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How Corporates Can Create a Competitive Advantage by Engaging Society

Opinion

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 17th April 2013 -  Every commercial organisation wants to increase staff engagement, improve performance, launch more products, attract new customers, and enhance collaboration. However, only a select few appreciate how societal engagement can deliver all five performance enhancers says corporate trainer and author, Omer Soker.

Why Complexity and Collaboration Go Together

Opinion

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 17th April 2013 -  If we are successful at solving some social challenges, why is it we have limited success in solving the complex ones and how can Collective Impact help asks Australian social change advocates Dawn O’Neil AM and Kerry Graham.

WA Bike Culture ‘Dismantled’

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 17th April 2013 -  For a brother and sister team who established a bicycle focussed social business in Fremantle, creating a ‘mentality shift’ among West Australians to embrace the concept of paying for the service was their biggest challenge. The Spotlight on Social Enterprise this edition is “Dismantle”‘.

Corporate Volunteering Delivers Leadership Development – Report

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 17th April 2013 -  The major benefit for participating companies in International Corporate Volunteerism (ICV) is skills and leadership development, an international conference on volunteering has been told.

The Effects of Australian SRI on International Investment

Opinion

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 17th April 2013 -  Due to the high rate of change associated with the development of socially responsible investment (SRI), it is particularly important to maintain a current purview of both the behaviour of financial institutions and the introduction of relevant statutory regulation, says Garry Taylor, Strategic Environmental Management consultant at Croesus Project Services.

Advancing Responsible Business

Opinion

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 17th April 2013 -  Many businesses are continuing to fail to pay attention to what is often regarded as ‘non-core’ parts of business: ethical conduct, corporate governance, social and environmental factors, says Simon O’Connor, the CEO of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia.

New Law to Restore Charity Donations to Courts

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 16th April 2013 -  The Victorian Government will introduce legislation into Parliament that will allow charities to continue to receive proceeds from court-ordered donations.

Recycling NFPs Creating Employment – Study

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 16th April 2013 -  Community Recycling Enterprises, mostly run by Not for Profit organisations, are playing an important role in recycling and local employment creation in Australia but there are still barriers to their growth, according to the first national study into their operations.

Telling It Like It Is

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 16th April 2013 -  Being transparent illustrates that a Not for Profit organisation honours its supporters enough to be open and honest with them, valuing their giving and showing them the impact their donations are having, writes Chief Executive of Opportunity International Australia Robert Dunn.
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