News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in organizations.
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11-16-16
The Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) applauds the selection of Geisha J. Williams as the next President & CEO of PG&E Corporation.
Williams will become the first Hispanic woman ever to serve as President & CEO of a Fortune 500 company in U.S. his...
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11-16-16
The Arbor Day Foundation and Publix have joined together to plant trees in an effort to help clean and restore the Lower and Upper Ocklawaha Watersheds of St. Johns River Water Management District.
The 600-square-mile Orange Creek Basin is part of the Lower Ocklawaha River watershed. The ...
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11-15-16
While the majority of consumers believe many of the issues related to recycling have improved since the 1970s, such as “ease of recycling” and the “amount of waste” that is recycled, most consumers feel the amount of waste in landfills and oceans is worse, according to the first “Consumer Tracker...
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11-15-16
The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI) today announced the launch of the Responsible Raw Materials Initiative (RRMI) to address the most significant social and environmental impacts related to the extraction and processing of raw mate...
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11-14-16
The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has awarded a $500,000 challenge grant to Project Drawdown, a global initiative based on meticulous research and subsequent traditional and online publications that analyzes how and when we can ...
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11-08-16
Today, the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) announced that the nomination deadline for its 2017 HACR Young Hispanic Corporate Achievers™ (YHCA) program will be extended by two weeks.
Fortune 500 and HACR Corporate Member companies will have until Monday, Nov...
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11-07-16
Solar energy provider Mobisol has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to provide 800,000 people and 50,000 small businesses in Kenya with reliable access to solar energy by 2020. In the process, the Berli...
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10-27-16
The Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) is pleased to announce that its second annual Leadership Pipeline Program (LPP) is sold out. The event will take place on October 31-November 1, at the Marriott Marquis Time Square in New York City.
The 2016 HACR LPP will bring to...
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10-19-16
Today, GRI launched the world’s first global standards for sustainability reporting, giving companies a common language for disclosing non-financial information. The GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards will enable companies around the world to be more transparent about their impacts on the eco...