenges drives business value and can open new long-term economic opportunities.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

IOC Announces List of Refugee Athlete Scholarship-holders Aiming to Be Part of IOC Refugee Olympic Team Tokyo 2020

The current 37 Refugee Athlete Scholarship-Holders include the 10 athletes who were part of the first IOC Refugee Olympic Team Rio 2016, 13 new individual athletes, and a group of athletes preparing at the Tegla Loroupe Refugee Training Centre in Kenya. All are being assisted by Olympic Solidarity through its Refugee Athletes Support Programme.

Events, Media & Communications

Technology and the Environment With Microsoft

To meet the 1.5-Degree target and reverse environmental impacts investments in innovation and technology are required. The advancements in technology alone present themselves as a solution to the environmental issues we face. But in practice, how can technology accelerate the move to a sustainable economy and conserve the natural environment?

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Foldable Bikes Make Cycling to Work for CNH Industrial Employees in Turin Even Easier

CNH Industrial employees at its European Head Quarters in Turin Italy, had the opportunity to participate in an exciting cycling pilot project. Brompton, the UK’s largest bike manufacturer, with over 45,000 bikes sold per year, made its folding bicycles available as part of the pilot.

Responsible Production & Consumption

SDGs in Action: Companies Step Up to Minimize Single-Use Plastic

If you follow the sustainability media, you’ve likely heard a lot more about plastic straws over the past two years.

Diversity & Inclusion

Protecting and Advocating for LGBTQ Rights

In honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan - considered the tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States - each June Americans come together to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month.

Energy

National Grid's Strategy to Decarbonize the Heat Sector in New England

Director, US Strategy, for National Grid Mackay Miller presented on National Grid's strategy to decarbonize the heating sector in the Northeast at the #RaabRT event earlier this week.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Growing Organics Market Presents a Natural Investment Opportunity

As Americans become more aware of the environmental and health benefits of organics, we are presented with an increasing number of opportunities to align our investments with our lifestyle choices – by investing in the companies and agricultural operations that are driving organic innovation and bringing natural products to the marketplace.

Sustainable Development Goals

IWBI Joins the United Nations Global Compact

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) today announced that it has signed on to the United Nations Global Compact, a voluntary leadership platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible business practices.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Challenge for Business and Society

Stan Litow, the former head of corporate citizenship programs at IBM, has written a new book entitled The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Are the Keys to Supply Chain Transformation Closer Than They Appear?

For sustainability initiatives in food retail, do the largest hurdles lie in the supply chain, or within the walls of corporate headquarters? As sustainability becomes a bigger priority for food producers and retailers, more and more companies are forming sustainability teams to push toward a new food economy through supply chain transformation. After a summer working on case studies with Environmental Defense Fund’s corporate partners, I discovered that the keys to success for sustainability initiatives were not necessarily costly technologies, but rather rethinking internal strategy and organizational design.

Events, Media & Communications

Change-Makers from Across the Country Attend America's Charities Inaugural Collective Impact Conference in Washington, D.C. to Tackle Real-World Challenges via Employee Giving and Engagement

More than 100 change-makers from across the country came together in Washington, D.C. this month, for America’s Charities inaugural Collective Impact Conference, hosted by Hogan Lovells US LLP.

Environment

Bechtel-led Team Begins Destruction of Final U.S. Stockpile of Chemical Weapons

With the destruction, in a sealed chamber, of one World War II-era projectile loaded with mustard agent, a Bechtel-led team in Kentucky has begun eliminating the final stockpile of U.S. chemical munitions, bringing the nation closer to its goal of permanently eradicating the weapons.

Innovation & Technology

New Discovery Education Experience—Delivering Personalized Curated Digital Curriculum Resources, Research-Based Instructional Strategies, and Collaboration Tools—Available for Preview July 1

Beginning July 1, users of Discovery Education Streaming will have the opportunity to preview the new Discovery Education Experience, which becomes available to schools and educators nationwide at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year.

Diversity & Inclusion

Viacom Shares New Data on the Power of LGBT Representation

In recent years, characters on television and film have become more diverse, pushing the historically limited boundaries for race and sexual orientation. It’s a notable shift. It means that the world shown on-screen is starting to get closer to reflecting the realities of the world off-screen. And, according to new data from Viacom’s Global Consumer Insights, it plays an important role in shifting public perception of the LGBT community.

Health & Healthcare

Merck for Mothers Launches New All for Mothers Report: The Mom Effect

When we invest in maternal health, we ensure that hundreds of thousands of women survive pregnancy and childbirth. When that happens, newborns are more likely to survive, children are more likely to stay in school, women are able to make invaluable contributions to their communities and the workforce, health systems are stronger, and nations’ economies grow.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma Named to Advisory Committee at Tsinghua University Institute for Sustainable Development Goals

In recognizing our CEO Feike Sijbesma’s commitment to addressing sustainability and making it also a core part of DSM’s evolution journey in driving people, planet and profit; Tsinghua University in China appointed him to be part of the international advisory committee of the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University.

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