Too often, in an effort to track something, corporate social responsibility and ESG leaders focus on metrics that don’t hold much meaning. When it comes to employee volunteering specifically, there’s ...

Renu runs one of the millions of mom-and-pop stores, known as kiranas, located all over India. She wanted to expand her business, but as a cash-only operation, couldn’t show banks that she was a ...

The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative is working to debut America’s first sustainable urban agrihood – a neighborhood growth model with agriculture at the center of a mixed-use development. The ...

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. Many say the challenge is near-impossible: Every social intervention is ...

Philanthropy plays a special role in the betterment of society. Its flexibility allows for intervention and experimentation in line with—and often ahead of—government policy and private sector ...

In a keynote at one of PEAK's Grantmaking annual conference, LaTosha Brown asked the audience to envision a world without racism, reminding us that “nothing has been brought into the physical world ...

The impact investing sector has grown substantially since the term was first coined in 2007. The practice refers to investing in companies -- directly or indirectly through funds -- with the intent to ...

In recent years, consumers, regulators, and investors have increasingly shown an interest in understanding how corporations affect the world around them. To help investors and other stakeholders ...

Having a crisis communications plan to limit potential damage to their reputation is essential for every business. Given the negative impact it can have on various business areas—from operations to ...