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Realized Worth Walmart is using garbage 2 sell pizza!! (& saving 40mill gallons of H20, 125K trees & 8.6K TONS of solid waste) http://bit.ly/3XCLby #csr
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wal-mart Say what you will about Wal-Mart's tendency to crowd out mom-and-pop stores, it's hard to begrudge the company for its sustainability efforts. In the video below, we see that Wal-Mart's deli pizza ...
Realized Worth Like a good rant? 'You're Doing It Wrong' - my first webinar on corporate volunteering (tomorrow);
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So, how motivated are employees to volunteer during this recession? Is this something anyone really wants to do?
LBG Associates (not to be confused with the London Benchmarking Group; LBG) has provided some insight into employee attitudes toward volunteering motivation, recognition, and communication during these tough... times.
LBG created two online surveys, one for employees and one for volunteer managers. The results are based on responses from 8,032 employees and 213 volunteer managers, from 36 companies, to surveys completed in June and July 2009.
Linda Gornisky is the President and Owner of LBG Associates. Here is her Linkedin Profile http://www.linkedin.com/pub/linda-gornit
LBG Associates (not to be confused with the London Benchmarking Group; LBG) has provided some insight into employee attitudes toward volunteering motivation, recognition, and communication during these tough... times.
LBG created two online surveys, one for employees and one for volunteer managers. The results are based on responses from 8,032 employees and 213 volunteer managers, from 36 companies, to surveys completed in June and July 2009.
Linda Gornisky is the President and Owner of LBG Associates. Here is her Linkedin Profile http://www.linkedin.com/pub/linda-gornit
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LBG’s mission is to help companies develop strategic corporate citizenship and community involvement programs that generate positive, measurable benefits for the community, as well as the corporate bottom-line.
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Amy: "There’s been a lot of talk recently of the need for redefining what we know as philanthropy. I’ve read several articles suggesting this, had numerous conversations around this theme. In fact, just yesterday, I had a impromptu twitter chat with several #socent folks about the need to rejuvenate an over-saturated m...arket. But in the midst of the conversations, think tanks, and conferences, we’ve yet to identify a leader- an organization or individual that has a fresh, authentic voice that will lead us in this next generation of giving."Read More
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Amy Wolff is a 2010 Master's candidate and is involved with several projects including Opportunity International, Imagine This! TV, and the zyOzy Foundation. You can find her on Twitter: @amycarolwolff
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As corporations jump on the volunteering band wagon, non-profits are frantically trying to manage the influx. Incidentally, they’re finding themselves a little (ok, a lot) frustrated. Corporations make a lot of sometimes unreasonable requests of non-profits when it comes to setting up the ideal volunteer experience for... their employees. We’re about to begin a series examining the top seven (yes, seven) requests, and the Bad, Better, and Best way for NPOs to respond.Read More
Corporate Volunteering: Top 7 Requests & the Bad, Better and Best Responses (1 of 7) | Innovative Th
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“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 scheduling an activity. ...
Realized Worth Watch this video. Great concept. Citizen's around the world doing what governments, banks, and other institutions get tied up in red tape over.
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Citizen Effect partners every day people with communities in need around the world. To learn more visit - http://www.citizeneffect.org
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I may not be managing multi-million dollar accounts, but I know that
the next time I want to make a purchase, my first stop will be the social enterprise marketplace.
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Last week, I attended the launch of a new social enterprise purchasing toolkit, created by Vancouver-based enp (enterprising non-profits). The goal of the toolkit is to help organizations - nonprofits, ...
Realized Worth Great article. Read it.
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I'm tired of philanthropy. That is, the current understanding of it. Even the word donor has this stodgy air to it that makes me want to yawn. The entire
Realized Worth I am still really looking forward to the upcoming Global Virtual Summit (November 5th and 9th , 2009) entitled New Models of Social Responsibility, presented by Communitelligence and Cisco. The summit boasts a truly impressive line-up of speakers. As my Company, BeyondBusiness , is one of the Media Sponsors for the summit, I was privileged to have the opportunity to interview some of the speakers.
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.And i still haven't worked out- how do they get the Chunky Monkey to you in a Virtual Summit ... hmmmm .... I am stockpiling tubs in my office just in case ...elaine cohen is the joint CEO of BeyondBusiness, a leading reporting and social-environmental consulting firm . ...
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As I mentioned in a previous article, corporate funders do a lot of work that few people know about. The biggest secret about corporate funding: there is more than one way to get a company to support your ...
Realized Worth Watch our friend Christine Arena on the CSRMinute!
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theCSRminute is your daily video digest of the most relevant CSR and Sustainability news and can be seen on the 3BL Media CSR Network - the largest network of CSR channels across the internet, Reuters Insider and here on the 3BL Media website.
Realized Worth A great synopsis of the conversation around Employee Engagement on sustainability strategies coming out of the BSR Conference. I recommend giving it a quick read!
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At BSR 2009 last week, a missing piece on the agenda was employee engagement. Yet, at the session on Internal Communications: Making the Case for CSR’s Value, all of the speakers acknowledged the challenge of getting both employees and senior management behind sustainability. ...
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Society
is demanding a higher level of responsibility from business and the
time has come for academics to step up to the challenge. Turns out,
Canada’s Schulich School of Business at York University is doing just that.
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One of Realized Worth’s most widely read articles was, 'MBA Program Trashed on Harvard Business Podcast.' In the article, we examined some of the push-back MBA programs are facing and why. One central ...
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Provictus: Strategies for Socially-Responsible Leadership
22 Tools & Resources To Be A Better Consumer - Part of the Ethical Consumerism Serieshttp://provictus.ca/blog/200910/22-tools
Better Business. Better World. Provictus is a Toronto-based consulting firm that helps small- and medium-sized companies lead from their mission and values. We use a unique process to help businesses implement programs that create passionate and genuine commitment from employees, customers and communities. As a result..., our clients benefit from improved hiring and employee retention, higher sales quantities and value through new and repeat business, improved business reputation, and stronger interest from stakeholders. We believe that by reducing the negative impacts a company has on its stakeholders, and by increasing the positive ones, a business can create both moral and economic results through corporate social responsibility (CSR). Read More
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