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Woolworths provides career mentoring for disadvantaged young people
The Woolworths Academy has collaborated with the Oasis Youth Support Network to establish a job placement and mentoring scheme for disadvantaged young people.
Marks & Spencer gives disadvantaged people an opportunity for employment training
Marks & Start is Marks & Spencer's work experience programme for those who are homeless, disabled, single parents and young unemployed.
NIKE Village Development Project
Nike in partnership with the Population & Community Development Association (PDA) and local villages, established the ‘NIKE Village Development Project’ in Thailand.
Deutsche Bank signed loan agreement with the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development in the Philippines
Deutsche Bank had signed a loan agreement with The Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD).
HSBC Turkey partnered with three Turkish NGOs to disburse microcredit loans
HSBC Turkey, the Turkish arm of the global bank HSBC, allocated USD 5 million to micro-credit loans between 2008 and 2010 in Turkey.
ConocoPhillips worked with NGO to support financial services in Venezuela
In 2006, ConocoPhillips worked with Fundefir, an organization with wide experience in developing bankomunales- small neighborhood banks in low-income areas where there are no formal financial services.
Sainsbury's assisted a charity gardening enterprise
Sainsbury’s was one of the few companies which supported Mow & Grow when it was a tiny voluntary group. Its funding in the early days ensured its survival of this social enterprise offering a gardening and horticultural service to those in need.
Cisco partners with Grameen Solutions in Bangladesh
Cisco partners with Grameen Solutions to establish business centers in rural Bangladesh that serve as distribution points for a variety of services, such as birth and death certificates, healthcare, distance learning, and retail sales of such necessities as hybrid seeds.
Unilever, with support from NGOs, helps rural India through Project Shakti
Project Shakti is unleashing the potential of rural India and thus changing lives. It is ushering in prosperity and, more importantly, self-respect.
Shared Value between Nestlé and crops producers
Nestlé is guided by the principle of creating shared value for shareholders and society in a manner that is integrally linked to its core business strategies and operations. It is called “Creating Shared Value (CSV)”; value created for shareholders, employees, farmers, consumers and the communities...