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Global Robotics Community FIRST Prepares Students To Thrive as Adults in a Rapidly Changing World

3BL Media

It has been hiring FIRST students because of their advanced skill sets since 2006. Those are all things that are important in the workplace,” Natalie Dusi, corporate social responsibility manager at Qualcomm Incorporated, told Upworthy.

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Entergy Celebrates Educators and Invests $2.2 Million in the Future of Students at the Fried Chicken Festival

3BL Media

“Entergy has long been committed to supporting education and we are thankful to our teachers for everything they do to invest in the future of our students,” said Patty Riddlebarger, Entergy vice president of corporate social responsibility.

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Fitch Incorporates Low-Carbon Transition Risks Into Credit Scores

3BL Media

The new scores reflect the UN Principles for Responsible Investment’s (PRI) “Inevitable Policy Response Forecast Policy Scenario” (IPR FPS) that sets out predictions of significant acceleration for climate policies over the next three years. The PRI launched the “Inevitable Policy Response” initiative in 2018.

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Should corporations be activists?

Corporate Knights

Her previous research on corporate social responsibility found that investors, though initially skeptical, ultimately saw value in corporate commitments to sustainability. I have always been intrigued by the gap between what companies say and what they actually do,” says Hawn.

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The Business Roundtable’s statement of purpose, one year on

GreenBiz

As I noted in a 2006 essay on the occasion of Friedman’s passing: We know better now. For example, we understand that ignoring environmental and social issues can be bad for business. Corporate Social Responsibility. Companies that pollute their local communities risk poisoning their customers. Leadership.

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Five ways climate change is impacting humanitarian crises around the world

Cisco CSR

While climate change does not directly cause conflict, it can increase social tension and the risk of conflict as communities are forced to share diminishing resources. Syria is a good example: the country’s most recent drought — from 2006-2010 — was considered the worst in 900 years.

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One Acre Fund: How a mobile app prepares smallholder farmers for a successful harvest

Cisco CSR

With the audacious goal of solving global poverty in mind, One Acre Fund (OAF) has been working since 2006 to supply smallholder farmers in Sub Saharan Africa with the resources they need to improve their harvests, raise their incomes, adopt environmentally friendly farming practices and diversify crops to increase resilience to disasters.