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Net Impact Is Looking for Mentors for Pepsi Refresh Project

Net Impact has partnered with the Pepsi Refresh Project to find mentors from the Net Impact network to help grant recipients maximize their impact. This is a great opportunity to use your business skills to help individuals, nonprofits, and businesses this summer.

Solutions Lab 2010: An Unconference to Network, Innovate, and Catalyze Change in NY on May 21

Net Impact NYC invites you to attend the Green Innovation in Business Network’s Solutions Lab on May 21, 2010 at Bloomberg in New York City. The Solutions Lab, presented by the Environmental Defense Fund’s Innovation Exchange and Ashoka, provides an unparalleled opportunity to learn from and with your colleagues about how to advance environmentally sound practices in your business while saving money and increasing profits.

BBB Presents Good Business 2010 on May 4

Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York is offering Net Impact NYC members a discount to attend their CSR Forum III. “Discover what deeply experienced senior leaders have learned about how to engage consumers, strengthen brands, protect business reputations, and get results during these tough times.”

UN and BCLC forum: Investing in the Millennium Development Goals: April 8

BCLC’s Global Corporate Citizenship program is hosting a Forum on Investing in the MDGs at the UN headquarters in New York on April 7-8, 2010. The Forum will provide an update on the status of the MDGs and discuss how the business community might be able to advance them more rapidly.

BCLC’s vision is for the positive role of business in society to be understood and advanced.

Our mission is to promote better business and society relations and improve long-term social and economic conditions by:

Communicating the U.S. private sector’s unique and valuable contributions
Cultivating strategies and practices that achieve positive results
Coordinating public-private partnerships and coalitions

Net Impact NYC Speed Networking Event – March 11 (7-9 PM)

Join us on Thursday, March 11 for a speed networking happy hour event! You will have the opportunity to expand your network by connecting with other professionals in CSR, sustainability, social entrepreneurship, international development and non-profit management.

Speed Networking in March

March 11, 7-9 PM Location TBD For more info, contact nyc@netimpact.org Mark your calendars.  We’re joining other Net Impact chapters globally to …