Corporate Responsibility

BCtA Newsletter | Innovations That Improve Lives

Catch up on all of the inclusive business stories from Business Call to Action (BCtA). Learn how they are helping companies meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Philanthropy

Putting the Wheels in Motion This Holiday Season

Just in time for the holidays, more than 18 Maryland families recently were awarded an early Christmas gift. Each family was given the opportunity to purchase a badly needed car through the work of Vehicles For Change (VFC). The program awards vehicles to qualified low-income families with guaranteed low-interest loans, allowing them to build credit while completing the car ownership process.

Corporate Responsibility

Top 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss From HPE Living Progress in 2017

Corporate Responsibility

What Is Effective Leadership? 'It Comes Down to Four Things'

Pittsburgh Quarterly magazine asked five high-​profile executives, including Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Bill Demchak: What do you believe to be the most important ingredients of successful leadership? Bill's interview from the magazine is below.

Inclusion & Opportunity

De Beers Group's Esther Oberbeck Is a Woman to Watch

Esther, Head of Strategy for De Beers Group and an Executive Director of De Beers UK, is featured in the 100 Women to Watch 2017 list prepared by the Cranfield School of Management.

Education & Workforce Development

Girl Scouts Target GM’s Waste for Their Sustainability Project

GM is a believer in the circular economy where people design items so they stay in use. The company and its suppliers work often with the next generation of leaders to help them see items not as they are, but what they can become – key to ensuring sustainability remains top of mind long into the future.

Corporate Responsibility

How This Tunisian Mother Is Building Her Own Business and Creating Jobs

In 2017, at age 37, Ines Mohdhi launched her own business — a service dedicated to the cleaning and environmental management of Kairouan, Tunisia, which eventually will help to create eight permanent jobs.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

The Business of Food Security

Taking a market systems approach is one of the most promising routes to linking complex interventions and generating sustainable impact. Using this approach, we must continue the effort to make economic growth more inclusive and resilient and also to make health; nutrition; and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions more sustainable.

Corporate Responsibility

Should International Development Recruiters Act as Career Coaches?

For the past six years, I have been a recruiter for Tetra Tech International Development Services (IDS), where my primary responsibility is to find professionals who perfectly match requirements dictated by Tetra Tech’s clients. Typically, I have about 30 days to find ideal candidates; establish relationships with them; review their documents; run reference checks; and negotiate salary and benefits packages.

Inclusion & Opportunity

'It's My Aim to Make a Difference' Says De Beers Group's Trizelle Olivier

Trizelle started at Namdeb in July 2013, working as a temp receptionist. In December that same year, she became permanent as the Human Resources Business Partner.

Latest Campaigns

FedEx | Delivering for Good

Doing what we do best for those who need it most. When disaster strikes, and there’s not a moment to lose, our people mobilize the FedEx global fleet...

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...

Sustainability- Carnival Corporation's Way of Doing Business

Carnival’s approach to sustainability is a full-time commitment; it is not a cost of doing business, it is a way of doing business. We at Carnival...

Thermal & Specialized Solutions

Chemours’ Thermal & Specialized Solutions (TSS) business sits at the intersection of chemistry, physics, and design, making it a leading provider of...

Aflac Stories

Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.

Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)

The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...

Collective Action

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

Sustainable Operations

ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)

GoDaddy Empower

GoDaddy Empower is our signature social impact program, designed to help emerging entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses online.

Growth Through Sustainability

Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...