/PRNewswire/ Truth Initiative and Kaiser Permanente, in collaboration with the American Heart Association and EVERFI, have been named the winners of a 2021.
2021 Halo Awards Honor Top Corporate Social Impact Initiatives
Winning Companies and Nonprofits Recognized at Engage for Good Conference
Published 05-27-21
Submitted by Engage for Good
May 27, 2021 /CSRwire/ - Campaigns that helped teachers and students bridge the digital divide, repurposed sports stadiums into socially-distanced blood donation centers, built artificial intelligence programs to more efficiently serve LGBTQ youth and encouraged consumers to share – not hoard – toilet paper - all while building stronger businesses - were among the initiatives recently honored at the 19th annual Halo Awards.
Twenty category-specific winners were selected out of more than 130 entries by Engage for Good at its annual conference.
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In April 1994, the heads of
the biggest tobacco companies testified before Congress that cigarettes weren’t addictive. A month later, across
the country, a box marked “confidential” arrived for Dr. Stanton Glantz, a
longtime foe of Big Tobacco and a professor of medicine at the University of
California San Francisco. The sender signed his name “Mr. Butts,” an
allusion to a
Doonesbury character. When Glantz opened the
package, he found thousands of internal documents from British American Tobacco