Organizations
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in organizations.
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10-20-14
PHINMA Properties Joins Business Call to Action (BCtA) with Commitment to Greater Housing Access in the Philippines
PHINMA Property Holdings Corporation (PHINMA Properties), announced its commitment to extend housing opportunities to impoverished families in the Philippines as it joined Business Call to Action (BCtA), a global initiative that encourages private-sector efforts to fight poverty. As part of its c...
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10-15-14
Farmerline Joins the Business Call to Action with Commitment to Provide Mobile Communication Services to Rural Farmers
Leading Ghana-based technology provider Farmerline has announced plans to join the Business Call to Action. The company plans to empower 500,000 small-scale farmers by 2019 in West Africa to advance their livelihoods by accessing information that helps them to improve their harvests. The company ...
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10-09-14
SF Event to be 100% Powered by Renewable Microgrid
VERGE San Francisco, a four-day conference focusing on the intersection of technology and sustainability, will be powered by a fully functional, replicable, renewably-powered microgrid, demonstrating the power of distributed...
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10-03-14
Start-Ups Seek to Accelerate Their World-Changing Ideas
GreenBiz Group announced today the 14 companies selected as finalists for 2014 VERGE Accelerate, a showcase for innovative startups at the convergence of technology and sustainability, part of VERGE San Francisco.
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09-29-14
Half of Global Wildlife Lost, says new WWF Report
Between 1970 and 2010 populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish around the globe dropped 52 percent, says the 2014 Living Planet Report released today by World Wildlife Fund (WWF). This biodiversity loss occurs disproportiona...
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09-24-14
Inclusive Business Takes a Global Stage
Leading multinationals joined emerging companies today to reaffirm their commitments to the Business Call to Action. Most notably, Japan-based Panasonic and BASF India provided key commitments towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Commemorating the significa...
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09-24-14
Business Call to Action Launches its Flagship Report ‘Breaking Through’, Examining the Remarkable Progress of Inclusive Business
The first flagship report of Business Call to Action (BCtA) reviewing 5 years, shows strong evidence of progress made by BCtA member companies in providing benefits to people at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) while delivering commercial success. It also maps key challenges found in each sector for...
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09-19-14
World’s Leading Institutional Investors Managing $24 Trillion Call for Carbon Pricing, Ambitious Global Climate Deal
Days before UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the Climate Summit at the United Nations to spur climate action and facilitate a global climate agreement in 2015, nearly 350 global institutional investors representing over $24 trillion in assets have called on government leaders to provide ...
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09-18-14
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership Invites Corporations to Take the Corporate Mentoring Challenge
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) will recognize select corporations for their outstanding contributions to advancing quality mentoring opportunities for young people during the 2015 National Mento...
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09-17-14
Annual Net Impact Survey Highlights Impact MBA Program Trends and Rankings
Net Impact, a leading nonprofit that inspires a new generation to work for a sustainable future, released its 2014 edition of Business as UNusual: The Social and Environmental Impact Guide to Graduate Programs – For Students ...
