CSR360 Global Partner Network is a network of independent organisations that encourage businesses in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Business in the Community (BITC) convenes this network of over 110 partner organisations from around the world.
CSR360 GPN is extremely grateful to the members of the Business in the Community International Leadership Team who support and encourage us to fulfil our mission and vision.
CSR360 GPN has reached its current number of over 110 partner organisations from its beginnings 10 years ago. The network which focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has a presence in all the continents of the world and encompasses 60 countries in total.
Every quarter we publish a set of articles relating to a particular topic of corporate social responsibility.
As part of the ‘BRIC’ group of emerging economies, India has experienced substantial economic growth and development in the last few decades, with its domestic firms gaining increasing dominance in global markets and economies. Along with its neighbour, Bangladesh, these two countries represent a significant proportion of the world’s population, with a large number living below the poverty line. Together they present a diverse range of challenges across the full environmental, economic and social spectrums of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This part of South Asia therefore presents an ideal focus for this, our seventh issue of the magazine.
Michael Wareing’s account of the ‘Seeing is Believing’ trip to Bangalore, where business leaders experienced life at first hand, demonstrates the real benefits companies can provide through their CSR policies and activities. Understand, for example, about how the life of the young disabled woman, among others, was transformed firstly by the great work of the Indian NGO and secondly by the implementation of labour standards within Marks and Spencers’ supply chain.
CSR360 has reached its current number of 100 partner organisations from its beginnings 10 years ago. The network which focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has a presence in all the continents of the world and encompasses 60 countries in total.
ARC works as a support organisation for companies and non profit organisation that want to generate impact in the communities they serve. ARC helps businesses to develop strategic corporate community involvement initiatives, focused on benefits both for the company and the community. In the same time, ARC supports NGOs and fundraising professionals to efficiently mobilize local resources from individual and corporate donors.
Some of the main projects and initiatives of ARC are: London Benchmarking Group, People for People Gala, CCI Winter School, the Social Marketplace, the Post Graduate course on fundraising, consultancy services for companies for internalizing CCI mechanisms such as payroll giving schemes, consultancy services for NGOs on fundraising, and research projects to understand the environment for local resource mobilisation.
ARC started its activity in 2001, serving mainly the non profit sector, through in depth training and coaching on fundraising…
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