Corporate Responsibility

A Year in CSR: The Top 10 Trends of 2016

There’s no doubt that 2016 has been a turbulent time for business and society. Yet with this instability has come progress and awakening. Many organizations took the opportunity to redefine what “responsibility” looks like – beyond just material issues or products and services – to what a company’s larger role in society could be. We saw moments in time grow into movements, employees roll up their sleeves on sustainability, and technology play a leading role in communicating to consumers. As the year draws to a close, Cone Communications evaluated a years’-worth of corporate social responsibility (CSR) trends to bring you the top 10 trends of 2016.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Let's Play Another Game

Here’s the game. I will give you a quote, and then I will challenge you with the impossible task of guessing who said it. It could be Justin Bieber. It could be Kim Jong-un. Who knows?!?!

Corporate Responsibility

The National Lottery Operator Takes Proactive Approach to Player Safety

Innovative software tracks data to identify online problem play. Miranda Ingram reports . . .

As operator of The National Lottery, Camelot’s mission is to change lives. Both the lives of its winners – it makes almost 30 millionaires a month – but also the lives of people who benefit from the incredible £36 million that is delivered every week in Good Causes funding. Since The National Lottery began in 1994, players have raised over £35 billion for Good Causes – this means an average of 150 lottery grants in every neighbourhood have been awarded.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Technology Companies, China Pledge to Stop Human Rights Abuses in Cobalt Mining

Human rights and news organizations have recently revealed the extent of human rights abuses associated with artisanal cobalt mining. As a result, electronics and automotive companies around the globe have announced various commitments to stop the use of forced labor and child labor for cobalt mining.

AI & Technology

IUPUI and Butler University Win AASHE Sustainable Campus Competition, hosted by Kimberly-Clark Professional

Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Butler University partnered to win the AASHE Sustainable Campus Competition, hosted by Kimberly-Clark Professional. The two schools secured a $50,000 prize that will catalyze a city-wide composting collection program that serves as important step toward their large-scale commercial composting collection initiative.

Philanthropy

Celebrating 25 years of Innovation in Vietnam

This year, Kimberly-Clark celebrates 25 years of providing the essentials for a better life to Vietnamese consumers, an important milestone in the company’s journey that first began in 1991.

AI & Technology

Scotiabank Investing $1 Million In Ocad’s Design Thinking Research Studio

Scotiabank is dedicating $1 million to developing a Design Thinking Research Studio at OCAD, which will allow the university to create a Design Thinking educational curriculum model and generate research, workshops, executive education, and an annual open public forum.

AI & Technology

Antea Group at Work in Silicon Valley

Nearly 60% of Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies benefit from Antea Group’s environment, health, safety, and sustainability services around the world. With Technology Forecasters Inc. (TFI) and Antea Group joining services, our Tech practice is bigger than ever here in Silicon Valley and globally. Our ESH&S solutions scaled and customized for your organization, with on-site experts on call all anywhere you need us.

AI & Technology

First Lady Hosts DC Students for Screening of Fox’s ‘Hidden Figures’ to Celebrate Decades of Women in Space Exploration

Middle and high-school students from Washington, D.C. area schools gathered at the White House on December 15 for a private screening of Hidden Figures, the new film from Fox 2000 following three female African American engineers who played crucial roles in the 1960s Space Race. Stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae were in attendance and joined a panel discussion following the screening to celebrate the contributions these women and many more African Americans have made to the STEM fields. First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the screening, part of a larger event series recognizing the untold stories of women in STEM, and delivered closing remarks.

AI & Technology

TECHO is Working to Eradicate Poverty in Latin America with NetSuite.org

TECHO, a youth-led non-profit organization dedicated to helping families living in slums, shares how a software donation from NetSuite.org has enabled them to manage their finances across 17 countries and focus on permanently eradicating poverty.

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