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

Strategy Driven

Support Local Charities and Nonprofits Charities and nonprofits operate with donations from other companies. Encourage your employees and stakeholders to contribute so that all levels of your management are engaged in the practice. Work with the NGO to reform the affected after the disaster has passed.

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Global NGOs Spend More on Accounting Than Multinationals

Harvard Business Review

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

Most major universities now have nonprofit management programs that didn't exist ten years ago. How would the charities trying to change the world operate without the manufacturers that make the equipment for their medical clinics, or without General Electric providing them with light bulbs?

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Dow Asks, What's the Business Case for Protecting Nature?

Harvard Business Review

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. Risk reduction: Managing your nature-sourced supply chain well can help avoid headaches and possible litigation.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

But just because your company is not fully evolved on the social change scale doesn't mean that there's nothing you (as a manager) can do. Bring your team together to identify ways that you can operate with greater sustainability and then set stretch targets. How much energy are you consuming? Are you recycling as much as possible?

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How to Create an Effective Non-Profit Mission Statement

Harvard Business Review

In the private sector, corporations achieve their goals by carefully designing business operations that are reflected in a budget and then regularly reporting on how actual profits compare to that budget. A well-crafted mission statement allows an NGO to operate with focus and discipline.

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The Laws of Money and Meaning

Harvard Business Review

Even cutting-edge thinking operates from a binary context: It ties itself in knots trying to figure out how you can have both. You can run the largest NGO on the planet, and if you're being chicken-s**t, then you've squandered the powerful position you've been given. It's mutually exclusive, or so the story goes.

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