Year End Reflections

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2008-12-22 01:33. ::

Charities Say Companies Wanting To Support Them Should Offer Funding and Access
From: jketchell@cafonline.org
Whilst charities welcome all types of support, they most value `core funding', `funding for specific projects', `access to business networks' and `gifts in kind'; such as free venues. However, more than two thirds of the charities surveyed do not believe that companies are willing to offer core funding; the assistance that is most likely to help them through the recession. The one area where need matches likelihood of support is unskilled volunteering; though charities rate this as the support they least need and say they benefit much more at this time from volunteers who offer skilled support; such as professional training.

C..hristmas S..eason R..eflections
 Now that we're all winding down (or is it winding up?) for the festive season, as a CSR    person (whatever that is) I find myself being revisted by the three "ghosts of Christmas past", whose names are Commercialism, Consumerism and Complicity. Read More. http://csrinternational.blogspot.com/

News-CSR in the Turburlent Time

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2008-12-22 01:18. ::

Turbulent Times: CSR Now needed more than ever before
By  Michael Hopkins, Julian Roche and Ivor Hopkins

Turbulent times: financial storms in the US and UK will have implications for all of us.
Main Street and Wall Street cannot be separated. If the captains of those financial
companies, now in crisis or bankrupted, had acted more responsibly with a proper
Corporate Social Responsibility strategy then their vessels would not have sunk nor would
they be on the brink of foundering. Responsible business will be the new mantra. Indeed,
we go further, and suggest that the demise of investment banks in their present form would be the best news possible for CSR!  Read more.

Articles: A Search for Social Innovations

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2008-12-22 00:52. ::

Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
By Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg

THE NASCENT FIELD OF social entrepreneurship is growing rapidly and attracting increased attention from many sectors. The term itself shows up frequently in the media, is referenced by public officials, has become common on university campuses, and informs the strategy of several prominent social sector organizations, including Ashoka and the Schwab and Skoll foundations.  This artricle tell you how may social enterpeurneur define it and what are the aspirarations. Also it describes what are the reason why the supporters such as Skoll Foundation, Ashoka and others valuate and promote social enterpeurneurships.Read more. 
 

Social entrepreneurship emerging in India but needs are massive.
Source: Inseed  Knowledge

Social entrepreneurship in India has progressed significantly over the last decade. More and more people are using entrepreneurial skills in building sustainable enterprises for profit and non-profit to effect change in India, says Deval Sanghavi, a former investment banker and now president of Dasra. Based in Mumbai, Dasra is a non-profit organisation which bridges the gap between those investing in social change and those spearheading the changes. Read more

Doing well by Doing Good
Source: Business Socially Responsible

A variety of CSR activities can give numerous advantages to business. Although CSR has a lot of benefits for company, this concept is not universal value for companies. However, if many companies know CSR's real value, they will invest for CSR and consider to community and society. Therefore, if businesses want to survive and develop their organization, businesses have to consider and invest CSR actively. This article describes six benefits the companies will get when doing well by doing good. Read more.

Opportunities

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