Organizations
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in organizations.
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10-24-17
Soil Health Institute, lum.ai and Tri-Societies Partner to Accelerate Soil Health Research
The Soil Health Institute, The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America and lum.ai are partnering on a project that uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) to accelerate the retrieval and use of soil health research.
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10-23-17
Nature-Inspired Water Collection System Wins $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize®
By 2050, 9 billion people will live on our planet, and 70% of them will live in cities, creating a demand for sustainable local food production solutions. An international team based in New York City has developed a prototype product that mimics the way living systems capture, store, and distribu...
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10-17-17
Five Daily Point of Light Awardees to Be Honored by Five Former Presidents for Disaster Relief Work
Points of Light will award five
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10-17-17
EICC Becomes the Responsible Business Alliance
The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), a nonprofit coalition of leading companies dedicated to improving social, environmental and ethical conditions in their global supply chains, today announced it has become the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA).
When the EICC was forme...
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10-16-17
MENTOR Announces National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll and New Award
Companies at the center of the youth mentoring movement have a chance to increase their impact and elevate their social responsibility through the newly re-launched National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll. Led by MENTOR: The National Mentoring Pa...
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10-12-17
CGF Members Share Their Sustainability Strategies in Updated Publications
The Consumer Goods Forum has published the 2nd editions of two of its key sustainability publications: its Business Actions Against Forced Labour booklet and its Food Waste booklet, featuring 12 new case studies outlining members’ strategies on how they are working on the eradic...
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10-11-17
The Lemelson Foundation and Partners Release Tools to Help Inventors and Entrepreneurs Integrate Sustainability From the Start
The Lemelson Foundation today announced the release of an integrated package of new educational and business management toolkits for invention-based entrepreneurs. Sustaining Our...
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10-04-17
The Consumer Goods Forum Sustainable Retail Summit: Day Two
The second and final day of The Consumer Goods Forum’s Sustainable Retail Summit drew to a close yesterday. It was full of fascinating discussions addressing three of the consumer goods industry’s biggest challenges. Taking place at the Centr...
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10-03-17
The Consumer Goods Forum Sustainable Retail Summit: Day One
The first day of The Consumer Goods Forum’s Second Sustainable Retail Summit drew to a close yesterday, and it was a great success. Taking place at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montréal, the Sustainable Retail Summit has brought together over 230 ...
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09-29-17
Winners of the 2nd Annual Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Awards Announced!
Six Canadian organizations were awarded yesterday in Toronto by the Global Compact Network Canada (GCNC) for their outstanding efforts to help advance action towards the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Lieutenant Governor of Onta...
