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Just as there is no single answer to “What is a Force for Good company?”, so there is no one answer to How to become one. Every company, and every leader, needs to find out for themselves the specific actions that work for them.

 

This website, and its community, can help in two ways. First, it can share theoretical frameworks to accelerate your thinking, plus practical examples of what has worked for others. Second, it brings the opportunity to interact with others, and so discover new solutions together -- through debate, blogs, and comments.

 

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posted by Admin  on June 24, 2009
This briefing summarises the concept of the triple context – the rationalebehind it, what it means, and why it is of such vital importance.
     

Issue(s): Embedding Values , How to be a Force for Good company , Corporate Social Responsibility , Sustainability

Region(s): North America , West Europe

Tag(s): Business , Economy , Society , Sustainability , TripleContext
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posted by clare  on September 12, 2008
The power to influence individuals' decisions is the power to change the world. Media has that power - it reaches more than 75% of the global population and the existence of an advertising industry demonstrates it can influence the decisions that we make. No government, no company, no supranational body has both reach and the ability to change our decisions. How can media help the world "accelerate out of trouble"?
     

Issue(s): Climate Change , How to be a Force for Good company , Corporate Social Responsibility , Sustainability

Tag(s): , ClimateChange , ConsumerBehaviour , CorporateResponsibility , MediaPower
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posted by Sophie  on September 1, 2008
It has become imperative for business to demonstrate greater social participation and create value in the communities where they operate. But the growing availability of corporate capital for social development has not necessarily resulted in funds finding an effective home. Money often flows to the best-known development programmes or is directed through governments or aid agencies with their own development agendas. This leaves under-developed and under-resourced initiatives, working on the ground to effect change, without access to capital markets. And while corporate philanthropy plays a vital role in the development of communities, is not enough to lift people out of poverty and address South Africa’s historic imbalances. The SA Social Investment Exchange (SASIX) is an innovative platform providing a range of high-impact social investment opportunities from grants to financial investments in responsible initiatives that offer market-related financial returns. This, together...
     

Issue(s): Embedding Values , Creating Frameworks , Tomorrow's Global Leaders , How to be a Force for Good company , Corporate Social Responsibility , Sustainability

Region(s): Africa

Tag(s): Change , CorporatePhilanthropy , CorporateSocialInvestment , Development , SocialInvestmentForum , SociallyResponsibleInvestment
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posted by Philip  on August 22, 2008
Philip Sadler CBE - the Senior Fellow of Tomorrow's Company - reviews the books that can provide detailed answers the central questions posed by www.forceforgood.com.  In this article he reviews Sumantra Goshal on Management: A force for good, a collection of works which helps to answer why companies need to become forces for good. Formerly philip was Chief Executive of Ashridge Business School for twenty years. He was also Senior Research Fellow for the recent inquiry - Tomorrow’s Global Company.
     

Issue(s): Why we need Force for Good companies , How to be a Force for Good company , Tomorrow's Global Talent , Corporate Social Responsibility

Tag(s): BookReview , EthicalEmployees , Talent

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