In less than 24 hours, corporate aid for Haiti's immediate relief and long-term recovery has tripled. We're now looking at corporate pledges in excess of $31 million.
: Corporate Citizenship Center
As of noon EST today corporate aid pledges have already exceeded $16 million, including cash, in-kind contributions, employee-matching campaigns, and customer-engagement, in response to Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti.
As BCLC's Global Corporate Citizenship program manager Taryn Bird has pointed out, Haiti is a country that faced a dire humanitarian situation even before Tuesday's wicked 7.0 earthquake.
Today, BCLC Executive Director Stephen Jordan issued the following statement in response to the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti:
Today a cadre of actors, musicians, water advocates, and humanitarians reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, a challenge undertaken as part of the Summit on the Summit campaign to raise awareness
BCLC Executive Director Stephen Jordan recently wrote a piece about 10 resolutions for CSR leaders. It's definitely worth a read.
There is a quasi-myth on Wall Street that the first five days of trading set the pattern for the year.
Arthur Rothkopf, senior vice president and counselor to the president at the U.S. Chamber, recently traveled to Beijing, China, f0r a U.S. Chamber co-sponsored event on CSR.
Here, he answers a few questions about the trip and about the future of China and CSR.
Over the past few years, the disaster response process had become very “front-loaded” – focused on mobilizing resources for the emergency response and relief activities, while recovery was kind of an afterthought.
For some reason, if all you saw was political news, you would think that the pharmaceutical industry was made up of inhuman robots who only care about vacuuming up gold ducats wherever they find them. The rhetoric – even coming from some supposedly responsible presidential campaigns – is so ove