Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Lessons from Collaboration: How One Nonprofit Scaled Up Nutrition Education

The collaboration between the Walmart Foundation and the nonprofit organization FoodCorps illustrates how companies can lend both their financial firepower and their expertise to help nonprofits scale up their missions.

Philanthropy

Aligning Resources for Good: Incorporating SRI Into a Philanthropic Framework

As interest in SRI investing continues to grow in the philanthropic sector, we’ve given much thought to how a foundation can apply the Framework to strategies that use all of its capital in order to create positive impact. Each of the three Framework elements can help define an SRI investing strategy. Read about the 3 Core Elements of the Framework in the article

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Capacities Foundations Need to Embark on Place-Based Impact Investing

In 2015, The Kresge Foundation committed to deploy by 2020 a $350 million pool of social investments (loans, guarantees and equity) to strengthen opportunities for low-income people in America’s cities.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

BNY Mellon Debuts Service to Evaluate Environmental, Social and Governance Factors in Investment Performance

BNY Mellon today announced the launch of a range of reporting tools that will enable clients to track their portfolio investments based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) principles. The new reports are being introduced at a time when an increasing number of institutional investors are exploring how ESG and other types of sustainability data can help them fine-tune their risk management practices and investment decisions.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Providing Financial Solutions for Uganda’s Unbanked Communities

Fintech social enterprise Innovate More Uganda has joined Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to provide access to digital financial management services to 168,000 low income Ugandans, along with complementary digital finance and mobile banking training, by 2023.

Volunteering & Community

Vetting and Managing the Charities in Your Employee Giving Campaign Requires More Than Great Technology

“When my employees choose to donate to a charity, how do I know that charity is legitimate?”

“How do I know the funds actually get to my employees’ designated charities?”

Those are among the most popular questions we get from employers who approach us about partnering on their employee giving programs.

Research & Reports

NN Group Annual Report: Shaping Our Tomorrow

NN Group is pleased to announce the publication of our 2018 Annual Report. It consists of two components – the Annual Review and the Financial Report – providing an integrated overview of our strategy and performance.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Climate Change Matters to Investors and Leaders

A rising number of portfolio managers is using environmental, social and governance (ESG) screens to select candidates for investment.

Philanthropy

PepsiCo is #FundingHerFuture through Whole Planet Foundation

Naked, a PepsiCo. brand, has been proudly supporting Whole Planet Foundation since 2007, donating $800,000 to alleviate global poverty through microcredit.

Events

Leading Together and Acting Collectively: How Business Can Make a Positive Impact on Society

I want to begin by congratulating the members and leadership of CECP for 20 years of terrific accomplishment and growth. I’d also like to thank Doug and Daryl and the CECP board for recognizing the Ford Foundation’s early commitment, 20 years ago, and our ongoing partnership.

Latest Campaigns

Leadership

Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...

Economic Growth

CARE’s Economic Growth team works to increase women’s wealth by changing the system

Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared

Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared™ was intentionally designed to support the success of Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultants. With a message that...

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...

Employee and Community Engagement

At MilliporeSigma, we look for opportunities to use employee and community engagement to spark scientific curiosity and breakthroughs. We know that...

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...