Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Water and Wastewater Industry Can Address Funding Challenges through Public-Private Partnerships

As water and wastewater utilities are challenged to minimize rate increases while balancing limited budgets – complicated by deferred maintenance, chronic underinvestment, competing projects and compliance mandates – one solution to consider is the public-private partnership (PPP) model.

Education & Workforce Development

Rethinking Pathways to Prosperity

Across the political spectrum, there is wide agreement that strengthening career and technical education is key to improving economic and social mobility.

Research & Reports

Jackson Family Wines Announces 2021 Sustainability Goals

Today California-based Jackson Family Wines shared its first sustainability report, supported by a list of comprehensive 5-year goals. The family-owned wine company, known for its portfolio of premium wineries with such beloved household names as Kendall-Jackson, La Crema and Cambria, is a progressive leader in environmentally and socially responsible business practices.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

The State of Ethical Sourcing

Forced Labor, in its most contemporary form, affects over 21 million people and spans across some of the most globalized industries in the world. From electronics to automobile manufacturing, forced labor has taken an increasing presence in supply chains, and is becoming a serious issue that companies need to be aware of.

Corporate Responsibility

GRI Podcasts: Beyond Reports - Episode 5, Elaine Cohen

In this month's episode of Beyond Reports, listen to Elaine Cohen, founder of the social and environmental business consulting firm Beyond Business Ltd and member of GRI's GOLD Community. Elaine talks about the challenges facing businesses as they try to improve the quality of their sustainability reporting.

Volunteering & Community

Find the Metrics for Success: How to Evaluate Your Employee Volunteer Program

In honor of VM Summit 16, which is all about corporate/ nonprofit collaboration, this series of volunteerism-related blog posts will take one topic and explain how it’s relevant to both groups. Today’s topic? Metrics for success. Check out our other blog, Engaging Volunteers, for the same topic from the perspective of corporate volunteer program managers.

Corporate Responsibility

GRI Podcasts: Beyond Reports - Episode 7, Dr. Suman Majumdar

Corporate Responsibility

GRI and Switzerland Partner to Foster Job Opportunities in the Developing World

Today, GRI and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) announced the start of the second phase of the Corporate Sustainability and Reporting for Competitive Business (CSRCB) program, which helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in the developing world, use sustainability reporting to gain better access to global value chains. Entering global value chains will contribute to creating more job and income opportunities in the target countries.

AI & Technology

Watson Tackles Youth Unemployment

How long and why do young people stay unemployed after entering the labor market? And what actions are the most effective to help them find a job quicker?

Research & Reports

British American Tobacco Publishes Corporate Behaviour Focus Report

British American Tobacco’s commitment to operating to the highest standards of corporate conduct is the focus of its latest report.

Latest Campaigns

Kingfisher Around the World

The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...

Cascale Events

Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...

Drive for MPC

At Marathon Petroleum, our professional truck drivers share one common vision: no accidents, no injuries, and no harm to the environment. We’re proud...

GoDaddy | Customers

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, helps millions of entrepreneurs globally start, grow, and scale their businesses. People come to...

P&G | Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Responsibility: We’ve achieved 14 out of 16 of the environmental goals we set in 2010, and we will accelerate our progress as we work to...

SCS Consulting

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Collective Action

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

Carbon Footprint

We are accelerating our efforts to help build a low-carbon economy and avert the worst impacts of climate change. Our goal to reduce our GHG emissions...

Rethinking EHS Podcast

Join us as we travel the world to uncover real stories of impact—from landfills and energy transition to workplace safety, emerging contaminants, and...

Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...