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

Strategy Driven

Engage in Community Development Identify initiatives and local development projects that help make life easier for the locals and participate in them. Work with the NGO to reform the affected after the disaster has passed. Pick eco-friendly suppliers to stay green. Donate food, water, medicine, and other relief based on the disaster.

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Time to Review the Reputation of Team Building Activities

HR Digest

Book Club Duration : Ongoing (monthly meetings) Number of Participants : 5-15 Format : Virtual or in-person Reading is a much valued way to pass time and combining it with building a reading community can make it that much more rewarding. Participants often share experiences, anecdotes, or insights related to a specific theme or topic.

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How Big Data Can Support More Precise Conservation

The Horizons Tracker

They took this information and developed a model using a second database of landowners who had previously conducted restoration work to test whether this model could accurately predict future participation. Indeed, they had done so twice as often in the past.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business Review

Among nonprofits we surveyed last year, 70% reported shortfalls in program participation currently, and half said they were struggling with participation now more than five years ago. Narrow in on a subgroup most likely to participate rather than identifying a broad group of potential beneficiaries. A team of U.S.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In other words, instead of viewing this as something to be kept under her control, she reaches out the parents to help participate in succeeding to reach a goal they both share – of helping their child learn how to read. Something else that Ms. Covey evokes about leadership is the manner in which she communicates with her children.

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An Approach to Ending Poverty That Works

Harvard Business Review

Our research has shown that the vast majority of participants in these programs – 75 to 98%, depending on the geography – not only leaves the category of ultra-poverty within 24 months, but remains on an upward trajectory even four years after they’ve stopped receiving direct benefits.

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How Quick Wins Can Become Stretch Goals

Harvard Business Review

These "small stretches" also energized participants and helped them develop capabilities as growth leaders. Over the next two years, hundreds of such teams around the world helped the company increase revenues while creating further opportunities for growth.

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