Organizations
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in organizations.
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10-07-15
Sustainable Development and Business Practices Forum: Tianjin, China
The Tianjin Green Supply Chain Center (TGCC), China Environmental United Certification Center (CEC), Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) and The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) will jointly convene “Sustainable Development and Business Practices – 2015 Green Supply Chain F...
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10-06-15
Spence-Chapin Services to Families & Children Named One of America’s 100 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces by Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
Spence-Chapin announced that it has been recognized for its employee adoption benefits by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Spence-Chapin was ranked 87th on the organization’s 2015 Best A...
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10-06-15
The Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) Continues to Push for Career Advancement for Hispanics Through New Leadership Development Program and Research Initiative
The Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR), one of the nation’s leading organizations for the inclusion of Hispanics in Corporate America, is hosting its 2015 HACR Leadership Pipeline Program (LPP) and HACR STEM Initiative on November 2-3 at the Marriott Marquis in Washingt...
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10-06-15
Earthworm-Inspired Soil Solution Captures First Place in Nature-Inspired Global Challenge
A design created to help farmers keep nutrients in the soil won first prize in the first food system-focused Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. This innovation, created by a team of stud...
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10-06-15
Indian Inventors Face Significant Challenges Bringing Life-Improving Products to Market
The Lemelson Foundation, the world’s leading funder of invention in service of social and economic change, today released a new report, Catalyzing Capital for Invention: Spotlight on India. The report examines India’s “impact ecosyst...
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10-01-15
Spence-Chapin Services to Families & Children Brings Its International Granny Program to Children at the Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center
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09-30-15
Using Nature’s Design Principles to Feed Nine Billion
Earlier this year, hundreds of people from around the world took on a challenge to fix our global food system by looking to nature for design solutions. Now, eight finalist teams have been invited to prototype their solutions in an accelerator program that will award $...
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09-29-15
Giving Rural Women a Chance of Entrepreneurial Success
Bata Bangladesh, the local company of the family-owned global footwear and accessories manufacturer and retailer Bata Shoe Organization, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to train and employ 5,000 low-income rural women as independent sales representatives.
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09-29-15
GMO Free USA on the Road Again with Neil Young in October
On the heels of a successful July tour, GMO Free USA will again be joining Neil Young + Promise of the Real for their October #RebelContentTour promoting the new studio album, The Monsanto Years. The tour kicks off October 1st in Missoula, Montana, and wraps October 17th in Berkeley, Cal...
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09-25-15
Inclusive Business a Key Contributor to the new Global Development Agenda
From small social entrepreneurships to large national and multinational companies, from urban neighborhoods to remote communities, from the farmyard to the schoolhouse, an increasing number of companies have rallied around the Business Call to Action (BCtA) by committing to inclusive business mod...
