Recent Posts Tagged With 'corporate social responsibility'

• VolunteerMatch Webinar: January 21: Corporate Volunteering: Top 7 Requests & Bad, Better, Best Responses

  Posted on Friday December 25th, 2009 at 11:49 in volunteer, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, evp, volunteermatch, employee volunteer programs, corporate volunteering, employee engagement strategy

  2010 Conference and Event Line Up VolunteerMatch keeps our community up-to-date on conferences and events in the fields of CSR and Employee Volunteer Engagement. Here is a list of upcoming...

• Corporate Volunteering: Top 7 Requests & the Bad, Better and Best Responses (2 of 7)

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 09:00 in sustainability, CSR, volunteer, corporate social responsibility, evp, employee volunteer programs, employee engagement strategy

  

“We want an activity that can be done together as a team”Companies want to engage their communities through employee volunteering programs. For most, this means calling a non-profit and scheduling an activity. But how should non-profits res...

• Social Innovation: You Deserve An Award!

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 13:22 in CSR, green, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder, social investment, social innovation, corporate sustainability, employee engagement strategy

  The Financial Times-Justmeans Social Innovation Awards launched in early 2009 to an overwhelming response from the corporate community. The collaboration demonstrates one of the most successful partnerships of traditional media and social media in th...

• PODCAST - Employee Volunteering: You\'re Doing It Wrong!

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 20:10 in podcast, CSR, volunteer, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, employee volunteer programs, volunteer management theory, corporate volunteering

  Original airdate: November 17, 2009, 1pm (EST)Let’s face it, managing employee volunteer programs can be a real headache.Your participation rates are lower than you’d like. When people do sign up, it often takes a ton of effort to get them to sho...

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

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 14:14 in CSR, volunteer, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, evp, corporate citizenship, npo, employee volunteer programs, corporate volunteering

  “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 ac...

• Who Offers The Best MBA In The World For Corporate Social Responsibility?

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 10:00 in MBA, CSR, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility

  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.One of Realized Worth’s mos...

• Where To Find "Sustainable" Employment?

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 13:36 in sustainability, CSR, corporate social responsibility

  GUEST BLOG POST: Mark Swartz is a the National Career Advisor on Workopolis.com's homepage. His current focus is 'Sustainable Employment', helping people profit their career, employer and society. You can find out more about Mark on Linkedin.The Oppo...

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

  Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 14:41 in CSR, trust, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship

  Corporate Social Responsibility is essential to build strong relationships with consumers. On the brink of collapse, Puerto Rico’s Doral Bank transformed itself with an aggressive CSR strategy. By offering free mammogram testing and education on he...

• How Did Corporate Social Responsibility Hold Up In 2009?

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 09:30 in CSR, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, employee volunteer programs, corporate volunteering, boston college center for corporate citizenship

  You’ve heard it said: the economic crisis means death to Corporate Social Responsibility. Goodbye “green” and all you friendly tree-huggers. The bottom line is back. Serious business is taking over. Didn’t we all suspect it was just a fad any...

• Transforming Employee Volunteerism

  Posted on Sunday August 30th, 2009 at 15:23 in volunteer, corporate social responsibility, evp, recruiting volunteers, employee volunteer programs, retaining volunteers, corporate volunteering

  Corporate Volunteering continues to grow in popularity. But what makes an employee volunteer program successful? Participation rates? Stakeholder awareness? The number of walls painted? Want to reap the real benefits of employee volunteering? Alyson ...

• 51 Great Sites For Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 10:14 in CSR, social media, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility

  10 ‘Must Have’ sites on CSR. 10 of the best blogs on CSR.31 websites with excellent resources, links, media, tools, news and much more. 20 people to follow on twitter who will ensure you know everything there is to know about CSR and Sustainabili...

• The 3 Basic Steps To Create Trust Through Corporate Social Responsibility

  Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 07:00 in CSR, metrics, volunteer, corporate social responsibility, evp, employee volunteer programs, corporate volunteering

  Trust: Why Business Lost It, And How To Win It Back (Part 3 of 3)If business wants to regain the public’s trust, they’re going to have to be trustworthy, and employees are the key. Here are three basic steps to engage your employees, build social...

• Carrot v. Stick

  Posted on Friday July 24th, 2009 at 08:38 in CSR, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, carrot mob, corporate sustainability, corporate volunteering

  GUEST BLOG POST: Alyson Genovese is a freelance consultant on issues related to sustainability, corporate social responsibility, public affairs, and employee engagement. She has over 15 years of experience in the private, nonprofit and academic secto...

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

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 07:40 in sustainability, CSR, social media, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, corporate sustainability, corporate volunteering

  Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Green, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Volunteering. Get into the conversation - It starts here. I have to admit, I’m always learning that I don’t know what I don’t know. When it comes to the ex...

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Investment

  Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 14:10 in CSR, corporate social responsibility

  A colleague of mine just posted a video that's well worth watching. The video concisely captures some great ideas for businesses hoping to create meaningful community impact as part of their CSR strategy. Paul Klein, president of Impakt Corporation, ...

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

  Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 09:40 in Barack Obama, CSR, volunteer, corporate social responsibility, pwc

  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.After three days of celebrating, learni...

• Innovative Ideas on Creating Strategic Community Partnerships

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 13:56 in CSR, volunteer, ibm, corporate social responsibility, evp, corporate citizenship, recruiting volunteers, employee volunteer programs, retaining volunteers, corporate volunteering

  The popularity of Employee Volunteer Programs is on the rise. This year, charitable donations from corporations are trending to fall by as much as fifty percent. To make up the difference, businesses are looking to their employees to provide tactile ...

• Volunteering and Service in America: Four National Themes

  Posted on Monday June 29th, 2009 at 19:22 in CSR, volunteer, corporate social responsibility, evp, corporate citizenship, employee volunteer programs, corporate volunteering, united we serve

  Realized Worth was unable to make it to the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in San Francisco last week, and for awhile we were seriously bummed about missing out on one of the most important volunteerism conferences happening thi...

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

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 22:26 in Barack Obama, sustainability, CSR, volunteer, corporate responsibility, ibm, corporate social responsibility, evp, pwc, recruiting volunteers, retaining volunteers, corporate volunteering

  Looking for some insight on how to create an outstanding Employee Volunteer Program? Shannon Schuyler of PricewaterhouseCoopers offers six essential strengths to ensure success.Its the “world's largest gathering of volunteer and service leaders fro...

• Shell Admits Participation in Terrorism

  Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 19:31 in CSR, nigeria, shell, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility

  I buy gas at Shell; Am I complicit in the terrorism? Probably.I like to view myself as fairly well-informed, but today I find I have been completely ignorant. Shell fell off my ‘approved’ list quite awhile ago because of their blatant tendency to...

• Non Profits and Business; Moving From Handouts to Partnerships

  Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 15:02 in CSR, volunteer, corporate social responsibility, evp, corporate citizenship, recruiting volunteers, employee volunteer programs, retaining volunteers, corporate volunteering

  Tired of asking for handouts from businesses? You don't like it, and neither do they. Instead, enter into a partnership of equals. How? Give them what they want. Then, watch your problems with funding, networking, and creating awareness disappear.We ...

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

  Posted on Tuesday May 19th, 2009 at 19:02 in CSR, metrics, corporate social responsibility, evp, employee volunteer programs, corporate volunteering, boston college center for corporate citizenship

  Almost every conversation we have regarding employee volunteer programs involves a vigorous discussion of metrics. Business managers want to determine the value of hours contributed to the community via employee volunteers. Non-profits are trying to ...

• Make your CSR believable? How? Create and Leverage Social Capital

  Posted on Thursday May 7th, 2009 at 12:56 in CSR, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, corporate sustainability

  Trust: Why Business Lost It, And How To Win It Back (Part 2)Many companies are turning to Corporate Social Responsibility as a strategy to win back the trust of their stakeholders and customers. It won’t work. Why? Because you don’t become trustw...

• MBA Program Trashed on Harvard Business Podcast

  Posted on Tuesday May 5th, 2009 at 10:40 in MBA, CSR, corporate social responsibility, npo

  What does it take to create an outstanding leader? Apparently, not a Harvard MBA. Based on a study by Henry Mintzberg of 19 Harvard trained CEOs identified as superstars in 1990, ten were outright failures and another four are mediocre at best. Only ...

• How Good Is ‘Doing Good’?

  Posted on Wednesday April 29th, 2009 at 12:05 in CSR, social media, volunteer, corporate social responsibility, evp, employee volunteer programs, corporate volunteering

  Volunteerism is at an all-time high. From Obama and Oprah to unemployment and shrinking dollars for philanthropy, the United States is witnessing historic interest in volunteerism. This phenomena has been referred to as the ‘push and pull’ effect...

• Trust: Why Business Lost It, And How To Win It Back

  Posted on Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 08:28 in CSR, social media, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, financial crises, csr report

  What happened? Wall Street, in collusion with institutions around the world, have not only lost our wealth and our jobs, they have stolen our trust. Now we are “left to rely increasingly on governments for the creation of our wealth, something that...

• 10 Top CSR Tips for small and medium sized businesses

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 16:24 in sustainability, CSR, green, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, csr report

  A colleague of mine, David Connor, blogs about Corporate Social Responsibility at http://davidcoethica.wordpress.com. I’ve enjoyed reading his posts for months now, but recently, he’s hit upon a particularly winning topic. It seems all the big bo...

• Corporate Social Responsibility - Competitive Advantage? Maybe.

  Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 20:47 in CSR, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, csr report

  Corporate Social Responsibility will never offer companies a competitive advantage - unless it is both competitive and advantageous. If you are a risk taker, and step out from the herd, CSR may offer you the edge. If you can tie it to key business st...

• Korea Shoots For The Moon Using Green Energy

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 10:00 in sustainability, CSR, green, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, boston college center for corporate citizenship

  For some, the present financial crises signals a defense against the many variables of an uncertain future. For others, it is the impetus to create the future of our imaginations. Nations with an emphasis on sustainability are about to emerge as the ...

• Canada: Conflicted On Volunteering?

  Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 19:02 in Barack Obama, volunteer, corporate social responsibility, evp, employee volunteer programs, corporate volunteering

  Having won the Oval Office, the Obama volunteer revolution is just picking up speed. Due to financial constraints, Corporate America intends to grow their volunteer efforts by a whopping 45%. From Washington DC to Mumbai; London to Dubai, volunteer a...