Organizations

The Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR) today announced the key set of core Principles it will use for accrediting sustainability ratings worldwide.

The year long effort included close participation from leaders in the investment and corporate communities – among those, Avi...

L’OCCITANE EN PROVENCE, a leading natural ingredient-based cosmetics firm, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) as it launched an environmental and social project for traditional shea butter production in Burkina Faso. The project aims to improve working conditions, encourage young women...

Brazilian based PagPop has announced it will join the Business Call to Action (BCtA), with plans to reach 300,000 new credit card users across Brazil in the next two years.

Founded in 2006, PagPop is an emerging mobile payment company that works to increase payment options for low-in...

Dozens of the world’s biggest companies have registered to participate in the 2014 GreenBiz Forum, GreenBiz Group’s flagship event for sustainability executives, to be held February 18-20 in Phoenix.

The Forum brings together sustainability leaders from business, nonprofits, and the public...

Leading U.S based social enterprise, ClickMedix has announced it will join the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with plans to provide more than 1,000 community-based nurses, physicians, and health workers with mobile smartphone technologies to help them improve care for more than 1...

Verified Volunteers, the first-of-its-kind platform for volunteer background screening, and Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service, today announced a groundbreaking new partnership to make vetting volunteers faster, easier and less costly for nonprofits a...

Civic engagement is on the rise in corporate America, according to the results of the 2013 Civic 50 survey published today by Bloomberg. More businesses are giving...

At its annual meeting held on November 26, 2013, the Board of Directors of the Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas (MCFA) approved an aggregate of nearly $1 million in the form of new grants, continuing grants and a program-related investment.

The new grants include major fu...

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Tokyo and the Business Call to Action (BCtA) hosted  the first BCtA event in Japan to encourage the Japanese private sector to participate in innovative business approaches that create development impact.  

Launched in 2008, the Business Call to ...

A new collaboration between the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI) and the Tungsten Industry Conflict Minerals Council (TI-CMC) makes it easier for companies to source conflict-free tungsten. Through the joint development of a specialized framework, members of the TI-CMC may now choose to b...