In response to the severe impacts of Hurricane Helene, Direct Relief is providing $350,000 in emergency grant funding to support 14 health organizations across North Carolina and Florida.
On 1 July 2018, the transition from GRI’s G4 Guidelines to the GRI Standards will be complete. Read more about what this means for your organization's sustainability reporting.
Smithfield Foods, Inc. donated more than 400,000 pounds of protein to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank as part of the company’s 2018 Helping Hungry Homes® tour. Now in its 10th year, Helping Hungry Homes® is Smithfield’s signature hunger-relief initiative focused on helping Americans become more food secure. This donation, the largest in Helping Hungry Homes® history and equivalent to more than 1.6 million servings, will help support the estimated 1.2 million people in Los Angeles County who live with food insecurity.
CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, has released its eleventh annual Corporate Responsibility Report. The 2017 report – themed “Sharing the Responsibility” -- highlights CBRE’s many accomplishments as a leader in responsible business practices within the commercial real estate industry.
Rebuilding Together, the leading national nonprofit organization that provides critical home repairs to individuals in need at no cost to them and rebuilds communities throughout the country, announced today a new partnership with The Wills Group.
SEED SPOT and Booz Allen Hamilton are doubling down on their mission of supporting Washington, DC’s entrepreneurial ecosystem to spur startup innovation as a force for good. Their strategic partnership provides early-stage impact-driven entrepreneurs with business fundamentals, mentorship, resources, and access to capital to create businesses that positively impact the world.
Thanks to our microfinance partners around the globe who are working diligently daily to serve the world's poorest people, the average first microloan size we fund decreased over several fiscal quarters from $187 to $184 then $182 to now $180. What does this signify? That our partners continue to serve the unserved and that Whole Planet Foundation funds have created 15 million opportunities for low-income entrepreneurs to lift themselves and their family members out of poverty.
Aulston Taylor exemplifies the true spirit of Viacom. On the job, he’s boosted BET Network’s roster of clients by a dozen or more advertisers in the last 24 months and was named 40 Under 40 by Texas Southern University’s Business School, his undergraduate alma mater. Off the job, he’s most recently doubled downed on his education by graduating from NYU with his Masters in Integrated Marketing focused on Brand Management.
Aulston has spent his entire life striving and demanding excellence for himself and while his job may require him to be in New York, Aulston has done anything but leave New Orleans, his hometown, behind. He is connected to the city in more ways than one; specifically, his commitment to the youth of New Orleans.
Hallmark has released its second annual Caring in Action Social Responsibility Report featuring work during 2017 made by the global company’s diverse portfolio of businesses in the areas of community, diversity and inclusion and sustainability.
Continued degradation of environmental resources and failing to provide safe and healthy working environments globally have put water and OHS high on the global agenda. Credible and actionable information about organizations’ impact on society and the environment is more important now than it has ever been. The GRI Standards on OHS and water and effluents have been updated to ensure best practice of reporting. The updated GRI Standards further reflect the urgency of the new ways of understanding and addressing issues such as harm to workers’ health, or fresh water as an increasingly scarce resource.
On Monday, June 25, patients and their families enjoyed “Incredible” visitors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The stars of Disney•Pixar’s Incredibles 2, Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, paid a special visit to the hospital, where kids and families posed for pictures with the Supers, attended a private screening of the new film as part of the Disney Movie Moments program and also met Pixar animators, who created sketches of favorite Incredibles 2 characters for children in attendance. The young patients also received Disney toys, games, books and movies that were delivered in hospital care packages that are part of the Company’s Team of Heroes $100 million commitment to transform the children’s hospital experience over the next five years.
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