ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -
The campaign from the Center for Employment Opportunities calls out the barriers justice-impacted people face in obtaining employment as a result of overreliance on background checks.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
With major markets passing environmental and human rights due-diligence
requirements, sustainable commodity sourcing may soon no longer be optional —
and brands that have invested and built relationships with farmers will be the
winners.
WALKING THE TALK -
New Schwab Foundation research provides scalable lessons on how to drive value
creation by addressing systemic socioeconomic exclusion at the local and global
levels.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
How T. Rowe Price brought capital to under-resourced communities and ensured it had the desired impacts, while inspiring pride and creativity among corporate associates.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
We challenge all of these advertisers to skim the nonprofits below and think about
diverting even $1M of their game-time spend to instead address urgent social
issues.
COLLABORATION -
We spoke with Keith Dokho, USAID’s Private Sector Engagement Secretariat Lead,
about how the organization is shifting to support the private sector’s
environmental and social progress.
THE NEXT ECONOMY -
Southeast Asia and the Middle East are emerging as incubators for
plastic-diversion innovations; and beyond putting a dent in plastic
pollution, they are helping reduce poverty and making a circular economy the
wave of the present.
WALKING THE TALK -
In the US, LEGO’s ‘Community Builders Challenge’ builds on Comic Relief US’s Red
Nose Day in School program; while it brings its LEGO Replay brick take-back
program to the UK.
THE NEXT ECONOMY -
'Global Risks Report 2024' calls for greater cooperation between the public and private sectors to focus global cooperation on rapidly building guardrails for the most disruptive emerging risks.
THE NEXT ECONOMY -
How reuse models in Latin America have succeeded, and what the Global North can
learn from them.
THE NEXT ECONOMY -
As we work to find common ground in addressing climate change, changemakers really need to examine what could
happen if money and power weren’t a factor.
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION -
Through Citizen Verizon, we have the opportunity and obligation to leverage our
technology to drive positive societal impact across key areas: Digital Inclusion, Climate Protection and Human Prosperity.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
The new guidance will support the global financial sector in embedding just-transition practices in their operations to ensure a climate transition that leaves no one behind.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -
Insights shared throughout the week at SB’23 San Diego highlighted the organizational shifts occurring — and those still needed — to bring a resilient future to life.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
At SB’23 San Diego, a variety of brands and innovators discussed on-the-ground improvements cleaning up global and regional supply chains — and how to drive them further.
WALKING THE TALK -
At SB’23 San Diego, several discussions and events explored the potential for social impact when we rethink business as usual.
THE NEXT ECONOMY -
Astrostays launched in 2019 to promote tourism while training local youth in astronomy to show off the Himalayas’ night sky. Now, Cosmohub is a more scalable, sustainable model — a connected community space that highlights local folklore and traditions along with stargazing.
COLLABORATION -
The program will position learners ages 16 and over to thrive in the evolving market for jobs related to sustainability and climate change; and provide NGOs a platform to empower underserved communities with new, employable skills.