Corporate Citizenship

I went to an event the other evening, entitled ‘Many Heavens, One Earth: Faiths, the Environment, and Copenhagen’.  Oops. In light of various pronouncements in the past 24 hours that ‘the Deal is dead, long live the Deal’.. perhaps putting Copenhagen in the same sentence as ‘faith’ and ‘environment’ might have been a tad optimistic! 
Nonetheless, [...]

The debate has raged over whether ‘ethical spend’ is taking a hit now that we’re in a recession.  For every statistic that suggests it will (or is), another can be found to suggest the opposite is the case.  Witness headlines in both the Guardian and The Times in the same week last month:  From the [...]

I was struck by a comment in the editorial in today’s FT about the resignation of the government’s chief drug advisor Professor Nutt. At the heart of the row, the question of government moving from reliance on ‘evidence-based policy’ to one that seeks to do the opposite: find the right evidence it needs to justify [...]

The Copenhagen Conference is not just crunch time for efforts to combat destructive climate change. It also questions what are the limits of voluntary corporate responsibility. 
Three months to go and already my desk groans under reports and analyses about the Copenhagen Conference. If there were a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Desks it [...]

Corporate Citizenship’s Alison Braybrooks and Larissa Carter will be running a workshop at Volunteering England’s forthcoming conference at the Barbican Centre in January. Alison will also be a guest speaker at the event.
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Corporate Citizenship held another successful Breakfast Briefing in conjunction with Arts and Business on “Measuring the Value Added of Partnerships”, presenting on the London Benchmarking Group (LBG) model and how its matrix helps its members assess the impact of their contributions.
  

Arts & Business wanted to measure the total social and economic value added of the [...]

Andrew Wilson, Managing Director at Corporate Citizenship, will be speaking at ACEVO’s forthcoming event “Investing in Leaders: the new Corporate Social Responsibility”.
For more information, please click here or visit www.acevo.org.uk
If you would like to attend this free event, please contact pippa.wilcox@acevo.org.uk

Andrew Wilson, Managing Director of Corporate Citizenship, will be speaking at YouthNet’s forthcoming seminar “Social Return on Investment: a new impact model”.
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If you would like to attend this free event, please RSVP to james.barradell-smith@youthnet.org

Ten years ago, if you mentioned the words ‘development’ or ‘human rights’ to the average business leader, you’d get a response that tended towards a variant of “it’s not our job, it’s government’s”. Today, these two words, whilst still eliciting wary responses, have now worked their way into the corporate language of those with global [...]