At the UN Social Innovation Summit held at the end of May in New York City, a plenary panelist stated that social enterprises and social innovation are “really the same thing.” This conclusion was not questioned and appeared to be a point of view the conference leaders and speakers we...
Yes, you read that right. I’m the most positive person I know, and yet, I have to say it because I have realized after working in the social enterprise sector for over a decade that none of the current social enterprises alone, mine included, will save us from our current growth model...
SAN FRANCISCO and BARCELONA, May 15 /CSRwire/ - 22 global cities, including London, Barcelona, Paris, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos and Fukuoka have announced the 23 innovative solutions they selected to solve their most pressing urban and social challenges. In a unique global ef...
ARLINGTON, Va., May 04 /CSRwire/ - Counterpart International’s annual report won a prestigious Platinum Hermes Creative Award from the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals. (www.Counterpart.org ) The nonprofit’s video—“Counterpart in 90 Seconds”—earned an honorabl...
Collaboration is the human face of systemic change. Join Peter Senge and Darcy Winslow for this 3-day leadership workshop and learn how to successfully and collaboratively make sustainability a core value in your organization, supply chain and community. The overall focus of this work...
Like many things in life, disruption comes in many forms: the good, bad and, not to put too fine a point on it, ugly. This year’s Skoll World Forum in Oxford, the pre-eminent global gathering of social entrepreneurs and those who help scale their work , took “Disruption” as its theme ...
No Nature, No Business is the underlying assumption that must guide all financial regulations and international climate treaty negotiations. I can imagine buy-in actually coming from a majority of both the world’s businesses and governments as a new level playing field is built. I wou...
Cost efficient renewable energy from biomass boilers have the double benefit of reducing bio-waste and helping the company to reach its 40% renewable energy target. Unilever now has 30 biomass boilers globally supplying more than 7% of our renewable energy, with six more planned for t...
ARLINGTON, Texas, Apr. 06 /CSRwire/ - The new sustainable concessions and restroom building at Randol Mill Park opened its doors to the public with a ribbon cutting ceremony today, Saturday, April 6, at 9:00 am. The sustainable, environmental features of the new Concession/Restroom bu...
This week -- and leading up to the launch of Unilever's 2012 Sustainability Report later this month -- we begin a series of conversations with the leaders and executives of Unilever reporting on how the company is performing against the famously ambitious goals laid out in its Sustain...
A Billion + Change is a national campaign to mobilize billions in pro bono and skills-based volunteer services from corporate America in 2013. In this installment of A Billion + Change's Innovations in Skills-Based Volunteering series, Gabe Zichermann shares Gamification Corporation's...
LONDON and ROTTERDAM, Apr. 02 /CSRwire/ - Unilever (NYSE: UL) today announced it is sourcing more than a third of its agricultural raw materials sustainably, having made significant progress towards its target of 100% by 2020. With 36% now sourced sustainably, it has exceeded the inte...
TV advertisers are watching as millennials and their family members – especially their parents – who have adopted similar socially conscious views increasingly populate prime demographics. One outcome of these increasingly “sustainability-supporting demographics” is that advertisers a...
Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive Education offers Corporate Social Responsibility Program Organizer: Harvard Business School Executive Education Date: 09.25.13, 12:00AM – 09.28.13, 12:00AM Location: BOSTON Sponsor: Harvard Business School Website: bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPip...
BERLIN, Germany, Mar. 31 /CSRwire/ - Together with leading experts from the food industry, agriculture, academia and NGOs, BASF laid the foundation to bring forward solutions for sustainability assessment, an essential part of the agricultural business. Under the theme " Perspectives ...
Using Integrated Reporting as a catalyst for integrated thinking. That's how Peter Graf, SAP's Chief Sustainability Officer expressed the firm's decision to replace two reports – the annual report mandated by the law and submitted to the SEC indicating the company's financial performa...
FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Conference and Awards 2013 Organizer: Financial Times Date: 06.13.13, 09:00AM – 06.13.13, 10:15PM Location: London Sponsor: Financial Times Website: www.ft-live.com/sustainablefinance The Financial Times and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, have launch...
By Farron Levy , President, True Impact Employee volunteering can be a powerful force for improving the lives of those in need, promoting community wellbeing, and supporting important social initiatives. At the same time, such programs can support core business interests, like employe...
An online, social community. We launched our online Powering the Possible portal (named after our broader corporate responsibility commitment ) two and a half years ago. Team members can now log volunteer hours, donate to charities and find new causes to support. Equally important, th...
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The Western Energy Leadership Summit will bring together leaders from the utility, natural gas, transportation, renewables, regulatory, federal and state governments, academia, trade groups, NGOs, and research companies to address the opportunities and urgency to develop more investme...
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 15 /CSRwire/ - A U.S. federal appellate court dealt Chevron another setback in its $19 billion Ecuador case by ordering the oil giant to turn over key discovery documents relating to an American technical expert accused by the plaintiffs of committing fraud on the Ec...
The CSR issues landscape is evolving in tandem with new media. New technologies and channels break barriers by enabling a flow of information -- which is often instantaneous and unfortunately sometimes less than accurate. More sophisticated companies are using social and new media cha...
The short answer is: because you do not want to make more money. Doing business today is not the same as 50 years ago - there are just not as many cheap resources. In recent years, the cost of everything from raw materials to transportation – even labor - takes a big bite out of gross...
154,000 workers. 47 percent of all managers are women [compared to 17 percent of the American Fortune 500's board seats or the female representation at the recently concluded World Economic Forum]. 338 stores worldwide. 8 percent comparable store sales growth in FY2012. A third of tot...
OAK BROOK, Ill., Jan. 24 /CSRwire/ - In recognition of its ten year commitment to sustainable fishing practices, McDonald’s USA (NYSE: MCD) announced today it would become the first national restaurant chain to adopt the Marine Stewardship Council’s blue ecolabel on its fish packaging...
S&P Dow Jones Indices designed the U.S. Carbon Efficient Index to help investors find more carbon-efficient companies. The U.S. Carbon Efficient Index is a subset of constituents in the S&P 500 with a relatively small carbon footprint, and maintains at least 50 percent of the underlyi...
: Most corporate sustainability budgets were flat in 2012 and will likely be constrained heading into 2013. Bucking this trend for most of the S&P 500 in 2012, a few companies stand out as increasing commitments and investments to accelerate corporate sustainability. Unilever [NYSE: U...
It’s a word that is bubbling to the surface these days as traumatized New Yorkers pick through the tattered remains of their homes and businesses in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy . As I write, a new storm is howling outside my window on the East End of Long Island, threatening the ...
LONDON, Jan. 02 /CSRwire/ - Featuring Jeremy Darroch, Chief Executive Officer of SKY, John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK and Daniel Franklin, Executive Editor of the Economist – the summit will address how companies will conduct sustainable business both now and in the f...
