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Training trauma worsens
The TEC annual meeting seems to have brought little relief to the turmoil afflicting those trying to provide training and enterprise support in the teeth of the recession.
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Resilient, but helped by
incentives
Life is as tough as ever for arts groups seeking funding, but so far corporate sponsorship has not suffered from the recession as much as some feared.
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Community affairs:
whither, or wither?
New government in office, a few short years to the new century, still the same problems facing young people, the inner cities, our fragile environment - where is community affairs going and what are its prospects?
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Comment: contributions
Community affairs managers could be excused for thinking: "We're damned if we do and damned if we don't".
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Contributions
Companies are again being criticised for not giving enough. And those that give the most, says one research organisation, are often the most 'unethical'.
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Quiet revolutionaries
As Bob Geldof focuses the world's attention on aid for Africa, the Shell Foundation publishes an alternative approach to the problem of poverty
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Community finance: a
force for change
While the government has passionately pursued an 'access to finance' agenda there is still plenty of room for improvement.
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Comment: enterprise
Social enterprises are primarily businesses with social objectives, whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose.
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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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