The ASEAN region has 630 million people – and more than half are under age 30. Harald Nusser, Head of Novartis Social Business says that to fight the rise of chronic disease in South East Asia, we need to explore new ways to help youth there be better informed about diagnosis, treatment and about the importance of healthy lifestyles.

The rise of the smart city will rely on the ability of stakeholders to collaborate, engage citizens and act on data. Partnerships are hard at work and planning is under way to overcome the legacy of siloed services, focus on integrated systems that will ultimately be more adept at delivering critical services, empower communities and elevate our quality of life.

JetBlue isn’t afraid to get its hands dirty for the sake of efficiency. The airport farm at JFK’s T5 – the first of its kind – uses an otherwise idle space to grow plants that not only look lovely, but also work hard.

For 115 years, Goodwill Industries International has been a social enterprise focused on promoting the common good through empowering individuals and championing the belief that everyone should have the chance to succeed through the power of work. In celebration of our milestone anniversary, we’ve released this mission video to give people a sense of our history.

Charities@Work and ACCP today announced the newest additions to the speaker line-up for the 2017 Summit on Employee Engagement in Corporate Citizenship, “The Apex of Engagement.” Held on June 29, 2017, at The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® headquarters in New York City, the Summit brings together corporate social responsibility (CSR) practitioners from across the country to share the latest advances and thinking on employee engagement, workplace giving, and corporate citizenship.

Kohler Co. leaders, Lakeshore Community Health Care (LCHC) representatives and members of the Sheboygan community gathered Friday, May 5, to unveil LCHC's newly renovated Medical and Behavioral Health Wing.

Avnet, a leading global technology distributor, will share its IoT industry knowledge and expertise throughout Internet of Things World next week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Executives representing Avnet’s leading team of IoT experts will share insights on how companies of all sizes can design, supply, build and deliver IoT products anywhere in the world. The conference kicks off on May 16 with a keynote from Lou Lutostanski, Avnet’s vice president, Internet of Things.

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) is pleased to announce that the Company has been named to the elite Forbes America’s Best Employer 2017 List, an employer ranking based on the results of an independent survey conducted among 30,000 U.S. workers at companies and institutions across the country. Republic is the only recycling and waste company named to this year’s list. The Company is included in the Large Employer category, under Utilities.

Diminishing water resources is a rising global challenge that food and beverage companies are uniquely positioned to tackle in order to protect their business, communities and ecosystems around the world.

As the world’s largest sustainability business intelligence database, CSRHub is in a unique position to understand corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings. We have studied each of our 525 data sources’ metrics, and our system automatically identifies which sustainability reporting investments add the most value, pinpoints areas of lagging or leading performance, and produces benchmarks against other companies. In How to Improve Your CSR Score, CSRHub will try to share some of the “secret sauce” its co-founders, Cynthia Figge and Bahar Gidwani, have developed through their combined 30+ years of experience with sustainability metrics.