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Disaster Preparedness Information (Red Cross)
This page on the American Red Cross website provides information and advice for families about how to prepare for and cope in emergency situations. A key goal is to serve the needs of vulnerable people such as the elderly and people with disabilities.
Worldwide embassy information
These websites provide information about embassies and consulates in different countries around the world.
Directory & Search Engine Of The World's Embassies & Consulates
This website provides contact details of embassies and consulates around the world, and allows these embassies to be sorted by host country, or by the nation represented.
Accord Interagency Gifts in Kind Standards
Accord Gifts in Kind Standards govern US-based member organisations' Gifts in Kind (GIK) activity.
Human trafficking and business: An E-learning course on how to prevent and combat human trafficking
The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) and the End Human Trafficking Now! Campaign (EHTN!) have developed an eLearning course which is a modular training programme for business leaders, managers and employees of business companies.
The big idea: Creating Shared Value
How to reinvent capitalism - and unleash a wave of innovation and growth.
Meeting the Challenge of Expanding Inclusive Business
Most people interested in inclusive business have heard the success stories: Coca-Cola has generated $550 million in additional revenues by integrating local entrepreneurs into their beverage distribution chain in markets across Africa. Vodafone – one of the world’s largest telecommunications firm...
Inclusive Business in Latin America - Inclusive Business offers a 21st Century solution to the intractable problem of poverty in Latin America
Neil Ghosh, head of the Washington office for SNV, the Netherlands Development Organization, focuses on inclusive business models in Latin America in this article. It was published by the Latin Business Chronicle.
The MDGs: Everyone’s Business
The MDGs: Everyone’s Business is a new report from UNDP’s Growing Inclusive Markets (GIM) Initiative covering 40 case studies and over 140 supporting institutions referenced by specific MDGs, released on 21 September 2010 in the framework of the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development...
The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility
This article by Aneel Karnani argues that the idea that companies have a duty to address social ills is not just flawed, but also makes it more likely that we'll ignore the real solutions to the problems at hand.