NEW YORK, March 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As part of a long-standing commitment to support positive change in society, BNP Paribas and Sparknews set to inspire and connect purpose-driven leaders with Positive Innovation Club launch in New York City.
At the launch event to be held on March 29, 2018, David Jones, co-founder of global youth forum One Young World, and former CEO of Havas, will discuss how corporations are addressing positive transformational challenges.
Following Jones’ keynote, six inspiring initiatives including start-ups, social enterprises and corporate entrepreneurs will pitch their innovative approach to participants, who will then choose one of the projects they would like to focus on during a one-hour workshop facilitated by Sparknews, a social enterprise aimed at tackling the biggest issues our planet is facing by creating content and events that support world-changing innovation initiatives.
Sparknews firmly believes, “solutions exist everywhere to create a world where sustainability and profits are compatible,” and “change can be achieved by anyone.”
As a result, in 2016 the Positive Innovation Club was born in Paris, so corporate leaders motivated by a desire to support positive and long-lasting changes to society could collaborate and exchange concrete ideas to improve corporate social responsibility (CSR) or business practices with like-minded peers.
With corporations continuing to bear a large responsibility in transforming the world for the better, this timely partnership and launch in the US allows BNP Paribas the opportunity to host the conversation and spur concrete collective action.
“As a major international company and financial services group, we have the human, technological and financial resources to push boundaries and take a leading role in being part of the solution,” says Hervé P. Duteil, Chief Sustainability Officer, BNP Paribas Americas.
About Sparknews
Sparknews is a social enterprise dedicated to amplifying positive change by working at the crossroads of social and environmental innovation, news media and the corporate world. Spearhead of the International news operations Impact Journalism Day and Solutions&Co, which brings together more than +70 international leading newspapers to publish, on the same day, supplements on positive innovations worldwide, Sparknews highlights the media’s ability to create and inspire action by reporting on concrete and impactful solutions. Sparknews also created its first Positive Innovation Club in Paris in 2016 to inspire, foster and connect ‘responsible’ leaders, and give them the tools and means to inspire change within the companies they work at, and create businesses that are more inclusive and respectful of the planet.
About BNP Paribas in the USA
BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence in the United States to support its client base. The bank employs over 16,000 people and has had a presence in the USA since the late 1800s. Bank of the West and First Hawaiian Bank (together BancWest, part of Retail Banking & Services) serve nearly 2.5 million individuals and businesses through a network of more than 650 branches and business centers. Large corporate and institutional clients are serviced by BNP Paribas’ Corporate & Institutional Banking franchise that has a presence in the main US cities, in addition to a global reach through a network of offices in EMEA and APAC. The bank also offers asset management services through BNP Paribas Asset Management (part of Retail Banking & Services) as well as Real Estate and Fleet Services through partnerships. www.usa.bnpparibas
BNP Paribas Press Contact
Jamie Somohano
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Sparknews Press Contact
Audrey Jacquet
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