The State of Mental Health: K-12
Depression and anxiety cost the global economy $1 trillion dollars each year in lost productivity At the start of the...
Corporate Social Responsibility: Why It Matters & How To Do It
Corporate Social Responsibility is a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and interactions with their stakeholders.
The Hope Amidst The Hardship: Reflections On World Mental Health Day
The importance of mental health has never felt more acute, and the meaning of these occasions has never felt more significant.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Past, Present, And Future
Corporate social responsibility practices have evolved with the times. Fortune Global 500 firms spend roughly $20 billion on corporate social responsibility per year. How did we get to this point, and what is the future of CSR?
3 Corporate Social Responsibility Benefits Your Company Might Not Have Considered
Corporate leaders agree that corporate social responsibility is a moral obligation or simply “the right thing to do.” But there are other reasons that make CSR essential.
3 Ways to Bring Virtual Volunteering to Your Corporate Culture
Company leadership has a special opportunity to encourage community service and promote new virtual volunteering habits.
LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner Discusses the Compassion Project with UBS
Former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner is determined to give young people a head start in their personal compassion journeys. He and EVERFI have created the Compassion Project, a first-of-its-kind national initiative to provide compassion education to elementary school students across the United States.
Q&A: Professor Ed Freeman Advances Stakeholder Theory With The Power Of And
Professor Ed Freeman has advanced stakeholder theory, which holds that companies have a duty to balance the interests of the greater community.
How Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Should Inform Your Community Engagement Efforts
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) operations tend to focus on external communities while diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives focus on internal communities. This distinction is counterproductive. Shared priorities allow CSR and DEI to mutually reinforce each other.
Q&A: MLB’s Melanie LeGrande Discusses Approach to Community Engagement
For the last four years, MLB has worked with EVERFI to support Summer Slugger, a baseball-themed math and literacy course. MLB Vice President of Social Responsibility Melanie LeGrande offers her thoughts here on EduCup, Summer Slugger, and community engagement.
5 Organizations Advocating for Mental Health
Companies should appreciate the complexity of their employees’ lives and adjust their benefits to help care for their workforce. They should understand how mental wellness relates to other aspects of wellness too.
What is ESG?: A Look at Environmental, Social, and Governance Criteria
What is ESG? ESG stands for environmental, social, and corporate governance. ESG captures the three key categories for assessing a company’s ESG strategy
Looking Beyond Shareholders: What Is Stakeholder Theory?
Stakeholder theory holds that company leaders must understand and account for how their operations affect their company’s constituencies.
5 CEOs Who Champion Corporate Social Impact
For any company-wide priority, the buck stops with the CEO. Here are five examples of CEOs who champion corporate social impact within America’s largest corporations.