Organizations
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in organizations.
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02-17-16
GRI Launches GOLD Community to Shape the Future of Sustainability
GRI launched a new membership and engagement program, the GRI GOLD Community, building on its collaborative, global multi-stakeholder network. The GRI GOLD Community consists of diverse companies and organizations from across civil society, business, mediating institut...
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02-08-16
Increasing Food Security Through Improved Seed Quality in Bangladesh
Lal Teer Seed Limited, a Bangladesh-based research company involved in the development and production of high-quality seeds, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to increase the quality and quantity of seeds produced for domestic use. The company is committed to providi...
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02-03-16
Access to Clean Water and Job Creation for Disadvantaged Youth in Bangladesh
Watersprint, the Sweden-based environmental technology company, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to provide 50,000 people in Bangladesh with access to safe and clean drinking water by 2020. To support this effort, the company will provide training and employment to ...
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01-19-16
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership and the Corporation for National & Community Service Commemorate Fifth Anniversary of the Corporate Mentoring Challenge
On January 28, 2016, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) will recognize corporations for their outstanding contributions to advancing quality mentoring opportunities for young people and their...
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01-13-16
Is Your Company the Most Community Minded in America? Get Recognized by The Civic 50!
The Civic 50 at Points of Light is searching for corporate trailblazers that are improving communities and driving social impact. Is your company engaged in the communities where you do business? Are your purpose-driven employees volu...
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01-11-16
Weather and Agronomic Data Improves Decision-making for Millions of Smallholder Farmers
aWhere™, an American provider of agricultural intelligence data for farmers, commercial growers and policymakers, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a plan to expand access to its daily weather and agronomic information service to millions of ...
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01-07-16
The Results Are In: 2015 GameDay Recycling Challenge Winners
The GameDay Recycling Challenge (GDRC), which engages hundreds of thousands of collegiate football fans in a waste reduction and recycling competition every fall, today announced its 2015 national winners: Ohio University and Louisiana State University.
The competition pitted 99 colleges a...
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12-30-15
Improving Lives and Livelihoods with Better Healthcare Management in Chile
The Chilean company AccuHealth, a pioneer in virtual clinical hospitals, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a patient-centric tele-monitoring service designed to improve the health and livelihoods of chronically ill patients with value-added medical care at an affordable cost. BCt...
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12-22-15
Using SMS Texts to Provide Weather Forecasts for Small Farmers in West Africa
Ignitia, a high-tech social enterprise, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to deliver reliable, targeted, low-cost tropical weather forecasts via text messages to 1.2 million small-scale farmers in West Africa by the end of 2017. BCtA is a global initiative that encou...
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12-21-15
America’s Charities Announces New Cause Funds This Giving Season
Just in time for the peak giving season, America’s Charities, a mission-driven organization that drives collective impact by connecting nonprofits with companies and donors for 35 years, today announced
