The Genesis Prize, a "Jewish Nobel Prize" worth $1 million, was announced in a statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Genesis Philanthropy Group founder Mikhail Fridman.
The Genesis Prize recognizes far-reaching achievements in science, the arts, business, medicine, diplomacy and other fields of human endeavor have been realized thanks to the Jewish people's natural aspiration to improve the world, and to its desire to pass its moral values on to coming generations.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.