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Launch of the latest Finance Lab with Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester.

Education | Webster Bank

Webster Bank Celebrates Opening of Dorchester Finance Lab

In recognition of Financial Literacy Month, Webster Bank, together with Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester, Massachusetts, (BGCD) celebrated the opening of the Webster Bank Finance Lab, a program created to provide local students the skills needed for financial empowerment.

Environment

World Water Day: We All Play a Role in Conserving Earth’s Most Precious Resource

If a business wanted to cut its energy use in a significant and impactful way, it easily could by tapping into a vast array of energy-efficient technologies currently available in the market. But reduce its water use? That might prove a bit more challenging.

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Events, Media & Communications

ACCP: The Conference 2016 Kick Off: The Power of And

ACCP: The Conference 2016 opened on March 21st at the Westin Gaslamp in San Diego, CA. The Conference drew more than 250 Corporate Responsibility professionals from around the country. Companies represented included some of the world’s most respected and established brands as well as companies just beginning to build a name in the world.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

It’s Time for Responsible Leaders to Take Action to Eliminate Child Hunger (SDG 2)

This week, Global Sourcing Council's 17 Weeks for 17 SDGs Intiative explores Goal 2 with examples of action from organizations and businesses to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture in their business strategy.

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Sodexo Applauds Million Women Mentors for Surpassing 650,000 Mentors of Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Careers

Sodexo, a leading provider of integrated facilities management and foodservice operations, today applauds the outstanding work and achievement of the STEMConnector® Million Women Mentors (MWM) initiative for securing more than 650,000 pledges from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) mentors. In just two years, the organization has passed a major milestone toward reaching its goal of one million STEM mentors for girls and women by 2019.

Environment

Timberland Commissions Study to Test Feasibility of Reintroducing Cotton as Haitian Export Crop

Global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland, Impact Farming and Haiti-based Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) today announced the launch of a new feasibility study exploring the possibility of reintroducing cotton as an export crop for Haitian smallholder farmers. If the study proves successful, the opportunities for organic cotton farming in Haiti are extensive, and companies like Timberland can one day transition from being early supporters of the SFA agroforestry enterprise to being its customers.

Education

Giving All Students a Chance to Create the Future

Today, I am thrilled to stand with Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo as she leads an initiative to bring computer science education to every public K–12 school across Rhode Island. The governor’s focus on computer science provides Microsoft Philanthropies with a great opportunity to partner in helping to achieve our own mission to expand digital inclusion and empowerment for everyone. An important element of that mission is to enable all young people to learn computing skills. We believe that computer science will be a foundation for most future jobs and careers, and for participating fully in society.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable's Efforts Recognized by The White House

Today is World Water Day, a day when people, places, and organizations around the globe come together to recognize the challenges we face in protecting and preserving this most important of natural resources. Water scarcity, resiliency, and community stakeholder engagement—these are but a few of the challenges, and opportunities, wherein business, government, not for profits and communities need to work together to ensure effective water stewardship and to improve the quality of life in the face of natural disasters, pollution, and increasing demands on water sources.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

PR News Celebrates CSR & Nonprofit PR Awards Winners, Diversity Awards Honorees at March 15 Luncheon in D.C.

PR News is thrilled to announce the winners of its annual CSR and Nonprofit PR Awards, as well as the inaugural class of honorees for the Diversity in PR Awards program. The finalists and honorees of these industry-known programs were celebrated at a Spring Awards Luncheon on March 15, 2016 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Environment

Lights Out at MGM Resorts for Earth Hour 2016

In honor of Earth Hour, MGM Resorts International dimmed the exterior lights at several of its resorts, joining the global effort to raise awareness of climate change.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Championing Gender Equality Starts with Empowerment

The prestigious WEPs CEO Leadership Award recognizes business leaders for their exceptional championship of gender equality and support for the Women's Empowerment Principles. Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer, Sodexo and Janet Awad, Regional Chair of Latin America and Country President, Sodexo Chile, were recently honored with the 2016 7 Principles WEPs CEO Leadership Award.

Events, Media & Communications

Strategic Volunteerism Webinar

Stop painting the same wall seven times and start creating real impact with your nonprofit partners. Join America's Charities and Causecast for a free webinar about strategic volunteerism, April 5th 11am PT/2pm ET.

Innovation & Technology

Water Mission to Deliver 1,000 KOHLER Clarity Filters to Those in Need

Kohler Co. has shipped the first order of its ceramic filtration system, KOHLER Clarity, to Water Mission, a nonprofit organization that provides sustainable safe water solutions to people in developing countries and disasters. Water Mission plans to distribute the filters in small communities in Haiti, Honduras and Peru.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Impact for Change: Why Business Impacts Matter?

Swazi sewing shop might seem a surprising place to see the impacts of big business first hand. But it’s where I found myself one morning in 2013, travelling as a guest of a big global brand. The smiling owner opened the door to us. She was smartly dressed, and rightly proud of the enterprise she’d grown. I’ll never forget the noise of her workshop. About two dozen women were hard at work, mostly from the local village. They were producing uniforms for the factory owned by our client down the road.

Social Impact & Volunteering

JetBlue Now Accepting Applications for Second BlueBud Business Mentoring Program

JetBlue (Nasdaq: JBLU), New York’s Hometown Airline™, recently began accepting applications for its business mentoring program – BlueBud (buddies + budding new companies). Now in its second year, JetBlue’s BlueBud program is once again offering innovative and socially responsible food and beverage companies a unique opportunity to learn what it takes to potentially get their products onboard commercial aircraft.

Events, Media & Communications

Huck Cancer is the Ultimate

The Huck Cancer Ultimate Frisbee Tournament is a one-day, coed hat tournament and fundraiser for LIVESTRONG held every spring in San Francisco. This year the tournament takes place on March 26, 2016 at Beach Chalet Fields in Golden Gate Park. Adult and youth Ultimate players from throughout the Bay Area come together to have fun and support an important cause. The creators of the event sat down with us and talked about the fun and unique event.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Firms Learn From Pro Bono Event

Companies here recently had the opportunity to learn about best practices in pro bono work - from people across some 25 countries in six continents.

The Global Pro Bono Summit, organised annually since 2013, was held for the first time in Asia last week, at different venues across Singapore.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Action Team Captains From H-B Woodlawn Hold Fundraiser to Benefit Local Charitable Groups

Action Team Captains from H-B Woodlawn High School took advantage of “Pi-day” to hold a quick fundraiser that raised $150 in 45 minutes for local Virginia and DC area non-profits and rewarded donations with delicious pies.

Health & Healthcare

Nutrition for a Healthy Life

Constant exposure to our environment, the things we eat, and stresses from both inside and outside our bodies all cause us to age over time. Although scientists have not yet found a way to delay the biological processes of aging, they are learning more about how healthy behavioral practices, such as maintaining a well-balanced diet, are critical to fostering good health throughout our lives.

Responsible Production & Consumption

GM Taps into Water Reuse Project in Texas

At the beginning of the year, GM's team at the Arlington Assembly plant in Texas successfully turned millions of gallons of wasted water into a resource with a simple fix that will save money and serve as a model for similar facilities.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Our Collective Love of Red Meat

Even a modest 8-ounce steak represents 3.5 pounds of consumed grain. That’s a lot of plants, and therefore a lot of farm land, dedicated to our collective love of red meat.

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Environment

Antea Group Case Study: Pipeline Failure Spill Site

On client detected a drop in pressure on their pipeline in Wisconsin. Approximately 1,302 barrels (54,684 gallons) of gasoline were released as a result of a pipeline seam failure. The spill was discovered in an area of farms, large homes and sub-divisions with over 200 potable wells within a one mile radius of the spill. Our client required immediate and large scale emergency response services and environmental support.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Trickle Up Brings Financial Inclusion to India’s Rural Poor

Jayanti Pradhan lives in a three-room mud-walled house, earns a steady income from farming vegetables and raising goats, and has saved 8,000 rupees (about US$120) in her bank account.

Responsible Production & Consumption

The Importance of the Circular Economy to Business Expected to Double in Next Two Years, According to New Research by UPS and Greenbiz Group

Nearly nine out of 10 (86 percent) of sustainability executives surveyed believe that circular economy will be important to their business two years from now, nearly double from two years ago when just 47 percent felt them important, according to findings of the 2016 UPS/GreenBiz Circular Economy Research Study released today. Respondents project the biggest growth in the adoption of the circular economy model will come from the technology sector, especially electronics such as computers and cell phones, as take-back systems and product reuse are most easily integrated in those models.

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Health & Healthcare

Joan’s Story: A Personal Commitment to Patients Living with Hepatitis C

For Joan, hepatitis C is much more than a significant global public health challenge—it’s personal.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Gracie Awards Honor 'Breakthrough' Director Angela Bassett, 'The Herd' Co-host Kristine Leahy for Outstanding Achievements by Women in Media

On March 21, the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation announced the honorees for the 41st annual Gracie Awards, a ceremony celebrating outstanding work by women in the media industry. The event will recognize Angela Bassett for directing the "Water Apocalypse" episode of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's "Breakthrough" documentary series on 21st Century Fox's National Geographic Channel, as well Kristine Leahy, co-host of "The Herd with Colin Cowherd" on FOX Sports 1.

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