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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Stakeholder to Shareholder Alchemy: What CSR Can Do for Corporate Reputations OR How CSR Integrates with Brand Strategy

A lot of people see CSR – rightfully- as giving back. My own thoughts are not far from this tangent. Fruits of labor are all about reaping what you sow – and with CSR, the harvest is turning out to be plentiful. In this post, I explore the exciting potential that CSR has begun to demonstrate in terms of sound brand strategy.

Health & Healthcare

Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference to Your Heart Health

February is American Heart Month, a great time to commit to a healthy lifestyle by making small changes and incorporating more heart-healthy behaviors that can lead to better heart health. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in America.

Diversity & Inclusion

Practitioner Spotlight--Pamela Gordon

Let's take a look at some of Antea Group's most valuable resources--its people! Next up is sustainability and operational performance and assurance senior consultant Pamela Gordon, who talks to us about her favorite projects, what she loves about her work, and where she'd go on a dream vacation.

Education

Imagination Foundation Launches 2016 Inventor’s Challenge in Collaboration With AT&T Aspire

Today, AT&T* and the Imagination Foundation are launching The Inventor’s Challenge. The Inventor’s Challenge is an opportunity for pre-K through high school children to create novel, imaginative and possibly viable solutions to all sorts of problems. A common factor in the creations will be the integration of science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM). The Inventor’s Challenge engages children in STEAM tools and materials, alongside critical 21st century skills.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

JetBlue Celebrates Black History Month – Inspiring the Next Generation of Aviators

Aviation is not often a career choice for students of color. When thinking of pilots of color, the illustrious Tuskegee Airmen come to mind.

Social Impact & Volunteering

What the Rise of Skills-Based Volunteering Means for Nonprofits

Over the past ten years, the private sector has vastly increased their investment in communities. In 2015, 75% of companies were engaged in corporate citizenship activities.

Research, Reports & Publications

Integrated Performance Report Reflects Significant Ways Medtronic Creates Value to Society

At Medtronic, our Mission compels us to play a leadership role in solving global healthcare challenges. Our thoughtful approach to therapy innovation, globalization, and economic value – combined with smart financial management and good corporate citizenship – creates value to society in significant ways.

In particular, we create value by increasing access to care, advancing patient safety, maintaining financial strength, and investing in our communities. Our performance related to these issues is detailed in the Company’s FY2015 Integrated Performance Report, “Further, Together.”

Health & Healthcare

Nils’ Story: A Passion for Discovery and Changing the Way Cancer is Treated

Discovery is in Nils’ DNA. His fascination with chemistry labs began as child, when he tagged along with his father, who was a graduate student at the University of California.

Environment

The Big Picture of Oil and Our Troubles by Leif Wenar

Introduction to Leif Wenar's speech (January 27th) based on his book, Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World. He sees a great opportunity for America, now, to stop buying stolen oil and other natural resources. We can lead the world by putting an end to the bad, old rule 'might makes right' in terms of oil and natural resources. All quite doable and with so many of the countries in the "Arc of Oil" in chaos and increasingly controlled by terrorists now is the time to act on principle, practice what we preach, and stop buying stolen oil. He makes a strong, inspirational argument for changing old, dysfunctional rules and living by our principles when it comes to oil and other natural resources.

Education

Leading School Districts Collaborate on Sustainability

School systems are an important part of the larger global effort to improve the environment and mitigate the threat of climate change.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Cerro Verde, a Freeport-McMoRan Company, Wins Award for Cultural Contributions to Peru

Cerro Verde recently received the Luis Hochschild Plaut award at the 53rd Annual Conference of Executives for the promotion of Peruvian art and culture.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Evolving Philanthropy Industry

Since the crises of 2008, the global financial system has shaken many societies, causing job losses, homelessness, sluggish economies, overhangs of unrepayable debt with central banks trying stimulative exercises to substitute for failing fiscal policies and political will.

Diversity & Inclusion

Deloitte Collaborates With Executives' Club of Chicago on Diversity Initiatives

The Executives’ Club of Chicago (EC) is pleased to announce their new relationship with Deloitte, which works to expand diversity and inclusion awareness, best practices and thought leadership for Chicago’s business community through its newly formed Diversity Leadership Council and program series.

Innovation & Technology

David L. Cohen: The Cruel Irony of the 'Digital Divide' and how it's Hurting Philadelphia

For more than a decade, there has been a national debate about how to close the digital divide: the gap between those who are connected to high-speed Internet at home and those who are not. The issue not only has a profound impact on individual families, but also on our region's business owners, economy builders, and employers.

Events, Media & Communications

WEBCAST: Conserving Fluids in Fluid Management: Fresh Water Reduction Improvement in Guilin, China

Join Ingersoll Rand on Thursday, Feb. 25 from 9-10 a.m. ET to learn about the work underway at the company’s Guilin, China facility to reduce fresh water consumption in a water-stressed area. Free webinar.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Retirement Scheme For Colombian Coffee Farmers Ensures Welfare of Elderly

Jose Arias González, a coffee farmer from Colombia, describes how the industry’s first retirement savings scheme is providing a financial safety net and attracting the next generation back into farming

Environment

Witness Change with Robin Hammond

In Robin Hammond’s hands, photographs become a mechanism of social justice. Hammond is a New Zealand-born photographer who travels around the world documenting the human face of inequity.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Republic Earns High Marks on Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) earned a score of 80 out of 100 on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) workplace equality. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation administers the annual scorecard. This was the first year Republic participated with the Corporate Equality Index.

Research, Reports & Publications

Maersk Group Sustainability Report 2015 Released

Activities in 2015 resulted in continued progress towards unlocking growth for the Maersk Group and for society as well as integrating sustainability in our operations, mitigating risks and improving performance levels.

Health & Healthcare

La Fundación para las Enfermedades Cardíacas y los Accidentes Cerebrovasculares y Goldcorp Acercan los Programas que Salvan Vidas a las Comunidades Remotas

Goldcorp continúa apoyando los esfuerzos de la Fundación para las Enfermedades Cardíacas y los Accidentes Cerebrovasculares (HSF, por su sigla en inglés) para promover la concientización, la prevención y el tratamiento de los accidentes cerebrovasculares en las comunidades que se encuentran en los alrededores de las minas Red Lake, Porcupine y Musselwhite en Ontario, y Éléonore en Quebec. En 2014, Goldcorp donó $ 605,000 en favor de los programas que apoyan la atención regional vital y la formación de profesionales de la salud.

Health & Healthcare

La Fondation des maladies du cœur et de l’AVC et Goldcorp amènent à des communautés isolées des programmes pour sauver des vies

Goldcorp continue de soutenir les efforts de la Fondation des maladies du cœur et de l’AVC pour promouvoir la sensibilisation à l’AVC, et la prévention et le traitement de l’AVC dans les communautés entourant les mines Red Lake, Porcupine et Musselwhite en Ontario, et la mine Éléonore au Québec. En 2014, Goldcorp s’est engagé à verser 605 000 $ pour des programmes de soins vitaux dans la région et la formation professionnelle de la santé.

Health & Healthcare

Heart & Stroke Foundation and Goldcorp Bring Life-saving Programs to Remote Communities

Goldcorp continues to support efforts by the Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF) to promote stroke awareness, prevention and treatment in communities surrounding the company’s Red Lake, Porcupine and Musselwhite mines in Ontario and Éléonore mine in Quebec. In 2014 Goldcorp pledged $605,000 towards programs that support vital regional care and health professional training.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Loophole In Tariff Act Closed: Will Evolving Regulations In Modern Day Slavery Affect Your Company?

“If we know cocoa is being produced on plantations in West Africa using slave labor and then being imported into the US, we still have to allow it in because the US cannot produce enough cocoa to meet the US demand.”

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