Social Responsibility - Social Business
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
14 September 2011. New research released by Social Enterprise UK has uncovered an emerging generation of businesses that are both starting up and operating in Britain’s most deprived communities.
Access to finance is “largest barrier” to sustainability of UK Social Enterprises | cdfa
Start-up business funding & angel investment from business angels & angel investors
If you would like to invest in a growth business or become part of an Angel Club and see good quality, pre-screened, scalable business, you have come to the right place.
The Malegam Committee’s (referred to hereinafter as the “Committee”) recommendations to increase the supervisory capacity of the RBI, to make MFI regulation consistent at the national level, to promote good corporate governance and to increase bank lending to MFIs are welcome. At the same time, many of the tactical and operational prescriptions made by the Committee require to be examined in the context of (a) broadening the RBI’s financial inclusion agenda, (b) regulatory approaches to pursuing this agenda (c) operationalising the recommendations in an effective and inclusive manner and (d) ensuring sustainable development and orderly growth of the industry by limiting externalities and developing a series of best practices.
Regulating Microfinance in India: IFMR Trust’s feedback on the Malegam Committee’s report
SOCAP
Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, describes an interesting, pseudo-cooperative model for sharing the resources of smaller community banks with the goal of making them more viable lenders to middle market companies and less dependent on real estate.Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)
Corporate social responsibility plays an important role at banks and financial service companies, which are not only recipients but also increasingly purveyors of socially responsible investment. SocialFunds.com -- The two leading global socially responsible investment (SRI) index providers, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes ( DJSI ) and FTSE4Good , announced results of their annual reviews yesterday and today, and will reconstitute their indexes over the next weeks. High-profile names stud the DJSI lists, with McDonald's (ticker: MCD ), Daimler-Chrysler ( DCX ), IBM ( IBM ), Colgate-Palmolive ( CL ), and Abbott Laboratories ( ABT ) amongst the 57 additions and Dow ( DOW ), Alcoa ( AA ), Fannie Mae ( FNM ), HJ Heinz ( HNZ ), Home Depot ( HD ), Mattel ( MAT ), and VW ( VOW ) amongst the 54 deletions.
In March, 2006, the College of Business announced the creation of the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society. The mission of the inter-disciplinary Center is to develop a national vision that articulates societal expectations of a professional's responsibility and accountability at both the individual and organizational level.
