Curious how projects end up on the Environmental Innovation Map? The PDF below explains our research process, created in partnership with GreenPlus. In it you'll find definitions that ensure we maintain the highest standards. If you have questions, please contact Jeff Lundy, Research Manager at BCLC.
How Does Business Improve Health?
“Health” is in the news every day. From soaring costs to contentious policy debates, health, as a societal challenge, is complex. It’s easy to get caught up in what makes headlines, but too often overlooked is the many positive advancements that are taking place. Specifically, the health sector is alive with business solutions that have achieved:
How Does Business Improve Health?
“Health” is in the news every day. From soaring costs to contentious policy debates, health, as a societal challenge, is complex. It’s easy to get caught up in what makes headlines, but too often overlooked is the many positive advancements that are taking place. Specifically, the health sector is alive with business solutions that have achieved:
Forecast: Corporate Citizenship and America's Future
From April 16 to 18, 2012, the Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) convened more than 300 representatives from business, government agencies, and nonprofits to discuss corporate citizenship as it relates to the future of the United States. The conference included the following:
In October 2011, the U.S. Chamber Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC)
launched Business Corps, a first-of-its-kind collaborative corporate volunteerism initiative with nine leading companies.
If companies were a country, they would rank as the seventh largest provider of overseas development assistance in the world, ahead of Sweden. Businesses are helping less developed countries gain access to new technologies, microfinance and capital investment, develop their workforce, improve customs automation, improve operating standards, and develop new economic clusters and adjacent markets.
If companies were a country, they would rank as the seventh largest provider of overseas development assistance in the world, ahead of Sweden. Businesses are helping less developed countries gain access to new technologies, microfinance and capital investment, develop their workforce, improve customs automation, improve operating standards, and develop new economic clusters and adjacent markets.
More than 50% of the world's seven billion people now live in cities. Businesses are doing amazing things in terms of mobility solutions, smart grids, energy and water infrastructure, building design, regional integration, and innovative financing solutions for capital investment.
The Role of Business in Environmental Innovation takes a look at how companies create better opportunities to be a good steward of the environment. This report is the second in BCLC's year-long report series "The Role of Business," learn more about this series on our report series page.
PowerPoint presentation that accompanies the webinar, Best Practices for Donating Product for Disaster Recovery Efforts, co-hosted by BCLC and Good360. To listen to the webinar audio, please click here.
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