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Keeping your employees safe is one thing, but having a policy not allowing them to help someone not to be beaten up brutally is something else…

“Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business. And profit maximization is the mission of business. And I’m saying this is very narrow interpretation of human being. Human beings are much bigger than just making money. So I said, to be true to the human nature, [...]

Microsoft has recently launched its “Click for the Cause” initiative, in which Internet searches performed at http://click4thecause.live.com,
using Microsoft’s Live Search, result in a financial donation to ninemillion.org, a UN Refugee agency-led public and private sector partnership which benefits the 9.3 million refugee children in the world.

*this is an AIESEC traineeship, so if you`re not an AIESEC SN don`t bother bugging me… So I`m leaving Istanbul soon… and looking for a good candidate to replace me here in Istanbul… for those who don`t know – it`s a CSR Coordinator position at the regional office of Microsoft for Middle East and Africa… [...]

From Steve Ballmer`s MS internal intro letter:
Did you know, for example, that we recycle 141 tons of material every month? That employees volunteered more than 76,000 hours last year? That we donated more than $2.5 billion to communities in the past 20 years?

It`s not the best CSR action I`ve seen, but it`s a job well done and the media attention around it should show corporate sector in Serbia that CSR is an investment, not pure philanthropy.

Many in the corporate world would rather not bring religion into the boardroom. Fair enough, especially if the purpose is to misuse religion for selfish or inappropriate purposes. But if advocates of CSR are interested in finding new allies in the quest to encourage businesses to become more ethical and attentive to their responsibilities to a wide range of stakeholders, they should think anew about the role of faith in the workplace.

NEW YORK – The government of Libya has reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers for all of the nation’s 1.2 million schoolchildren, The New York Times reported Wednesday. With the project scheduled to be completed by June 2008, Libya could become the first nation in which all school-age [...]

World Bank urges boost for young Developing countries must invest in young people, promoting education and health and developing essential skills, a major World Bank report says. The World Development Report says there are now a record 1.3 billion people aged 12-24 living around the world. Those numbers could create problems in many nations if [...]

The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming.