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Disaster Preparedness Information (Red Cross)
This page on the American Red Cross website provides information and advice for families about how to prepare for and cope in emergency situations. A key goal is to serve the needs of vulnerable people such as the elderly and people with disabilities.
Worldwide embassy information
These websites provide information about embassies and consulates in different countries around the world.
Directory & Search Engine Of The World's Embassies & Consulates
This website provides contact details of embassies and consulates around the world, and allows these embassies to be sorted by host country, or by the nation represented.
Accord Interagency Gifts in Kind Standards
Accord Gifts in Kind Standards govern US-based member organisations' Gifts in Kind (GIK) activity.
Human trafficking and business: An E-learning course on how to prevent and combat human trafficking
The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) and the End Human Trafficking Now! Campaign (EHTN!) have developed an eLearning course which is a modular training programme for business leaders, managers and employees of business companies.
The big idea: Creating Shared Value
How to reinvent capitalism - and unleash a wave of innovation and growth.
Meeting the Challenge of Expanding Inclusive Business
Most people interested in inclusive business have heard the success stories: Coca-Cola has generated $550 million in additional revenues by integrating local entrepreneurs into their beverage distribution chain in markets across Africa. Vodafone – one of the world’s largest telecommunications firm...
Inclusive Business in Latin America - Inclusive Business offers a 21st Century solution to the intractable problem of poverty in Latin America
Neil Ghosh, head of the Washington office for SNV, the Netherlands Development Organization, focuses on inclusive business models in Latin America in this article. It was published by the Latin Business Chronicle.
The MDGs: Everyone’s Business
The MDGs: Everyone’s Business is a new report from UNDP’s Growing Inclusive Markets (GIM) Initiative covering 40 case studies and over 140 supporting institutions referenced by specific MDGs, released on 21 September 2010 in the framework of the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development...
The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility
This article by Aneel Karnani argues that the idea that companies have a duty to address social ills is not just flawed, but also makes it more likely that we'll ignore the real solutions to the problems at hand.
Inclusive Business: Creating Value in Latin America
The Alliance for Inclusive Business is a joint effort of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and SNV Netherlands Development Organization and has recently launched a report highlighting its joint work in Latin America over the past 4 years.
Accelerating Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals Through Inclusive Business Delivering Results: Moving Towards Scale
Report on an inclusive business dialogue held 21 September 2010 during the UN summit on the millennium development goals.
Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor - a UNDP report
Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor is the new and groundbreaking report launched on 1 July by the UN Development Programme.
10 Companies With Social Responsibility at the Core
Article was written by Bob Liodice and orgininally appeared on adage.com.
Opportunities for the Majority: Bank initiative that promotes and finances private sector business models
The Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) Initiative promotes and finances market-based, sustainable business models that engage private sector companies, local governments and communities in the development and delivery of quality products and services for the majority of the population of Latin...
Guide for Effective Aid - Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO)
The South American branch of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has prepared a set of guidelines to assist relief organisations in sending effective aid to support disasters. The guidelines advise on what a relief organisation should do immediately after a disaster. Also listed are items that...
Technology Donation Guidelines
These guidelines refer to an American community school, but may be useful to donors who wish to donate technological hardware to NGOs or similar organisations.
Volunteering for Impact: Best Practices in International Corporate Volunteering
This paper produced for Pfizer and the Brookings Institute seeks to explore and understand the lessons learned among major corporations whose employees have engaged in international volunteering. While multiple studies have been published on domestic corporate volunteering activities, only a few...
Role of Employee Engagement in Disaster Response: Learning from Experience
Role of Employee Engagement in Disaster Response: Learning from Experience, a report, discusses the role of businesses in the relief, recovery and reconstruction process, of natural disasters. It presents an eight point plan for developing an employee engagement approach to disaster response....
Socially Inclusive Business: Engaging the Poor through Market Initiatives in Iberoamerica
The first section of this chapter defines its object and the main research questions that guided the researchers' collective efforts.