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Research, Reports & Publications | Aflac Incorporated

Spring Cleaning Your Budget: A Fresh Start for Your Finances

If spring cleaning your closet feels satisfying, scrubbing your budget might feel downright transformative. Just like clutter tends to accumulate in the corners of your home, unused subscriptions, autopay traps and shifting expenses gather quietly in your financial life.

Research, Reports & Publications

Spring Cleaning Your Budget: A Fresh Start for Your Finances

Aflac Incorporated

Research, Reports & Publications

Meet ISO 22716, the Gold Standard in Global Manufacturing: Mary Kay Certified for Cosmetic Good Manufacturing Practices

Mary Kay

Research, Reports & Publications

What Small Businesses Tell Us About the Economy That Wall Street Can’t

GoDaddy

Environment

PNC’s Environmental Performance: Infographic

PNC’s Performance and Innovation Group is responsible for developing and executing on the strategy to reduce the company’s energy and water consumption and carbon emissions.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Call for Nominations: GRI’s Governance

Inclusiveness and multi-stakeholder representation are foundational features of GRI, fundamental to form a global perspective and advance our mission towards sustainable development. This is thoroughly reflected in our governance structure: every year we renew our search for global representation and a broad range of perspectives to enable us to carry out our mission.

Research, Reports & Publications

Vancity Publishes 7th Integrated Annual Report

Vancity’s latest integrated Annual Report, Vancity in 2016: building on our values, demonstrates how being firmly rooted in local communities can deliver strong financial returns. It can be viewed at annualreport.vancity.com.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Ethiopia’s Nascent Apparel Industry Can Build a Strong, Empowered Workforce

BSR’s HERproject conducted this scoping study to provide a snapshot of the buyers, factories, and other stakeholders active in the apparel industry and identify key trends and approaches for their operations in Ethiopia. This research aims to build a strong, empowered workforce, focused on female workers, in Ethiopia's emerging apparel industry.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Supply Chain Transparency: A Change Tool for Successful Global Businesses

Identifying companies’ vast supply networks is challenging, and tracking their sustainability performance even more so. However, measuring data and increasing transparency are powerful tools for managing the risks and grasping the opportunities of global supply chains, contributing to sustainable development and a positive effect on the bottom line.​

Research, Reports & Publications

Consumers Energy Sustainability Report 2017

Sustainability means everything to us at Consumers Energy. It is our approach to business. The philosophy extends beyond our energy mix, power generation and distribution. It’s our way of life, and it’s evident in everything we do — from hiring and training our people, to caring for families and communities.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Consumers Energy Recognized by Forbes Magazine as Michigan’s Best Employer in National Survey

Last week, unemployment fell to its lowest level in a decade. Companies are competing aggressively for talent, piling on more perks and benefits every year. But which organizations have the most satisfied employees? Forbes worked with research firm Statista to compile the definitive list of the best employers in America.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Transforming Technology Pro Bono: New Tool for Nonprofits Released by Taproot Foundation and VMware Foundation

The median technology budget of nonprofits is less than 2% of each organization’s total operating budget, and most nonprofits are not confident that they have enough skilled staff or training to effectively use technology, according to NTEN’s 9th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Report. This is in stark comparison with the ubiquitous adoption and use of technology in the for-profit sector. With the goal of bridging this technology divide, the Taproot Foundation, in collaboration with VMware Foundation, released a new nonprofit-focused tool entitled Transforming Technology Pro Bono at Taproot’s annual U.S. Pro Bono Summit on April 26.

Green Infrastructure

Collaboration, Creativity and Planning Will Define Smart Cities

The rise of the smart city will rely on the ability of stakeholders to collaborate, engage citizens and act on data. Partnerships are hard at work and planning is under way to overcome the legacy of siloed services, focus on integrated systems that will ultimately be more adept at delivering critical services, empower communities and elevate our quality of life.

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Opportunity for All

At Trane Technologies, uplifting our communities and workforce is the key to our continued success. We focus on broadening access to education...

Aflac Stories

Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.

KeyBank's Community Investment

In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...

First Responder Programming

At Motorola Solutions, our customers are everyday heroes, and our philanthropic arm, the Motorola Solutions Foundation is dedicated to paying it...

Collective Action

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

Community Investment

all community engagement efforts (e.g., Teach for All, volunteerism, etc.)

GoDaddy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...

Small Business Growth

We strengthen communities and help create local jobs by investing in underserved small business owners. We fund nonprofits that are focused on...

KeyBank: Responsible Banking

Everyone’s financial journey is different. We make intentional efforts to meet the individual needs of clients and communities through a diverse range...

KeyBank's Commitment to Diversity

Promoting inclusive environments by employing systemic changes to improve the access of individuals of diverse backgrounds. Learn more about our...