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  • We love Sustainability Reports!

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    elaine
    16 May 2013 | 11:41 pm
    This week, in Bucharest, I had the opportunity to deliver a Sustainability Reporting training workshop attended by Corporate Responsibility leaders in several large and leading companies in the Romanian market. The training workshop was organized by ResponsabilitateSociala.ro, who is running the exceedingly popular European CSR Lessons, taking place as I write (16-17 May 2013, and which I regrettably was not able to stay on to attend) and was hosted by GSK Romania, the first GRI-based sustainability reporter in the Romanian pharma sector,  and 2nd runner up in the CRRA'13 online…

  • Rejecting the Bangladesh Safety Accord

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    Chris MacDonald
    17 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    It’s easy to villainize a company like Walmart for being unwilling to sign an agreement seeking to improve safety for workers in Bangladesh. What’s harder is to assess the company’s actual motives, and its obligations. Headlines recently blared that Walmart has refused to sign the new “Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh”, despite the fact that 24 other companies (including Europe’s two largest clothing retailers, as well as American brand Tommy Hilfiger and Canada’s Loblaw) had signed. Other news sources avoided the Walmart-centric hysteria…

  • My two blogging principles

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    Fabian
    17 May 2013 | 1:31 pm
    I have been blogging on my personal website since 2008 and must admit I did not really know what I wanted to write about when I started it. It all changed when I got the first comments and I needed to engage with you, my readers. This should not sound strange quite the opposite. The [...]

  • Donald Trump turns to legal action as windfarm work marches on

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    17 May 2013 | 9:47 am
    American tycoon Donald Trump has launched a legal case against plans to build an offshore wind turbine test facility off Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

  • Neither Admit Nor Deny: Big Business Allowed To Pay Millions to Avoid Jail

    CorpWatch
    5 May 2013 | 12:00 am
    Record fines adding up to $36 billion have been paid out in the last 12 years by multinational corporations to the U.S. government to settle charges of corruption and fraud. But are they getting away with a slap on the wrist to avoid prosecution for major crimes?
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  • We love Sustainability Reports!

    elaine
    16 May 2013 | 11:41 pm
    This week, in Bucharest, I had the opportunity to deliver a Sustainability Reporting training workshop attended by Corporate Responsibility leaders in several large and leading companies in the Romanian market. The training workshop was organized by ResponsabilitateSociala.ro, who is running the exceedingly popular European CSR Lessons, taking place as I write (16-17 May 2013, and which I regrettably was not able to stay on to attend) and was hosted by GSK Romania, the first GRI-based sustainability reporter in the Romanian pharma sector,  and 2nd runner up in the CRRA'13 online…

  • Is reporting bad news?

    elaine
    6 May 2013 | 11:28 pm
    As mentioned in my previous post, the annual  CR Reporting Awards CRRA '13 Winners were announced during a special, one-day, by-invitation-only CR Perspectives conference hosted by CorporateRegister.com in late April. The conference shared the results of the CR Perspectives survey, which was completed by hundreds of people around the world and yielded some very interesting results. A full analysis of the results will be published and made freely available by the end of May on CorporateRegister.com.I chaired the CR  Perspectives conference, which gave me the…

  • Drumroll for the CRRA'13 winners!

    elaine
    3 May 2013 | 9:01 pm
    Once again, amidst great fanfare, the annual iconic CRRA '13 Awards Winners were announced during a special, one-day, by-invitation-only CR Perspectives conference hosted by CorporateRegister.com and free to participants in the CR Perspectives survey and CRRA '13 winners and other guests. More about this in another post. CorporateRegister.com is home to the world’s most comprehensive directory of corporate non-financial reports with close to 48,000 reports from 9,900 companies across almost all the countries you can think of. Reports from six countries took the nine first…

  • How to say Sustainability in a Poster

    elaine
    6 Apr 2013 | 8:22 am
    Having spent a lot of time on this blog talking about the new generation of the GRI Guidelines and the G4 Exposure Draft and speculating about what it will look like when it is actually launched, it is now time for the talking to stop and the action to begin, as we enter the countdown phase for the G4 launch. It's time for everyone to start placing bets as the exact format for the G4 launch is being kept well under wraps. If you are not in Amsterdam on May 22-24, to hear the first exposure of the G4 draft, and engage with 1,500 or more sustainability professionals, consultants,…

  • Is G4 reporting suicide?

    elaine
    2 Apr 2013 | 11:53 pm
    Following my two recent posts, in which I partially analyzed two reports for their alignment with the new G4 Exposure Draft, I wanted to add some concluding thoughts. In developing these two (limited) analyses of Clorox and Henkel reporting, I realize that in practice, G4 is much much tougher than G3, moreso than I anticipated. Value chain, supply chain, material aspects, core and add indicators, profile disclosures, management disclosures... it's all makes the reporting task a much more serious affair. In essence, this is what we should want: a more connected sort of…
 
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  • Rejecting the Bangladesh Safety Accord

    Chris MacDonald
    17 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    It’s easy to villainize a company like Walmart for being unwilling to sign an agreement seeking to improve safety for workers in Bangladesh. What’s harder is to assess the company’s actual motives, and its obligations. Headlines recently blared that Walmart has refused to sign the new “Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh”, despite the fact that 24 other companies (including Europe’s two largest clothing retailers, as well as American brand Tommy Hilfiger and Canada’s Loblaw) had signed. Other news sources avoided the Walmart-centric hysteria…

  • Hiring the Donor’s Daughter

    Chris MacDonald
    16 May 2013 | 5:47 am
    Nonprofit and charitable organizations face many of the same ethical challenges that other organizations face, but they may also bump into a few special problems from time to time. As an example, consider the following HR dilemma, which was posed to me recently. I work for a nonprofit organization in health research, and I’ve recently been told that I will be hiring and supervising a new individual whose parents are donating her salary for one year (it’s to be a one-year, limited-term position) in addition to making a sizeable donation. The hope is that, in time, the donors will…

  • Studie: Nur jeder zweite Beschäftigte ist zufrieden

    Thomas Feldhaus
    8 May 2013 | 8:11 am
    Frankfurt am Main (csr-news) > Die Stimmung unter Deutschlands Arbeitnehmern verschlechtert sich: Nur noch 52 Prozent von ihnen sind zufrieden mit ihrem Arbeitsplatz. Das ist allerdings für Viele kein Grund den Arbeitsplatz zu wechseln, nur 43 Prozent sind auf der Suche nach einer neuen Beschäftigung. Zu diesen Ergebnissen kommt die Studie “Jobzufriedenheit 2013″, die im Auftrag der ManpowerGroup Deutschland im April durchgeführt wurde. Die Ursachen für die Unzufriedenheit sind … [visit site to read more]

  • Why HR Management is Always Ethically Relevant

    Chris MacDonald
    7 May 2013 | 4:12 pm
    Ethics should be thought of as the heart of your organization’s HR function. Likewise, HR is likely to be the heart of attempts to manage ethics within your organization. Let me explain why. It’s hard to imagine a function more essential to most businesses than HR. HR may not get the glory that Finance does, but it’s just as important. Hiring, training, evaluating, and retaining the right people are all undeniably core management challenges. Every manager knows this. The relevant difference between Finance and HR is that Finance gains prestige by bringing to bear the tools of…

  • Joe Fresh: is Compensation for Bangladesh an Admission of Guilt?

    Chris MacDonald
    30 Apr 2013 | 11:33 am
    Loblaw Companies Limited, the company that owns the Joe Fresh retail clothing line, has announced that it will pay compensation to the families of victims of last week’s factory collapse in Bangladesh. Details are sparse at this point, but it’s an interesting development. The move will of course garner the company plenty of praise. Some of that praise will be offered only grudgingly, by those who will see it as the least that can be done by a money-hungry corporation in the habit of squeezing profits out of the labour of Bangladeshis with few other options. But still, there will…
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  • My two blogging principles

    Fabian
    17 May 2013 | 1:31 pm
    I have been blogging on my personal website since 2008 and must admit I did not really know what I wanted to write about when I started it. It all changed when I got the first comments and I needed to engage with you, my readers. This should not sound strange quite the opposite. The [...]

  • Closing the forum: Learning what works and what does not

    Fabian
    16 May 2013 | 7:18 am
    I recently added a discussion forum to my site with the intention to provide a community for sustainability practitioners across the globe a place where we can be sure to have quality content and meet verified fellow sustainability practitioners. I thought this discussion forum was a great idea. But after 2 months and numerous conversations and useful feedback [...]

  • What is your favorite Social Media Channel for CSR / Sustainability topics in 2013?

    Fabian
    14 May 2013 | 8:09 am
    Back in 2012 I did a poll asking you what your favorite social media channel was. The results where pretty clear with Twitter being by far the most popular channel. Today I would to repeat this poll with the intention to see whether the results will change 12 months on. Has Google+ now become more [...]

  • New Sustainability Videos on YouTube

    Fabian
    6 May 2013 | 6:27 am
    I am constantly looking to find use Sustainability videos on YouTube or Vimeo. Today I wanted to provide you with three interesting new Sustainability related videos I found this week. Why not get a new coffee and sit down to listen to these excellent talks. I am sure it will be worth it.

  • Moving Sustainability best practice to the next level of development

    Fabian
    18 Mar 2013 | 9:19 am
    The last year has been very busy in my life and I did not spend as much time working on Sustainability topics as I would like to have done. During 2013 I started to refocus on Sustainability topics. Today’s post is meant to be a short resume post about what I believe is happening in the Sustainability field at the moment and how I could see the [...]
 
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  • Neither Admit Nor Deny: Big Business Allowed To Pay Millions to Avoid Jail

    5 May 2013 | 12:00 am
    Record fines adding up to $36 billion have been paid out in the last 12 years by multinational corporations to the U.S. government to settle charges of corruption and fraud. But are they getting away with a slap on the wrist to avoid prosecution for major crimes?

  • Benetton, Others Tied to Bangladesh Factory Disaster: 400 Killed

    1 May 2013 | 12:00 am
    Multinationals like Benetton have tried to distance themselves from Rana Plaza, a Bangladeshi building housing five clothing factories, that collapsed last week killing over 400. Activists argue that change will only come when workers get more political support to challenge them.

  • Arch Coal Denied Permission to Blow Up West Virginia Mountain

    25 Apr 2013 | 12:00 am
    A subsidiary of Arch Coal of St. Louis, Missouri, was denied permission to dump nearly three billion cubic feet of dirt into local headwater streams after blowing up a mountain in West Virginia. The object was to extract coal from a project known as the Spruce No. 1 Surface Mine.

  • Arch Coal Wants Permission to Blow Up West Virginia Mountain

    24 Apr 2013 | 12:00 am
    A subsidiary of Arch Coal of St. Louis, Missouri, wants permission to dump nearly three billion cubic feet of dirt into local headwater streams after blowing up a mountain in West Virginia. The object is to extract coal from a project known as the Spruce No. 1 Surface Mine.

  • Alstom Officials Paid Bribes To Win Indonesian Coal Contracts

    22 Apr 2013 | 12:00 am
    Alstom, a French engineering company, has been accused of bribing Indonesian officials to win a lucrative contract to build coal power plans in Sumatra. Frederic Pierucci, a French employee of the company, was arrested and David Rothschild, a U.S. employee, has pled guilty.
 
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  • Labour’s new tax policy: welcome moves in many right directions but country-by-country reporting has to be there

    Richard Murphy
    19 May 2013 | 1:36 pm
    Labour has now published its new corporation tax policy, in four parts, each of which I consider in turn: 1. HMRC Both the administration and enforcement of the tax rules have been impacted by cuts to HMRC resources, with the Chancellor pushing through over £2 billion of deep cuts. The Government plans to cut a further 10,000 HMRC staff, which risk being a false economy, as there has to be a limit to HMRC’s capacity to do more with less. Despite all the rhetoric about tackling tax avoidance, the progress made by this Government is limited at best. The deal struck with Switzerland…

  • Corporate social responsibility is a smokescreen behind which companies screw their custom

    Richard Murphy
    19 May 2013 | 11:40 am
    Larry Elliot’s been writing about tax in the Guardian this evening. “Tax,” he says ” threatens to become to the 2010s what debt relief was to the 1990s: the focus of a global campaign for reform”. I thought it already was, but let’s not quibble; the interesting bit is what he goes on to say: In the end, though, the success of any campaign will depend on how the public behaves. If we don’t like the current state of affairs, we can do one of two things. We can put pressure on governments to break up monopolies and inject more competition. We can call…

  • One tax law for us and another for the 1% puts democracy itself at risk

    Richard Murphy
    19 May 2013 | 11:06 am
    Nick Cohen had a great article in the Observer this morning saying: If you want to understand any society, look at its tax system. If one man or a clique can tax at will, you can conclude the society is a dictatorship or oligarchy. If you have reasonably progressive and universal taxes, you can assume it is a modern democracy. He’s right. But as he also notes: Britain has elements of democratic taxation. The same rules on occasion apply to everyone. But other parts of the system resemble the ancien régime of pre-revolutionary France. Only in our case the privileged estates the…

  • Is the Google edifice cracking?

    Richard Murphy
    19 May 2013 | 3:21 am
    The Sunday Times reports this morning that: Barney Jones, 34, who worked for the internet search giant between 2002 and 2006, has lifted the lid on an elaborate structure which diverts British profits through Ireland to the Bermuda tax haven. Although Google’s London sales staff would negotiate and sign contracts with British customers, and cash was paid into a UK bank account, deals were technically booked through its Dublin office to minimise its liabilities here. Jones, a devout Christian and father of four, is ready to hand over a cache of more than 100,000 emails and documents to HM…

  • Fisking Eric Schmidt of Google

    Richard Murphy
    19 May 2013 | 2:13 am
    The Observer has been even handed this morning. As well as reporting the efforts to stop global tax abuse it also gave a column to Eric Schmidt, Google’s global Chairman. I have to say he used it to spread misinformation which I feel duty bound to rebut. He opened saying: At a time when families are having to tighten their belts and funding for vital public services is under pressure, corporate taxation is rightly a hot topic. And as a company that has always aspired to do the right thing, we understand why Google is at the centre of that debate. In the interests of moving the argument…
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    CSR Europe

  • Norwegian CSR Awards winners celebrated in Oslo

    16 May 2013 | 4:00 pm
    The winners of the European CSR Awards Scheme in Norway were proudly announced at the national ceremony in the Norwegian Opera House in Oslo on the 16th of May. In the category small and medium-sized companies UNIT4 Agresso was awarded the prize for the project "Enterprise Resource Planning System Agresso accessible for blind and partially sighted", in cooperation with the Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted (NABP). Only 30% of the 180.000 blind and partially sighted persons in Norway are employed… read more

  • ManpowerGroup, Nokia and Pajat Solutions awarded for the best impactful partnerships in Finland

    16 May 2013 | 4:00 pm
     The first-ever European CSR Award Scheme’s national Finnish winners were awarded today at Corporate Responsibility Network FIBS’ RATKAISUN PAIKKA 2013 –event in Helsinki. Companies were awarded in three categories for innovative, non-business partnerships that have helped to solve social problems while creating business advantage.IN THE CATEGORY FOR LARGE COMPANIES the winner was ManpowerGroup with the partnership ”Diverse employment”, aimed for supporting the employment of disadvantaged individuals in the open labor market… read more

  • Western Union Pass Fund generates 177,574 days of education

    15 May 2013 | 4:00 pm
    Through a collaboration with UNICEF, CSR Europe member Western Union are using their sponsorship of the UEFA Europa League to raise funding for children in need of education across the world.  For every pass made throughout its sponsorship contract (from the 2012/13 season until May 2015), the global payments services company will provide funding for one day of education.After Chelsea's win last night against SL Benfica in Amsterdam, the total number of days rose to 177,574.  The education programme focuses on 11 countries spread across five continents, helping children achieve…

  • MVO Nederland launches CSR Risk Check

    13 May 2013 | 4:00 pm
    An interactive new tool has recently been launched by MVO Nederland, which offers a fast and easy insight into CSR risks in international business conduct.Within five minutes this freely available online tool provides an insight into risks companies might encounter through international business operations and trade.  The CSR Risk Check helps entrepreneurs estimate social and environmental risks throughout their supply chains and overseas production, which helps prevent and mitigate issues like child labour, pollution and corruption… read more

  • Czech winners of the European CSR Award were awarded at the CSR Summit at DOX gallery Prague

    12 May 2013 | 4:00 pm
    Winners of the European CSR Awards were announced at the CSR Summit in Prague.  In the category Small and Medium Company was awarded První chodská develop a.s., for the project Steps into the Life. The Project focused on young people who leave safe houses when they became adult. In the category Large company was awarded Accenture Central Europe B.V. for the project Accenture Academy. Project aimps to tap into a „blank space“ on the map of social support of youngsters becoming independent in their life – Accenture Academy tryies to improve their soft…
 
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  • Intel Demonstrates Water Leadership in Semiconductor Industry

    Harry Stevens
    17 May 2013 | 7:36 am
    Intel Corporation has released its 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report, summarizing the chipmaker’s performance across a range of sustainability activities. The report – the company’s 12th – also provides updates on Intel’s progress toward its 2020 environmental goals. “Intel’s annual Corporate Responsibility Report allows us to transparently track our progress and aggressively work toward new goals [...]The post Intel Demonstrates Water Leadership in Semiconductor Industry appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.

  • JPMorgan Releases CSR Report Amid Negative Press

    Raz Godelnik
    17 May 2013 | 2:15 am
    If you’re following the news there’s a good chance you’ve heard a story on JPMorgan Chase. Yet, there’s little chance it was about the company’s new CSR report released earlier this week.The post JPMorgan Releases CSR Report Amid Negative Press appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.

  • Trader Joe’s Amends Sustainable Seafood Policy, Again

    Harry Stevens
    17 May 2013 | 2:12 am
    Trader Joe’s most recent update to its sustainable seafood policy has left environmental groups largely skeptical of the grocery chain’s commitment to preserve the planet’s ocean wildlife. In a statement posted on the company’s website, Trader Joe’s said it has ceased buying swordfish caught in Southeast Asia and is “evaluating sources from U.S. Pacific waters,” [...]The post Trader Joe’s Amends Sustainable Seafood Policy, Again appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.

  • Traditional VCs Get Big Returns from Positive Social Impact Investments

    Travis Noland
    17 May 2013 | 2:08 am
    New research shows that social impact can outperform traditional funds. The post Traditional VCs Get Big Returns from Positive Social Impact Investments appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.

  • E-Bikes Continue to Expand in the U.S.

    Phil Covington
    17 May 2013 | 2:06 am
    Unlike many manufacturers that just sell one e-bike amongst a range of human-only powered bicycles, A2B under Hero Eco instead focus just on e-bikes, while providing a range of different models for riders with different needs. The post E-Bikes Continue to Expand in the U.S. appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.
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  • FOODS WE LOVE: Basa

    LisaFerber
    16 May 2013 | 12:14 pm
    One food I've become quite fond of in my ongoing quest to maintain a healthy body and a smart budget is basa fillet. It's a tasty fish, with a delicate texture and nice, white flesh. A 100-gram serving provides 14 grams of protein. The basa fish is a freshwater catfish from the Pangasiiade family and is native to the Chao Phraya basin and the Mekong River delta. According to the Mayo Clinic, eating at least six ounces of fish per week lessens your risk of heart disease as well as certain cancers. Basa fillet contains wonderfully nutritious omega-3 fatty acids, which, when eaten…

  • Focus on Preventing Cancer

    Seventh Generation
    16 May 2013 | 6:25 am
    by Jeanne Rizzo, R.N., is president and CEO of the Breast Cancer Fund To what lengths will women go to prevent breast cancer from striking their lives and robbing them of time spent with loved ones? On Tuesday Angelina Jolie informed the world that she underwent an elective double mastectomy. As a carrier of the "breast cancer gene" mutation, or BRCA, Jolie reports that she has now reduced her risk of developing breast cancer from 87 percent to under five. "I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer," Jolie wrote in the New…

  • Down & Dirty in the Produce Aisle

    the Inkslinger
    15 May 2013 | 7:01 am
    The Environmental Working Group's (EWG) yearly list of the most pesticide-tainted fruits and vegetables is here, and it once again underscores the importance of organic eating. The only real question is how to do it on a budget. The 2013 Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen feature some new additions and for the second year running a "Plus" category for a couple of foods that didn't meet worst-offender criteria but  were commonly contaminated with pesticides exceptionally toxic to the nervous system. Here's the EWG list of the Dirty Dozen, the 12 fruits and veggies on your…

  • Composting Made Easy with Curbside Pickup

    AlexandraPecci
    14 May 2013 | 8:46 am
    What if you could put your compostable household waste in sidewalk bins for curbside pickup, just like you do with your recycling? It would be amazing how little waste your family would produce every day. You'd start to barely make a dent at your local landfill. Composting is one of the greenest things we can do: Methane produced in landfills by decomposing organic material is a more dangerous greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and the EPA says landfills are the single largest source of methane. Despite the benefits of composting, though, it's still a difficult process for many…

  • Having a Bad Air Day?

    the Inkslinger
    13 May 2013 | 2:01 pm
    Summer is the season to get outdoors and enjoy some fresh air. Yet it's also (oh, cruel irony!) when air pollution peaks in many regions and makes that fresh air hard to find. How should we deal when our city is having a bad air day? First the good news: there's a whole lot less air pollution than there used to be. According to the EPA, concentrations of the major outdoor air pollutants have fallen dramatically in the last several decades. Carbon monoxide, for example, is down 82% since 1980. Ozone has dropped 28%. And particulates are off 29% since 2000.[1] That's not to say…
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  • CSR interventions in a mining exploration project

    Andres Recalde
    22 Apr 2013 | 11:38 am
    Community relations can make or break mining projects large or small. Faced with local concerns, or even strident opposition, companies that reach an accord and then establish robust community bonds warrant close attention, as do the methods they employed. http://www.miningweekly.com/print-version/torex-progress-founded-on-firm-community-relations-2013-04-17

  • How honorable are some multi national corporations?

    Felipe Rubio Torgler
    20 Feb 2013 | 5:01 am
    http://nwoobserver.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/the-killing-fields-of-multi-national-corporations/

  • IT Infrastructure and Security

    rekha ks
    15 Feb 2013 | 7:22 am
    I would be very glad to introduce our company. Please find some time to read as you may find our company interesting and may be we can have chance of working together. We are headquartered at Bangalore, INDIA, we at Kanoe Softwares Pvt Ltd. Founded in 1999, the Kanoe Softwares Pvt Ltd is a recognized leader in the provision of the software solutions and services with more than 12 years of professional experience and practical engagement, culminating in 2880000 hours of professional service.  With our prominent presence in India and offices across the country, as well as a strong…

  • Chinese Government and industrial groups are interested in Canadian environmental technology and products.

    Jim Geldart
    14 Feb 2013 | 2:16 pm
    Are there any individuals or groups interested in promoting their environmental technology  and products to China or create partnerships with Chinese interested parties?

  • SPEAKING TO OUR SONS

    DA Sears
    9 Feb 2013 | 6:32 am
    It was a cool and cloudy early Monday morning when I met a young man,  Someone's sonand a member of the Next Generation of Husbands, Fathers, and Leaders.  Although he is someone's son -- he is really OUR son -- OUR future -- OURbridge to the future.  So, how did I meet this young man and what is this story all about?  It was a chance meeting. Had I started my journey earlier and caught an earlier bus, our paths would not have crossed.  We disembarked from the bus at the same stop.  .I got up from my seat and as I exited the bus, I heard footsteps behind me. So, I…
 
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  • Would You Sack Luis Suarez?

    davidcoethica
    22 Apr 2013 | 6:27 am
    What would you do if an employee bit one of your competitors? I know this doesn’t happen often, and in most cases the answer is to show that employee the door, quickly. What if that employee was one of most talented in your industry? Should that make a difference? What if that employee also demonstrated public indicators of emotional or mental instability? The Liverpool FC v Chelsea FC game yesterday was supposed to be a stage for a returning and much loved ex-manager and a platform to show support for a recently departed campaigner for justice following the Hillsborough disaster, but…

  • CSR = Your Better (Small) Business

    davidcoethica
    15 Apr 2013 | 2:59 am
    If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Vodafone’s ‘Your Better Business’ website, which describes itself as “an open exchange of ideas and opinions that can help shape the future of business. It’s also a platform where the brightest business brains will contribute and share information on the latest best practice models, give expert business advice and talk about the role technology is playing. ” Here’s a short extract and a link (below text or image top right) to an article I  wrote on real world CSR for small business… “In an…

  • Want To Be A Global Ambassador for Social Good?

    davidcoethica
    9 Apr 2013 | 1:49 pm
    Are you planning a trip around the world to meet leaders and make our society a better place to live? No? Why not? Sometimes the world can feel like an overwhelmingly big place and we, as individuals, can do little on our own to make it better against the tide of challenges and barriers, especially our own self-limiting beliefs. There are those who believe differently though. Are you one? yourbigyear.com has launched its third year of a global competition that doesn’t take no for an answer when it comes to social impact and talent. Last year I spent some time talking to Chris Arnold,…

  • Charities Need to Increase Overheads

    davidcoethica
    22 Mar 2013 | 8:15 am
    Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is wrong If you work in social enterprise or a charitable organisation make sure you find 18 minutes and 55 seconds to watch the video below. I’ve seen the link to this video enthusiastically being bounced around the social media world for a few days and I finally managed to squeeze in a watch over lunch today. I’ll let Dan do the talking first and add a few thoughts after you’ve heard what he has to say… He’s absolutely on the money and he knows what he’s talking about. Too many in the social world are too…

  • VfL Wolfsburg Score Football CSR Winner

    davidcoethica
    12 Mar 2013 | 10:19 am
    It may have taken a while but VfL Wolfsburg are the winners! Back in October 2010 I wrote a post called Not a Premier League CSR Report about the state of non-financial reporting in football, especially in the UK. At the end of the post I urged / hoped / challenged / pleaded with the industry to step up to the penalty spot by producing a credible report. VfL Wolfsburg have scored first. The post was spurred at the time by a couple of so-called CSR reports by Manchester City and Aston Villa (and an earlier attempt by Chelsea). Manchester City’s in particular was much more of an…
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    Realized Worth

  • PODCAST: Corporate Volunteering & Sex

    Realized Worth
    15 May 2013 | 9:02 am
    I had a great time chatting with Joe Waters and Megan Strand on CauseTalk Radio last week. I shared some of my thoughts about why corporate volunteering needs to take into account the “Proximity Factor” . I may have also talked a bit about Why Corporate Volunteering is Like Sex - so be sure to tell us what you think. [...]

  • 4 Tips for a Great Employee Volunteer Campaign

    Angela Parker
    13 May 2013 | 4:19 am
    A question commonly posed to Realized Worth is, “Can you give me an example of a company that has a great corporate citizenship program?” If we’re being honest (and we usually are), the answer is an unequivocal “No.” There is not one company that has every aspect of their corporate citizenship program figured out. There [...]

  • What Youth Are Doing in Their Free Time – and Why You Should Care

    Angela Parker
    15 Apr 2013 | 6:32 am
    Realized Worth thanks Jon-Erik Lappano for this guest post highlighting the socially active youth who will soon fill our corporations. Jon-Erik is Program Manager of Earth Day Canada’s EcoMentors program. Check out Earth Day Canada’s programs and initiatives at www.earthday.ca. Trendsetters There’s a new trend at large. Youth everywhere are doing it and the corporate sector would be [...]

  • Does Your Community Investment Program Need An Update?

    Realized Worth
    9 Apr 2013 | 7:05 am
    We are pleased to announce that Realized Worth and Corporate Citizenship  are now working together to help companies refine their community investment and company culture.   Refresh So we have to tell you, we are extremely excited about this joint venture. For some time now we have been exploring ways to offer a ‘make-over’ for corporate [...]

  • Volunteering 20 Minutes at a Time

    Realized Worth
    29 Mar 2013 | 5:14 am
    This blog post was originally shared on Business4Better: The Community Partnership Movement blog as a part of the upcoming Business4Better conference. The conference will be utilizing the Sparked platform to provide micro-volunteering opportunities for conference attendees. Do you have busy employees that can’t give large amounts of time for charitable volunteering due to other commitments [...]
 
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    Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Cause Marketing News

  • The Customer is not Always Right: Why Supermarkets Show We Have a Problem with Evidence

    ccitizenship
    18 May 2013 | 7:00 am
    Senior Researcher Charlie Ashford, Corporate Citizenship shares his views DESCRIPTION:Last month, a group of scientists sent an open letter to ten supermarkets, accusing them of “seriously misinforming customers on health risks”. The Voice of Young Science (VoYS) campaign says that by using “negative claims” – advertising products as free from ingredients such as MSG, aspartame, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or parabens – supermarkets are playing up unfounded health fears. Such labelling, they say, is as meaningless as marketing a “low sodium drain cleaner”, or…

  • Venture Inside the Leading Compliance Platform - Source Intelligence

    source44
    17 May 2013 | 9:05 am
    DESCRIPTION:“Which suppliers are in scope?”, “Should we handle compliance internally, externally or with a blended approach?”, “How should we define due diligence?” There certainly is no shortage of questions surrounding Conflict Minerals Compliance and Source Intelligence will answer each and every one of them. To address concerns Source Intelligence will be hosting a web-based  'open house' of our robust platform. Take this opportunity to ask the compliance questions that pertain to your specific situation. Register for Thursday, May 23, 2013 demonstration at 1 PM ET/ 10 AM…

  • AOL Monster Help Day 2013

    aol
    17 May 2013 | 8:15 am
    Sara Bennett DESCRIPTION:In one monster day of service to celebrate AOL's 28th anniversary, nearly 3,000 AOLers came together in 25 cities around the globe on Thursday, May 16, to bring to life the AOL value, We're in the business of helping people. Period.  As the day dawned in Bangalore, Tel Aviv, London and Dublin, New York and the East Coast and across the U.S. to AOL's West Coast locations, the fourth annual AOL Monster Help Day got under way with employees rolling up their sleeves to assist charities, clean up parks, create artwork for hospitals, support the troops, read to…

  • 5 Necessary Steps to Better Integrated Reporting AND a More Sustainable Company

    leslie
    17 May 2013 | 8:05 am
    DESCRIPTION:With the Global Reporting Initiative’s upcoming conference in Amsterdam and the growing interest–and execution–of integrated reporting, it is still important to remember the combination of the financial and non-financial data is a challenge for many companies. Yesterday, during a meeting with SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf at the company’s annual conference here in Orlando, he shared some insight into the journey he and the enterprise software giant together have taken on their path towards issuing its integrated report. Some points may be obvious: for…

  • Economic Losses from Disasters Underestimated, ‘Out of Control’

    ReutersSust
    17 May 2013 | 8:00 am
    DESCRIPTION:By Megan Rowling | 16 May 2013 Economic losses caused by disasters have been underestimated by at least 50 percent, and are “out of control”, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said. The head of the world body was speaking on Wednesday at the New York launch of a U.N. report on the business case for disaster risk reduction, which reviewed reported losses from disasters in 56 countries. “Our startling finding is that direct losses from floods, earthquakes and drought have been underestimated by at least 50 percent,” said Ban. “So far this century, direct losses…
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    Vistas: Geri Stengels Blog

  • Asking “Why?” Can Build Bigger Business, Better Marketing

    Geri Stengel
    15 May 2013 | 9:20 pm
    Do you want to know why some companies are more innovative, more profitable, command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? It’s because they start by asking “why,” according to Simon Sinek, an ethnographer, author of Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action and speaker (his TED speech is among my favorites). read more

  • Click Here – Or Maybe Not

    Guest Blogger
    13 May 2013 | 9:20 pm
    by Mardy Sitzer Oh how I hate to see ‘click here’ it is so unimaginative, screams potential scam or worse – malware. So why oh why are marketers still relying on ‘click here’ as a call to action? read more

  • Immigrant Finds US Land of Opportunity for Business

    Guest Blogger
    8 May 2013 | 9:20 pm
    by Karin Kamp Nada Kiblawi was born in a refugee camp, lived through regional wars and finally found safe haven and economic independence as an entrepreneur in the U.S. As a child born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp, she suffered from low self-esteem, despite feeling love and affection from her parents. Nada’s family fled to Lebanon during the 1948 Arab-Israel war, losing all of their possessions and the land they owned in the process. They ended up north of Beirut, in a United Nations refugee camp, which was meant to be a stopgap solution to their crisis. Nada, her six…

  • How Aligning Your Principles Can Help You Choose the Right Business Relationship

    Guest Blogger
    6 May 2013 | 9:20 pm
    by Ralph Allora Interesting blog post recently from Paul Klein of Impakt, a Toronto-based consultancy whose mission is to bring about “positive social change at the intersection of business and civil society” by helping corporations and nonprofits become social purpose leaders. read more

  • How to Network to Grow Your Business

    Geri Stengel
    1 May 2013 | 9:20 pm
    If women entrepreneurs want to grow their businesses, they need to network. That means stop behaving like shy little girls: Put yourself out there, especially when the economy is slow. read more
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    The Shareholder Activist

  • Proxy Access Win at Nabors (NBR)

    James McRitchie
    17 May 2013 | 6:10 am
    As Joann Lublin reported in the WSJ, Nabors Owners Back Proxy Access Resolution. Shareowners finally won a proxy access proposal! As far as I’m concerned, the proposal is weak (3% stake held for 3 years) but it is a win none-the-less. The nonbinding resolution was proposed by public-pension fund systems in five states: California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York and North Carolina. Hopefully, with this first breakthrough will come the realization that proxy access doesn’t mean the sky is falling. However, it does send a strong message, especially to companies with serious governance…

  • Huge Win at Chesapeake

    James McRitchie
    10 May 2013 | 6:17 am
    (Reuters) Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK) agreed to replace four current board members with new directors chosen by two of its largest shareholders, bowing to shareholder calls to improve corporate governance, just days shy of its annual meeting. Chesapeake said  its largest shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management, will nominate three of the new directors, while billionaire investor Carl Icahn and his affiliates will pick the fourth. Four current directors will resign after the new directors are appointed. The company did not specify which board members will step down. It said Chief…

  • Emotional Intelligence

    James McRitchie
    3 May 2013 | 7:39 am
    We need to do a better job of evaluating the emotional competency or our leaders. “A fine balance has to be maintained between technical and emotional competency of the individual and organization objectives and culture, wrote Sonia Jaspal back in 11/16/2011. Here is an excerpt from her argument, which deserves wider circulation. A 2010 survey of HayGroup- Emotional Intelligence at the heart of performance – identified the crux of the problemIt showed that out of 12 competencies for measuring emotional intelligence –20% of the respondents had no strengths, 52% had 3 or fewer and…

  • Video Friday Triple Play: Shareholders Revolt & Equilar CEO Pay Study

    James McRitchie
    26 Apr 2013 | 6:05 am
    BNN’s The Street is delivering an in-depth look at the growing number of shareholder uprisings. Activist investors are speaking out at CP Rail, Yahoo, Astral Media and elsewhere. And, they’re not just taking on management. They’re winning their battles too. Click here for more. Glenn Keeling, from Phoenix Advisory Partners discusses the shareowners revolt in Canada on the Business News Network. The regulatory landscape allows shareowners to take over companies… quietly. Regulations need a wholesale change. Related videos. Behind The Numbers: Equilar 2012 S&P 500 CEO Pay Study.

  • ProxyVote.com Encourages Zombie Voting

    James McRitchie
    19 Apr 2013 | 7:41 am
    Proxyvote.com encourages voting by retail shareholders by allowing them to, with one click, set all votes “for” a corporate board’s recommendations, from electing directors and approving executive pay to adopting anti-takeover defenses. Are they just facilitating voting by a group, “whose participation in corporate elections has been in decline of late,” as Broadridge claims, or are they skewing votes to management? (Top U.S. proxy vote site favors boards, critics say, Ross Kerber, Reuters, 5/29/2012) The vote with management button results in zombie voting. While it may help…
 
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    Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

  • Intel Demonstrates Water Leadership in Semiconductor Industry

    Harry Stevens
    17 May 2013 | 7:36 am
    Intel Corporation has released its 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report, summarizing the chipmaker’s performance across a range of sustainability activities. The report – the company’s 12th – also provides updates on Intel’s progress toward its 2020 environmental goals. “Intel’s annual Corporate Responsibility Report allows us to transparently track our progress and aggressively work toward new goals [...]The post Intel Demonstrates Water Leadership in Semiconductor Industry appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.

  • JPMorgan Releases CSR Report Amid Negative Press

    Raz Godelnik
    17 May 2013 | 2:15 am
    If you’re following the news there’s a good chance you’ve heard a story on JPMorgan Chase. Yet, there’s little chance it was about the company’s new CSR report released earlier this week.The post JPMorgan Releases CSR Report Amid Negative Press appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.

  • Trader Joe’s Amends Sustainable Seafood Policy, Again

    Harry Stevens
    17 May 2013 | 2:12 am
    Trader Joe’s most recent update to its sustainable seafood policy has left environmental groups largely skeptical of the grocery chain’s commitment to preserve the planet’s ocean wildlife. In a statement posted on the company’s website, Trader Joe’s said it has ceased buying swordfish caught in Southeast Asia and is “evaluating sources from U.S. Pacific waters,” [...]The post Trader Joe’s Amends Sustainable Seafood Policy, Again appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.

  • Traditional VCs Get Big Returns from Positive Social Impact Investments

    Travis Noland
    17 May 2013 | 2:08 am
    New research shows that social impact can outperform traditional funds. The post Traditional VCs Get Big Returns from Positive Social Impact Investments appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.

  • E-Bikes Continue to Expand in the U.S.

    Phil Covington
    17 May 2013 | 2:06 am
    Unlike many manufacturers that just sell one e-bike amongst a range of human-only powered bicycles, A2B under Hero Eco instead focus just on e-bikes, while providing a range of different models for riders with different needs. The post E-Bikes Continue to Expand in the U.S. appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.
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    CSRWire Blog

  • Smart Business & Smarter Consumption: What Can We Learn From Bangladesh?

    Sarah Coles
    17 May 2013 | 8:17 am
    By Sarah Coles The collapse of the factory building in Bangladesh three weeks ago that killed more than 1,100 workers is a tragic reminder of what we in the Western world take for granted - access to fashionable and affordable clothes. But while some might be quick to blame the garment industry, or government, or consumers themselves, it’s difficult to point fingers in such a complex situation. While the factory collapse in Bangladesh is considered to be the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, it begs the question of how we, as consumers and businesses, can stop this from…

  • Skills for Jobs: Creating More Resilient Businesses for Growth And Jobs In Europe

    Guest Contributors
    17 May 2013 | 7:58 am
    By Stefan Crets, Executive Director, CSR Europe  CSR Europe made strides to move from conversation and debate to collaborative action at the launch of our European Business Campaign ‘Skills for Jobs’ on April 18, 2013. As Microsoft's Lori Harnick and Intel's Dr. Thomas Osburg explained in recent posts, we want to enhance corporate efforts on the skills and employment agenda in Europe through workplace innovation, entrepreneurship support, and boosting skills for employability and social inclusion. Amongst the broad support for Skills for Jobs at the launch, a number of key…

  • Mixing Society and Solar: Quetsol’s Community-Focused Approach to Renewable Energy

    Guest Contributors
    16 May 2013 | 6:50 am
    By Katie Kerr, BLab What would our world be like without electricity? Most of us have experienced at least one power-cut and had a glimpse of living without light and power for a few hours or even days. But for 1.5 billion rural people in the developing world, this is their reality, day in, day out. Affected communities are often extremely isolated, requiring hours of travel through difficult terrain on under-developed roads, meaning that utility companies are unwilling to make the large investments required to reach them. Being marginalized from the national electricity grid results in dire…

  • Does Human Rights Language Matter?

    Joanne Bauer
    16 May 2013 | 6:26 am
    By Joanne Bauer Does human rights language matter? This question comes up with alarming regularity in discussions of business and human rights. Yes, we now have the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which set out standards for corporate conduct with respect to human rights and delineate government duties to ensure corporate accountability for violations.  But, the argument goes, in many situations human rights are considered sensitive, and invoking them can shut down the conversation and impede progress on finding collaborative solutions to ensuring business respects…

  • Examining The Sustainability of the Royal Bank of Scotland: Facing Up To Your Demons

    Aman Singh
    15 May 2013 | 5:51 am
    By Aman Singh  The finance sector continues to ride on the coattails of what started as a severe decline in trust, market performance and profits in 2008. And Royal Bank of Scotland [RBS] was no exception, facing its own share of customer distrust and instability as well as a government bailout. However, in its most recent CSR Report, the bank – as compared to its contemporaries – makes a marked effort to address these concerns and makes a public promise to examine its "financial stability, our customers, the way we use the resources around and the practices that we have."…
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    3BL Media blogs

  • Pharmaceuticals & the Poor

    Ethical Goods
    13 May 2013 | 7:36 am
    "Just another corporate easing their conscience & buying charity silence?” May 10, 2013. London, United Kingdom One of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies and a global charity has announced a 5 year partnership worth more than £15 million. The two organisations are seemingly unlikely partners, given that Save the Children was one of a number of organisations who have campaigned heavily against GSK in recent years to lower their drug prices for developing countries. So what has made the partnership work? Is this green washing or is there a strategic and innovative…

  • Will the latest Bangladesh fatalities finally bring change to unethical supply chains?

    Ethical Goods
    9 May 2013 | 7:46 am
    “Life is Cheap.” April 25, 2013. London, United KingdomYet another horrific incident has occurred in Bangladesh. This time a factory collapse has killed 161 people and injured hundreds more. The building housed a number of garment factories that have become sadly typical of industry in Bangladesh. Sadly typical because the workers are extremely low paid and often work in extremely poor and unsafe conditions. So why haven’t the previous disasters, like the Tazreen factory fire last November that killed 112 people and injured a further 200, had any effect on industry and safety standards?

  • Authenticity and Engagement: Keys to Effective Social Media Engagement with Stakeholders

    info_444
    2 May 2013 | 12:10 pm
    Social and environmental responsibility remains an important part of communication strategy for today’s organizations, and now thanks to social media, there are more tools than ever to engage your audiences and share your message. As mentioned in the post, Communicating Sustainability on Social Media - The Right and Wrong Way, new tools and strategies are changing the way the business world communicates and exchanges information.  Fortunately, social media is becoming the transparent, engaging, competitive advantage that sustainability delivers.   However, to effectively harness…

  • The White House Blip: Would Ethical Standards be Helpful?

    Celesa Horvath
    2 May 2013 | 10:43 am
    CELESA HORVATH  This morning, an Associated Press Twitter account was hacked, and a false tweet reported explosions in the White House that injured Barack Obama.  There’s been no better illustration of the potential impact of social media on the economy than this: Impact of false White House tweet on the S&P 500 In just two minutes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 145 points! Once AP stated its account had been hacked and the White House confirmed there was no incident, markets quickly recovered.  Nevertheless, the ‘blip’ stands as a great example of how significant…

  • What I Learned at TEDMED 2013

    Hale Advisors
    25 Apr 2013 | 7:21 am
    By Zoe Dunn What I liked most about TedMed: great physician and patient perspectives. Physician stories about judging patients too hastily on their conditions and apologizing Stories by patients about leveraging all their available research resources (and creating some new ones) to help doctors manage and treat their conditions. There was lots of talk of big data: gathering everything we could find, creating a culture of willingness to supply our medical histories for the greater good, developing citizen scientists to ask the personal questions that researchers may not be asking. I still…
 
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    Good Business Sense

  • CSR on Your Resume: 5 ways

    Bushra.Azhar
    23 Apr 2013 | 4:33 am
    Every time I hear that a company is looking to hire a CSR person or I hear someone say they are looking for a CSR job, I want to bang my head in a wall…HARD! Not because I think it is a futile endeavor, not by a long shot; my self-destructive behavior is driven by the knowledge that both parties are shooting in the dark, on a moving train. By only looking for people with CSR experience, companies are depriving themselves of talent that could be a great fit for CSR, yet never worked in that role. Similarly, people who despair because they believe they have no experience to land a job in this…

  • Media has no interest in your CSR message? Here’s how to fix that.

    Bushra.Azhar
    8 Jan 2013 | 12:22 am
    So you have a Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) program that you are really excited about? elated even, and you expect the same enthusiasm from others? You foresee people writing in for interviews and bloggers dying to get your story and media clamoring to feature you first.  Sadly, none of this happens. That’s not how things work, your PR would tell you; the momentum builds up slowly, the excitement grows gradually and the interest develops over time. I beg to differ; while there is no such thing as an overnight hit, there are steps you can take that would make sure the media is…

  • While I was away…

    Bushra.Azhar
    6 Nov 2012 | 8:26 am
    While I was away, two of my pieces were featured in two very cool places by two very very cool individuals. Take a look and let me know what you think. Transparency in the Middle East: Still a Dirty Word Saudi Arabia’s unique direction | CSR Around The World  

  • Pick yourself up, Dust yourself off!

    Bushra.Azhar
    4 Nov 2012 | 5:17 am
    It is the first and hopefully the last time, I title a blog post on a song lyric (and I humbly apologize)but no other words adequately describe the state of this blog and its owner. I have neglected this blog  for so long that I can practically pluck cobwebs off the sidebar and I would do that if I had the energy OR the inclination to do that. Instead, I  will use just one more post to have a minor pity party before we can move to our regular CSR ramblings. My son who is 6 suffered a very severe eye injury in August. We have been to hell and back in the past 2 months and now that we know…

  • How to craft a CSR message that wins over your employees

    Bushra.Azhar
    31 Jul 2012 | 2:28 pm
    One of the most talked about (and documented) business benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is employee attraction and retention.  We also know from the latest Net Impact study (pdf) that an overwhelming majority of workers want to work in a position that helps them make a difference. The business case for employee involvement in CSR is strong, with more and more companies taking on employee volunteering programs and dollar-for-doers like initiatives to involve the workforce in their CSR agenda. That said, this is also the most cynical bunch of people when it comes to company…
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    YourCause

  • YourCause Nominated as “Best Places to Work in North Texas”

    Kassandra Hernandez
    15 May 2013 | 7:35 am
    We are excited to announce we have been nominated as one of the Best Places to Work in North Texas by Dallas Business Journal! We couldn’t be more thrilled for this opportunity and will anxiously wait for the finalists to be announced. North Texas companies that earn the Best Places to Work designation — by achieving best practice scores — will be featured in a special Dallas Business Journal publication on Sept. 27, and celebrated at a luncheon on Sept. 26. Best Places to Work honorees will be announced in the Dallas Business Journal and online in early July. Stay tuned – we…

  • Edelman Provides Employee Engagement Examples for National Volunteer Week

    Kassandra Hernandez
    23 Apr 2013 | 8:03 am
    We’d like to highlight Edelman’s recent article on how to think about the generational spectrum during this week’s National Volunteer Week. They provide a few examples how companies can engage all types of employees in their volunteer program. Below is a preview of the article and can read the rest here. A happy National Volunteer Week to you and yours! April 21-27 is our designated springtime week here in the U.S., during which time we inspire each other to re-engage and give of ourselves to our communities. Here at Edelman, we give a lot of thought year-round to inspiring…

  • YourCause Partners Recognized as Best Corporate Citizens

    Amy Chait
    16 Apr 2013 | 10:40 am
    Every year we look forward to CR Magazine’s annual best corporate citizens listing and proud to see that our corporate partners are recognized! We would like to congratulate our clients and all the companies doing amazing work in the community. To see the full “100 Best Corporate Citizens 2013″ listing, click here!

  • Silicon Valley Community Foundation and YourCause Announce Partnership to Create CSR Center

    Kassandra Hernandez
    4 Apr 2013 | 12:30 am
    Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) and YourCause, LLC announced a new partnership that will integrate SVCF’s domestic and international grantmaking expertise with the employee engagement solutions currently being delivered by YourCause. Additionally, the partnership has committed to the expansion of its capabilities for the small to medium size business market and will be deploying new solutions in 2013 for companies to further expand their existing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs internationally. In an effort to deliver a more seamless, interactive, and…

  • Launch DFW Features YourCause Profile

    Kassandra Hernandez
    26 Mar 2013 | 1:52 pm
    Shout out to launchDFW for featuring us under their startup profiles. launchDFW is the online home for the Dallas – Fort Worth Startup Community. They provide a site that takes the first step towards bringing the community together and discovering all the cool stuff that’s going on in the Metroplex. The site aims to be THE place for you to find info on the local startup scene, companies, founders, events and more. To learn more about launchDFW or to view our profile, visit here. In the meantime, we give you a sneak peek of our profile below: Give us the 30-second elevator pitch on your…
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    Collective Responsibility | Sustainability. Responsible Leadership. Innovation.

  • Protecting Your Outsourced Brand

    Rich
    16 May 2013 | 7:15 am
    Garment factory collapse could leave reputations in tatters; seven steps to protect brand names Here are seven principles that foreign companies operating in low cost production markets should follow to better protect their reputations: 1. If the workplace health, safety and environmental regulatory framework of your sourcing market is less stringent than in your home country, find suppliers that are prepared to accept your home country’s requirements as their standard; 2. That means you need to undertake thorough due diligence to identify and qualify your partners in your supply chain; 3.

  • Don’t Be “that” donor

    Rich
    14 May 2013 | 6:37 pm
    Are you the type of person who is looking to donate money to a good cause it are unsure where you should begin? You have heard that there are a lot of organizations that “spend too much money” on overhead, and you want to make sure that ALL “your money” goes to the “cause” If so, I’d like to ask you that you no be “that donor”. A donor whose only concern is efficiency of “your money”, and not the impact of the organization. I ask this because that’s is he wrong position to begin what I hope should be a donation where your…

  • Why China’s Culture of Philanthropy Has Yet to Take hold

    Rich
    8 May 2013 | 12:19 am
    The 5.12.08 Sichuan earthquake that left 90,000+ Chinese dead was seen by many as a turning point in philanthropy.  It was an event that brought the country together in a way that I have not seen at any other time in my 12+ years here, and it was a time when the best of China showed through. Part of this experience (for me), was defined by the outpouring of support that spontaneously erupted.  150,000 volunteers flooding the highways, minutes of silence where everyone and everything stopped across the country, and firms making strong commitments of support to the long term development of…

  • Follow Collective Responsibility on Social Media

    Rich
    7 May 2013 | 10:31 pm
    Are you a reader who is Linkedin, Tweeting, or would like to be notified when a new video or presentation are uploaded? Then take a few minutes to integrate the various Collective Responsibility social mediums into your accounts… and if you are not sure about which mediums are worth your time (social media can get a bit overwhelming), I ave provided a description of the content that you will be exposed to through the various mediums. The most basic way to connect to our connect, the Collective Responsibility RSS Feed will alert you whenever a new posting is loaded to the site, and…

  • Action Requires Engagement. Engagement Requires Ownership

    Rich
    29 Apr 2013 | 10:39 am
    Sustainability isn’t for everyone, and even in the firms that we have come to recognize as leaders, there are internal struggles over who is going to own what program. This is particularity true in firms who are adding on top of, versus integrating, sustainability to the existing responsibilities of the individual (or department), and it is usually that I find myself often taking the first steps with any clients. Looking to understand how the internal dynamics, politics, pressures, KPIs, and capabilities are lined up with the vision of the leader, and how to align and overcome those…
 
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    Volunteering Is CSR

  • CSR Food For Thought: Relationship Advice for You and Your Corporate Volunteers, and More

    Stephanie Rosenburg
    17 May 2013 | 10:59 am
    The CSR Food for Thought series is a weekly roundup of relevant news from around the Web, presented to you in one bite-sized blog post. Follow us on Twitter for CSR news and trends throughout the week: @VM_Solutions. Cause Talk Radio 54: Corporate Volunteering is Like Sex, How to Have More of It Listen to Chris Jarvis of Realized Worth chat with Joe Waters and Megan Strand about mobilizing employees for good causes in the latest Cause Talk Radio podcast. Chris discusses how getting employees to change their behavior is much more of a courting process than most companies think — it’s…

  • Globetrotting for Good?

    Vicky Hush
    16 May 2013 | 6:39 am
    International volunteers with Hope and Service to Mankind working in disadvantaged communities in Ghana. A few weeks ago I peered into an interesting conversation about International Corporate Volunteering (ICV). CDC Development Solutions’ 4th Annual ICV Conference in Washington, D.C. brought together 100+ companies and nonprofits to discuss the growing community of businesses that are sending their employees around the world for short, skilled volunteering experiences. Think of these programs as a very mini, corporate Peace Corps; companies send small teams of 10-20 employees from…

  • Webinar Recap: Why Cause Marketing is a Good Investment in 2013

    Steven Birdwell
    15 May 2013 | 2:26 pm
    In this month’s engaging Best Practice Network (BPN) Webinar, Joe Waters, the author of the web’s #1 cause marketing blog and the co-author of Cause Marketing for Dummies, leads a fascinating discussion about the ins and outs of cause marketing and the many ways it can help your business. He was joined by Robert Rosenthal, our VP of Marketing here at VolunteerMatch. What is cause marketing? In Joe’s experience, most people see cause marketing as either corporate giving or marketing of causes. But as he explains, it has elements of both. “Cause marketing is a partnership between a…

  • A Firsthand Account of Charities@Work 2013

    Seth Thompson
    14 May 2013 | 3:42 pm
    Seth Thompson, in networking mode. The Grand Hyatt in New York City was the setting for this year’s Charities@Work Conference on April 3rd and 4th. In its third year, the conference is a collaborative effort put on by America’s Charities, EarthShare, Community Health Charities, and Global Impact. This was my second Charities@Work conference, having also had the opportunity to attend last year’s event. I came back this year because I found the conference in 2012 to be informative, different and specifically focused on employee volunteer and giving programs. Many of…

  • What Will Be the Top Volunteer Programs of the Year?

    Robert Rosenthal
    13 May 2013 | 11:58 pm
    Winners of the 2012 VolunteerMatch Corporate Volunteer Awards For the last few weeks we’ve enjoyed taking time here at VolunteeringIsCSR.org to share details of the ten companies that are finalists for this year’s Corporate Volunteer Awards. Today we’re thrilled to announce the complete list with links to full profiles of every program in our Large and Small-Medium Sized categories. This marks the eighth year that VolunteerMatch has canvassed its community of 170 business clients to find the top performing programs across sectors. From banking and finance to airlines to real…
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    Sustainable Business Toolkit

  • e-fficient Energy expands into France

    Mark Whitman
    16 May 2013 | 11:06 pm
    e-fficient Energy has appointed Protech Energy of Paris, as its Partner in France, and in conjunction with them have launched a French website Protech Energy are one of France’s leading energy and electrical engineering consultancies with a proven expertise in helping French companies deliver cost effective reductions in their electricity usage. This alliance will introduce the French market to e-fficient Energy’s market leading range of products proven in the UK to help measure, monitor and reduce commercial electricity usage – all are fully Guaranteed to deliver cost…

  • Make a contribution to local biodiversity preservation by creating green industrial zones

    John O'Brien
    16 May 2013 | 12:37 am
    image: adamr / freedigitalphotos.net Do you work in one of those numerous drab and dreary industrial or enterprise zones sited outside a town or city? Are you sick of the tarmac and cement vista, only obscured by metal and brick partitions? Is your building surrounded by dead space? Does the view when you enter the gates of your factory or when you look out your window depress you? Even if you are fortunate to have some greenery surrounding your workplace, it is often simply over-manicured lawn. Why not create green industrial zones and, in the process, provide a welcome haven for the native…

  • Benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Guest Post
    14 May 2013 | 6:09 am
    image: ddpavumba / freedigitalphotos.net No longer is the term ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ a novel idea amongst businesses. A 2011 sustainability study by MIT showed that sustainability, in the US at least, now plays a permanent part in 70% of corporate agendas. Organisations such as Unilever haven’t simply been championing sustainable business as a form of corporate philanthropy. Since implementing their Sustainable Living Plan, they have increased growth and profits. Quite simply, doing good is good for business. How have Unilever achieved this growth? By being a responsible,…

  • Environmentally friendly car manufacturers – what are the benefits?

    Timothy Chilman
    7 May 2013 | 10:52 pm
    image: digitalart / freedigitalphotos.net There are estimated to be more than 600 million passenger cars in the world. Emissions from vehicles contribute to global warming and the resultant extreme weather conditions. A study by Meghan E. Smith found that automotive emissions were responsible for between 50 and 90 percent of air pollution in urban areas. According to the World Health Organisation, two million people die prematurely every year due to air pollution. So is there a case to be made for becoming an environmentally friendly car manufacturers? There is a need to reduce the…

  • UK in talks to import geothermal energy from Iceland

    Timothy Chilman
    6 May 2013 | 10:25 pm
    image: Hordur Vilhjalmsson / freedigitalphotos.net The UK government has held talks with that of Iceland concerning importing geothermal energy from Iceland’s volcanoes. A giant undersea cable, known as a submarine interconnector, would be constructed, which, at 930 miles long, would be by far the longest of its kind in the world. The power link would cost £1.3bn while an additional £1.6bn would need to be spent on geothermal plants and hydroelectric dams. The idea has been around for 60 years, but was not previously profitable. Interconnectors can be laid very rapidly, at a rate of…
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