Stephen, an autistic boy from southern Alberta, started collecting items for children in need in 2006 when he was six. Since then, Stephen’s Backpacks has delivered more than 18,000 backpacks.

Millions of Americans are expected to take a road trip this holiday season, according to AAA. With so many motorists out and about, to include waste collection trucks operating throughout the holidays, we can each do our part to keep roadways safe…

Bloomberg BNA today announced it will be providing complimentary access to Bloomberg Law to the DC Affordable Law Firm (DCALF). Bloomberg Law, a leading all-in-one technology platform for the legal industry, will provide its suite of products with…

Companies are increasingly recognizing the value that providing service opportunities to employees brings to their business, the employees and communities across the globe.

Whether you know it as Dollars for Doers, Team Volunteer Grants or Community Grants, the benefits are all the same- and now is the time to invest your time and money into these types of programs! See the difference you can make.

Carnival Cruise Line, in partnership with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, brought some holiday cheer to kids at the Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital in Charleston and The Ronald McDonald House in Baltimore, hosting fun-filled…

48 million people in the U.S. struggle with hunger – meaning they do not always have access to the food they need to live an active, healthy life. Feeding America aims to get more nutritious food to more people. In this post from our Shape the…

Jose Bautista, Gio Gonzalez and Jim Johnson provided the support as Action Teams across the country spread holiday season cheer.

To go from zero to four-day-per-week workouts is tough. Really tough. But once you have your thing, whether it’s lifting weights, walking, spinning, or kickboxing, after a while it gets easier. For a nonprofit executive director or manager, when…

Although the focus of Giving Tuesday is fundraising for worthy causes, the key to success – both for companies and the broader landscape – is about developing a passion for service and giving back.

As 18-year-old Juleimy poses in a dress she made for a class project, it glitters gold in the afternoon Barranquilla, Colombia, sun. "This was the final work of the last semester," she says. "I ​made it with two other classmates.…

Generous donations from a trio of local corporate sponsors will serve as the foundation for the newly created Public Safety Cadet Program at Bertie High School. In an event held Dec. 2 at the school campus, Republic Services, JBA Properties, and…

Time Warner Cable celebrated its first “Together We Can” Week of Service in San Diego this November. Our week-long community service initiative furthered the company's vision to create and foster deeper partnerships between our Time Warner…

Approximately 260 FCA US Motor Citizen volunteers contributed nearly 2,000 hours of service over the past seven months to complete a new for Carol Richards.The build, which kicked off in April, was part of a collaborative partnership between Habitat…

If you’re looking for Craig Thiman on a Saturday morning between February and October, you’re most likely to find him on a construction site somewhere in northwest Atlanta.

On Thursday, October 15, the Fox Pride LGBT-Straight Alliance commemorated its first anniversary with an outdoor event in honor of Spirit Day, GLAAD's yearly campaign to support LGBT youth and speak out against bullying. The event, held at the…

Matt Barnes this past weekend drew about 125 kids to his third annual youth baseball clinic to promote healing and the rebirth of normalcy in the community where 20 children and six adults were gunned down in a school rampage shooting in December…

In an effort to help children stay safe and warm this winter, Mittens for Detroit (MFD), a charity that’s known for warming hearts, two hands at a time, and automaker FCA US LLC kicked off a “mitten drop” December 9 at Dossin Elementary-Middle…

Trim Tab Magazine is the International Living Future Institute's quarterly, online publication that is awash with provocative articles, interviews and news on the issues, designs, and people that are truly transforming the built environment.…

When the rooftop garden at the parking garage adjacent to GM’s world headquarters gets started each summer, tenants inside the Detroit skyscraper watch the transformation of a once-empty section of the garage blossom into an ever-growing green space…

For the first time at Cedar Crest Middle School, a service dog accompanied a student actor onstage. Guest blogger Gwen Wenger talks about her daughter Emma's experience in the school play and how service dog SSD Kindle helped make it possible.

During the month of November, several of Republic’s South Texas Area locations, including Southwest Houston, Northwest Houston, McCarty Landfill, Customer Service and the Consolidated C&C Center, held their 5th annual Food Drive, supporting the…

Since 1995, the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship has studied how companies invest in communities and how these efforts connect to their businesses—and has published the findings in the Community Involvement study. Over the past 20…