“You are a force for good in our society too. You have the power, the creativity and the enterprise to tackle some of the most pressing social challenges we face.” So said David Cameron during a launch of the Big Society to business leaders. Many people nodded and agreed. If you are responsible for [...]
Continue Reading →Employee volunteering – for the inner & outer bottom lines I came across this blog today from www.thenewpioneers.biz Interesting stuff. You can use the Local Impact Measurement Tool to put a value on your employee vounteering. Just one of the many indicators used in the tool. In a day and age where most [...]
Continue Reading →A blog today from the NPC made me think . They have a service that analyses Charities. How are they performing? What impact do they have? What makes them tick? The blog considers why such analysis is important. Now, whilst they are focused on charities, their thoughts are true about any organisation. The report they have just [...]
Continue Reading →A guest blog from Kevin Moss, BT’s CSR guru in the US See more at www.csrperspective.com Now retired, my dad ran a small business for many years, tailoring and selling coats and dresses. He had a retail store with a small workshop behind it in Esher, a small village Southwest of London. Dad employed perhaps [...]
Continue Reading →Guest blog from Third Sector Magazine….. www.thirdsector.co.uk Beware evolving corporate responsibility programmes, warns Deloitte By Mark Wilding, Third Sector Online, 5 July 2011 Deloitte’s More Than Just Giving report More Than Just Giving report says many firms now focus not on giving money, but on improving their strategic relations with government and suppliers Charities have [...]
Continue Reading →Here´s a post from Adrian Ashton …… So – that’s quite a grand and likely provocative sweeping statement, and given that I’ve been involved in impact reporting and social accounting(including the development of tool-kits for ‘doing it’ ) for over a decade, might be seen to some as a contradiction to what I’ve always argued [...]
Continue Reading →Everywhere you look in the media about the UK, it’s Big Society this, Big Society that! What’s not really clear is the part that businesses can play in it. The general drift in the media is that it is all about all us citizens volunteering to run services that used to be paid for! A [...]
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