Category Archives: The Do’ers

People, organizations, companies making it all happen

National After-School Program shows results in DC fighting childhood obesity, keeping kids out of trouble

A new report from DC SCORES shows the effectiveness of its after-school program in District public schools. DC SCORES partnered with Symphonic Strategies, an independent consulting firm, to assess its…

100 Best Corporate Citizens

Corporate Responsibility Magazine (the new name of CRO Magazine) recently announced its 11th annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens list, known as the world’s top corporate responsibility ranking based on publicly-available…

Surfrider Foundation celebrates World Water Day

March 22nd is World Water Day – a global observance of our planet’s most precious resource.  In recognition of World Water Day, the Surfrider Foundation is unveiling a robust offering…

Touting one's efforts regarding Corporate Responsibility

Conventional wisdom is that it is expensive to be a good corporate citizen, a luxury that only the biggest brands can afford.  However, there is a lot of interesting data…

The start of a fun run to the World Cup

We don’t shill for any company – at least not yet – at Sport Doing Good. We, however, want to showcase a fun commercial from Pepsi that brings together some…

Brewers benchmarking…and getting better

Each and every team in the four major sports leagues in the U.S. – NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL – has a community page at their website detailing their work…

Nike’s sustainability efforts – how is it doing?

A couple weeks ago, we profiled a report published by Nike reflecting on the company’s success in achieving it’s environmental and social responsibility goals, and identifying the work still to…

Down to the Sweet 60 – Street Soccer USA

Our friends at Street Soccer USA have moved onto the final round of Change.org’s “Ideas for Change in America” competition.* This is a great accomplishment. From January – February 2010,…

Following in big footsteps

In light of our recent posts on the work of former NBA star and Hall of Fame humanitarian Dikembe Mutombo and the NBA opening an office in Africa, we offer…

Dribble, Drive, Diabetes

Athletes, for the most part, are in great shape. Makes sense. You play sports all the time, work out, hopefully pay attention to what you eat. Despite all that, issues…