Something has been bugging me for a while now. It’s not a new issue but something that has been slapping me on the head daily for the last few months more than it has done in the past. Maybe it is the continued economic struggles the world is going through. Maybe it is the Occupy [...]
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Is Sustainability Just A Band-Aid?
Posted in activism, Africa, business, business realism, business strategy, capitalism, cars, climate change, co-responsibility, community, companies, compensation, consumers, consumption, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, cost, CSR, CSV, culture, earnings, emissions, energy, environment, ethics, global, global warming, leadership, manufacturing, money, mutual responsibility, poverty, products, profits, public responsibility, purpose, realism, recession, responsibility, revenues, Shared Value, shareholders, society, sustainability, Uncategorized, value, values, tagged capitalism, consumption, CSR, environment, parity, products, profits, purchase, shared value, society, sustainability, system on December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
How about some “activist realism” for business?
Posted in activism, activist realism, activists, business, business associations, charity, co-responsibility, communications, community, companies, consumers, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, engagement, ethics, green, leadership, messaging, mutual responsibility, NGOs, nonprofit, partnerships, philanthropy, profits, realism, responsibility, society, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, tagged activist realism, business, business realism, CSR, NGOs, shareholders, stakeholders, sustainability on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t planning on writing a blog today but this piece in my favorite newspaper, The Guardian (yes, I am the typical lefty reader), made me roll my eyes. The piece is very well intended and generally pretty good advice for charities – Charity funding: How to approach business for help. I agree that charities [...]
The Mythmakers: The end of CSR. Again.
Posted in Andreau, business, civil society, co-responsibility, communications, community, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, CSR, CSV, engagement, Karmani, Kramer, mutual responsibility, philanthropy, Porter, responsibility, Shared Value, society, sustainability, terminology, transparency, value, values, tagged Andreau, Corporate Sustainability, CSR, CSV, Kramer, Porter, semantics, society, sustainbility, terminology, value on February 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
It feels like 1990 all over again. How many times do we go through these arguments that CSR is dead or CSR isn’t a very good description or that CSR is so yesterday. It seems as if we are back at the drawing board again. First we had Aneel Karnani make his Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility in the [...]
The Slippery Slope Of Partnerships: The NGO Oil Spill Experience
Posted in activism, BP, brands, business, business associations, cause, civil society, climate change, communications, community, companies, Conservation International, consumers, CSR, disaster, energy, engagement, environment, ethics, global warming, green, Greenpeace, leadership, messaging, mountaintop removal, Nature Conservancy, news, NGOs, nonprofit, oil, oil spill, Oxfam, partnerships, public responsibility, responsibility, risk, society, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, Timberland, transparency, values on May 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The oil spill seems to have more than just an environmental and political impact. It’s starting to impact how partnerships are formed between companies and NGOs. Some environmental NGOs are being tarnished - thanks to their relationship with BP. The Washington Post wrote an article about how the Nature Conservancy (and Conservation International and EDF) is [...]
Public Responsibility: Where’s the Third Voice in Aid Reform?
Posted in Africa, business, civil society, community, companies, CSR, culture, development, foreign aid, global, NGOs, nonprofit, public responsibility, society, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, trade, US, USA, tagged Africa, aid, business, Center for Global Development, civil society, development, foreign aid, InterAction, NGOs, Oxfam, public responsibility, reform, stakeholder engagement, trade, US on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today I’m going to tackle Public Responsibility instead of Corporate Responsibility – the responsiblity of governments and government agencies within the broader sustainability and development debate. My focus is stakeholder engagement and materiality as seen happening in the discussions on Foreign Aid Reform in the US. I must applaud the US government for taking on [...]
Who cares?
Posted in cause, community, culture, giving, philanthropy, tagged caring, culture, giving, philanthropy on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As you know I lean to the left. Okay, less of a lean than a complete body-and-soul kinda jump and stance… And damn proud of it. Part of the definition of liberalism (according to the Webster dictionary) is “One who is generous”. But not everyone agrees with that. I can’t recall how many times people will tell [...]
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