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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, [...]

cross-posted from www.harjeetkumar.com.
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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.The campaign aligns Microsoft’s core competencies with the [...]

*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… An awesome [...]

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?
The data and the human stories in the Citizenship Report show how our [...]

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 philantrophy…
 
Telenor Hands Out Free Tickets to Belgrade High Schoolers
Belgrade, Nov. 14, 2006
Telenor handed out 2,000 tickets to Belgrade high-school students for a [...]

Honestly, before I read this text, I never thought of the connection between faith and CSR, regardless of how logical it is… This text I found in the BSR.org`s “Leading Perspective“, which is a quarterly publication. Very very interesting…
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Many in the corporate world would rather not bring religion into the boardroom. Fair enough, especially if [...]

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 [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 ? 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.
But unlike most charities, this one will be for-profit, allowing it to fund start-up companies, form partnerships [...]

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A great new NGO that I discovered while working for Microsoft… They are connecting Glocals – local players in global field. You can find more at www.glocalforum.com.
I attended their 5th Annual Glocalization Conference which took place in Ankara this year. And it [...]