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Unlocking Corporate Social Responsibility: 10 Impactful Ways to Give Back as a Business Owner

Strategy Driven

Community awards examples include Business of the Year Award, Excellence in Leadership and Service Award, Small Business of the Year Award, New Business of the Year Award, and Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Provide diversity training within the organization. Work with the NGO to reform the affected after the disaster has passed.

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Time to Review the Reputation of Team Building Activities

HR Digest

Let us look at some examples. Finding a local NGO or community that you want to work with is the first step to this team-building activity. These types of group team-building activities can encourage meaningful interactions and the exchange of diverse perspectives. The first person to fill a row or column can yell BINGO!

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

Runa is a wonderful example of a B-Corp, doing well and doing good. More specifically, we decided to model our staffing approach from two examples: one cultural and one environmental. The second example that reinforced this strategy for us was our understanding of Amazonian ecology. We drink the tea in our home all the time.

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How to Create an Effective Non-Profit Mission Statement

Harvard Business Review

Furthermore, this mission must be short, memorable and appropriate for a variety of organizational stakeholders including, for example, employees, funding sources, served constituencies and the Board of Trustees. A well-crafted mission statement allows an NGO to operate with focus and discipline.

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New Lessons from Fighting an Ancient Disease

Harvard Business Review

But it also aligns with BD''s goal of improving our knowledge of developing markets and our understanding of specific customer challenges, so that we can adapt or develop new technologies appropriate for these diverse settings and then bring these technologies to market. Redefine ROI.

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Why Top-Down Management Doesn’t Work in the Fight Against Ebola

Harvard Business Review

I have studied the process and outcomes of teaming for many years; the fight against Ebola is one of the most vivid (and terrifying) examples of teaming under pressure I’ve witnessed. Instead, various agencies need to create teams of professionals who bring diverse skills and priorities to bear. Teaming in NGO s.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. Consider these examples: 1. We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program.