Increasing optimism and opportunity with a splash of insularity. Fast-paced innovation and growing accountability with a twist of stakeholder pressure. Big gains shaken and stirred with mounting challenges.

There are several reasons why businesses choose to partner with charities. Among them, providing financial support through workplace giving, matching gifts, and volunteer time are effective and critically important ways for companies to demonstrate their commitment to the community. And leveraging those initiatives to engage employees can also help businesses accomplish recruitment and retention objectives and other corporate philanthropy goals.

With the mercury continuing to soar and with no relief from the heat, the farmers coming to the Krishi Upaj mandi (farmers’ market) in Vidisha, India to sell their crops, are welcomed with drinking water that is provided by New Holland Agriculture, a leading global agricultural equipment brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI /MI: CNHI), through its business partner, M/s Lodhi Motors.

Big Ben. Fish and chips. “The Tube.” The United Kingdom is known for all of these (jolly good) things, and much more. But one thing few people know about is the level of hunger that exists across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In fact, in the UK, one in eight people go hungry every day. Yet 163,000 pounds of perfectly good food is wasted every day in Britain. At General Mills, we believe that all food should be eaten, and that taking a lead role in surplus food recovery is a business, moral and sustainability imperative.

Never confuse motion with action. Good advice from Benjamin Franklin. Never confuse motion with meaningful action. Even better advice from Aaron Hurst et al., in the third Workforce Purpose Index, released May 16.

Book Launch event for Mid-Course Correction Revisited, Monday, June 17th in Minneapolis.

Take steps to successfully sell EHS to your own employees and convince them of the importance of your EHS initiatives.

The Summer 2019 edition of CR Magazine has arrived on the heels of the 2019 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking announcement.
Enjoy interviews and stories about companies on the 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking, including; How Cisco will help 11 million people in need, What soil health means to General Mills, Why Intel engages investors on ESG topics, How Owens Corning employees connect to communities...

Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer. In addition to the skin, melanoma may also occur in mucous membranes – thin, moist layers of tissue that cover surfaces such as the lips – or in the eye. It is more likely to invade nearby tissues and spread to other parts of the body than the more common forms of skin cancer. While melanoma represents just 5 percent of the skin cancer cases diagnosed in the United States each year, it results in the highest rate of deaths.

Do bigger companies get better ESG ratings than small ones? We believe the answer is “no.” This seems true across a wide range of companies, whether one measures size by revenue or by market capitalization (a proxy for enterprise value). Our result indicates that small companies can and should expect to be able to equal or outperform their bigger rivals on environment, social, and governance (ESG) issues.