Showcase Your Cause!

CIMB Foundation, CIMB’s non-profit wing, has called on photographers to send in photographs of causes on community development, sports or education, and the winning cause will get up to RM100,000. The winner of the entry might get a reward too! The causes should be involved in community development, sports or education. Participants also need... [Read more...]

Nigerian CSR Legislation: Good News or Bad?

By Charlotte Morgan The Nigerian Government’s decision to issue a bill which legislates CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) on a national level has been met with a fierce wave of criticism, which has now spread rapidly across the world. The bill, which was first announced in February 2009, proposes to make obligatory a 3.5% donation of companies’... [Read more...]

African Entrepreneurs: Creating Opportunities for Success

Courtesy of INSEAD Knowledge by Grace Segran, Barcelona The solution to African development must be African and internally generated. However, it will need support from the developed world, mostly in terms of knowledge and training, as well as investment. This was the consensus of a panel at Net Impact’s Doing Good, Doing Well 2009 European conference... [Read more...]

Alternative Fuel for Micro Cars

Daimler Southeast Asia presented the ten micro-cars of the Smart brand manufactured by Mercedes-Benz in front of the art museum in Singapore in August of 2008. These automobiles represent innovation in a twin sense. Designed as  city cars and found in many metropolises, the Smarts have not yet been introduced to the market in this Southeast Asian country.... [Read more...]

Corporate Responsibility: Are Companies Responding to Social Demands?

Courtesy of INSEAD Knowledge Only one manager in about six is likely to view her company as a global corporate citizen with a responsibility to help solve social problems, as opposed to one stakeholder in three. This is one of the key findings of RESPONSE: Understanding and Responding to Social Demands on Corporate Responsibility, a study created and... [Read more...]

Social Entrepreneurship Has Arrived

By Suresh Kr Pramar In the beginning there were small beginnings. Over the centuries these grew into organizations with budgets larger than the national product of many countries. The captains of these giant industries became lords and masters of all that they surveyed. They became rich, arrogant and uncaring. The financial success of their companies... [Read more...]

Social Enterprise: Using Microcredit to Help to Lift the Poor Out of Poverty Yet Still Post Dramatic Growth

Courtesy of INSEAD Knowledge Many institutions around the world are turning to microfinance both as a strategy to help lift the poor out of the poverty trap and to make a decent return on investment. While the business gains from lending money to those who earn only about one or two dollars a day may seem limited, some of the major international banks... [Read more...]

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