Volunteering & Community

Today marks Deloitte’s 20th Impact Day, an annual day of service that celebrates the company’s year-round commitment to community-powered social impact. During Impact Day, employees and leaders from around the country will volunteer at diverse organizations to help them address and solve their most pressing challenges.

This week, the Porter Novelli/Cone team headed to Detroit for the annual Sustainable Brands conference, contributing to four days of inspirational conversation around transforming brands through sustainable innovation.

Societal and environmental shifts continually reshape the future and present exciting new opportunities for BNY Mellon’s businesses and stakeholders.

Wells Fargo is evolving its philanthropic strategy to help solve three pressing issues affecting individuals, families, and underserved communities across the U.S. — housing affordability, financial health, and small business growth — the company announced June 5.

The Company, through its business and the Wells Fargo Foundation, will use its resources and expertise to develop new ideas and implement solutions in communities of need in collaboration with public- and private-sector organizations. In particular, Wells Fargo will commit $1 billion in philanthropy alone through 2025 to address the U.S. housing affordability crisis, including homelessness, available and affordable rentals, transitional housing and home ownership.

Design is relatively a new discipline, its terminology dating back to the creation of tools and products that have influenced and shaped our world, and our humanity. Today, design is a practice that can solve some of the most complex social challenges around the world.

Following the launch of its “Equality for All” social media campaign, which supports LGBT Pride Month and celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising (#Stonewall50), AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company has announced it will participate in the 2019 LA Pride Festival and Parade in Los Angeles.

The best part of the corporate social engagement process is its people. Especially those who are our evangelist to share, describe and empower social impact and its key factors to demonstrate the ongoing commitment to social missions and local needs. An instrumental function in our people driven engagement is the Employee Resource Group. Employee resource groups (also known as ERGs, affinity groups, or business network groups) are a collective of employees who join together in their workplace based on shared characteristics or life experiences.

“Crossing the Rubicon”, or passing the point of no return is the inspiration behind the name of the U.S. based, veteran-led disaster response organization, Team Rubicon. Founded in 2010 in response to the Haiti earthquake, a small group of U.S. military veterans travelled to regions considered too dangerous by others, committing themselves to bringing aid, equipment and manpower to communities affected by the disaster. Today, Team Rubicon has grown into a large operation with an ever-increasing need for specialized resources. This is where CASE, the global construction brand of CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) comes in.

Points of Light has announced additional speakers and entertainers who will join the opening plenary lineup at the 2019 Points of Light Conference, taking place June 18-20 in St. Paul.