Google, Disney and LEGO Lead the World in Corporate Responsibility

Reputation Institute (RI), the global leader in Reputation Intelligence, today announced the 2018 Global CR RepTrak® rankings. Google tops the ranking with the best reputation for overall corporate responsibility (CR) closely followed by Disney and LEGO. Five new companies in the Top 10 of Global CR this year include Natura, Novo Nordisk, Canon, Michelin and IKEA.  This year’s top 10 companies with the best reputation for corporate responsibility worldwide are: Google [NASDAQ: GOOGL] Walt Disney Company [NYSE: DIS] The LEGO Group Natura [BVMF: NATU3] Novo Nordisk [NYSE: NVO] Microsoft [NASDAQ:…

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Sainsbury’s trials new initiative to encourage community connections

In a bid to help people build a closer support network within their community, Sainsbury’s will be trialling Talking Tables, a new initiative designed to help facilitate more conversations and bridge community connections in store. It comes as new research from Sainsbury’s latest Living Well Index, developed in partnership with leading researchers Oxford Economics and the National Centre for Social Research, reveals the UK’s sense of wellbeing has fallen in the past twelve months – with loneliness identified as a key characteristic of those with a low sense of wellbeing.…

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Fairtrade launches new commercial services to complement traditional certification

Traditionally known for supporting companies to source commodities such as bananas, coffee or cocoa on Fairtrade terms, companies are now able to work with Fairtrade on bespoke programmatic work or take advantage of Fairtrade’s expertise to gain a better understanding of their supply chains. Fairtrade revealed the suite of innovative new ways of working with business at a high profile conference at the Crystal building in East London on October 10. The new services allow companies greater insight into where they source their raw materials while bringing enhanced benefits to…

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Academy Award Winner Common Partners With ACLU to Urge America to Vote Smart Justice in 2018

The American Civil Liberties Union today launched a video with Oscar and Grammy-winning artist and social justice activist Common that reminds voters of the urgency in 2018 to push criminal justice reform  forward by electing candidates who embrace priorities like holding police accountable and ending mass incarceration. The video urges users to access VoteSmartJustice.org, where they can find information on where thousands of candidates for office stand on criminal justice reform and mass incarceration. It is a component of the ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice’s non-partisan electoral project to educate…

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Global Organisations Launch The Data Literary Project To Combat Data Illiteracy

Global industry leaders launched The Data Literacy Project to meet the growing demand for a data literate workforce. The community is dedicated to making society fluent in data, and places data literacy at the heart of individual and organizational success. As an essential skill in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, data literacy empowers everyone to ask questions of data and machines, build knowledge, make decisions and communicate its meaning with others. Yet, experts estimate that fewer than one-third of us can confidently understand, analyze and argue with data.* The Data Literacy…

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