Events

Creating a Social Impact Program That Builds Business and Communities

Join thinkPARALLAX and Qualcomm™ Wireless Reach®, on Wednesday, December 7 at 10 AM PST, to learn how a social impact program can benefit both business objectives and communities.

Education & Workforce Development

CITGO and Steve Spangler Recognize Public School Teachers Dedicated to STEM Education

CITGO Petroleum Corporation recently announced the winners of this year’s fifth annual Fueling Education Sweepstakes. Through the CITGO Fueling Education program, 93 elementary and middle school teachers received awards that will help them to improve science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in the classroom.

Education & Workforce Development

Meet Amgen Scholars Alumni Nguyen Thu Trang from Nam Dinh, Vietnam

My goal is to pursue a career in clinical and translational research, for which I believe the experiences, knowledge, and advice from the Amgen Scholars Program would help me prepare.

Volunteering & Community

Youth Voices Empowering Movements: A Conversation With Aria Finger, CEO of DoSomething.org

In this episode of the Champions for Social Good podcast, we talk with Aria Finger, CEO of DoSomething.org, a “tech-company” style nonprofit that reaches 5.5 million teens and young adults ages 13-25 in every part of the United States and 130+ countries around the world. With over 300 campaigns for young people to join, DoSomething.org focuses on authenticity to get young adults involved with social good.

Philanthropy

CSD Learns recibió una subvención de $75,000 de

Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD) Learns anunció que la organización recibió una subvención de $75,000 de Wells Fargo Foundation para crear una serie piloto de educación financiera en lenguaje de señas americano (ASL, por sus siglas en inglés). En el sitio de CSD Learns se ofrecerá contenido en ASL del centro de aprendizaje financiero por Internet El futuro en tus manos® de Wells Fargo, tal como ‘Enfrentar las deudas’ y ‘Empezar a invertir’.

Philanthropy

CSD Learns Awarded $75,000 Grant From Wells Fargo

Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD) Learns announced that the organization received a $75,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation to create a pilot American Sign Language (ASL) Financial Education Series. Content from Wells Fargo’s Hands On Banking® online financial learning center, such as Dealing with Debt and Getting Started with Investing, will be provided in ASL on the CSD Learns site.

Education & Workforce Development

T. Rowe Price: Parents Who Stick to Their Holiday Spending Budgets Are More Likely to Shop Online

T. Rowe Price’s 2017 Parents Kids & Money Survey, which sampled parents of 8 to 14 year olds nationally and their kids, found that 72% of the parents surveyed set a specific budget for holiday spending, yet 58% of the parents surveyed agree that they spend more money during the holidays than they intended.

Education & Workforce Development

Thousands of High School Students Support Small Businesses with New Technology Solutions

This school year, underrepresented high school students in eight cities nationwide are learning principles of design thinking, and how to apply them to emerging technology and mobile devices to serve as creative solutions for local small businesses and non-profits.

Awards & Rankings

Net Impact Awards "Chapter of the Year" Honors

Net Impact, the leading global nonprofit that mobilizes the next generation to use their skills and careers to make a positive impact on the world, released the 2017 Chapter of the Year winners, a designation awarded to one outstanding Chapter in each of the undergraduate, graduate, international and professional Chapter segments. This year’s award went to the Net Impact Chapters at Texas State McCoy College (undergraduate), UCLA Anderson School of Business (graduate), IIT Kharagpur (international) and the New York City Professional Chapter.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Doubling Down on Impact: Leveraging All That I Have for the World I Want to See

As an impact investor, a financial change agent and entrepreneur, my money story centers around aligning assets with values. At Nia Impact Advisors, we move investment dollars into the companies that matter—those working to create the world in which we want to live. I come by this work having grown up immersed in the belly of our financial markets.

Latest Campaigns

AEG Celebrates Inclusion

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Accelerating access to healthcare technology

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Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator

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Growth Through Sustainability

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Drive for MPC

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SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights

Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...

AEG Celebrates Inclusion

At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...

IWBI | WELL Building Standard

Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...

Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

Planet

At Bacardi, we prioritize reducing our impact on the environment – an approach that dates to the very beginning of the company in 1862 when Bacardi...