Global Engagement Forum:Online

The PYXERA Global Engagement Forum chronicles the stories, strategies, and impact of innovative leadership and tri-sector collaboration around the world. This platform seeks to capture the ground-level impact of these approaches, providing an avenue through which beneficiaries and implementers alike can showcase their impact. Through stories, case-studies, and convenings, the Global Engagement Forum aims to elevate the ways in which individuals, corporations, and social enterprises champion a better future for our world.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Collaboration’s the Key for a Circular Economy
Collaboration is key for a successful circular economy. Read Renay Loper's recap of USCC Foundation's Corporate Citizenship Center Sustainability and Circular Economy Summit.

Research, Reports & Publications

Book Excerpt: Innovation on Tap
Wouldn’t it be interesting to have inventors and #innovators join a conversation today—trading the kind of ‘behind the scenes’ stories that only seem to be revealed with a glass (or two) of beer or wine?

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Mid-Course Correction: Lessons for a Circular Economy
It's been nearly 25 years since Interface's Ray Anderson outlined his radical vision of a cyclical enterprise. His lessons learned could not be more relevant today.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Changing Girls’ Lives Through STEM Education
Today, too many girls are locked out of STEM and have to work twice as hard to get half as far. Techbridge Girls is leveling the playing field, striving to empower thousands more girls from low-income communities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Capacity Commons
Capacity Commons, a newly launched one-stop shop for skills-based volunteerism, is addressing both the lack of access to pro bono resources and the know-how to effectively deploy them.

Research, Reports & Publications

Book Excerpt from RESET: Business and Society in the New Social Landscape
RESET: Business and Society in the New Social Landscape by Barie Carmichael & James Rubin introduces a new model for conducting a social risk assessment.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

At 3M, Strong Leaders Rise From Heat Experiences
The 3M leadership development program is a crash course in adaptation to a rapidly changing environment through the application of hard skills and soft skills in new contexts.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Doing Good to Do Well—Is It Really Possible?
“I’d love to have a job making a difference, but somebody has to pay the bills.” How many times have you heard that? How many times have you said it?

Sustainable Development Goals

Book Excerpt: Designing with Society
Design is relatively a new discipline, its terminology dating back to the creation of tools and products that have influenced and shaped our world, and our humanity. Today, design is a practice that can solve some of the most complex social challenges around the world.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

From the Street to the Street: The Circular Economy in Ghana
The ASASE (‘Mother Earth’) Foundation has put the circular economy into practice through its CASH IT! social enterprise, aiming to establish a replicable, sustainable business model, formalizing employment, mobilizing volunteers, and creating a product desperately needed by the community from trash that formerly littered the streets. It’s sustainability in action. PYXERA Global Senior Fellow Laura Asiala caught up with Dana Mosora on a recent trip to Connecticut, where she squeezes in a visit to her granddaughter when she’s not generating value from the waste stream in Ghana or advising companies across Europe on sustainable packaging through her consulting company.
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