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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. List down the local charities and nonprofits, and mark the ones that share the same values and business ethics as you.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE has gone from despoiling the Hudson River to jumpstarting the electric car industry through its commitment to purchase tens of thousands of zero emission vehicles. However over the past few years many companies have transformed themselves from bad guys into champions of social change and ecological consciousness.

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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. There are significant ethical issues with applying this model to HIV in the USA.

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The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

With ethical, networked leaders involved, a franchise model is the best way to keep an organization running in an unstable area where uncertainty or lack of trust can make it challenging for foreign organizations to operate and deploy funds. Find ethical, networked leaders at the local level. Local legitimacy leads to resiliency.