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Environment

New Digital System Gives Fairtrade Co-ops an EUDR Compliance Edge

Fairtrade America

AI & Technology

Skills-Based Volunteering for the AI Era: Inside Cisco’s First Tech for Social Good Hackathon

Cisco Systems Inc.

Environment

Fire Safety Beyond Compliance: Global Insights From Europe and India

Inogen Alliance

Environment

Why P&G, Maker of Bounty and Charmin, Hired a Forester

Procter & Gamble (P&G)

Research & Reports

Kenvue, Maker of Neutrogena®, Aveeno®, OGX®, and Zyrtec®, Beats 2025 Packaging Goal, Demonstrates Continued Progress With More Sustainable Innovation

Kenvue

Inclusion & Opportunity

Wesco Cares and WIN BRG Advance Opportunities for Women Through EmpowerHer Scholarship Program

Wesco International

Environment

Tire Industry Project Pilots How Wastewater Treatment Can Potentially Remove Tire and Road Wear Particles

Tire Industry Project

Health & Healthcare

Direct Relief Sending Over a Quarter Million Pieces of Protective Gear to DRC To Fight Ebola

Direct Relief

Featured Brands

Guiding Stars: Men, Time to Meat Halfway?

Meat-eating has been connected with masculinity for a long time in Western countries. There are even studies on what drives the meat-masculinity link.

Home Field Advantage: Seizing Philadelphia’s Greatest Moments

Philadelphia holds a unique place in the American story. It is the city where the nation’s founding ideals were debated, defined, and declared—a place where history continues to inspire the future. And for those of us at Comcast, it’s more than a historic place. It’s home.

Check for Cancer Champion Brian Ryll Is a Fighter for Those Who Fight Fires

Firefighters accept extraordinary risk in the line of duty. But for Brian Ryll, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire, the most insidious threat is the one that often goes unseen: cancer.

FedEx & Heart to Heart: Strengthening Disaster Response

When we think of disaster relief, we often picture the immediate aftermath: delivering critical supplies and life-saving aid to affected communities. However, at FedEx, our Delivering for Good initiative goes far beyond responding after a crisis strikes.

Truist Patent Boom Fueled by AI & Machine Learning

Truist is accelerating how innovation is developed and deployed across the organization. More teammates are submitting ideas, which helped drive a 63% increase in patent application filings over the past year.

Skills-Based Volunteering for the AI Era: Inside Cisco’s First Tech for Social Good Hackathon

Many nonprofits know they need to embrace AI, and most are already feeling the pressure to move faster than their resources allow. AI is advancing at a speed that’s hard for them to keep pace with, let alone adopt responsibly.

Catherine Bessant Joins Truist Board of Directors

Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) announced that its board appointed Catherine Bessant to join as a director. Bessant will serve on the board's risk committee.

LG Brings User-Friendly Design to the Laundry Room With ‘LG Comfort Kit’

Furthering its vision of a more inclusive home, LG Electronics USA has introduced the “LG Comfort Kit” for its U.S. laundry appliance lineup, making its inclusive “Design for All” philosophy a reality in one of the most essential rooms in the house.

3M Innovates To Help the Automotive Industry Navigate What’s Ahead

The automotive industry is under pressure from every direction. Electrification, software-defined vehicle architecture, lightweighting, manufacturing transformation, repair and recycling are not isolated challenges.

Guiding Stars: Dairy & Live & Active Cultures in a Balanced Diet

Have chronic congestion? “Stop consuming dairy.” Unrelenting belly problems? “Mmmm, could be cow’s milk.” Have you let this thinking guide your decision to avoid dairy? If so, you may lose out on essential macro and micronutrients.

Recent Alerts

Corporate Responsibility

'Navabharat' Honors Amway India for CSR Initiatives

Amway India recently received the CSR Leadership Summit & Award at a ceremony hosted by Navabharat, one of the country’s leading Hindi daily publications. The award highlighted the service Amway India has implemented in the category of “Promoting Employment for Specially Abled.”

AI & Technology

Unreasonable Impact | This Company’s Unique Technology Will Help Millions Make Safer Food Choices

Vitargent believes that every person should have the information they need to make informed decisions about the products they purchase and consume. Their technology is not only enabling more widespread access to information, but it’s also pioneering the field of safety testing technology using medaka and zebrafish embryos – making animal testing a thing of the past.

AI & Technology

PT Freeport Indonesia, a Freeport-McMoRan Company, Completes Construction of Papua Airstrip

PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) invests in the future of the local community where it operates. From 1996 to 2016, the Freeport Partnership Fund for Community Development has invested more than $680 million in the local community. PTFI invests in infrastructure such as roads, a port, an airport, electrification and communications systems, schools, hospitals and community facilities.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Logo’s Trailblazer Honorees “Stood On the Shoulders of Giants” to Become Pioneers of Change for This Generation

Throughout history, art has defended the human spirit. Especially in times of political crisis, art and activism become inextricably related. This was clear after attending Logo’s Trailblazer Honors, which celebrates the work of honorees who have made indelible contributions to LGBT civil rights—through writing, dancing, singing and producing.

Philanthropy

How Funders Can Support Immigrant Communities in Today’s Environment

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Nestlé Waters North America Announces Completion of a $79 Million, Two-Year Expansion of its Lehigh Valley Bottling Facility

Nestlé Waters is also focused on being a good community partner for the long term. In 2016 alone, the company sponsored or hosted water education programs for some 3,000 local students, supported non-profits and community organizations in our spring communities with more than $100,000 in charitable contributions, and donated some 140,000 bottles of water to valuable local partners such as the Allentown Health Bureau’s Fruit & Veggies On The Move Program and the Allentown Rescue Mission.

Volunteering & Community

Whole Foods Market Lives Its Core Values, Increases Employee Engagement Through Global Volunteer Program

In 2010 I had the opportunity to travel to Guatemala for 30 days as part of Whole Foods Market’s Team Member Volunteer Program near Lake Atitlan, one of the most beautiful yet poorest regions of the country. Whole Foods Market launched its volunteer program in 2007 to give employees (called Team Members) the opportunity to witness the transformative power of microcredit in person and to volunteer alongside the community where Whole Foods Market sources products.

Energy & Infrastructure

Using Technology to Power a Sustainable Built Environment

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Walking the Tight Rope

Non-profits often don’t have processes for inquiring about the risks they face, prioritizing those risks, and how to responding to them. For most, risk management begins and ends with insurance, their only safety net.

Volunteering & Community

Xylem Watermark Water Challenge Field Testing

Xylem employees inspire students about science, the environment and water with practical, hands-on field experience.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Arrow Electronics’ Interns Build 32 Wheelchairs for Veterans

The Arrow Electronics summer intern class teamed together last month to build 32 wheelchairs for military veterans in need. The Build-a-Wheelchair® corporate social responsibility team-building event was a part of Arrow’s annual Intern Kickoff event.

Energy & Infrastructure

Living Shoreline Demonstration Project | Restoring and Preserving the Louisiana Coastline

The Louisiana coastline loses an average of more than 16 square miles of wetlands per year according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana (CPRA) is the single state entity with authority to develop, articulate, implement, and enforce a comprehensive coastal restoration and protection master plan to reduce hurricane storm surge flood impact, restore Louisiana’s bountiful natural resources, build land to protect critical energy infrastructure, and secure Louisiana’s coast now and for future generations.

AI & Technology

Going Cashless: The Fast Lane to Payments

Inclusion & Opportunity

How Olympic Gold Medalist Natalie Spooner is Inspiring the Next Generation of Girls

As a young girl growing up playing hockey, Natalie Spooner felt she didn’t have much to aspire to within the sport of hockey. Now an Olympic gold medalist and Canadian Women’s Hockey League All-Star, she’s inspiring the next generation of girls through initiatives like Project North and Scotiabank Girls HockeyFest.

Corporate Responsibility

Republic Services Honors Veterans at 'Follow the Flag' Event in Utah's Grove Creek Canyon

Republic Services Salt Lake division proudly sponsored the annual Follow the Flag ceremonial event, established to honor Veteran’s with a large American flag hung between two canyon walls across a 600-foot-wide crevice in Grove Creek Canyon, in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Republic Services provided thousands of attendees with water bottles, sunglasses, and recycling education materials. Republic also provided recycling bins throughout the event, supporting our customers at the city and the Pleasant Grove Parks and Rec recycling efforts for the ceremony.

Research & Reports

Taproot Foundation & BMW Foundation Release 2017 Global Pro Bono Summit Recap

Philanthropy

Carnival Cruise Line Thanks The Troops With The World's First Social Media Powered Barbecue At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar In San Diego

Volunteering & Community

Astellas Employees Support Veterans at 2017 Warrior Games

Events

Mike Bloomberg Announces $200 Million American Cities Initiative at the U.S. Conference of Mayors

“Thank you Manny, and good afternoon, everyone! We’re lucky to have Manny as a Board Member at Bloomberg Philanthropies, and I want to thank him and Miami Beach Mayor Phil Levine for welcoming us here.

Events

Living Future unConference Call for Proposals

The International Living Future Institute is excited to announce the Call for Proposals for the upcoming Living Future unConference in Portland, Oregon on May 1-4, 2018. At the 12th annual unConference, ILFI invites you to lead us in the exploration of AUTHENTICITY and inspire and equip us to take ACTION that echoes our truth.

Philanthropy

First Costa Group Volunteer on Board the Africa Mercy

Energy & Infrastructure

Chicago Named Nation’s Greenest City in CBRE Study

After placing second last year, the Chicago market claimed the top spot with 66% of its space qualified as green certified according to the fourth annual Green Building Adoption Index study by CBRE and Maastricht University. San Francisco slipped to second, while Atlanta, Houston and Minneapolis again claimed spots in the top 5 in the 2017 report.

Corporate Responsibility

Agile Organizations: The Balance of Speed and Stability

Philanthropy

Drew Finally Triumphs Over Jonathan in HGTV's ‘Brother vs. Brother: Jonathan vs. Drew’

Drew and Jonathan Scott collected the highest total profit in Brother vs. Brother history with an impressive $160,500. The proceeds from the sales will benefit projects in both Galveston and Houston via Rebuilding Together—a national U.S. nonprofit organization that preserves affordable homeownership and helps to revitalize neighborhoods by providing free home repairs and modifications to homeowners in need.

Corporate Responsibility

GRI Rises To Sustainability Standards Challenge

Timothy J. Mohin is the Chief Executive of GRI, developer of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting standards. A veteran in the field of corporate sustainability reporting, he is now steering GRI to lead the evolution of sustainability reporting. Here's how he will do this.

Latest Campaigns

Guiding Stars blog: Health & Wellness

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Cascale Events

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Profiles of Good Character and Inspiring Innovation

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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...

Health and Safety by Antea Group

Antea Group's health and safety consultants understand what it takes to help make a positive impact on safety culture. Read blogs, insights, and more...

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...

Corporate Social Responsibility Reports and Updates

At T. Rowe Price, living our values means always putting our clients first; fostering a collaborative, respectful, and inclusive work culture for all...

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...

Advocacy

Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...

Innovation at Truist

Designed at the intersection of technology and human touch, Truist creates innovative client experiences that build trusted relationships and help...