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Finance
5 Ways Microloans Improve Your Community
Pictured: Loriun has received $80,000 over seven years from Grameen America, helping her expand her bakery, open an electronics shop, and […]
June 5, 2018
Finance
Investing Human Capital: A New Approach to Achieving the SDGs
By Chris Jarvis The private sector has direct access to financial and human capital. With the UN Sustainable Development Goals […]
June 5, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Lessons Learned at Engage for Good 2018
By Devika Narayan More than 500 corporate, nonprofit and agency professionals working at the intersection of profit and Purpose convened […]
June 4, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Urbanization & Ecology – Two Sides of The Coin
By Dr. Alison Blyth and David Evans In an inner city street a fox melts into the night in search […]
June 4, 2018
Sponsored
The Future of Forests: Sustainable Forestry in the Decade of Action
The Reason 'Going Paperless' May Not Be the Greenest Option
By Samantha St. Pierre When people find out that I advise companies on responsible sourcing of forest products, most immediately […]
June 1, 2018
Finance
American Incomes Are More Unstable Than Ever – What Financial Firms Should Do to Help
By Scott Burns Anna works two jobs and is training for advanced certifications through her local community college. She expects […]
May 31, 2018
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Maximizing Impact Through Workforce Development and Education
Women Can Soar When the Mentored Become Mentors
By Tamika Tremaglio This is graduation season, and along with the nearly four million postsecondary degrees being handed out, new […]
May 26, 2018
Technology
The Carbon Footprint of Solar Panels Manufacturing
By Scott Cramer Although the use of solar panels is green, many solar panel manufacturing processes are not. To create a […]
May 25, 2018
Energy
Empowering a California Asparagus Farmer to Conserve Water Through IoT Connectivity
By Swathy Ramaswamy Being an organic farmer can be challenging. Farmers are faced with constant pricing pressures from conventional competitors […]
May 25, 2018
Should We Be Concerned About Running Out Of Oil?
By Scott Huntington With the rise of green energy solutions around the world, the worldwide panic over oil use has […]
May 25, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Corporations and Their Evolving Roles in the Social Good Economy
By Kim Lynes For most companies today, a philanthropic arm of the business is not a nice-to-have—it’s a must-have. This […]
May 24, 2018
Why Companies Are Turning Toward Sustainable Buildings
By Scott Huntington Early indicators and hype have led us to believe the green revolution is indeed underway. However, the […]
May 24, 2018
Technology
Ecocentricity Blog: This One Is A Step Back
By John Anderson Lanier If you were to look back at all the blogs I have written (by my count, […]
May 23, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Avoiding Purpose-Washing: When, How and Where Brands Can Embed Purpose into Business, Brand and Experience
By Alison DaSilva, EVP, Purpose/CSR, Cone Communications The evolution of responsible business has yet again taken an exciting turn as we […]
May 22, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Is the Commodity Era Over?
By Barry Parkin I’ve recently begun to wonder if we’re moving away from the world of commodities as we’ve known […]
May 18, 2018
Finance
A New Measure Captures a Company’s “Total Social Investment”
By CECP In a groundbreaking study released by CECP: The CEO Force for Good, the way companies calculate and report […]
May 16, 2018
Finance
Blockchain Comes to the Diamond Trade
By Logan Yonavjak A diamond is forever, but the negative impacts on people and planet don’t have to be. The […]
May 16, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Pernod Ricard: Getting Rid of Plastic Straws is a Call to Corporate Responsibility
By John Tran Plastic drinking straws are everywhere – in the soft drinks that we order with our meal, in […]
May 15, 2018
Finance
A New Role for Brands – Vancouver
By: KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz, Founder and CEO of Sustainable Brands Last year, Sustainable Brands launched a three-year initiative to explore […]
May 14, 2018
Finance
Shared Value Summit 2018 Reflection
By Danielle Holly When Common Impact’s clients ask me what events they should attend to understand the next generation of […]
May 14, 2018
Energy
Climate Leaders Take Cues From Nature To Inspire Optimism
By Nikki Pava “How do you work in the field of sustainability or environmental issues without getting depressed?” Maybe you’ve […]
May 14, 2018
Beyond the Keyboard: How to Think Creatively About Social Activism
By Emily Slade From redefining the idea of beauty to eliminating the stigma of mental health issues, social activism comes […]
May 10, 2018
Energy
Squaw Valley Ski Resort to be 100% Renewable Powered
By Kirsten James The dozens of chairlifts and gondolas at the Squaw Valley ski resort ferry as many as 50,000 […]
May 10, 2018
Sustainable Living
What’s Really Green – A Look at Beef, Part V – How Can You Prove It? (i.e., Filter Out the Bull)
By Jonathan Gelbard, Ph.D. Previously, I explored impacts of poorly-managed grazing operations and feedlots, and triple bottom line benefits of […]
May 10, 2018
Energy
Preparing for the Next Sandy: Making New York More Resilient in the Age of Superstorms
By Dan Squiller Ask anyone who lives in New York City, New Jersey or any of the twelve states affected […]
May 9, 2018
3 Ways to Ensure a Sustainable Supply Chain
By Peter Seligmann The economic case for sustainability in business is open-and-shut, with benefits including more engaged stakeholders and employees, deeper […]
May 8, 2018
On World Press Freedom Day: In Defense of the Media
By Marc Berliner “Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.” – Walter Cronkite May 3 […]
May 7, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
How to Tell a Brand Story That’s Worth Spreading
By Lee Rhodes Positivity — like many wonderful and therapeutic traits in our world — is infectious. The innate good […]
May 4, 2018
Energy
Green Champions: Five Takeaways from Conversations with Sustainability Leaders
By Renée Yardley Rolland, a manufacturer of premium recycled post-consumer content paper, has published a series of conversations with sustainability […]
May 2, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Three Ways to Activate Your CSR Mission
By Steve Randazzo Making the world a better place is not just for activists and billionaires. Now, brands are taking […]
May 2, 2018
Energy
Enlightened Farm Policies, Practices, and Sustainable Agriculture Standards Bear Fruit for Pollinators
By Lesley Sykes Many of our most beloved fresh food crops – almonds, apples, avocados, mangoes, blueberries, and pumpkins, to […]
May 2, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Building Your Nonprofit Market: How to Combine Technology Volunteering with Product Donations
By Ava Kuhlen Product donations to social change organizations are increasingly popular. These donations can include software, hardware, subscriptions, or […]
May 1, 2018
Energy
Driving the New Climate Economy: How Companies and Communities Can Thrive in a Changing World
By Lisa Manley There are clear signals that the climate has changed over the past century. Around the world, people […]
April 27, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Starbucks’ Problem is Our Problem
By Chris Jarvis By now we’ve all seen the news. Two young men sitting and talking in a Starbucks in […]
April 26, 2018
Finance
To Go Circular, First Go Vertical
By Alan Barton Early last year, the waste management world was abuzz with news of furniture manufacturing giant Ikea’s minority […]
April 26, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Woman in Finance: Plant Your Garden and Tend It
By Jane Carten Though it seems incredible, we’ve learned that there are some among us who have managed to skate […]
April 24, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Four Need-to-Know Takeaways From the Cause Marketing Summit
By Whitney Dailey Last week, nonprofits and companies alike convened in New York City for the 4th Annual Cause Marketing Summit (CMS) […]
April 23, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
CEOs Transcend Politics and Transform Social Problems: Michigan’s Talent 2025
By Kate Isaacs and Fred Keller Several high-profile moments in corporate social responsibility marked recent months. Blackrock CEO Larry Fink […]
April 19, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Putting Our Feminism Into Our Finances
By Kristin Hull While many of us have been at this for a while now, 2018 is the year we […]
April 18, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
The Opioid Crisis: Taking Action in the Private Sector
By Roger Krone The conversation around solving America’s opioid problem is centered on public policy, but the private sector holds […]
April 17, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Changing the Story of Women in the Workplace
By Kelly McGrail Can ignoring gender bias make it go away? Of course not. But I do wonder whether the […]
April 17, 2018
Energy
Feeding 9 Billion People in 2050? Challenging!
By Governance & Accountability Institute The CEO of one of the nation’s leading food and agriculture companies, Land O’Lakes, Chris […]
April 17, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Measuring Corporate Actions Against the SDGs
By Global Reporting Institute With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world’s leaders set out on an ambitious path […]
April 12, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Brands Tackle Global Challenges in the Magnitude of Billions
Produced by (E) BrandConnect for Cisco A strategic approach to solving the most critical problems around the world starts with […]
April 12, 2018
Energy
Clean Water for All Starts with Technology
By Erin Connor Water is everywhere. It covers 70% of our planet and makes up nearly 60% of the human […]
April 11, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
How Your Company Can Help Countries Like Haiti
By Scott Huntington We all want to help people, but misinformation and a lack of confidence in corporatized aid efforts […]
April 5, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Ocado Reduces Food Waste Through Redistribution Initiatives
By Tom Idle This article is sponsored by Ocado and went through our normal editorial review process. Food waste is […]
April 4, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Has Deregulation Allowed Texas to Be More Sustainable?
By Alice Williams Ever since 2002, most areas in the Lone Star State have had deregulated energy markets, meaning that […]
March 30, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Executive Perspective: Business’s Greatest Untapped Resource: Women
By Fiona Dawson Women occupy just 15 percent of board seats worldwide. In the US, women account for just five […]
March 28, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Pfizer Releases 2017 Annual Review
By Pfizer Pfizer has announced the release of its 2017 Annual Review, which highlights The Power of Science to showcase […]
March 28, 2018
Technology
How AI Is Helping Control Malaria
By Oliver Bent Bed nets, insecticides and repellents are all effective intervention strategies to control the spread of malaria, but […]
March 28, 2018
Energy
PPAs for Renewables Continue to Soar – For Good Reason
By Tom Idle When the world’s biggest food business Nestlé signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with a company […]
March 27, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Winning the STEM Battle with Code Wars
By Mark Potter CodeWars is a magical experience … and not just because some of the high schoolers in attendance […]
March 27, 2018
Energy
Who's Responsible for This?
By John Anderson Lanier So I said I would talk about how people only care about the services that products […]
March 26, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Eight Actions to be an Exceptional Listener
By Stacey Hanke Most people consider themselves to be good listeners, finding it hard to admit otherwise. We know listening […]
March 26, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Companies Amp Up Support for March For Our Lives
By Alison DaSilva, Executive Vice President, Cone Communications Just over a month ago, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High […]
March 23, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Higher Prices, Administrative Costs Drive U.S. Health Care Inefficiency
By Joshua Gordon A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association looks across the health care systems […]
March 23, 2018
Energy
Water Positive Docuseries on Water Crisis Makes Debut on World Water Day
Harmful algal blooms, typically caused by excess phosphorus, pollute freshwater in more than 15,000 waterways in the U.S. and impact […]
March 22, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Six Ways to Engage Employees in CSR
By Caitlin Hotchkiss In recent years, we have watched CSR evolve from a luxury to a priority for organizations of […]
March 22, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Microplastics: In Our Soils Too?
By Dr Alison Blyth & David Evans Most environmentally conscious citizens are already well aware of the problems microplastics create […]
March 21, 2018
Technology
Taking Water Infrastructure Back to Nature
By Luka Erceg The infrastructure gap is real, and it’s looming. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that the world will […]
March 19, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Little Risk in Brands Taking Stands
By John Friedman Over the last few weeks companies have been publicly abandoning their relationships with the National Rifle Association […]
March 16, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Unlimited Volunteering: Will It Work for You?
By Helen Bates, GivingForce Unlimited volunteering is a new trend in corporate social responsibility. Similar to the increasingly popular policy […]
March 15, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
What’s Really ‘Green’? A Look at Beef Finishing on Feedlots
By Jonathan Gelbard, Ph.D. In my last post, I used a science-based green purchasing framework to evaluate sustainability of cattle […]
March 15, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
5th Annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit Hosted by Bloomberg
By Bloomberg On Saturday, March 3, Bloomberg hosted its 5th annual Startup Young Women’s Leadership Summit, convening 500 high school and […]
March 14, 2018
Voices for Change
How an Olympic Mindset Can Empower Social Impact Leaders
By Nikki Korn Watching the Olympics last month, we saw athletes from all parts of the world pursue their goals […]
March 14, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
How to Make CSR Everyone’s Responsibility
By Tim McClimon Do you believe that corporate social responsibility is important to your company, but that it’s someone else’s […]
March 13, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Wellbeing And Why You Need To Care
Similar to individuals, organizations are now meeting their employees where they are and have made a pivot from focusing on only corporate social responsibility to total company wellbeing.
March 13, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Gender Can be the Key to Unlocking Wider Diversity Challenges
By Fiona Dawson I have been in business now for 30 years, and have always believed that women represent an […]
March 12, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
The Evolution of International Women’s Day as Brands #PressForChange
By Cone Communications As International Women’s Day (IWD) continues to grow in momentum year over year, so too does company […]
March 12, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
The Partners You Need to Truly Go Green
By Stephen Lewis When Newsweek released its most recent list of the greenest American corporations, well-known names like Coca-Cola and Johnson & […]
March 12, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Women's History Month – Looking Back to Chart a Path Forward
By Joanna Geraghty This series is sponsored by JetBlue and went through the normal TriplePundit editorial review process March means […]
March 9, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Principles for Future Leaders Navigating A Changing World
By Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington and Helena Calle Perhaps the biggest challenge facing leaders today is ensuring they […]
March 9, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
New GRI Service to Improve CSR Report Quality
By Global Reporting Institute The ?Global Reporting Institute has recently launched a service that fills a much-needed gap in the […]
March 9, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
International Women’s Day: Three Simple Ways We Can All #PressforProgress for Women in STEM
By Mary Snapp Women around the world are taking to the streets on International Women’s Day to urge faster progress on gender […]
March 8, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Building an Inclusive Company in a Diverse World
By Olivier Blum If we think about it, what is it that makes our world special? Chances are that each […]
March 8, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
How and Where Diversity Drives Financial Performance
By Rocio Lorenzo and Martin Reeves Diversity is both an issue of fairness and, some say, a driver of innovation and […]
March 7, 2018
Technology
Fresh Perspectives from Women in Venture Capital
By Bloomberg Venture capitalists from some of NYC’s leading VC firms joined Bloomberg, Cornell Tech, and Tech:NYC at Bloomberg’s New […]
March 7, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Non-GMO Project Verification Takes Food Manufacturers by Storm
By Brandon Nauman As one of the fastest growing value-added labels in modern grocery history, the Non-GMO Project Verified label has tapped […]
March 6, 2018
Technology
Why You Should Delete Your Data When Crossing the Border
By Scott Huntington Have you crossed any international borders recently? It can be a little nerve-wracking. The rules on the […]
March 6, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Ocado Repurposes Uniforms Through Unique Partnership
By Tom Idle This article is sponsored by Ocado and went through our normal editorial review process. More than a […]
March 2, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Opioid Crisis: Why Companies Should Take Note
By Dr. Deborah Happ, Senior Vice President, New Directions Behavioral Health Like abuse of alcohol or illicit drugs, the nation’s […]
March 2, 2018
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On the Journey to a Personal Network for Social Good
Unite Your Purpose and the World, in the Cloud
By Rob Acker, CEO, Salesforce.org Odds are when you wake up in the morning, you grab your phone and start […]
March 1, 2018
Energy
Wind Power Projected to Grow in 2018
By Brian Collett Fewer onshore wind turbines were commissioned worldwide last year, partly because of an economic slowdown in China, […]
March 1, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Purpose: Everyone Wants It, But What Does It Actually Mean?
By Alison DaSilva, Executive Vice President, Cone Communications Purpose has become a catch-all phrase that means different things to different […]
February 28, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
ISSF Makes a Strategic Plan for Sustainable Seafood
By Brad Ack, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Senior Vice President, Oceans An important trend is taking shape in the fight […]
February 28, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
The Vetting is Done. Oregon Cap and Invest Funds Forests, Farms and Wildfire Protection.
By Julius Pasay As Oregon’s political leadership debates the details of a Cap and Invest bill to begin decarbonizing the […]
February 28, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Board Oversight, Outperformance, and the Sustainability Disconnect
By Nancy S. Cleveland, CEO & co-founder, Sustrana Active shareowners, stock exchanges, and rating and reporting system providers1 all push […]
February 27, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Northern Trust Exec Engages with Quinlan Business School Students re. CSR
By the Quinlan School of Business There was standing room only at The Baumhart Center at Loyola’s Quinlan School of […]
February 27, 2018
Corporate Responsibility
Over 100 Global Cities Get Majority of Electricity from Renewables
By CDP Cities are increasingly reporting that they are powered by renewable electricity, according to data published today by CDP. […]
February 27, 2018