UN Secretary‐General Taps UN Special Envoy Michael Bloomberg to Lead Climate Finance Leadership Initiative

Today at the One Planet Summit in New York the UN Secretary-General tapped his Special Envoy for Climate Action Mike Bloomberg to lead a new Climate Finance Leadership Initiative to mobilize private finance in support of the Paris Agreement goals.

Creating Long-Term Partnerships that Stick

If you’ve been following our content this year, you’ve likely heard us mention a concept called “The Knitting Factor,” which brings together three key conditions that enable skills-based engagements between the private and nonprofit sectors to create strengthened, sustainable solutions that don’t come undone when partners part ways. There are three key characteristics that make up The Knitting Factor, but for skills-based volunteering to become truly transformative, organizations need to find the “sticky” relationships that enable companies and nonprofits to drive progress on both mission and business-related goals.

Tyson Foods and Feeding America® Announce Results of $1M Protein Innovation Fund Distribution

Tyson Foods and Feeding America® today announced the results of a two-year project focused on empowering local food banks to develop innovative animal protein sourcing programs to address hunger on the community level.

The Tyson Foods Protein Innovation Fund provided $1 million to 10 Feeding America food banks in nine states to fund protein sourcing projects that have the potential to be scaled and replicated across the Feeding America network.

Developing Nonprofit Leaders Through Skills-Based Volunteering

At Common Impact, we’ve seen first-hand how leveraging skills-based volunteering to create intentional and thoughtful development opportunities for nonprofit staff can solve this challenge. Skilled volunteerism can be a great way to invest in talent, without having to seek the funding for it.

Benevity Releases Annual Trend Data on Top Causes Supported by Companies and Their People

Benevity announces its annual trend data on the “Top Ten Causes” that have been supported by companies and their people this year to date, as well as the shifts in top donation recipients between 2015 and 2018.

GRO1000 Program Impact: Bringing Hope to 1,000 Communities

Since 2011, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation has supported 1,000 community gardens in every state across the country.

Ecocentricity Blog: San Francisco and the Satellites

Satellites are incredibly important tools for monitoring the climate of Earth. Measurement capabilities include temperature, arctic ice coverage, solar activity, the ozone layer, and air pollution.

Fox Teams up With Kennedy Center’s Turnaround Arts for #EmpireStarGivesBack Social Campaign

In celebration of the fall returns of hit music dramas EMPIRE and STAR, Fox Broadcasting Company and parent company 21st Century Fox have teamed up with Turnaround Arts, a national program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, for a new social campaign. As one of the marquee national education initiatives of the Kennedy Center, Turnaround Arts empowers struggling schools with innovative arts programs and arts-based learning across subject areas as a strategy to help address broader school challenges and close the opportunity gap.

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