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Ready Response: COVID-19 Company Responses, Peer Networking, and More
COVID-19 is disrupting business operations and ESG programs across the world. To support your efforts in this time of disruption, we’re rounding up relevant Center resources, news, company best practices, and research and gathering it in one place at Resource(ful).
Blog: Corporate Citizenship Responses to COVID-19
We're gathering a detailed list of the ways in which Center members are supporting stakeholders during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by tactic. READ MORE
Webinar: Constructive collaboration with investor relations
Expert panelists share how they work with colleagues in investor relations to help their companies meet shareholder demands while amplifying their own CSR efforts, and discuss how their efforts have shifted in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. During a live poll, most audience members reported that their companies are ramping up their ESG focus as a result of the virus. VIEW WEBINAR
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Members in Action
Check out our ongoing list of how companies are responding to COVID-19.
Companies are sharing their COVID-19 response efforts directly with the Center:
"Bank of America is providing up to $250 million in capital to community development financial institutions (CDFIs) by funding loans through the newly established Paycheck Protection Program. In addition, Bank of America will provide up to $10 million in philanthropic grants to help fund the operations of CDFIs.
"Nasdaq is making a cash donation of $5 million to the Opportunity Fund’s Small Business Relief Fund; the World Central Kitchen’s #ChefsForAmerica relief efforts; and the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. Nasdaq is also double matching all employee donations to global COVID-19 relief and response efforts through the Nasdaq GoodWorks program, and is reserving an estimated $1 million of advertising time on the Nasdaq MarketSite Tower in Times Square for Public Service Address messages related to social distancing and other efforts to #flattenthecurve.
"Verizon PayItForward LIVE, the weekly streaming entertainment series that supports affected small businesses, has teamed up with Faze Clan to expand the platform into gaming. The platform will encourage viewers to support local businesses in their own communities. For each use of the hashtag #PayitForwardLIVE, Verizon will donate additional money to LISC.org to support small businesses, up to $2.5 million."
How is your company responding to COVID-19? Let us know by contacting us at ccc@bc.edu
Relevant Research
Engaging Employees through Remote Volunteering
Practical advice for how you can keep your employees engaged with the company, with each other, and with your larger community. READ MORE
Breaking the Disaster Cycle: Relief and Resilience
Learn how three companies—CITGO, Banco Popular, and Travelers—have incorporated real-time solutions and long-term focus into their disaster programs. READ MORE
News You Can Use
ESG Funds Outperform in Slumping Global Markets
ESG funds have benefited from owning shares of companies “with strong business models that through their sound management of environmental and social issues have a degree of resilience in their structure that helps in time of crises.” Bloomberg
Wind, Solar Farms Are Seen as Havens in Coronavirus Storm
Wind and solar farms are attracting interest from investors hungry for low-risk, stable-yield opportunities at a time of extraordinary market volatility. Wall Street Journal
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