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Parting on good terms
Saying no is never easy and deciding not to renew a donation can be worse. Here are some tips on handling the difficult process.
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Thorn EMI - from scanners
to stars
EMI used to be described as a conglomerate, but over the past eight years it has been re-shaped into a focused entertainment and rental group. Its community involvement has had to reflect this.
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Piling on the pressure
At the fifth national TEC conference, the mood was of a still-young movement maturing and facing the challenges, while a government speakers exhorted them to greater effort.
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Twenty Green Reporting
Tips
Many companies are responding to the green agenda by published corporate environmental performance reports, but some are so poorly prepared they become counter-productive; here is how to get it right.
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BAT Industries - Tackling
the inner city blues
Sir Patrick Sheehy's report for the Home Secretary on the future management of the police force has put the spotlight onto the chairman of BAT Industries, a £19 billion world-wide business employing 200,000 people.
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Regeneration
At a seminar in London on July 30, a group of community development specialists heard Joan Shapiro from the South Shore Bank of Chicago explain how her bank is making money through reviving distressed communities.
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Employee involvement
Two thirds of employee volunteers (67%) believe it is important that senior management set an example by becoming involved in the community themselves and nearly three quarters (71%) prefer to chose their own area of voluntary activity rather than be led by the company.
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Up to any good in the
community?
June sees the start of the 1993 UK Volunteers Week, as a revamped Employee Involvement Award is launched.
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Pathways to higher
standards
The state of the nation's schools continues to dominate the headlines. A new campaign to get businesses more involved, previewed in the last edition of Community Affairs Briefing, was fully launched in May.
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Urban regeneration
A skills development programme for managers and other key players in urban regeneration partnerships, Winning Partnerships, was announced by the then Environment Secretary, Michael Howard MP, at the Cities '93 Conference in Birmingham on May 24.
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Glaxo: A decade of growth
A decade ago, few people would have named Glaxo as one of the UK's biggest corporate donors; today it is in the top ten and growing.
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