Philanthrophy

How companies can play an important role in addressing environmental, social and economic risk and security.

Imagine the next major disaster: a Katrina, a tsunami, a 9/11, in your hometown or city. Now imagine a situation where your local supermarkets and hardware stores do not close up, leave town and hire private police to protect them from looters. Instead, they open their doors, invite people in and give them the emergency supplies they need. Is it possible for companies to adopt these hypothetical risk assessment techniques?

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says that its investment practices have little or no impact on social issues.

The principles of socially responsible investing (SRI) and shareholder activism don’t work for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – the largest in the world – according to Patty Stonesifer, the foundation’s CEO.

Underserved markets offer vast potential for businesses and communities.

The challenge was formidable, even for Manpower Inc., the huge Milwaukee-based, employment-services company. The forecast was that jobs requiring information technology skills would nearly double in the decade ending 2010. And growth in the U.S. labor market during that period was going to come overwhelmingly from nontraditional sources — ethnic minorities and low- to moderate-income individuals.

Hurricane Katrina and other recent major disasters are prompting corporations to make their philanthropic programs more responsive to unexpected events.

Foley & Lardner LLP, a national law firm with approximately 950 attorneys, has launched a 10-week summer internship program seeking to encourage law students to incorporate pro bono service into their legal careers.