CSR
The Local Health Authority of Nuoro, in Italy, has conducted a research on customer satisfaction by administering questionnaires to 7000 patients and 1500 employees. The results are positive, especially the quality of nursing service and medical care. Needs to be improved waiting times, duration and queue management, a willingness to [...]
In Italy, it has been recently presented a project of the CSR Manager Network, in collaboration with the National Institute for Statistics, which aims to measure and compare the social and environmental performances of enterprises in view of the creation of national statistical indicators of sustainability. This is a useful [...]
In Italy, the deadline for the participation to the 10th edition of the Sodalitas Social Award has been set at February 29, 2012. This annual award is addressed to companies, business associations, industrial districts and organizations committed in corporate sustainability projects.
In Italy, in 2011, Banca Etica (Ethical Bank) has disbursed loans worth a total of € 540.8 million. With an increase of 23.9% if compared to 2010. Furthermore, the share capital of this particular institution of ethical finance has increased (+14%). A fact that showed once again its resilience to [...]
To promote economic growth according the sustainability and social responsibility principles, entrepreneurships, associations and the Third Sector of Emilia Romagna Region signed a “Pact for smart grow”. A document that puts on top of the agenda topic as: jobs, legality and youth employment.
The new Communication on Corporate Social Responsibility published by the Commission builds a new platform and impetus for CSR in the European Union. It aims to encourage companies to be involved even more in addressing employment and social issues within the Europe 2020 strategy, and is one means of securing [...]
Allocate funds to social activities economically available. For this purpose, the European Commission launched a public consultation on possible measures to support the social business. The target companies will be a hybrid between traditional for-profit companies, and the purely philanthropic ones without any economic component.
In the ranking of the best performing countries in terms of responsible restructuring of the companies, Italy is in the 6 th place. Behind France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Austria. But ahead of Germany and Spain. This means that Italian enterprises have succeeded, better than others, in minimizing the [...]
Interview to Adriano Ruchini, innovative entrepreneur, President and CEO of Minerva (www.minerva.it). He holds an Executive Master of Business Administration from the MIB of Trieste and he is Ambassador of Excellence to EVP for EFQM. From May 2010 he is President of the Commission Energies and Renewable at the Hungarian [...]
The French government bets on the combination of youngster with social economy. The Sarkozy’s executive has decided to invest 1.5 million euros in the Jeun'ESS program to inform new graduates on the third sector's job opportunities, and to encourage them to invest in it. All the 30 years olds are [...]
Corporate social responsibility, Life of families
Different faces of families
GermanyItalySpainUnited Kingdom October 19, 2011
The European single market has not favoured the standardization of the propensity to consume of the households in the Old Continent. Anglo-Saxon families, for example, are more focused on saving. At the point of using, very often, Internet in search of the cheapest prices. While the German ones, while declaring [...]
Corporate social responsibility, Volunteering
Promoting civil responsibility
Germany January 02, 2011
36% of all Germans older than 14 years commit themselves to voluntary work, which are around 23 million people. 10% of them are actively involved in voluntary services within the area of sports and physical activities, followed by ‘children and education services’ (6.9%) and ‘church and religion services’ (6.9%). To [...]
The Local Health Authority of Nuoro, in Italy, has conducted a research on customer satisfaction by administering questionnaires to 7000 patients and 1500 employees. The results are positive, especially the quality of nursing service and medical care. Needs to be improved waiting times, duration and queue management, a willingness to [...]
In Italy, it has been recently presented a project of the CSR Manager Network, in collaboration with the National Institute for Statistics, which aims to measure and compare the social and environmental performances of enterprises in view of the creation of national statistical indicators of sustainability. This is a useful [...]
In Italy, the deadline for the participation to the 10th edition of the Sodalitas Social Award has been set at February 29, 2012. This annual award is addressed to companies, business associations, industrial districts and organizations committed in corporate sustainability projects.
In Italy, in 2011, Banca Etica (Ethical Bank) has disbursed loans worth a total of € 540.8 million. With an increase of 23.9% if compared to 2010. Furthermore, the share capital of this particular institution of ethical finance has increased (+14%). A fact that showed once again its resilience to [...]
To promote economic growth according the sustainability and social responsibility principles, entrepreneurships, associations and the Third Sector of Emilia Romagna Region signed a “Pact for smart grow”. A document that puts on top of the agenda topic as: jobs, legality and youth employment.
Corporate social responsibility, Life of families
Different faces of families
GermanyItalySpainUnited Kingdom October 19, 2011
The European single market has not favoured the standardization of the propensity to consume of the households in the Old Continent. Anglo-Saxon families, for example, are more focused on saving. At the point of using, very often, Internet in search of the cheapest prices. While the German ones, while declaring [...]
Corporate social responsibility, Life of families
Different faces of families
GermanyItalySpainUnited Kingdom October 19, 2011
The European single market has not favoured the standardization of the propensity to consume of the households in the Old Continent. Anglo-Saxon families, for example, are more focused on saving. At the point of using, very often, Internet in search of the cheapest prices. While the German ones, while declaring [...]
Facebook and Twitter now seem to have become essential tools for any company wants to create a buzz on the net. Yet even a tenth of the 500 largest corporations in the world use social networks to make known their corporate social responsibility actions. This is what emerges from a [...]
In recent years, social banks grew by 40%. This is one of the most relevant data emerged during the conference "Ethics and Finance" held in Bologna on 26 May to take stock of the situation in Italy. It is the indication of how investors are increasingly inclined to reward transparency.
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