News
Beyond the basics: taking business charity partnerships to the next level. While business charity partnerships often revolve around fundraising and volunteering, any partnership worth its salt nowadays needs to go way beyond these basics.
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A quick note to keep you updated with what’s been keeping us busy and, we hope, to inspire you about the potential to combine CSR, HR and L&D for everyone’s benefit.
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'Into Success' - our one-day Open Programme on July 8th with education charity Into University - will be an opportunity to sample community-based learning & development.
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HR needs to make sure the company practises what it preaches on CSR.
'Build it in, don't bolt it on.' That's the oft used but absolutely legitimate advice regularly doled out to companies about CSR. No one department should own CSR; it should be initiated by everybody in the business. Indeed, a CSR manager's aim should be to do himself/ herself (actually, usually 'herself' in this world) out of a job, because CSR is 'part of the DNA' (another good cliché) of the organisation.
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A short piece to keep you informed and inspired about how businesses have been developing their people through community projects and building their CSR credentials with our help. We also give a quick plug for our column in HR Magazine and announce our Open Programmes taking place in March.
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In his second column for HR Magazine, Jan Levy of Three Hands argues that while business-charity partnerships are supposed to be based on mutual benefit, there are too many examples around of companies treating charity partners like suppliers. They do so at their peril.
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Jan's monthly column in HR Magazine will explore why so many businesses have come round to engaging with communities for reasons that go way beyond philanthropy, challenge businesses to do it properly and look at what can go wrong when they don't, examine it from the charities' point of view and challenge HR directors to ensure that this 'enlightened self-interest' is no fad.
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As of Monday 9th November 2009 we have a new office and new contact details.
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Our latest forum, ‘Hand in Hand’, explored why it’s more relevant than ever for businesses and communities to work together for mutual benefit. You can read and download a short report here.
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HR Magazine covered our recent Hand in Hand forum, reporting on the panel discussion 'Developing People and Developing Communities'.
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Welcome to our new website! Please take a look around and let us know what you think.
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A brief update on what's been keeping us busy in 2009, some thoughts on why developing people and connecting with non-profit organisations and social issues is more important than ever and a plug for the Guardian Public Service Awards 2009.
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Our occasional newsletter, including an observation about ‘values-led capitalism’ in the wake of recent traumatic events in the economy, some highlights of our programmes in 2008, a note on our first societal learning programmes, a short report on the half-day forum we ran in September 2008 and a warm welcome to our new Project Manager.
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In September 2008 we held a half day forum for business people which explored how community engagement is becoming more sophisticated and strategic and how linking it with learning increases its relevance to core business issues.
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We comment on a vital societal issue in India and report on the community-based employee reward programme we ran for Standard Chartered Bank in Delhi.
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