Our indispensable sustainability and stakeholder trend tracker is back, helping companies navigate and lead on the year's most notable social and environmental advocacy trends.

You had a lot of good questions during our 2020 “Force for Good Forecast“ webinar. Here are a few of the threads that emerged from our Q&A.

Minimize risk and find opportunities to lead on the most important trends driving ESG activism and advocacy.

We called it with CEO activism. Trade associations? Not so much.

Temperatures are reaching new highs, and so is billionaire-backed climate advocacy. Fasten your seat belts.

Future 500’s new handbook, the Force for Good Forecast 2019, helps business leaders minimize risk and maximize reward from the year’s leading social and environmental advocacy trends.

Companies are typically reticent to take public positions on issues, but this has been rapidly shifting, particularly since November 2016. 

Investors are asking questions about what is really going on in those warehouses. But the company maintains radio silence.

In the most incendiary example to date of the “brands taking stands” movement, Nike anointed Colin Kaepernick as it’s public face.

We are pleased to release Future 500’s Report on the Top 10 Stakeholder Engagement Trends of 2018. This is our seventh annual report.

Our 2017 Trends report shows how effective, proactive stakeholder engagement is more important than ever in advancing systemic change.

In 2016, we hope our Top 10 Trends report helps companies and their stakeholders see beyond conflict and find ways to collaboratively forge common ground solutions to our most pressing global problems.

From politics to energy production, ocean acidification to deforestation, 2015 will present a wide range of stakeholder challenges that will require the attention of corporate leaders. 

Future 500 has released a Top 10 list of what we anticipate will be the most pressing and timely stakeholder issues impacting the corporate sector in 2014.

Each fall, the Future 500 team holds a series of strategic planning meetings where we synthesize the trends we see, outlining our core issues of focus for the coming year and beyond.

Based on extensive global interviews, engagements, and online research, Future 500 has identified the Top Ten most intensive corporate campaigns that brand-name consumer companies will likely face in 2012.