Corporate Social Responsibility

Doing corporate responsibility well is not as easy as it appears. Facebook has learned that lesson more than once with its Safety Check feature, which hit another snag in Pakistan last weekend when the inquiring message that was supposed to be sent to those in and around Lahore, Pakistan, went to Facebook users as far away as the U.S.

Winner: Duke Energy – Water Resources Fund The Water Resources Fund is an ongoing, sustainable effort that continues to impact communities. With this initiative, Duke Energy plans to fund approximately 150 community projects from 2015-2020… Continued

Winners: Bacardi Limited – Good Spirited: Building a Sustainable Future and Oracle Bacardi Limited – Good Spirited: Building a Sustainable Future Bacardi understands its responsibility to minimize environmental impacts across the value chain. Global climate… Continued

Winners: Aspen Dental Management Inc. – The Healthy Mouth Movement and JetBlue Airways – 2015 Soar with Reading: Solving for Book Deserts Aspen Dental Management Inc. – The Healthy Mouth Movement The dentists and teams… Continued

G&S Business Communications Too often, the humanity of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disappears under an avalanche of data and research—but not at G&S. G&S helps clients infuse emotional intelligence into their science-based strategies to share… Continued

Winner: Havas PR North America – Huerta Scholarship: The First Hour for the First Americans As the public relations agency for the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program (IPLP) at the University of Arizona’s James… Continued

Winner: Annie Longsworth, Founder, The Siren Agency Annie Longsworth is a brand and communications leader committed to positive change through business. She launched a global sustainability practice in January 2007, making her an early voice… Continued

Winner: Food Lion – Igniting Customer and Associate Engagement Around Diversity through Strategic Partnership with CIAA Most successful communications plans can be traced back to strong research, and this effort was no different. Customer data… Continued

Winner: Bacardi Limited – Good Spirited: Building a Sustainable Future Bacardi’s “Good Spirited: Building a Sustainable Future” program was designed to showcase a heritage, ingrained in the company since inception, to reduce environmental impact in… Continued

Winner: SAIC – Saving the California Sea Lions For more than two years, thousands of starving wild sea lion pups have washed up on beaches in Southern California, mainly due to climate change. But in… Continued