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Innovations in community involvement
Kirk Hanson of Stanford University, California, draws on his experience in Silicon Valley to highlight the issues which are changing corporate community involvement programmes
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National Westminster
Bank: From philanthropy to strategic donations.
Over the last three years, NatWest has been turning one of the largest corporate donations programmes into one focused on strategic business benefit, while restructuring the company to face the competitive challenges of demanding customers.
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Major Award Schemes for
Companies
There is a small but growing number of award schemes to give recognition to the involvement of companies in community activity. Most are designed to publicise best practice and encourage more involvement.
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Global responsibilities
Community involvement used to be largely a home-based activity, but as international knowledge of the voluntary sector and community needs grows, that is slowly changing.
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Fifty years on from
Beveridge
On May 25, 1944, just days before the D-Day landings, the White Paper on Full Employment was published. This season of anniversaries has marked a sudden renewal of interest in job creation.
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Procter & Gamble:
regional leadership, national brands
Procter & Gamble owns some of the strongest brands in Britain but is based in Newcastle, making it one of the small group of leading companies not centred in London. How does its community affairs programme differ?
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Trends in corporate
community involvement
Research data recently published show a fall in charitable donations by top companies and a surprising lack of professionalism in CCI management.
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Volunteering employees
The start of Volunteers Week 1994 sees the publication of a 'state of the nation' report on volunteering, cited by BITC's new chairman, Sir Allen Sheppard, as one of the critical growth areas for CCI.
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Equal treatment at work
The number of women in top management has fallen for the first time in twenty years, as the CBI warns that businesses must devise working practices more compatible with family life.
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Making Britain
competitive
The long-awaited government white paper on competitiveness, launched on May 24, has implications for community affairs managers.
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The Family-Friendly
Employment Agenda
As the nature of work changes, more and more families are affected by the pressures of employment , whether full time, part time, permanent or temporary, and employers of all kinds are realising that they need to be more family friendly.
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