ESG News from Leading Brands

Responsible Production & Consumption

Sodexo’s “Vermont First” Commitments Bearing Fruit as Local Product Purchases See a Significant Increase

Dec 23, 2015 7:30 AM ET

Just over a year ago, Sodexo, a leader in delivering sustainable, integrated facilities management and food service operations with a significant presence in Vermont, announced a major initiative to help grow Vermont’s local food economy by committing to buy local food first via a comprehensive program called “Vermont First”.

Innovation & Technology

Philippine Nonprofits Hit the Ground Running Following Implementation Pilot

Dec 23, 2015 4:00 AM ET

When it comes to nonprofit capacity building, the needs of nonprofit organizations are as varied as the issue areas in which they work. For NetSuite.org, the Corporate Citizenship arm of NetSuite, our commitment to strengthen nonprofit performance and impact is done by leveraging our core resources – our talented, passionate employees and our award winning technology.

Education

Hope in Hazelwood

Dec 22, 2015 5:00 PM ET

Students from Carnegie Mellon's School of Architecture are working with the Hazelwood community to create a case study for a radical new kind of development.

Environment

We'll Always Have Paris: Vivienne Walt on COP21

Dec 22, 2015 4:30 PM ET

Victor Hugo said of Paris that nothing was more fantastic, more tragic, or more sublime. Will the same ever be said of the COP 21 climate agreement brokered this month in the iconic city? This week on Sea Change Radio, we re-cap the Climate Summit with prominent freelance journalist Vivienne Walt.

Innovation & Technology

Five Pathways for Integrative Business: SustainAbility’s New Report

Dec 22, 2015 4:00 PM ET

Many companies believe that sustainability is integral to their business, but in reality only a few of them have fully embedded sustainability into their business models.

Health & Healthcare

Booz Allen Data Scientists Challenge the Global Data Science Community to Change the World

Dec 22, 2015 3:05 PM ET

Last week, Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle announced the kick-off of the second annual Data Science Bowl. This year’s challenge calls on the global data science community to create a set of steps, or algorithms, to help transform diagnosis of heart disease. By putting data science to work in the cardiology field, data scientists can empower doctors to help people live longer and spend more time with those that they love.

Environment

The National Park Foundation is Powered by Nature Lovers

Dec 22, 2015 2:00 PM ET

Subaru is a champion of conservation. Since teaming with NPF in 2013 through the Share the Love Event, Subaru has underwritten programs and projects in more than 90 parks.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Diageo North America Spreads Cheer Across the U.S. and Canada

Dec 22, 2015 12:30 PM ET

Employees from Diageo North America are giving back this holiday season by participating in a variety of volunteer programs and fundraising efforts across a number of the company’s locations. Initiatives span communities in Connecticut (home to Diageo’s North American headquarters), Kentucky, Illinois, New York and Canada, and include donating gifts, supplies and funds to families in need, volunteering to provide sober rides to holiday partygoers, and hosting festivities for local families. Together, these employees have partnered with more than 16 different charitable organizations in their local communities to spread some cheer this holiday season.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Five CSR Trends to Watch for in 2016

Dec 22, 2015 12:30 PM ET

Companies worldwide will have to navigate through new CSR requirements.

Innovation & Technology

Bechtel and Petrofac Partnered to Support INJAZ UAE on Innovation Day Camp

Dec 22, 2015 12:05 PM ET

Social Impact & Volunteering

10 Lessons from Top Philanthropic Companies of 2015

Dec 22, 2015 11:40 AM ET

Get inspired to give this coming year with this list of the 10 best corporate giving companies of 2015.

Events, Media & Communications

WEBINAR: A Year in CSR: A Look at the Top 10 Trends of 2015

Dec 22, 2015 11:05 AM ET

As we close the books on 2015, Cone Communications has evaluated a year's-worth of corporate social responsibility (CSR) tracking to share the top 10 trends.

Environment

COP21 Landmark Climate Accord Affirms JLL's Focus on the Long-Term Sustainability of its Business & Client Advice

Dec 22, 2015 11:05 AM ET

Following an historic Paris agreement where 195 nations committed to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, JLL is looking ahead to consider how COP21 will affect JLL’s clients, employees and investors.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Employee Driven Giving and Service

Dec 22, 2015 11:00 AM ET

Building a strong talent pipeline has been the focus of corporate conversations since the industrial revolution. Now, companies are recognizing that employees are not only their most critical business asset – they are their most strategic philanthropic asset.

Research, Reports & Publications

Domtar Continues to Improve its Employee Safety

Dec 22, 2015 10:35 AM ET

Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide variety of fiber-based products, including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers, and absorbent hygiene products.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Why Providing At-Risk Youth With Trade Education Matters to This Reality TV Star

Dec 22, 2015 10:35 AM ET

As the host of several popular home improvement reality shows, Josh Temple is a familiar sight on television these days. Recently, he's been a familiar sight on the Boys Town Campus too.

Research, Reports & Publications

Community Impact at Northern Trust

Dec 22, 2015 10:35 AM ET

Community involvement is deeply rooted in the Northern Trust culture, affecting the way we do business globally. Since our founding in 1889, Northern Trust has actively advanced a culture of caring and a commitment to invest responsibly in the communities we serve worldwide. This philosophy continues today through progressive community investments; contributions to service and community organizations; partner volunteerism; gifts in-kind such as donations of meeting space, catering, supplies and other knowledge services; and directorship guidance to charitable and civic boards.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Republic Services Makes Donation to Inez Kinney Gaylord Emergency Shelter

Dec 22, 2015 10:15 AM ET

It’s that time of the year, the time of the year for giving. That’s exactly what the women of the Republic Services’ Southeast Landfill in Oklahoma City did.

Environment

Congratulating a Friend on a Job Well Done

Dec 22, 2015 10:00 AM ET

Last week, I got to celebrate the Winter Solstice in another form.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The New Competitive Advantage

Dec 22, 2015 9:30 AM ET

As 2015 comes to a close, it will be remembered for global triumphs and heartbreaking losses. The push and pull of a variety of worldwide forces presented us with simultaneous challenges and boundless opportunities. We face challenges of terrorism, racial tension, social injustice, refugees, and other regional and global conflicts that threaten our common purpose.

Education

Amgen Scholars Global Program: Imaani Easthausen

Dec 22, 2015 9:10 AM ET

Imaani Easthausen had her sights set on a career in writing—until she began taking science classes at Bard College. For Imaani, science and, specifically, biology—as it related to the inner workings of the body—represented a new way of thinking about the human experience. For her, science was a way of exploring the question, What does it take to be sitting here, existing in this body, right now?

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Four Ways to Create and Maintain a Productive Workforce

Dec 22, 2015 8:15 AM ET

Social Impact & Volunteering

NS: Making Connections

Dec 22, 2015 8:05 AM ET

Sustainable Development Goals

Providing Access to Clean, Safe Water in Tanzania

Dec 22, 2015 8:00 AM ET

Working with a Maasai community to design and construct a gravity pipeline, related storage, and public tapstands

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Join Albertsons Companies to Give the Gift of Food

Dec 22, 2015 7:00 AM ET

The holidays are a special time of year for families to gather around a bountiful meal and celebrate their good fortune. However, the holidays can also be a particularly difficult time of year to experience food insecurity – that means not all household members know where their n