Sony Pictures Entertainment and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, today announced Discover the Spider-Verse – an action-packed, STEM and literacy Virtual Field Trip experience, created to offer middle and high school students nationwide a sneak peek of the science, technology, engineering and math found in the new Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse movie.
Hormel Foods Corporation today announced the company donated more than $15 million in cash and product donations in 2018 — a company record.
“At Hormel Foods, our team members around the world are inspired to make a difference in the lives of others,” said Jim Snee, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Hormel Foods. “I’m extremely proud that we had a record year of giving. The tremendous impact we have made in fighting food insecurity around the world and supporting education and our local communities is incredibly gratifying for all our team members.”
“At Hormel Foods, our team members around the world are inspired to make a difference in the lives of others,” said Jim Snee, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Hormel Foods. “I’m extremely proud that we had a record year of giving. The tremendous impact we have made in fighting food insecurity around the world and supporting education and our local communities is incredibly gratifying for all our team members.”
When CSRHub was founded ten years ago, sustainability wasn’t considered a key part of corporate or investment strategy. However, the company’s core team believed that corporate social responsibility (CSR) was a strong indicator of value and a tool for stakeholders to reliably measure it would soon become a necessity.
Even organizations focused on public benefit regularly collect and store users’ personal information. This means that rules like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) apply to nonprofits and social good organizations as much as private-sector companies. In fact, nonprofits, philanthropic groups, and foundations are potentially exposed to even greater risk in the event of a data breach or theft, as the reputations they’ve painstakingly cultivated can be tarnished overnight.
This past May, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. The comprehensive regulations shift the dominant paradigm of online data from an opt-out model, in which users had to take action to control their data, to a privacy by design model where privacy and user control must be up-front and center.
Shire’s 4th annual Global Days of Service, held around the globe throughout September and October to give back to local communities, surpassed previous employee volunteer participation rates. Shire had more than 7,600 employees participate - about 1/3 of the company, who volunteered more than 41,000 hours at more than 240 volunteer sites worldwide.