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Community Improvement

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation publishes content on community improvement and related issues. Find and access current and archived items in our database. 

Webinar: Best Practices in Obesity Prevention

Join Corporate Citizenship Center for a webinar to discuss its most recent research, Aligning Communities: How Four Cities Are Preventing Obesity. The report examines community-based obesity prevention programs in four specific communities: Camden, New Jersey; Denver, Colorado; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The webinar will explore how those programs work, and what companies have, and can, do to take an active role in those programs.

Booz Allen Stirs Spirit of Service through Leadership Development

Joe Suarez
Community Improvement
September 23, 2014
Corporate Citizenship Center

What happens when a company selects 60 of its best performing employees to apply their technical, creative, analytic and other skills to solve some of the biggest challenges of the community’s nonprofits?   Families with seriously ill children can be served by improved programs; a provider of men

U.S. Chamber Launches Business-led Consortium Dedicated to Pro Bono Service in Developing Countries

Community Improvement
Corporate Citizenship
October 7, 2011
Corporate Citizenship Center

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) joined Dow Chemical Company and Executives Without Borders in announcing the International Business Corps. International Business Corps is a business-led consortium dedicated to enhancing the capabilities of entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations in emerging markets by mobilizing volunteer business experts and by leveraging core business functions in the delivery of social good.

U.S. Chamber BCLC Calls On America's Communities to Apply for National Sustainability Honor

Community Improvement
Environment
October 4, 2011
Corporate Citizenship Center

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) is calling for nominations for the 2012 Siemens Sustainable Community Awards. Now in its fifth year, the program recognizes local governments, chambers of commerce, and other local organizations for the tremendous steps they’ve taken to improve quality of life and enhance their ability to sustain a successful community for generations to come.

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