Alcoa joins A Billion + Change campaign increasing skills-based volunteerism
Alcoa has joined ‘A Billion + Change’, a national campaign to mobilise billions of dollars in skills-based and pro bono volunteer services to help build the capacity of non-profit organisations to meet community needs effectively. Alcoa committed to having 10%, or 100,000 of its employee volunteer hours, be skills-based volunteering.
The Aspen Institute announces two-generation approach to move families beyond poverty
The Aspen Institute’s ‘Ascend programme’ released a report announcing a two-generation approach that targets education for both children and their parents, to help families achieve economic security. The new report, Two Generations, One Future, makes the case for focusing on simultaneous educational opportunities for parents and their children as a promising way to move families beyond poverty.
Former executives, bankers arrested over Olympus fraud
Four months after one of Japan’s biggest corporate scandals, police and prosecutors on Thursday arrested seven men, including a former Olympus Corp president and ex-bankers, over their role in a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at the medical equipment and camera maker. Tokyo prosecutors arrested the company’s ex-President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, former Executive Vice President Hisashi Mori and former auditor Hideo Yamada on suspicion of violating the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, officials said.
Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/16/us-olympus-idUSTRE81E22120120216
No 10 too soft on big business, says Camerons ally
David Cameron’s pledge to create a “responsible capitalism” has already run into trouble after an ally complained of a “policy vacuum” inside Downing Street on tackling energy companies, banks and big business. Zac Goldsmith, a former adviser to Mr Cameron, said that banks remained “too big to fail”. He named companies such as BP, Tesco and Costa Coffee as among those wielding too much power. Mr Goldsmith, said that policies were “still being influenced disproportionately by vested interests”.
The Times* p16 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article3321497.ece
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Ethical plan sees The Co-operative Group cut greenhouse emissions by 35%
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