Helen Mathis taught accounting as a vocational instructor for 30 years before facing a career-defining moment: The school where she worked closed and Mathis knew she needed a new plan
We are going back to our roots this week and talking about our raison d’être: skills-based volunteering. Common Impact has been in this line of work for fifteen years and in that time we’ve seen a true evolution in corporations’ and nonprofits’ understanding of pro bono work.
Desde hace ya varios años, Grupo Financiero Banorte puso en marcha una estrategia de responsabilidad ambiental, con la meta de conservar recursos y a través de diversas acciones generar una conciencia ambiental entre colaboradores, clientes y proveedores.
Over the past 18 months, Antea Group in partnership with Fundación FEMSA has coalesced a number of thought-leading organizations to form the Monetization Working Group (MWG). This group aims to accelerate progress via removing obstacles to better, more sustainable business decisions by making key elements of sustainability more tangible and helping to build a better case for investment. Presently, the MWG is concentrating on creating a curriculum/tools that improve the monetization and business case development skills of those proposing and deciding on investments in sustainability.
As part of the pre-conference programming for Connect the Dots: How Businesses Solve Global Challenges Locally, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation is hosting four free workshops on October 5. Each of the four workshops will take a deep dive into specific issues with experts offering best practices, skill-building exercises, and more.
The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), a nonprofit coalition of leading electronics companies dedicated to supply chain responsibility, today announced the launch of a foreign migrant worker protection pilot program that aims to improve communications in electronics factories by providing workers with more effective ways to report issues related to social, environmental and ethical responsibility. The name of the program is Suara Kita, which is Malay for "Our Voice."
In the 2014 Annual Report GFNorte presents the results obtained as a result of its economic, social and environmental performance. A special section is dedicated to capitals that is the strength of the institution: Financial, Intellectual, Human, Social and Natural as well as to the progress made in each of them.
FOX is hosting a contest giving fans the chance to win the Ultimate VIP Experience at the So You Think You Can Dance season finale this fall. Those who use Omaze.com to donate to judge Nigel Lythgoe's Dizzy Feet Foundation, which supports dance education in the U.S., will be entered automatically into a drawing to meet the judges, have dinner with Nigel and Paula Abdul, and enjoy VIP seats at the finale in Los Angeles. So far, the contest has raised more than $10,000, which is enough to provide a year's worth of dance classes for 237 students across America.The deadline to enter is August 31.
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