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

Strategy Driven

Having any volunteer experience will help them ahead in their career. Adopt Ethical Supply Chain Practices Building an ethical supply chain system is another effective way to become a socially responsible company. Work with the NGO to reform the affected after the disaster has passed. So, your employees would want to contribute.

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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

For the last three years, I have satiated this string of my DNA with an unconventional job – as Executive Director of a small NGO addressing maternal and child survival in slums of Mali, West Africa, where health outcomes are among the lowest in the world. A version of this was originally published in Switch and Shift.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford.

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

And so a young girl, whose calling — and whose value to the world — may really be to dance, or to build an industry, is hypnotized into becoming the fundraising director for an NGO. Others are from corporate executives feeling a dearth of purpose, and asking for career advice.

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Europe Can Find Better Ways to Get Refugees into Workforces

Harvard Business Review

Unfavorable demographics, with the aging of the baby boomers and low birth rates, also represents an economic time bomb for countries whose public retirement systems rely on current contributions to finance current pension obligations. But the number of people that this NGO can place is very small. It’s not just the UK.

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How to Bounce Back After Getting Laid Off

Harvard Business Review

It dents your self-esteem; it’s tough on your bank account; and if you’re not smart about your next steps, it can derail your career. “The old adage that it’s not about you is nonsense,” says John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and the author of How to Get a Job You Love. Losing your job is hard.

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