August 2011
5 posts
How businesses can help create a win-win situation...
The recent blog piece by Rebecca Birkbeck from Deloitte focused on what charities need to do to maintain relationships with, and funding from, businesses. Her view seemed to place the responsibility for preserving these relationships firmly at the feet of charities with little consideration of the role of business in these partnerships.
The seven steps outlined by Deloitte, are all very sensible...
Payroll giving lessons from Australia
Donors who gave to victims of the Australian floods, Cyclone Yasi, the Christchurch earthquake and the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan through CAF Australia’s Workplace Payroll Giving (WPG) scheme were exceptionally generous, with one-off donations averaging Aus$150.
Following this massive response we decided to research employee motivations for giving and published a report...
Roundup of Government corporate philanthropy plans
There are initiatives and announcements coming out of the Office for Civil Society (OCS) all the time, but most of the thinking so far on the role of business is to be found in a Green Paper and a White Paper on charitable giving. Within these, we can discern some of the detail of what the government plans to do to encourage companies and their employees to give more money and time.
Ideas...
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Why CSR isn't "hopelessly inadequate"
The Guardian Social Enterprise Network published a thought provoking post yesterday discussing how businesses should “give up on corporate responsibility” and become “social enterprises”.
It proved to be bold, controversial and certainly a good read. Whilst chatting about it with a colleague, three areas of discussion dominated.
Firstly, the “social...
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Welcome to Corporate Communities, a new corporate responsibility blog from CAF.
The blog will cover all aspects of corporate responsibility, giving CAF’s thoughts and opinions on the latest issues, ideas and trends that are shaping the corporate responsibility world in the UK and globally.
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