Corporate Citizenship’s co-chair Amanda Jordan features in the recently published “Building Stronger Communities – Business and the third sector: Innovation in tough times”.
Businesses, the government and third sector need to develop stronger and more innovative partnerships to provide real and practical help for communities at risk of fracture due to the recession, a report published today by an independent taskforce claims.
Led by Dame Julia Cleverdon, Business in the Community’s Vice President, the taskforce on Building Stronger Communities has focused on places and practices to develop a national framework of recommendations and examples of innovative cross-sector partnerships.
The report outlines ten recommendations to businesses, the third sector and to the Government under three key priorities for action: building closer connections between the sectors at local level, the importance of downsizing responsibly, and investment in innovative partnerships.
The taskforce worked in five areas at particular risk during the recession – Swindon, Southwark, Calderdale, Stoke and rural Lincolnshire – and consulted across sectors to identify the impact of the recession on the area. It also brought different organisations together to develop a local understanding of existing practices and to prompt opportunities for greater collaborative action.
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