Community
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EDF Energy: The community as customer
Public utilities have been slated for inflation-busting price rises. But EDF Energy's targeted approach to responsibility in the community may go some way to facing down the critics
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Comment: contributions
As the scale of the tsunami crisis unfolded at the turn of the year, everyone wanted to do something to help. One result was an unprecedented international corporate response.
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Contributions
Businesses around the world responded to the tsunami with a wide range of contributions, from direct cash donations to expertise, products and services. In some cases, businesses have even changed their policies to provide a more effective response to the crisis.
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Swapping perspectives
The government has tried to engage the private sector in numerous regeneration initiatives – the New Deal, Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy and Sustainable Communities to name just a few. But, Andrew Carter argues, public agencies need to begin seeing things from a business perspective if they are ever going to successfully engage the private sector.
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Comment: contributions:
funding
Now that the Directory of Social Change (DSC) has moved its Guide to UK Company Giving onto a two-yearly cycle, CAF's annual Charity Trends is the best annual snapshot of the state of corporate giving by British-based companies.
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