Direct Relief today formally accepted the 2025 Seoul Peace Prize, one of the world’s most distinguished honors for humanitarian achievement, in recognition of the organization’s unwavering commitment to aiding people affected by poverty, disasters, and conflict.
Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company committed to improving Quality of Life, announced today that it has been named to Women’s Business Enterprise National Council's (WBENC) 19th annual list of America’s Top Corporations for Women’s Business Enterprises (WBEs). This is the only national award honoring corporations for world-class supplier diversity programs that reduce barriers and drive growth for women-owned businesses.
Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company committed to Quality of Life, announced today that the company has been named one of the 2019 NAFE Top Companies for Executive Women by the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE). This list, by NAFE and Working Mother, recognizes organizations where there is a strong focus on best practices that demonstrate effectiveness in moving women to senior ranks, including mentoring, sponsorship, involvement in employee-resource groups and leadership-development training. The list also highlights company benefits, including flexibility, corporate culture and CEO involvement in advancing women.
As widely reported, before John Dingell, the longest serving member of Congress, passed away recently, he shared some thoughts in his final statement to America.
As part of a coalition exploring a way to transform travel, Black & Veatch embraced the challenge to assess the viability of something seemingly ripped from a sci-fi novel: Zipping people and cargo at hundreds of miles an hour across Missouri – in pods, through a tube. Black & Veatch spent months on that feasibility study – the first examining a “hyperloop” system in the U.S.
CLP Holdings Limited (CLP) has again demonstrated its lead in sustainability management and reporting after winning top honours at the BDO ESG Awards in Hong Kong.
The awards, which recognise Hong Kong-listed companies for positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact, attracted entries from more than 60 businesses. CLP topped Hong Kong’s large-cap companies by sweeping the ESG Report of the Year, Best in ESG and Best in Reporting awards in the Large Market Capitalisation category. The contest was organised by BDO, one of the world’s largest accountancy networks, and co-organised by South China Morning Post.
On 14 March, join the UN Global Compact, UN Women and the UN Office for Partnerships at the UN Headquarters in New York for the 2019 Women’s Empowerment Principles Forum. The WEPs Forum aims to accelerate the pace of progress on gender equality and inspire responsible businesses everywhere to empower women.
Melody Birmingham-Byrd was 22 when she vaulted into management, taking a job as a front-line supervisor at a General Motors plant in Rochester, N.Y. She oversaw members of the United Automobile Workers whose backgrounds were about as different from hers as they could possibly be – most were male, white, older and experienced.But Birmingham-Byrd was determined to do right by her team, to provide the type of supportive, positive leadership she felt her parents never got in their assembly line jobs.
Meet the winners of The 2019 Corporate Goodness Awards! “The Goodies” were presented last night at Benevity's Annual Goodness Matters client conference to recognize progressive companies who are leading the social impact space with innovative, inclusive approaches to community investment and employee engagement in giving, volunteering, activism and positive actions.
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) has been recognized as one of the 2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. This is the sixth year in a row CBRE has achieved this recognition.
With CSR practices growing in popularity, businesses are finding innovative methods to make their programs stand out from the crowd and maximize impact. If you're looking to revamp your employee volunteer program in 2019, get inspired with these 15 exceptional examples.
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