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Infographic: 2026 Grant impact at a glance: Strengthening communities globally.

Education & Workforce Development | Motorola Solutions

Supporting Today’s Heroes and Tomorrow’s Innovators

Behind every siren is a first responder facing the emotional toll of protecting their community. In classrooms worldwide, students are facing a different hurdle: a lack of the technology and mentorship required to succeed. These disparate challenges share a common solution.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Cascale Explores Sustainable Finance Enablers at Climate Bonds Initiative Connect Hong Kong

Cascale

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Strong by Form Closes €5.8M To Make Wood as Strong as Steel and Concrete

Ray C. Anderson Foundation

Education & Workforce Development

Entergy, Ampirical Invest $1.5M in LSU New Orleans Energy Lab

Entergy Corporation

Volunteering & Community

From Lumber to Lifelines: Aflac Employees Help Ensure No Child Sleeps on the Floor

Aflac Incorporated

Awards & Rankings

Industry Safety Organizations Recognize Georgia-Pacific for Excellence and Innovation

Georgia-Pacific Corporation

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Biopharma Circular Systems Will Move Beyond Park Benches

MilliporeSigma

Health & Healthcare

Guiding Stars: The Most Underrated & Simple Balanced Meal? A Sandwich

Guiding Stars Licensing Company LLC

AI & Technology

You Don’t Need $1,000 to Start a Business. You Might Not Even Need $100.

GoDaddy

Featured Brands

FedEx & OAA: Strengthening Disaster Readiness in the Caribbean

When natural disasters strike, airports and seaports become lifelines for delivering urgent medical care, food, and relief supplies to impacted communities.

Comcast Announces 2026 Impact Report

Our 2026 Impact Report highlights how we’re investing in our country, communities, employees, and environment through partnerships, programs, and innovations that create meaningful, long-term impact.

AI for Restaurants: Making AI Tools and Digital Strategies a Recipe for Growth

When Patrick Cheng decided to acquire a run-down Chinese restaurant in Dunwoody, Georgia, in 2020, he was at a professional crossroads.

Kimberly-Clark Professional Expands Thrive Program To Divert More Waste From Landfills

Kimberly-Clark Professional expands Thrive sustainability program, giving facility operators more ways to divert commercial product and dispenser-related waste and make measurable progress toward sustainability goals

Guiding Stars: Cooking With Limited Equipment

There are many reasons why you may need to cook with limited equipment or without a full kitchen. Maybe you have a very small space, or it doesn’t make sense to heat up a large oven.

From Lumber to Lifelines: Aflac Employees Help Ensure No Child Sleeps on the Floor

On a Friday afternoon, when many people were looking ahead to weekend plans, 31 Aflac employees gathered in a Columbus, Georgia, warehouse with a different purpose in mind.

Guiding Stars: The Most Underrated & Simple Balanced Meal? A Sandwich

It’s time to stop sleeping on sandwiches—these lunchtime staples have a lot going for them. You have to appreciate the efficiency of packing all the food groups between two slices of bread.

Boutique Optician Uses AI To Save Time and Keep Clients Coming Back

Destynee Turner became an optician because she loves helping people see. But growing The Optical Experience, her boutique optical shop in West Palm Beach, Florida, demanded business skills no opticianry program taught her.

AI for Small Business: How Mannequin Madness Found a New Partner in AI

Judi Henderson has “always been curious about the next, newest thing.” That’s how she found herself buying a single mannequin in 1999 for an art project—and ended up an entrepreneur.

Guiding Stars: An Easy Protein for Low-Effort Meals: Tinned Fish

The American Heart Association recommends consuming fish at least twice per week to lower risk of heart disease. Tinned fish can help you meet this goal. It’s a shelf-stable, cost-effective protein that makes quick meals more accessible.

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AI & Technology

Private Sector Harnessing Power of Digital Innovation to Overcome Development Challenges and Improve Lives

Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet-of-Things are completely revolutionizing the way we work, learn and live. Advances in technology are saving lives, overcoming infrastructure challenges, and bringing goods and services to communities formerly cut off, whether through physical or economic isolation.

Philanthropy

Symantec Expands Software Donation Partnership with TechSoup

In our increasingly digital world, nonprofit employees and volunteers typically handle sensitive data on a daily basis, and data security is a top concern. With limited budgets, nonprofit and charitable organizations often lack the resources needed to invest in quality data protection. For the past 16 years, Symantec and TechSoup have worked together to provide nonprofits with affordable access to much-needed security software.

Product donation is our largest mechanism to support the nonprofit community and we offer both Norton and Symantec Enterprise products, including Norton Small Business and Symantec Endpoint Protection, to TechSoup free of charge.

Education & Workforce Development

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Unlock the Power of Testimony-Based Learning to Inspire Students, Educators, and Communities Nationwide

In an effort to spark a social movement against hatred in all forms, and to commemorate the 25th anniversary and re-release of Schindler’s List, USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, have partnered to create Teaching with Testimony – a new educational program that unlocks the powerful classroom potential of testimony. Drawing upon USC Shoah Foundation's vast library of audiovisual testimony from survivors and witnesses of genocide, Teaching with Testimony empowers students to find their voices and take action for a better future.

Volunteering & Community

What Is Skills-Based Volunteering?

Skills-based volunteering is one of those loosely defined areas of our practice that can sometimes confuse people. I have spoken to several practitioners about their definition of skills-based volunteering and the answers are all over the map. It made me think that if we’re going to advance this practice, we’d better agree on some basics.

Health & Healthcare

Helping Kids Cope with Cancer: Tough Questions Interviews Dan Amos, CEO of Aflac

“I think I always thought I might be in the insurance business,” said Dan Amos, CEO of Aflac. “My family had been in it and it was just something I thought I might like.”

Working at Aflac since he was 14 years old, Amos and his company have been named a World’s Most Ethical Company by the Ethisphere Institute for 12 straight years. Dan, himself has been named by Harvard Business Review as one of the 100 Best Performing CEOs in the World for four consecutive years. So we sent Chloe, an 11-year-old pediatric cancer survivor, and a national ambassador for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® to interview Amos for a new video series, Tough Questions.

Environment

Timberland Makes New Commitment to Green 500,000 Square Feet of Urban Space in U.S. Cities Over Next Five Years

Over the next five years, Timberland has pledged to create or restore at least 500,000 square feet of green space in cities across the U.S. – equivalent to 11 acres and nearly four times the amount of urban space greened through its most recent effort.

Events

All the Ways to Follow Us at the BSR Conference 2018

Whether you’re joining us in New York or online, you can be part of the BSR Conference 2018 action. Here's how.

Events

Robbie Lock Named Executive Director, 3BL Association

3BL Media, the world’s leading communications partner for purpose-driven organizations, has appointed Robbie Lock as executive director of the 3BL Association. Formerly the Corporate Responsibility (CR) Association, the 3BL Association builds peer-to-peer collaboration to support and elevate corporate responsibility and sustainability leadership, through professional development and sharing best practices.

Philanthropy

Amgen Foundation Deepens Commitment To Aspiring Scientists Worldwide By Expanding Amgen Scholars Program

The Amgen Foundation today announced the expansion of the Amgen Scholars Program, a hands-on research program that allows undergraduates to spend a summer at one of many of the world’s premier research institutions. The new four-year, $21 million commitment brings the program to a total of 24 elite institutions across the U.S., Europe, Asia and, for the first time, Australia and Canada. Over the next four years an additional 1,500 undergraduates from hundreds of colleges and universities will have the chance to engage in research opportunities in biomedical and biotechnology fields.

AI & Technology

The Top 3 Ways Mobile Phones Can Help Disaster Victims

Globally, disasters and humanitarian crises are on the rise. In the last 10 years, disasters have caused US$1.4 trillion in damage and affected 1.7 billion people. In the last two months alone, the United States has been hit by Hurricanes Michael and Florence, and Indonesia has been devastated by earthquakes and tsunamis.

Volunteering & Community

Unlocking Possibilities Through Pro Bono Digital Transformation

Technology has the power to unlock amazing new possibilities for our customers and the world. Through pro bono service learning, we translate the incredible potential of digital transformation from the corporate sector to our communities. Recently, I was fortunate to see this potential unfold—and watch a community transform.

Education & Workforce Development

Curiosity Cube Visits Bruce School

The Curiosity Cube™ mobile science lab recently visited Alexander B. Bruce School in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Philanthropy

Wells Fargo Deploys Mobile Response Unit to Panhandle to Help Customers Impacted by Hurricane Michael

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced it has deployed its Mobile Response Unit to provide housing recovery assistance as well as help for auto, credit card, personal lines/loan, student loan and small business loan customers in the Panhandle and surrounding areas impacted by Hurricane Michael.

Corporate Responsibility

Quick Consult: Innovative Tactics to Drive Employee Recruitment

You’ve built a great pro bono program and you have a group of motivated nonprofit partners eager to get started, but you’re struggling to get the right employees signed up. Does this sound familiar? Taproot has seen this time and time again and wanted to share a few tactics that we’ve seen be successful.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Comcast NBCUniversal Expands Military Hiring Goal to 21,000 by 2021

In recognition of the start of Veterans and Military Families Month, Comcast NBCUniversal announced it will hire an additional 11,000 veterans, military spouses, and National Guard and Reserve members, bringing its total to 21,000 military hires by the end of 2021.

Comcast’s previous commitment, made in 2015, was to hire 10,000 military community members by the end of 2017, which it exceeded.

Corporate Responsibility

Reshape Tomorrow: More Opportunity for More People

When small businesses are unable to access capital, great opportunities go unrealized. It’s a loss for financial providers and for the business owners seeking to provide for themselves and their communities.

Education & Workforce Development

The Future of Education Is More About Learning, Less About Teaching

Environment

Republic Services CEO Says Recycling Has Become a 'Broken' System

CNBC's Jane Wells reports from a Republic Services facility on the "broken" recycling business as the commodity value of recyclables drop.

Events

Aflac Delivers 1st My Special Aflac Ducks to the Aflac Cancer Center

After more than 18 months of research, testing and development, Aflac delivered the very first My Special Aflac Ducks™ to the Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center in Atlanta.

Volunteering & Community

Kite Employees Assemble Care Packages for Families Affected by Cancer

Last week, our Kite employees volunteered at Family Reach, assembling 400 care packages for families affected by cancer.

Corporate Responsibility

The State – and Future – of Sustainable Business

The past 10 years have seen incredible progress in sustainable business. There are global multi-stakeholder commitments on climate action and the SDGs, collaborations driving systemic change across value chains, and tremendous improvements in corporate and investor practices toward a more sustainable world.

Energy & Infrastructure

#PoweringJobs: Elevating Energy Access Skills

It’s estimated that scaling off-grid renewables can create 4.5 million jobs by 2030. But of the 10.3 million renewable energy jobs in the world today, just 76,000 are in Africa. In other words, less than 1% of the jobs worldwide are in the region that most urgently needs them. The same trend holds true for energy-poor communities in Asia and elsewhere.

That is why Schneider Electric is supporting the launch of the #PoweringJobs campaign, a global effort to ensure the creation of an energy access workforce.

Philanthropy

Scotiabank and Concacaf Launch Youth Football Programme

AI & Technology

7 Tips for Safe Use of Compressed Air

Compressed air is an increasingly common utility in workspaces around the world from factories to construction sites. Although it may seem easy to operate, compressed air can become dangerous if used incorrectly. Here’s what you need to know when it comes to safe operation.

Philanthropy

Xylem Donations Make Completion of New Prep School Possible After Devastation from Hurricane Harvey

Xylem colleagues toured one of YES Prep Schools facilities in Houston, TX last week in celebration of the completion of a new school building. Xylem Watermark donated to YES Prep to support building classrooms in response to the devastation from Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Xylem also participated in water monitoring educational events at the time, adding to its efforts to solve water and educate youth about water issues. YES Prep School is committed to providing students in underserved communities access to superior educational opportunities, and Xylem is proud to support this effort.

Latest Campaigns

AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism

AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...

Kingfisher Around the World

The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...

Cascale Events

Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...

Drive for MPC

At Marathon Petroleum, our professional truck drivers share one common vision: no accidents, no injuries, and no harm to the environment. We’re proud...

FedEx Cares | Overall

FedEx Cares is our global community engagement program and one way that we live out our purpose of connecting people and possibilities. Our goal is to...

GoDaddy | Customers

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, helps millions of entrepreneurs globally start, grow, and scale their businesses. People come to...

P&G | Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Responsibility: We’ve achieved 14 out of 16 of the environmental goals we set in 2010, and we will accelerate our progress as we work to...

SCS Consulting

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Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

Carbon Footprint

We are accelerating our efforts to help build a low-carbon economy and avert the worst impacts of climate change. Our goal to reduce our GHG emissions...