Community
Meeting society’s needs
A daunting new series of challenges to social inclusion, far more serious than in the 1980s, demand urgent corporate action, argues David Grayson.
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Education and Skills News
Round-Up (Issue 94)
Education reforms, re-employing the disabled and forming an ethnic minority task force are all on the education and skills agenda.
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China Health Alliance
takes aim at TB, HIV/AIDS
The director of the Global Health Initiative describes how a new public-private partnership, the China Health Alliance, aims to curb the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS and TB in China.
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Community News Round-up
(Issue 93)
Technology and philanthropy are being called on to help communities from the north of England to South Africa.
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Health news round-up
(Issue 93)
From an increase in access to ARV treatment for HIV/AIDS sufferers, to combating the sale of counterfeit drugs, and even producing a drug that will never make any profit, Briefing rounds up what the pharmaceutical firms are doing.
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Helping lone parents
succeed
For over three years, Marks & Start– a community programme sponsored by Marks & Spencer – has been helping people get back into employment through a number of partnerships. Sumi Ejiri talks to Marks & Spencer and One Parent Families, one of the retailer’s community partners, about what they gain from working together.
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Measuring social impact
Programmes encouraging social inclusion are all well and good but it is only through measurement and target-setting that the real impacts can be assessed.
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Social inclusion for
learners
Bruce Learner of Kellogg’s UK underlines the importance of working with young people, or more precisely ‘equipping them to make the right choices’, in order to overcome the crippling effects of social exclusion.
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Toxic corporate
responsibility
Camila Batmanghelidjh, director of Kids Company on why corporate social responsibility should be selfless and not self-serving, and how companies should take heed and listen to what the voluntary sector really needs.
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Contributions news
round-up (Issue 92)
Lloyds announces a change in its Foundation's structure, while Vodafone Group Foundation donates extra money to those suffering from flooding in Indonesia.
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Barclays supports Charity
Bank
More companies should follow Barclays' lead and support forward-thinking organisations such as Charity Bank.
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