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Direct Relief CEO Byron Scott (left) receives the Seoul Peace Prize from Jaeho Yeom, Chairman of the Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation, at an awards ceremony in Seoul on April 28, 2025.

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Direct Relief Accepts 2025 Seoul Peace Prize for Global Humanitarian Impact

Direct Relief today formally accepted the 2025 Seoul Peace Prize, one of the world’s most distinguished honors for humanitarian achievement, in recognition of the organization’s unwavering commitment to aiding people affected by poverty, disasters, and conflict.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Two Months Without Aid

Action Against Hunger

Events, Media & Communications

AB, EMIA and Societe Generale Host the Impact and Blended Finance Conference

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Innovation & Technology

Ready for Anything: T‑Mobile Strengthens Powerful Technology Arsenal for Hurricane and Wildfire Seasons

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Education

What Do the Conflict Minerals 2015 SEC Filings Show Us? Know the Insights

Approximately 1,200 publicly traded companies filed Conflict Minerals Reports with the SEC this year, in accordance with Dodd-Frank Section 1502 (Conflict Minerals Rule).

Social Impact & Volunteering

The Walt Disney Company Launches Computer Science Summer Immersion Program for High School Students

The Walt Disney Company announced today the start of its inaugural Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program, a seven-week coding program on the Disney campus for high school girls that will introduce them to computer science curriculum.

Education

Schools Learn How AT&T Solutions Support Technology-Rich Education

It’s that time of year again. Students look forward to recharging over summer break.

It’s also the time when school administrators look forward to retooling in preparation for the next school year.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

UN Global Compact Unveils “Making Global Goals Local Business” Strategy to Drive Responsible Business Activity on Sustainable Development Goals

Today at the United Nations, the UN Global Compact unveiled a multi-year strategy to drive business awareness and activity that supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Key elements of the new Making Global Goals Local Business strategy include an annual Leaders Summit, the SDG Pioneers programme, Local Network SDG Action Plans, UN-business partnerships, and impact reporting. The announcement came at the opening of the 2016 UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, a two-day gathering of more than 1,000 leaders from business, finance, civil society, labour, academia, the UN and Government.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Forest City Named a Top Workplace for Fourth Consecutive Year

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Points of Light Conference Convenes in the Motor City Bringing Together Thousands of Global Changemakers

The 2016 Points of Light Conference on Volunteering and Service kicks off on Monday, June 27 at Detroit’s Cobo Center. The conference, the largest of its kind in the world, brings together nonprofit, government, business and civic leaders from across the globe to learn, connect and be inspired. Thousands of service-minded attendees from across the United States and 36 countries will gain the knowledge, resources and connections needed to galvanize the power of people in their own communities to create change. The conference will run through June 29.

Education

Design For Social Innovation June 2016 Newsletter

MFA DSI JUNE NEWS

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Source Intelligence’s Supply Chain Transparency Platform Named Environmental Leader’s Product of the Year 2016

Source Intelligence’s supply chain compliance solution was awarded the 2016 “Product of the Year” by the prestigious Environmental Leader organization, officials announced today.

Innovation & Technology

Sodexo’s Client Intelligence Portal Facilitates Enterprise-Wide Data Analysis

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, understands that monitoring an enterprise’s key performance indicators (KPIs) can be the difference between success or failure for a business or organization, especially in a challenging economic environment. That is why Sodexo leveraged its technology systems expertise to create a Client Intelligence Portal (CIP), a platform which makes all services, including facilities management and foodservice operations, more efficient and allows clients and staff to monitor key operations.

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Research, Reports & Publications

BCE Inc (Bell Canada) Releases Annual Corporate Responsibility Report for 2015

The BCE Inc (Bell Canada) annual Corporate Responsibility Report is now available at BCE.ca.

The report addresses key initiatives that are most relevant to the company’s stakeholders throughout its 5 main categories – Team members, Customers, Community, Environment, and Economy & Society

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

JetBlue to Fly to Cuba with First Commercial Flights in More Than 50 Years

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Setting Corporate Expectations in Driving Human Rights and Human Value

Events, Media & Communications

A Journey with Purpose… Don’t Stop Believin’

I recently had the privilege and opportunity to represent AT&T at the Sustainable Brands 2016 conference in gorgeous San Diego. The conference brings together top brands that fill 4 days with extraordinary conversation and insight to inspire and activate business success toward a sustainable future.

Innovation & Technology

Combating Malnutrition and Improving Livelihoods in Nigeria

Diversity & Inclusion

The Burson-Marsteller Blog What’s Love Got to Do With It: Corporate Engagement in the LGBTQ Movement

June is National LGBTQ Pride month, when members and allies of the LGBTQ community celebrate and embrace diversity, proudly waving rainbow flags at events across the United States and around the world. Historically, this celebration was limited to individuals who privately identified with the community.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

generationOn and FamilyFun Magazine Partner to Develop Volunteer Project Enabling Kids, Teens and Families to Help Children in Need

generationOn, the youth division of Points of Light, partnered with FamilyFun Magazine to create a Capes for Kids project guide to encourage kids, teens, and families across the country to make capes for children in homeless shelters and hospitals to remind them to be strong, have hope, and keep going when times are tough.

Innovation & Technology

Client Intelligence Portal Makes Accessing Data Easy

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Food Waste App Takes Top Prize in the Forward Food Competition

In partnership with lead sponsor, Campbell Soup Company, and General Mills, Net Impact is excited to announce the winners of the first-ever Forward Food Competition, a program that gave participants the chance to launch a new sustainable product or service within the food and beverage category. The response was overwhelmingly positive with over 140 applicants tackling a wide range of issues in society— food waste, unsustainable farming and recidivism, to name a few.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

CEOs Urged to Talk ESG, Though Wall Street Wants EPS

CEOs need to ramp up communications about environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues even when Wall Street is more concerned with short-term financial performance like earnings per share (EPS), according to a new report from the Conference Board.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Old Mutual on Financial Education: Why it Matters

Why it matters

There are 350 million adults in sub-Saharan Africa. More than half have no ready access to financial services, and financial knowledge could be improved across all our markets.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

RobecoSAM Wins Institutional Investor Magazine’s “ESG Manager of the Year” Award

RobecoSAM wins Institutional Investor magazine‘s “ESG Manager of the Year” award

The European Awards 2016 by the renowned trade magazine Institutional Investor honored European asset managers whose innovative investment strategies, portfolio construction and strategic asset allocation have succeeded in the challenging European landscape.

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Innovation & Technology

Global Food Security Index a Call to Action

Five years ago, DuPont commissioned the Economist Intelligence Unit to develop the Global Food Security Index (GFSI). While the Index seeks to answer a simple question – how food secure is a country? – in reality, it presents a clarion call to action for governments, farmers, non-governmental organizations and agricultural companies alike.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Folsom Cordova Reuse Roundup 2016

Republic Services of Sacramento, the Folsom Cordova Community Partnership and the City of Rancho Cordova came together for Reuse Roundup, a school supply drive that aims to collect reusable school supplies from local schools at the end of the school year that would otherwise end up in our landfills.

Education

Volunteering Can Promote Lifetime Financial Education

Volunteering gives Aimee DeCamillo the chance to share financial concepts with school kids

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Research, Reports & Publications

New Report Aims to Help Healthcare Sector Address Inequalities in Access to Specialty Care

Today, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation and FSG are calling on the healthcare sector to address inequity in a new resource--Breaking the Barriers to Specialty Care: Practical Ideas to Improve Health Equity and Reduce Cost.

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