Health & Healthcare

Medtronic Delivers Significant Progress on Global Corporate Citizenship Efforts

Medtronic Citizenship 2018 Integrated Performance Report shows improvement on environmental stewardship and diversity aspirational goals

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Pro Bono as a People Strategy in Action: Prudential

A look at Prudential's approach to tying social impact into key HR goals through their range of PruBono programs. Read the full case study in Taproot Foundation's new resource for the CSR field: Pro Bono as a People Strategy.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

U.S. Foundations Are Giving More Abroad

Recently, the Council on Foundations and the Foundation Center released its five-year study, The State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations: 2011-2015, which showed that grant-making by U.S. foundations to charitable organizations outside the United States reached an all-time high in 2015 with $9.3 billion in grants compared with $2.1 billion in 2002 (an increase of over 300%). International giving represented over 27% of all grants made by U.S. foundations, and the average grant size during this period tripled from just over $200,000 to over $604,000.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Strengthening GRI’s Leadership: New Members Join GRI’s Board

The Global Reporting Initiative is welcoming three new directors to the GRI Board, reinforcing GRI’s positioning in key regions and constituencies. Ms. Bekeme Masade-Olowola, Mr. Jack Ehnes, and Dr. Jianzhong Lu, will join the GRI Board of Directors for a first 3-year term on 1 January 2019.

Research, Reports & Publications

The First State is First Again: Delaware Seeks to Lead on Corporate Responsibility

Delaware may only be 45th in population and 49th in size amongst U.S. states, but the First State is poised to become a global leader in sustainability.

Research, Reports & Publications

Shining a Light on Government Support of Emerging Industries – New Research by Former Erb Postdoc Panikos Georgallis

Emerging industries depend on government support to grow, but they may be seen as threats to an incumbent industry, and they need to prove their technical feasibility and market promise. So how do emerging industries garner government support? A group of researchers led by former Erb Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Panikos Georgallis set out to demystify the conditions under which emerging industries get government support.

Research, Reports & Publications

Leveraging Our Scale to Make a Positive Impact Where We Live and Work

Our commitment to sustainability is integrated into every aspect of our business. Our global programs and initiatives, spread across 100+ sites in 30 countries and supported by approximately 200,000 employees, exemplify our strategy from thought into action. We leverage our scope and scale to advance the broader development of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and progress our five Sustainability Cornerstones; People, Communities, Environment, Innovation, and Integrity.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CSRHub - What's Changed After Ten Years of CSR Ratings: Part One

CSRHub’s ratings incorporate the input of virtually every major source of opinion about how companies treat environment, social, and governance (ESG) issues. Our patented methodology weights and combines these opinions in a way that makes them comparable both between companies and over time.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CSRHub - What's Changed After Ten Years of CSR Ratings: Part Two

In 2008 CSRHub began measuring performance in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using ten years of history, we are now starting to answer questions such as:

Sustainable Development Goals

In the Mountains of China and Ethiopia Lies a Joint Future

On 12 October 2018, a delegation of scholars and academic leaders from Ethiopia’s Mekelle University arrived at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan Province, China.

Their visit was part of a broader effort on behalf of the Institute and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) to expand their Mountain Futures Initiative to other montane communities and research centres.

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