All Blog Posts Tagged 'csr' (53)

CSR Reporting Best Practice

Cindy Mehallow of Triple Pundit has put together some excellent insights about CSR reporting including some great work being done by FedEx and Gap. Please read Cindy’s blog with the links here. Be remarkable Ian Founder Differencemakers Community Partnering passionate people to change what’s normal for the good of people, our planet, and for profit. Continue

Added by Ian Berry on November 29, 2009 at 6:37am — No Comments

Corporate Volunteering: Top 7 Requests & the Bad, Better and Best Responses (1 of 7)

The following blog entry is a cross-post from my blog Realizing Your Worth. “We want a volunteer experience that can be done in no more than a day, and no less than a half-day.” Companies want to engage their communities through employee volunteering programs. For most, this means calling a non-profit and schedulin… Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on November 6, 2009 at 8:22pm — No Comments

Where To Find "Sustainable" Employment?

The following blog entry is a cross-post from my blog Realizing Your Worth.

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Added by Chris Jarvis on October 22, 2009 at 10:16pm — No Comments

Business Action for Development -potential Triple Wins for businesses, governments and communities

Having attended the final session for this series, I commend the organisers and sponsors for initiating and providing the forum for various interests to discuss and explore the role of business in development. This series has provided examples showcasing how transnational businesses (TNs) make the case for Corporate Social Responsibility. The inclusive business approach has seen CSR moving from mere philanthropy to one that is closer to the Triple Bottom Line approach of addressing social, econo… Continue

Added by Veronica Broomes on October 14, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Bank Offers Free Health Care: Now That’s Corporate Social Responsibility!

The following blog entry is a cross-post from my blog Realizing Your Worth. … Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on October 11, 2009 at 8:49pm — No Comments

How Did Corporate Social Responsibility Hold Up In 2009?

The following blog entry is a cross-post from my blog Realizing Your Worth. … Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on October 7, 2009 at 3:39pm — No Comments

"Doing well by doing good"

"Doing well by doing good" and "reaching out and giving back" are key strategies for growth of some of the world's largest organisations. Why not you? Find out more by reading an excellent article in Harvard Business Review by Sylvia Ann Hewlett here. The article is headed "Boost Performance By Tapping Employees' Altruism" Be remarkable Ian Fou… Continue

Added by Ian Berry on October 1, 2009 at 3:56am — No Comments

There are rarely rewards without first taking risks

I have often wondered why many politicians who were very successful prior to entering politics, become but mere shadows of themselves inside politics. One of my answers to this is that they stop taking risks for fear of losing their seats! Compromise is the result. Compromise rarely achieves anything great. Politics where there is the Government, an Opposition, and a few Independents and minor parties, like in Australia, fails to understand that success in the 21st century is about collaborati… Continue

Added by Ian Berry on August 30, 2009 at 4:00am — 3 Comments

50 (plus 1) Great Sites For Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability

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Added by Chris Jarvis on August 25, 2009 at 8:50pm — No Comments

The 3 Basic Steps To Create Trust Through Corporate Social Responsibility

Trust: Why Business Lost It, And How To Win It Back (Part 3 of 3)… Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on August 3, 2009 at 4:28pm — No Comments

Carrot v. Stick

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Added by Chris Jarvis on July 24, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Social Media & CSR: The Top 10 Sites for Creating Conversation

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Added by Chris Jarvis on July 20, 2009 at 4:12pm — No Comments

What is Social Innovation? Reflections from the National Conference for Service and Volunteering

Shannon Schuyler, US managing director of Corporate Responsibility, for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), is our guest blogger, writing from San Francisco at the National Conference for Service and Volunteering. … Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on July 7, 2009 at 6:03pm — No Comments

Volunteering and Service in America: Four National Themes

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Added by Chris Jarvis on June 30, 2009 at 4:58pm — No Comments

How Do You Serve?

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Added by Chris Jarvis on June 24, 2009 at 7:16pm — No Comments

Six Essential Strengths Of An Employee Volunteer Program: An Interview With Shannon Schuyler of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Added by Chris Jarvis on June 12, 2009 at 4:01pm — No Comments

What's the True Impact of Your Employee Volunteer Program? Glad You Asked

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Added by Chris Jarvis on May 20, 2009 at 2:11am — No Comments

Six ways companies can reduce poverty

You and your company can reduce poverty, here are six approaches. - Drink a beer at a luxury hotel in Sierra Leone; - Throw bales of money out of a helicopter over farmland; - Sell water in Kibera slum, Nairobi at twice the price of that in the city centre; - Use your weight; - Invest in a budding new competitor, supplier or buyer; - if all else fails, then donate. Yes, there are six ways your company can do its bit to reduce poverty in a developing country. With only minor changes to the way y… Continue

Added by Thierry Sanders on May 19, 2009 at 10:43pm — 1 Comment