Stories by PRNEWS

The Walt Disney Company’s Corporate Citizenship team tapped stars like Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers to inspire kids to adopt sustainable practices in their daily lives as part of its Friends For Change: Project Green campaign.

Discovery Communications transformed its 25th anniversary celebration into a day of global employee volunteerism, with thousands of employees participating in volunteer projects all over the globe.

Winner: EMD Serono, Inc. – Making a Difference in Society To make community-based volunteerism accessible to all employees and to integrate community relations into the corporate culture, the communications team at EMD Serono launched the Making… Continued

Southwest Airlines invited hundreds of HR and diversity and inclusion pros from other North Texas companies and organizations to share strategies and tactics to improve the workplace for its diverse group of employees.

The Allstate Foundation, in a partnership with the YMCA, launched a successful hashtag-based Twitter campaign with matching donations up to $75,000 to help fight domestic violence.

Diago’s strategic investments—$40 million in community activities—and interest in developing five pillars of corporate citizenship in its Latin American and Caribbean regions helped strengthen the company’s bonds with businesses and communities.

EMD Soreno’s Renee Connolly lead a new company policy granting employees two days per year to provide community service, enabling workers to participate in several local community initiatives across the country and 
more than double their volunteer hours in 2010.

In 2010, Pizza Hut’s Leslie Brunt helped the organization secure a partnership with prominent actor and children’s author John Lithgow that led to the donation of more than 50,000 meals to Haiti Relief.

Carmichael Lynch Spong stepped up to the plate during the Minnesota Twins’ 2010 season by donating money and community service hours to match each of the Twins’ 749 runs batted in.

Winner: Tom Buckmaster, President, Honeywell Hometown Solutions, Honeywell International Under Tom Buckmaster’s watch, Honeywell Hometown Solutions has become a leader among agencies nationwide in the CSR space. Buckmaster focuses Honeywell’s community outreach and philanthropic efforts on… Continued