Category Archives: Other Events in Boston

Earth Hour 2009: What Will You Be Doing?

Cuddling up with your loved ones and admiring the stars in the night sky or organising a treasure hunt in the dark? At 8:30pm on Saturday March 28th, people from all corners of the world will turn off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour – and cast their vote for action on climate change. Anybody can participate and join together with millions of people across the globe celebrating Earth Hour.

Earth Hour is about taking simple steps everyday that collectively reduce carbon emissions – from businesses turning off their lights when their offices are empty to households turning off appliances rather than leaving them on standby.

Sustainability, Social Responsibility and the Economic Crisis
Panel Discussion and Cocktail Reception
Sponsored by the Ross Alumni Club of Boston

Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: The Hampshire House 84 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 Map

Net Impact Boston is invited to join renowned experts in sustainability and social responsibility for an engaging and provocative panel discussion to understand the impact of the economic crisis on the sustainability and social responsibility agendas.

Confirmed panelists include:

• Gib Hedstrom founded Hedstrom Associates in 2003 to work with companies that want to be profitable, to be admired, and to succeed as innovative enterprises of the twenty-first century. He brings over 25 years of experience helping global corporations address the toughest environmental and sustainability issues of the day
• Peter Kinder, Founder and President of KLD Research & Analytics, Inc., one of the best known firms in the socially responsible investing space, and developer of the Domini 400 Social Index (now known as the FTSE/KLD 400), the first socially-screened US equity portfolio, created in 1990.
• Eric Lowitt, Research Fellow at Accenture’s Institute for High Performance, author of several sustainability points of view, including Compatible Aims: Sustainability and High Performance, and Driving Sustainability in the Downturn
• Gwen Ruta, Vice President of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Director of their Corporate Partnerships program.  She is also on the Board of Directors of the Environmental League of Massachusetts and the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan.




More information and tickets
Tickets are free for students, $10 for Ross alums, and $20 for everyone else (all are welcome).  The admission fee includes beer & wine and hors d’oeuvres.  Seating is limited, so please register soon.

Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 6:30 – 8:30pm
Location: Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA 02141
RSVP: Space is limited and an RSVP required. Please e-mail boston-info@broadcenter.org your name, title/organization and contact information

Are you seeking a management career in the education industry? Or are you just beginning to explore a career transition to the education sector? Join The Broad Residency, Net Impact and several education organizations as we host a networking event to connect business professionals with education organizations. This is a great opportunity to mingle with representatives from several education organizations and learn how they can utilize professionals with your expertise to improve education.

Impact at Work – December Brainstorming Call
Impact at Work
Date: Friday, December 19^th
Time: 12:00-1:00pm

For Details and to Register:  http://tinyurl.com/5unwu3 

Thank you for your interest in attending the December Impact at Work brainstorming and idea sharing call. The call provides an open forum facilitated by Net Impact Central for discussing questions, challenges and ideas for your workplace change initiatives with other Net Impact professional members. Come prepared with questions for other participants, ideas that have worked in your workplace change initiative and other items that you would like to share with other Net Impact members involved in making a change at work.

The call will take place Friday, December 19 from 9-10am Pacific/12-1pm Eastern/5-6pm GMT. To confirm your spot, please fill out this registration form. If you have any questions, please email jcleveland@netimpact.org.

Sustainable Consumer Finance: Issues in America Today
Net Impact “Issues in Depth” Teleconference
Date: Friday, December 17^th
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Led By: Steve Delfin, Executive Director, National Credit Unions Foundation

For Details and to Register: http://tinyurl.com/yze7q2 

Low-income Americans pay as much as $11 billion in fees every year to unregulated, for-profit financial services companies.

Millions of financially “underserved” Americans pay annual percentage rates of more than 300% for payday loans. An entire industry has sprung up to provide convenient, but unsustainably costly financial services. Join Net Impact’s call with Steve Delfin, executive director of the National Credit Union Foundation, as he shows how responsible financial institutions are fighting back and lightening the load for American families.

About Steve :

Steve Delfin is Executive Director of the National Credit Unions Foundation which raises and distributes funds and manages programs to help credit unions better serve low-wealth and other financially underserved households. Previously Steve was head of worldwide community relations for Booz Allen Hamilton. Steve’s career also includes executive positions with some of the world’s largest charities and associations including United Way of America and Red Cross National Headquarters. Steve is a former Net-Impact Advisory Board member.

Employee Engagement
Impact at Work – Expert-Led Call
Date: Friday, December 12^th
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Led By: Dermot Murray, Program Manager for Employee Engagement at the Verizon Foundation

For Details and to Register:  http://tinyurl.com/67skuw 

Thank you for your interest in attending the December Impact at Work Expert-Led call on “Employee Engagement” with Dermot Murray, Program Manager for Employee Engagement at the Verizon Foundation. This discussion will focus on how to engage employees around your company’s social and environmental causes, and will allow call participants to interact with an experienced expert and each other to share best practices and brainstorm ideas.

Dermot has more than 12 years of experience in the information and telecommunications industry. Since graduating with an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2001, Dermot has been with Verizon Communications in finance and product development roles, before joining the Verizon Foundation in 2006. In his current capacity as Program Manager with the Verizon Foundation, Dermot manages the company’s employee-giving campaigns and volunteer programs targeting over 225,000 employees worldwide, and he also oversees the company’s matching gifts program which donated a combined total of almost $12 million to non-profits throughout the US in 2007. Dermot is also on the New Jersey Chapter Board of Net Impact. Join the discussion to learn how you can inspire, motivate and engage employees in support of your organization’s CSR objectives.