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Aug
06
2012
Eight Companies with Best-in-Class Employee Matching Gift Programs
by Triple Pundit
Did you know that over 65 percent of Fortune 500 companies offer employee matching gift programs? Past articles covered the business case for corporate philanthropy as well as the four most common forms of employee giving programs but it’s clear that creating or expanding...
Aug
06
2012
30 Second MBA: Which ideas do you kill and which ones do you keep?
by Fast Company
Lisa Bodell, CEO, Futurethink
Jul
24
2012
A Skills-Based Revolutionary: Taproot's Aaron Hurst
by Forbes
Aaron Hurst launched Taproot in 2001 as a way to make pro-bono service a part of every business.  The company divides its focus amongst three programs: the Service Grant Program, which operates in five cities and engages professionals in pro-bono services; advisory services, which support...
Jul
23
2012
Most Big Companies Expect Flat Giving, Despite 2011 Gains
by The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Charitable giving by America’s biggest businesses rose slowly last year and shows little sign of gaining in 2012, according to a Chronicle study of 166 large companies.
Jul
10
2012
Corporate Social Responsibility and Pro Bono Work -- It's Not Just for Big Business
by Huffpost Impact
On June 27, I joined representatives from the more than 200 pledge companies of the Billion + Change Campaign for a forum at the White House celebrating skills based volunteers. During the celebratory conversation, several CEOs and policy leaders shared exciting updates and information about the...
Jul
09
2012
Really Good Business: Beyond Social Responsibility Report Cards
by GOOD
We’re grateful when we hear Patagonia touted as a model of responsible business practices, but it also shames us a little. We know how little distance our company has traveled toward anything resembling sustainability and how far we, all of us, have to go. As we have pointed out in our book The...
Jul
06
2012
Jean Case moderates a panel at the Billion + Change event at the White House
The White House Celebrates Corporate Pro Bono Service with A Billion + Change
by Kate Ahern
On June 27, the Case Foundation was pleased to join our fellow leadership committee members at the White House along with other corporate, government, and nonprofit leaders who are creating social change through skills-based volunteerism. We were part of a celebration and a challenge issued by A...
Jul
05
2012
The Future of Corporate Responsibility
by Pew Internet
Corporate responsibility: How far will tech firms go in helping repressive regimes?   Experts are divided about the role Western technology companies will play in helping monitor and thwart dissident activity in the future. Some hope the open Internet and the prospect of consumer backlash will...
Jul
05
2012
3 Characteristics Of Responsible Corporate Citizens
by Fast Company
To be "good" in the past meant a variety of things. Perhaps a company’s product made people’s lives easier. Or maybe they provided jobs in economically challenging times. But chances are the environmental effects of manufacturing were never considered, and overseas production was a financially...
Jul
03
2012
NobleHour...Connect and Share with your World!
by NobleHour
NobleHour.com is online community software that empowers civic engagement, offering full online community capabilities such as content sharing and member management and moderation, along with posting, searching and tracking hours for volunteer, service learning and paying job opportunities, event...
Jun
28
2012
USAID and IBM in Ghana: The Role of Skills-Based Volunteering in Global Development
by CSRWire Blog
Skills-based volunteering is on the rise. In 2011, four times as many companies sent employees to volunteer professional skills in countries such as Ghana, India and Nigeria compared to just six years ago according to the CDC's 2012 International Corporate Volunteer Benchmarking Survey. Volunteers...
Jun
27
2012
Is Business the New Charity?
by Stanford Social Innovation Review
Investing in small business and new ventures is a good thing and vital to our communities, but we must not confuse it with charity or strategic long-term social investment.

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