American wind power just achieved its second strongest quarter ever for newly installed energy generating...
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02-13-17
First Benefit Corporation Goes Public -- Laureate Education
This month, Laureate Education became the first benefit corporation to go public. Laureate, the world’s largest higher education company serving one million students across 25 countries, raised $490 million from investors.
The benefit corporation structure option represents a profound chan...
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02-13-17
Barclays Partners with Unreasonable Group to Support Entrepreneurs
The bank’s joint programme is part of its Shared Growth Ambition strategy to improve lives while providing returns to shareholders. Tom Idle reports…
As global financial institutions double down on programs to earn public trust, Barclays’ roots in the Quaker movement give it a unique cont...
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02-13-17
Is CSR Changing Business?
New Angles and Early Strategies are launching a pioneering study to investigate whether the past decade’s intensive activity in Corporate Social Responsibility has produced change in the way companies do business.
Entitled “Is CSR Changing Business?” this research will provide new insight...
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02-13-17
Infographic: Impact Investing Study
American Century Investments and Greenwich Associates conducted a study on the views of institutional investors and financial intermediaries about the growing interest in impact investing.
Between late 2015 and early 2016, Greenwich Associates surveyed a total of 277 institutional investor...
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02-10-17
Kimberly-Clark Receives U.S. EPA 2016 SmartWay® Excellence Award
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) has been honored as an industry leader in freight supply chain environmental performance and energy efficiency with its seventh SmartWay® Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Kimberly-Clark was one of nine companies in the s...
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02-10-17
2017 Giving in Numbers Survey Launches
CECP, in association with The Conference Board, announced the launch of the 16th annual Giving in Numbers survey. The largest and most robust of its kind, the survey is open through March ...
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02-10-17
GSK Creates a New Business Model with Innovative Marketing and Sales Practices
The pharmaceutical company ranks first in both trust and customer value, according to a survey of 4,000 US healthcare professionals. Tom Idle reports…
It is hard to think of a more contentious business practice than the one historically used to sell pharmaceuticals. For the past 50 years,...
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02-10-17
Benevity Partners with Mojave Desert Land Trust for Clean Up Event with Fortune 1000 Leaders
Tuesday, over ...
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02-09-17
Xylem Employees Volunteer More Than 21,000 Hours with Local Organizations in 2016
Employees from Xylem (NYSE:XYL), a leading global water technology company that is dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, logged more than 21,000 volunteer hours in 2016 in activities aimed at providing and protecting safe water resources and educating people about water,...
