Archives: 2013

        More than two thirds of chief executives – 67 percent – believe that business is not doing enough to address global sustainability challenges, according to a survey by the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Amid evidence that CEOs are strongly committed to embedding sustainability throughout their organizations, the

The Schools’ Business Partnership (SBP) is a flagship educational inclusion programme of Business in the Community. The initiative aim to positively impact on educational inclusion in Ireland by facilitating a partnership between schoolS and large local businesses. SBP have a suite of five programmes for post primary students and a reading enhancement programme at primary level. SBP has grown

A young woman from Listowel, Co Kerry, Eimear Donovan, has been named as the winner of the Intel sponsored top prize which was up for grabs for one of the young entrants who voted for one of the shortlisted candidates as part of ‘Ireland’s Greatest Woman Inventor’ competition which leading technology website Silicon Republic , has been

  Did you know that Ireland’s butterfly population halved in recent times? Or that Irish Beekeepers are routinely experiencing annual colony loss of over a third? It’s no secret that nowadays bees and other pollinators are increasingly threatened. It may surprise you that urban businesses and residents are ideally placed to help them out with

A total of €290,000 has been awarded to 25 community-based organisations (17 via our our sister organisation The Community Foundation for Ireland) across the island of Ireland as part of the Ulster Bank Community Impact Fund. One such recipient was Foróige who work with almost 60,000 young people aged 10-18 each year through volunteer-led clubs

The award for best long-term partnership went to DAA and the Dublin Theatre Festival for DAA’s sponsorship of the festival since 2007, and specifically for its Dubliners@DublinAirport campaign, which highlighted the festival’s 2012 production of James Joyce’s Dubliners. The award was accepted on DAA’s behalf by Public Affairs Director Paul O’Kane and Dublin Theatre Festival

  The countdown has begun to the launch of the fourth annual Better Together Video Competition on 24 September. The Wheel has introduced a new category for businesses. Companies are invited to submit a 2 minute video about their community/charity partnerships. Don’t miss this opportunity to profile your strategic community programmes to the public. If

Ulster Bank has very recently launched a new MoneySense resource, MoneySense at Home, developed to support parents in engaging their children on money issues. The site is free, aimed at giving practical guidance to parents and families on money issues. It’s an extension of, and signposts parents to, the bank’s existing MoneySense for School’s site

Time and money are under pressure today and that’s true for companies as well as individuals. Despite this, many people continue to offer much needed support for charities and local community organisations and schools.

In early August, Barry Slattery and Anna Walshe from the National Council on Curriculum and Assessment outlined developments in the Leaving Certificate and the Junior Certificate science curricula. A number of opportunities for companies were evident.

Our friends in Business in the Community UK spoke to Margot Slattery , Managing Director Ireland and Northern Ireland, Sodexo

One of the issues that we in Business in the Community Ireland most frequently address with our member companies is how best to engage the hearts and minds of employees and internal stakeholders in CSR programmes.

      Now in its 7th year, the Business in the Community Ireland annual flagship Responsible Business Week is taking place from the 14th to the 18th of October with our flagship CEO Breakfast Forum taking place on the 17th October. Responsible Business Week is aimed at generating awereness around responsible and sustainable business

Coillte is pleased to announce that the company has won the Millicom Award for Environmental & Corporate Sustainability at the European Business Awards ceremony, held on Thursday 6th June, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. Speaking at the ceremony Gerry Britchfield, Acting Chief Executive of Coillte said: “We are delighted to win this award and to be

One of the key trends in CSR is how Europe is looking at the reporting of non-financial information. There is a concerted effort to show how CSR practices underpin the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

Driving Innovation through Sustainable Procurement in the Services Sector was the theme of the June 12 Workshop for Members of the BITCI Responsible Business Network, led by Senior Consultant, Darina Eades.

For the last eight years, ESB has been working with the students and staff of Rosmini Community School, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 through the Skills at Work Programme and more recently, through one-to-one mentoring of 5th and 6th year students. Engagement with Rosmini, and six other schools throughout the country, has been facilitated by Business in the Community Ireland’s Schools Business Partnership

20 June 2013: New Programme Supports Literacy Skills of Primary School Children Abbott, Longford, has partnered with St. Michael’s Boys National School, Longford, on the Schools Business Partnership, Time to Read Programme. The Time to Read programme is Ireland’s first business to education reading initiative. The programme, run by Business in the Community Ireland, partners

The Schools’ Business Partnership Newsletter In this issue: Team Building with Alkermes & St. Aloysius College Diary of …. A Student 2013 Annual Mentoring Celebrations Students from Coláiste an Chraoibhin suit up for interviews with Laya Healthcare  

Business in the Community recently held a diversity and inclusion breakfast on gender equality in Cork which was co-hosted by our members Sodexo and Bord Gáis Networks. The event provided a forum in which ways to tackle unconscious bias in the workplace could be shared in an open, informal and collaborative format with other companies

Dublin: Monday, 22nd April 2013; Socialcomputing.ie which is being launched today is a free website to assist people new to the internet. The website, a collaboration between a number of not for profit organisations and IBM Ireland, provides an easy to use index of popular Irish sites, such as newspapers, online banking and TV channels to