Amanda MacArthur, Vice President of Global Pro Bono and Engagement, PYXERA Global, spoke on the "Competitors or Contributors: How a Scaled-Up PeaceTech Industry Helps Fortune 500s” panel at PeaceTech Summit 2016 Thursday February 4.
“In any partnership the end goals do not need to be the same, but they cannot be mutually exclusive either,” said MacArthur. “Finding overlap in goals will uncover the mutual benefit, the motivation to partner, and the perspective to understand one another.”
A growing number of companies around the world are aiming to get the most out of their capital, maximize employee performance, and make a judicious use of resources to make the world a better place.
FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) today unveiled its new global giving platform, FedEx Cares. The company will invest $200 million in more than 200 communities by 2020 to create opportunities and deliver positive change around the world.
Each year, the importance of employee volunteering rises to the surface as an area of growing importance. But the anecdotal stories and real life case studies haven’t changed that much.
Diageo, a global leader in beverage alcohol, announced that its Miami office has been awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The Miami location is Diageo’s fifth building in North America to receive LEED certification, joining the company’s Chicago, New York and Norwalk offices, and a facility in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The LEED rating system, developed by the USGBC, is the foremost program for buildings, homes and communities that are designed, constructed, maintained and operated for improved environmental and human health performance.
During Pro Bono Week 2015, our team hosted a pop-up discussion with about 40 folks from both for-profit and nonprofit organizations in order to begin addressing what engaging ‘tech talent’ really means for the nonprofit sector.
“Never before has the world had a document that so eloquently unites ethics and environmental stewardship. That is why Laudato Si was the most significant environmental event of 2015.”
What accounts for the difference between companies that can hit the ball out of the park and those that are merely staying in the game? According to Swiss research and consulting firm Egon Zehnder a handful of companies enjoy superior growth and profitability because they maintain a high performance culture that drives vision, purpose, action and results.
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