Tag: Engage for Good

Goodwill®-Google.org Partnership Recognized With 2019 Halo Award

Stuart Mitchell

The Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator® — an initiative created in collaboration between Goodwill Industries International and Google.org to close America’s skills gap by strengthening workers’ digital skills — has been named a 2019 Silver Halo Award winner for employee engagement (skilled volunteering), a new category this year. The Halo Awards are presented by Engage for Good, a membership organization that fosters stronger relationships between businesses and nonprofits. In October 2017, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Grow with Google, an initiative to help Americans gain the skills they need to earn…

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2019 Halo Awards Honor Top Corporate Social Impact Initiatives

Stuart Mitchell

Campaigns that eliminated food waste while reducing hunger, increased bystander CPR efforts, helped protect children with autism who wander and held candid conversations about unconscious bias – all while building stronger businesses – were among the initiatives honored at the 17th annual Halo Awards.  Twenty-four category-specific winners were selected out of more than 150 entries by Engage for Good at its annual conference. In addition, REI Co-op and the National Park Foundation each received a Golden Halo Award, Engage for Good’s highest honor, for their long-records of achievement at the…

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