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The role of business in society is evolving – and was evolving even before COVID-19 forced companies to pivot how they engage with customers, employees and other stakeholders. How people view their relationships with work and the brands they support is changing. Sustainable Brands’ recent report, Enabling the Good Life, found that across generations people […]

The Coronavirus has changed how we go about our daily lives. Some of us are under mandatory quarantine while others are just taking appropriate precautions by limiting social interaction. This new world that the Coronavirus helped sculpt has presented us with new barriers, widening the bridge between members of our community and the world. This

June has been largely recognized as Pride Month by the LGBTQ+ community for decades, first as a way to commemorate the Stonewall riots that occurred in late June 1969. Stonewall was a series of spontaneous demonstrations from members of the LBGTQ+ community over the course of June 28 through July 3 and is often cited

We are so excited to be sharing the stories of these 9 influential leaders as we celebrate Juneteenth today. Their stories, like Juneteenth, are often glossed over in American history. These stories define courage. From Daisy Bates desegregating Arkansas schools to Ida B. Wells who educated others on the conditions of Black Americans in the

As a team, the conversations we’ve had at Millie often led us to the broader question of — how do we zoom out from the current conversation and look at the systemic racism beyond policing. Where else is racism embedded? Where else can we make an impactful difference? While policing is one part of the

Growing up, “2020” was the year everyone referred to as the future. There was an idyllic aura around it. “Researcher’s say that in 2020…”, with jokes, tv shows, books often using “2020” as the reference point for that thing we would finally accomplish in the future.  Here we are. We’re in what I had imagined

It is hard to imagine that today, thousands of innocent people in the United States are placed in jail or prison for a crime that they did not commit. Since 1989, there have been 2,095 exonerations of innocent inmates in the United States. In that time, over 18,250 years were served by those wrongfully convicted.

Time and time again, Black communities find themselves in situations that deny them of their humanity and consequently their lives become endangered. On May 25, 2020, George Floyed, a 46-year-old black man, was murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota when Derek Chauvin, a white police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46

1. Assess Company Needs Start by assessing the needs of your company community. Think about the areas within your community that you hope to improve or work on: is it employee engagement or devastation in the community? Maybe you are just excited for your company to give back. Once you identified an area or areas