Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility
Using Text Analytics to Start Building an SDG Business Case
As part of Bechtel’s commitment to contribute 100 ideas to support the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this case study examines how text analytics can help advance a business case for the SDGs in terms of investment, project opportunity or risk management. Countries benefit from more strategic business investments, projects or programs that can advance a country’s SDG implementation process.
Bechtel
Environment
Environment
The Importance of EHS & Sustainability Stakeholder Engagement: 3 Insights From the 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer Survey
Antea Group’s insights on the 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer Survey as it relates to the success of an organization and its EHS programs
Antea Group
Energy & Infrastructure
Energy & Infrastructure
Carbon Offsets Help Salesforce Go Net Zero 33 Years Early
In 1998, when Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras, Dee and Richard Lawrence, along with their daughter Skye, headed south, to help with the country’s recovery efforts and wound up starting a cookstove project that greatly reduces carbon pollution. Eighteen years later, the Lawrences founded Cool Effect to fund carbon-reducing projects around the world.

TriplePundit
Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment
Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment
Whole Planet Foundation | Dispatch From the Field – Crediting Field Officers
It’s the season of gratitude and a time to celebrate the impact of 2017. Whole Planet Foundation wants to acknowledge the achievements of our microfinance partners’ field officers, who are often the main point of contact between a microfinance organization and the entrepreneurs financing their businesses with microloans. In 2014 we piloted a new Field Officer Appreciation Award in the Africa & Middle East region of our work and this year, the foundation awarded its fourth year of awards to nominated field officers. In total, this region currently includes 28 partner institutions.
Whole Foods Market Foundation
Environment
Environment
Kenyan Farmers Reap Economic, Environmental Gains from ABCDs of Agroforestry
Less than a decade ago, the hills of Tuiyobei village in Kenya’s Rift Valley were nearly bare, with few trees or shrubs beyond the coffee plantations that yielded very little. The rain was sporadic, temperatures were rising, and crop yields and livelihoods were deteriorating. High deforestation triggered by increasing demand for firewood, lumber and charcoal had degraded the ecosystem.
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Environment
Environment
Video | Can Agroforestry Propel Climate Commitments?
The Paris Agreement, reached at COP21 in December 2015, aims to keep global temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are the main tool for defining countries’ contributions to the Agreement, and most developing country NDCs identified agroforestry as a key part of their climate strategy.
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Volunteering & Community
Volunteering & Community
The Neuroscience of Corporate Goodness and Employee Engagement
What does the Founder and CEO of a fast-growing Goodness software company consider his best day at work? The answer lies in the neuroscience and might be surprising. Continue reading to get the answer that also informs how companies can forge social bonds that underlie the authentic, lasting engagement of employees and customers (and how to infuse more of that ethos into the world!).
Benevity
Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility
A Year in CSR: The Top 10 Trends of 2017
As the year draws to a close, Cone Communications, evaluated a year’s worth of CSR trends to bring you the top 10 trends of 2017.
Porter Novelli
Education & Workforce Development
Education & Workforce Development
Meet Amgen Scholars Alumni Andrea Pérez González From Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
"Although I had no previous research experience, Dr. Hugh Robinson gave me the opportunity to do my project on electrophysiological properties of small-cell lung cancer.”
Amgen Foundation

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