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Greenpeace Found “Not Guilty”

09:22 on 06/10/08

Six Greenpeace climate change campaigners have been found “not guilty” as a jury legitimized their actions. The activists had been accused of causing £30,000 of criminal damage to the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station when, late last year, they scaled the……

Employer-Supported Volunteering

16:12 on 03/10/08

A recent Ethical Corporation report has examined the evolving nature of relationships between the business and voluntary sectors. According to the report, these relationships are no longer about uni-directional requests for and donations of money and time, but about creating partnerships……

Is Community Investment Being Left Behind?

15:11 on 03/10/08

Ethical Corporation’s new special report on community investment starts by asking whether the practice has fallen off the list of priorities for corporate responsibility planners. The article, by Good Business CEO Giles Gibbons, tracks the evolution of corporate responsibility from feel-good window……

Skype headed for 13 million customers a minute. And global meltdown.

09:53 on 02/10/08

Skype has achieved a milestone of 1 billion software downloads. Awesome. According to Josh Silverman the first half billion took 3 and a bit years; the second half billion just 19 months… Assuming this acceleration trend continues, everyone in the world will have……

Collaborating on Corporate Philanthropy

15:59 on 01/10/08

An article in today’s Financial Times looks at how the United Nations is encouraging companies to partner with them in delivering on their CSR agendas. The broad appeal of the UN is two-fold: firstly, its wide variety of programmes allow companies to……