LANCASTER —What started, about six years ago, as a small weekly gathering with people experiencing homelessness at Jane Reynolds Park culminated in a grand opening celebration of nonprofit Street Company’s new roasting facility in the Lancaster Business Park, on Friday night, with the company’s founders, donors, community partners and supporters in attendance. “Tonight is a…
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Widespread Collaboration Will Make The World A Better Place
For motivated businesses, collaboration isn’t only a great way to make more money, it’s an awesome way to help make the world a better place. If you’ve spent time reading my writing, you know that I’m a major proponent of collaboration in the business world. Collaborative efforts don’t just have the potential to help companies resolve…
Six Practical Developments To Help Business Leaders Create Both Social AND Economic Value
Rarely in modern times have business leaders been subjected to such pressure for transparency and social engagement as now. This is partly because the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic aftermath has been followed by a growing economic divide between shareholders and stakeholders. This includes company employees, as evidenced by a recent report by The Brookings Institute on…
Husband and wife team launch clothing line aimed at helping people open up about mental health
During lockdown husband and wife team Shaun and Priscilla Byrne were having a discussion about prevalent mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, and their desire to open up the conversation in the public sphere. Out of these chats, the idea for a new business venture was born and Feelz clothing was launched last…
In it together: More companies are rallying employees, business and community partners to do good
From improving health and financial literacy for children to providing nutritious meals to seniors, Prudential Singapore and CapitaLand continue to support communities who need it now more than ever. . Read more at straitstimes.com. Senior business development manager at Prudential Singapore Vicki Koh enjoys making the most of her five days of annual volunteer leave…
Creative Ways Your Business Can Support Charities and Your Employees on #GivingTuesday and During the Holidays
Thinking about rallying your company’s employees around a donation drive to support the community on #GivingTuesday or this holiday season? It’s not too late to get started! Source: Creative Ways Your Business Can Support Charities and Your Employees on #GivingTuesday and During the Holidays
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Says The Business Of Business Is Improving The State Of The World
Purpose is not a cause, it is a way of operating your business. Arguably it must become the way an organization operates. Although there are some “social good” aspects of demonstrating a higher organizational purpose, it does not come to be simply through annual corporate social responsibility documents. Purpose is more than a cause. It…
2016 Active Year for Bendix in Corporate Giving, Volunteering
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems donated nearly $250,000 through corporate grants, employee sponsorships, donations, and employee fundraisers in 2016, benefiting nonprofits and community organizations across North America. Activities included local-level employee-driven projects; community initiatives funded by Bendix; and programs supported by Knorr-Bremse Global Care. Global Care is a nonprofit organization founded by the Knorr-Bremse Group, Bendix’s…
Corporate Giving Awards: PricewaterhouseCoopers
What societal issue do you wish there was more awareness of, and why? Half of today’s teens are financially illiterate, and more than three-quarters of teachers who teach financial literacy indicate a need for more appropriate curriculum resources. At PwC, we have been on a journey to help address the systemic lack of financial education…
Wake Forest student turns cancer diagnosis into philanthropic business
Amid all the ordeals, large and small, that came from being an active college student diagnosed with cancer, Jake Teitelbaum showed his frustration in one place: the plain, white “hospital socks.” Standard-issue for all in-patient stays — the Wake Forest University student had several while battling a resistant form of Hodgkin’s lymphoma last year —…