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Citi Foundation funds interns for 20 microenterprise organisations
For the second year in a row, the Citi Foundation is funding summer interns to work with 20 organisations across the U.S. that help entrepreneurs start and grow businesses. Known as the "Citi Microenterprise Researchers Program," the interns will help collect data on clients, while also learning about the microenterprise development field, which supports budding entrepreneurs by providing capital and/or training. As part of the $280,000 program, Citi Foundation also is funding FIELD, the microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination, a research group housed at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D… Read more
12 March 2008
New European Commission funding programme on CSR
The European Commission (DG Enterprise and Industry) has announced a new funding programme entitled "Responsible Competitiveness: fostering CSR in European industrial sectors". The overall objective of this call for proposals is to improve the CSR performance of European industry, thereby improving its contribution to sustainable development and enhancing its competitiveness. With a deadline for submissions of 23 May 2008, the aim is to attract proposals from new or existing multistakeholder partnerships that wish to promote CSR in a particular sector… Read more
11 March 2008
European Commission awards outstanding consumer rights campaigns
On 10 March, European Commissioner Meglena Kuneva presented the first ever EU Consumer Champion award, in the run up to European Consumer Day on 15 March. The top prize went to Finland for a dynamic web-game designed to teach young consumers about their rights and responsibilities as online shoppers. Ireland, UK, Hungary, Estonia and Norway also received special category awards for campaigns which excelled in promoting consumer rights in an innovative and effective way. The European winner was selected from the best national consumer campaigns, which covered topics as diverse as financial services, air passenger rights, SMS loans, online shopping, food information and children as consumers… Read more
11 March 2008
CSR in a downturn - Recession-proof ethics can weather the storm
Consumers who already pay a premium for ethical goods such as Fairtrade and organic produce are unlikely to be put off by an economic slowdown, Ethical Corporation reports. Experts say an increase in prices would not automatically result in a switch to cheaper products, as purchasers of 'ethical' products tend to be less price-responsive than purchasers of their conventional counterparts. Some say that recession may even be the catalyst that drives ethical business into the mainstream, as consumers and companies turn to energy-efficient practices and products as a means of cost savings… Read more
10 March 2008
European Parliament calls for a more social angle to employment strategy
EU heads of state and government are set to discuss the bloc's employment guidelines for the period 2008-2010 at next week's Spring Summit amid pressure from Parliament to give a more social angle to the strategy. EU employment ministers have agreed that the existing employment guidelines should remain largely unchanged until 2010. However, signals from the European Parliament indicate that the Parliament's report on the issue, due in May, will criticise the approach taken by the Commission in favour of a strengthened social dimension of the guidelines… Read more
10 March 2008
Equal opportunities in Europe’s workplaces still not reality
Efforts to ensure equal opportunities for women and men in Europe’s labour markets will have limited results unless the support for formal care is increased, as women will no longer necessarily be available to assume the unpaid role of informal carer, recent research from Eurofound shows. While men may work long working weeks in their paid jobs, women work even longer weekly hours as a result of shouldering the greater part of domestic responsibilities in addition to paid employment. Across Europe, four out of five women (80%) do housework every day, as against 40% of men… Read more
10 March 2008
BT launches new online game on sustainable business
BT has launched a new online game, "BT Better Business Choices", challenging players to build a successful, sustainable business choosing world scenarios and appropriate business 'building blocks', with feedback provided on the outcome. Players need to think about the nature of the world and marketplaces in which they are doing business and the impact of their business choices. They will see how the context of the wider political, economic, social, technological and environmental situation affects the success of their company… Read more
07 March 2008
Companies step up ethics training programmes, survey says
In an effort to ensure ethical codes are followed, companies are stepping up training programmes, Financial Times reports on the results of a new survey by the Institute of Business Ethics. Seven out of 10 large companies in the UK now train employees in how to apply their codes of conduct. Four years ago, less than half had such training programmes. In the US, the Ethics Resource Center reports a similar increase in training. Read more. (Source: Financial Times)
07 March 2008
CSR in Italy: Financial sector leads the way
"Italian banks claim a lot of the credit for encouraging corporate responsibility in modern Italy", Toby Webb writes in an Ethical Corporation article on CSR in Italy. "The oldest bank in the world, Monte Paschi di Siena, was set up in the 15th century on social principles. In more modern times, until recently over half of the social reports issued by Italian companies came from the financial sector. Financial organizations such as Unicredit and Intesa San Paolo lead the way in Italy, but will come against new CSR challenges as they expand abroad in the future… Read more
07 March 2008
OECD report says environmental action urgent, but achievable and affordable
"Solutions to the key environmental challenges are available, achievable and affordable, especially when compared to the expected economic growth and the costs and consequences of inaction", OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria said at the worldwide launch of the 2008 OECD Environmental Outlook in Oslo on 5 March. The report identifies four priority areas where urgent action is needed: climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and the impact on human health of pollution and toxic chemicals. Read more. (Source: OECD)
07 March 2008
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