Al Gore, the joke goes, was the guy who used to be the next president. What the U.S. missed from Gore’s inability to sway a few more electoral college voters and the majority of the Supreme Court back in 2000, it gained in a fuller understanding of Sustainability...that’s with a capital S. But what's less known is the story of the guy who wrote the check that made Gore’s Nobel Prize possible, an act that forever cemented the concepts Climate Change and Sustainability in the minds of global leaders. Philanthropy
When Philanthropy Business Gets Business Orientation
Submitted by dennis on Wed, 2008-06-25 18:41.CECP report makes case for alignment of goals
One philanthropy trend parallels developments in the Corporate Responsibility (CR) arena as a whole: As in CR, many corporations are aligning their philanthropy with business objectives.
The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) identified the synergy between philanthropy and business goals in a new report, “Business’s Social Contract: Capturing the Corporate Philanthropy Opportunity,” which was based in part on research conducted by McKinsey & Co.
Despite Economy’s Woes, Corporate Giving Didn’t Slow
Submitted by dennis on Wed, 2008-06-04 14:05.CECP report finds two-thirds of companies hiked philanthropy in 2007 Corporate philanthropy at many companies rose in 2007 despite an uncertain economy.Research by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) found that “giving by large, multinational corporations increased by 5.6 percent, from a median of $24.67 million in 2006 to a median of $26.05 million in 2007.”
Sustainability Trivia Question: Who Wrote the Check that Made Al Gore's Nobel Prize Possible? And the Answer ...
Submitted by dennis on Fri, 2007-10-12 16:48.Environment | Philanthropy | Politics & Legislation | sustainability | TheCRO Blog
Al Gore, the joke goes, was the guy who used to be the next president. What the U.S. missed from Gore’s inability to sway a few more electoral college voters and the majority of the Supreme Court back in 2000, it gained in a fuller understanding of Sustainability...that’s with a capital S. But what's less known is the story of the guy who wrote the check that made Gore’s Nobel Prize possible, an act that forever cemented the concepts Climate Change and Sustainability in the minds of global leaders.
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Al Gore, the joke goes, was the guy who used to be the next president. What the U.S. missed from Gore’s inability to sway a few more electoral college voters and the majority of the Supreme Court back in 2000, it gained in a fuller understanding of Sustainability...that’s with a capital S. But what's less known is the story of the guy who wrote the check that made Gore’s Nobel Prize possible, an act that forever cemented the concepts Climate Change and Sustainability in the minds of global leaders.