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Ready Response: Inspiring Stories, Virtual Volunteering, 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: Inspiring Stories that Explore New Perspectives
Our new issue of The Corporate Citizen features resilient companies that have adapted their corporate citizenship programs to address complex issues such as economic inequality, natural disasters, and COVID-19. READ MORE
Connect through the Center: BCCCC Member Meetups
Our live BCCCC Member Meetups are gathering hundreds of CSR professionals to share and learn. Register now for this week's remaining Zoom sessions.
Virtual volunteering & employee support
Wednesday April 22; 12pm EDT | Share how you’re shifting to digital shared experiences: from online gatherings, to virtual volunteering, to innovative engagement, and hear how your peers are overcoming similar obstacles. LEARN MORE
Changing Your Grant Making Focus and Easing Grant Restrictions
Thursday April 23; 12pm EDT | No matter where you are in your process, we welcome you to join our grant-focused interactive Zoom meetings to troubleshoot, share your learnings, and engage with our dynamic member community. LEARN MORE
Infographic: Effective CSR is Not “One Size Fits All”
The State of Corporate Citizenship 2020–a longitudinal study conducted by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship—examines how executives view corporate citizenship and their firms’ performance in the environmental, social, and governance dimensions of business. The data suggest that executives understand that well-designed and effectively executed corporate citizenship both helps to accomplish business results and create social value. VIEW INFOGRAPHIC
Want to know more about how executives view corporate citizenship? Check out our State of Corporate Citizenship 2020 Report, available exclusively to members. Not a member? Visit our Become a Member page to learn more.
Members in Action
Check out our ongoing list of how companies are responding to COVID-19.
Aramark announced its uniform services division will redeploy production lines in order to manufacture essential personal protective equipment (PPE) for those working in hospitals and in other critical roles across the United States. Aramark expects to produce millions of masks, scrubs, and isolation gowns.
Green Shield Canada (GSC) is committing $500,000 to support communities across Canada impacted by the pandemic. This support includes: financial contributions to emergency relief funds launched by Community Foundations and other partners and in-kind support for innovative community efforts like the COVID-19 Community Response Coalition in Windsor-Essex, where GSC call center agents are helping to run an emergency food hotline.
Umpqua Bank has pledged $1 million in community support, and is expediting donations to several COVID-19 Response Funds focused on meeting the needs of low-income and culturally-diverse residents and workers across its footprint. The company is also making investments in nonprofit organizations providing micro loans and capital to small businesses; expanding eligibility for its Community Grants program; and increasing its associate match program from a 100% match to a 300% match for select nonprofits.
How is your company responding to COVID-19? Let us know by contacting us at ccc@bc.edu
Relevant Regulations
Canada provides emergency wage subsidy
The goal of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy is to prevent further job losses and to encourage employers to re-hire workers who were previously laid off due to COVID-19. READ MORE
$2.2 trillion CARES Act signed into law
In addition to unemployment benefits, the new law provides emergency grants and a forgivable loan program for companies with fewer than 500 employees. READ MORE
News You Can Use
Companies that are helping Americans fight COVID-19
While this list of 30 companies is by no means exhaustive, it emphasizes the diversity of industries becoming involved and the wide range of actions being taken. USA TODAY
Coronavirus vaccine? Two pharmaceutical giants collaborating to develop one
Two of the world's largest vaccine manufacturers, Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline, are joining forces to develop a new vaccine to prevent COVID-19. NPR
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) finalized a recent set of revisions to the Endangered Species Act that were rolled back under the previous presidential administration.
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly unanimously adopted the first global resolution on artificial intelligence (AI).
Spain’s Council of Ministers has approved a 5% increase in monthly minimum wage.
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released the California Water Plan Update 2023 (CWP 2023 Update) and calls the plan “A Roadmap to Water Management and Infrastructure for a Water Resilient Future.”
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed into law the country’s third earned wage access (EWA) bill.
WEBINAR: Re-watch this webinar to better understand your feelings of stress and/or burnout as a CSR professional, and to explore different strategies that may support you and your colleagues.
The “Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention Rule” includes EPA’s most protective safety provisions for chemical facilities in history, requiring stronger measures for prevention, preparedness, and public transparency.