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Awards & Rankings | CSRHub

A New Data Set from Covalence Helps Monitor Corporate Norms

CSRHub has integrated Covalence's Norms-Based Exclusion Monitor into its Roadmap Report, giving investors a new tool to identify corporate norms violations across 15,000+ global companies.

Environment

Water Stewardship in the Beverage Industry: BIER’s 20-Year Foundation

Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable

Energy & Infrastructure

Comcast Beats Network Energy Efficiency Goal Five Years Early

Comcast

Environment

EPA's Superfund Cleanup Reforms: 3 Changes That Will Accelerate Timelines

Antea Group

Health & Healthcare

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

Aflac Incorporated

Corporate Responsibility

FedEx & Heart to Heart: Strengthening Disaster Response

FedEx

Corporate Responsibility

WK Kellogg Co Joins First-of-Its-Kind Good Food Coalition With Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA)

WK Kellogg Company

AI & Technology

Truist Patent Boom Fueled by AI & Machine Learning

Truist

Research & Reports

Half of Americans Have Little to No Knowledge of Grasslands, the Country’s Largest Natural Habitat

World Wildlife Fund

Featured Brands

Matching Grant Program Supports Homebuyer Education and Counseling

Wells Fargo and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines helped NeighborWorks Montana secure $685,952 through the Member Impact Fund to expand homebuyer education and counseling across Montana, supporting residents navigating housing affordability challenges. The grant builds on

Building a World-Class Employee Experience | Cisco FY25 Purpose Report

The world of work is changing faster than ever, but our greatest strength remains our Cisconians. They are the heart of our culture, the driving force behind our innovations, and a critical part of how we make a positive impact around the world.

Comcast Beats Network Energy Efficiency Goal Five Years Early

Connectivity is essential to our lives, whether it’s for work, school, or entertainment.

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.

Recent Alerts

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Cargill Invests in Food Innovation Centers to Meet Consumer Demands Now and in the Future

Cargill demonstrated an intensified commitment to innovation in food, nutrition and food safety during the final two months of 2016. The company opened two major R&D facilities in November and December—one in North America and one in China—focused on continuous improvement and investing in the future of food to meet shifting consumer expectations.

Volunteering & Community

Glendale Residents Appreciate Trash Collector

Several neighborhoods in Glendale, Missouri, are praising the man who picks up their trash.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Practitioner Spotlight--Ryan Cate

This month Antea Group spotlights environmental liability management senior PM Ryan Cate out of the Charlotte office, who tells us about himself and what he loves about his work, including his favorite project and his secret talent.

Philanthropy

Celebrating 25 years of Innovation in Vietnam

This year, Kimberly-Clark celebrates 25 years of providing the essentials for a better life to Vietnamese consumers, an important milestone in the company’s journey that first began in 1991.

Education & Workforce Development

Investing In Quality Education

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Domtar's Community Effort to Improve Energy Efficiency in Sweden

Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide variety of fiber-based products, including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers, and absorbent hygiene products.

Environment

Economic Analysis for a Healthcare Recycling Program

HPRC has put together a comprehenmsive ecnonomic analysis for a healthcare recycling program, which will walk you through a full analysis in preparation for a new program, or in evaluation of an existing program. It considers baseline waste data, plastics quantities, and start-up, capital, and disposal costs for the program.

​Simply follow the instructions and fields will calculate based on your inputs.​ This data can then be used to make the business case for recycling at your hospital, or to help understand and improve upon your current practices. p understand and improve upon your current practices.

Events

The Power of the Individual

Have you heard of Sybil?

In 1777, in the dark of night, a sixteen-year old Sybil Ludington mounted her horse, Star, and raced furiously across forty miles of rocky terrain to warn her community of an imminent threat.
It was the time of the Revolutionary War when British citizens were fighting tooth and nail for the place I now call home—the United States of America. Sybil, the age of a high schooler, travelled a distance significantly farther than that of Paul Revere to alert militia forces of the British army’s approach.

Education & Workforce Development

Shining a Light on Vital Education, with Didier Drogba

How a soccer star and a food company united to help kids in Côte d’Ivoire

Volunteering & Community

Arrow Electronics Employees Spread the Love

Two dozen employees from Arrow Electronics’ enterprise computing solutions business assembled more than 200 sack lunches last month for area homeless people who were turned away from a local housing shelter due to overcrowding.

Environment

Four Strong Winds: First US Offshore Wind Project Launches

As the public learned of the recent opening of America’s first offshore wind power project, many wondered why it took so long?

Awards & Rankings

Habitat for Humanity Names Colleen Finn Ridenhour New Senior Vice President of Development

Environment

Use Energy Efficient Compressors to Attain LEED Certification

According a U.S. Energy Information Administration report released in October, manufacturing energy consumption increased between 2010 and 2014 for the first time in almost a decade. Prior to 2014, energy consumption in manufacturing industries had been steadily decreasing since 2002. But companies still have incentive to become energy efficient. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification helps buildings keep their net environmental impact low in all phases of development, from construction to operation. Installing an Atlas Copco energy efficient compressor is just one way manufacturers can work toward achieving this status.

AI & Technology

FCA US Debuts Chrysler Portal Concept at CES 2017: Next-generation Family Transportation Designed by Millennials for Millennials

When it came to thinking about the future of family transportation, FCA US called upon the people who will own and live with such a vehicle – millennials working inside the company’s design and engineering functions – to collaborate on ideas.

Volunteering & Community

Children of Light, Children of Darkness: 2017's Protagonists

“Sometimes new truth rides into history on the back of an error."

Inclusion & Opportunity

Sodexo Participates in HACR’s Research Initiative Aimed at Measuring Hispanic Inclusion in Corporate America

Sodexo, a world leader in Quality of Life Services, today announced its participation in 2016 HACR Corporate Inclusion Index (HACR CII) survey, which released results mid-December.

Health & Healthcare

5 Tips to Make Good Nutrition a Family Affair in 2017

From starting off right to fighting a slowing metabolism, we’ve got nutrition resolutions for everyone in the family

Events

NetSuite.org Brings Together Close to 200 Leaders from Nonprofits and Social Enterprises for Social Impact Accelerated Conference

In November, close to 200 leaders from nonprofits, social enterprises, government and education gathered at the AIM Conference Center in Manila for NetSuite.org’s 2nd annual Social Impact Accelerated Conference.

AI & Technology

TECHO is Working to Eradicate Poverty in Latin America with NetSuite.org

TECHO, a youth-led non-profit organization dedicated to helping families living in slums, shares how a software donation from NetSuite.org has enabled them to manage their finances across 17 countries and focus on permanently eradicating poverty.

Philanthropy

Serving the Poor in a Transformative Way at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social service agency offering services in twenty-one counties and seven independent cities in northern and central Virginia that comprise the Diocese of Arlington.

AI & Technology

Scotiabank Investing $1 Million In Ocad’s Design Thinking Research Studio

Scotiabank is dedicating $1 million to developing a Design Thinking Research Studio at OCAD, which will allow the university to create a Design Thinking educational curriculum model and generate research, workshops, executive education, and an annual open public forum.

Research & Reports

Net Impact’s Annual Guide Reveals Latest Environmental and Social Trends in Graduate Programs

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Musings from a Rainy Monday Evening

If you need another New Year’s resolution, try this one on for size: celebrate sustainability by embracing the human experience.

Events

WEBINAR: A Year in CSR: A Look at the Top 10 Trends of 2016

As the year draws to a close, Cone Communications evaluated a years’-worth of corporate social responsibility (CSR) trends to bring you the top 10 trends of 2016. The complimentary webinar presentation will take place January 11, 2017 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST.

Health & Healthcare

Qualcomm’s Tricorder XPRIZE is Down to two Finalists

A bit of a mutual admiration society has developed between the two finalists in Qualcomm’s $10 million Tricorder XPRIZE competition. Whatever animus might have developed in the nearly half-decade since the contest was announced at CES 2012 has seemingly taken a back seat to an appreciation for what the other team has accomplished.

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Housing affordability

We drive solutions to enable people to open doors to a safe and affordable place to call home, the foundation for wellness, dignity, and economic...

Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...

Guiding Stars blog: Health & Wellness

About the Guiding Stars Health & Wellness Blog The Guiding Stars Health & Wellness blog is your place for the latest in health and nutrition news...

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

Collective Action

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

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...

Profiles of Good Character and Inspiring Innovation

There are two pillars to CACl’s culture: character – our commitment to ethics and integrity in all we do, and innovation – our dedication to...

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...