BSR Insight Articles About Community Engagement & Development
Making Factory-Based Programs Last: Observations from HERproject in India
Elissa Goldenberg, Associate, Advisory Services
During a recent visit to HERproject programs in Southern India, I saw firsthand the positive impact of workplace-based, peer health education. As discussed in last month's feature on Levi Strauss & Company's new supply chain management strategy, an increasing number of companies are working with their suppliers to implement programs focused on workers' well-being, which typically depend on local NGO support. When that support ends, factories who want to sustain their programs often struggle. Building on lessons from India, companies can take the following steps to ensure the successful continuation of workplace programs: Read more
How Wireless Technology Can Support Social Impact
Marshall Chase, Associate Director, Advisory Services
A new report by BSR and CTIA--the Wireless Association explores opportunities to use wireless services to support health care, financial inclusion, education, and community empowerment. Some of these opportunities include: * Mobile health: Health care workers can reach underserved areas by coordinating medical services, predicting disease outbreaks, and connecting patients to doctors. * Mobile finance: Mobile applications improve access to financial services for many of the 60 million unbanked and under-banked people in the United States and to billions more who live around the world. * Mobile education: Wireless applications encourage "anytime, anywhere" interactive learning. * Community empowerment: Wireless services can increase people's ability to connect with each other, their governments, and other institutions in effective ways. The report also explores the industry's challenges, including ensuring ethical supply chain labor, addressing concerns about privacy and freedom of expression, and providing consumer education about the opportunities and risks of using wireless services. Read more
Survey: Help Shape China’s Nonprofit Sector
Cammie Erickson, Manager, Global Partnership Development
How would you revamp the nonprofit sector in the United States if you could build it from the ground up? What would you do differently? What would you keep the same? BSR's CiYuan initiative would like your input for a survey that will help us shape China's nonprofit sector. At the end of May, BSR's CiYuan will convene several nonprofit leaders in New York to debate what works--and what doesn't--in the U.S. nonprofit sector. We will use ideas from that discussion and this survey to inform CiYuan's work to strengthen civil society and cross-sector partnerships in China. Share your ideas through our survey. For additional context, read Taproot Foundation President and Founder Aaron Hurst's HuffingtonPost.com blog. Read more
Using CSR to Grow Locally, Mind the Talent Gap
At a time when global economies are sputtering, sustainability is a key issue for global business leaders, according to the 15th Annual Global CEO Survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read more
Facing the Dilemmas of Sustainable Development
Charlotte Bancilhon, Associate, Advisory Services
At the first of BSR’s “Great Debates”—an event series held in our Paris office to help celebrate BSR’s 20-year anniversary—Sodexo CEO Michel Landel and Ashoka France CEO Arnaud Mourot discussed how companies and their stakeholders can identify innovative sustainable solutions together through collective thinking. Read more
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