Saving The World at Work

Ghana Association of Women Entrepreneurs

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:38:18 -0700

I'm so glad to work in the association/nonprofit sector. Over the past 14 years, I've had the opportunity to meet and work with so many wonderful people from all over the world. One of the first people I met on this journey was my colleague, my board member and my friend, Liz Jackson. Now that she's left the full-time work world, she focu...

Global Principles for Socially Responsible Associations and Nonprofits

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:03:48 -0700

ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership members represent more than 287,000,000 people in every industry, profession and social cause in the world.Our 2008 Global Summit on Social Responsiblity brought together some 800+ stakeholders from 19 locations around the global to plan a social responsiblity agenda for the future of the association profession. One of the major outcomes from the...

Using Product Teardowns to Save Green and Be Green

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:02:33 -0700

Product teardowns are often a good idea when trying to cut costs in manufacturing, finding innovative ways to add value to an existing product without adding to the product's cost, or general ways of improving margin. Let's take greening your product line for example. Many consumers see the benefits of being green, however, due to the severe economic downturn, few people are willing...

Saving Energy Costs Money in Missouri

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:47:57 -0700

If you live in Missouri and are interested in conserving energy in order to save money, be ready to be charged to save. The new fee is effectively for advertising efforts to promote energy conservation. The argument is that the energy companies will charge you less to save than if they had to charge you for building a new power plant. While on some levels this argument makes sense, it...

From Green to Budget

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:12:05 -0700

According to the Guardian, many UK shoppers are switching to budget products in an effort to cut costs in this recession. In looking at sustainable and eco-friendly products, the price premium for such products needs to change in order to gain and maintain mass market adoption. This is evidenced by consumer opinion and decreased sales: British consumers who in the past were willin...

Innovative Ideas on Creating Strategic Community Partnerships: For Business

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:06:15 -0700

The popularity of Employee Volunteer Programs is on the rise. This year, charitable donations from corporations are trending to fall by as much as fifty percent. To make up the difference, businesses are looking to their employees to provide tactile connections with the communities in which they operate. In providing assets to non-profits such as enthusiastic participants, key skill sets, and ...

Why Volunteers Don’t Come Back

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:10:44 -0700

Nonprofits tend to see volunteers as necessary, but not strategic. Attitudes towards volunteerism are simplistic and out of date. The result? A loss of 1.9 billion hours of labor year to year. Corporate Volunteer programs can remedy all that."I'm Bored... What's on TV?"You know that word association game? The one where you say the first word that comes to ...

Just say NO!

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:44:46 -0700

Many stores waste TOO much paper every year by automatically giving customers receipts (supermarkets and drug stores come to mind). They could just give people the option of not printing the often unnecessary receipts. If you're interested in "going green" and doing your part for the environment banks like Chase have made it a lot easier for you. The next time you're at a...

How Do You Serve?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:10:32 -0700

Shannon Schuyler, US managing director of Corporate Responsibility, for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), will be guest blogging over the next week from San Francisco at the National Conference for Service and Volunteering. How do you serve? Michelle Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Nancy Pelosi, Arianna Huffington, and Bon Jovi all told us how they serve yesterday at the National Co...

Volunteering and Service in America: Four National Themes

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:10:18 -0700

Realized Worth was unable to make it to the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in San Francisco last week, and for awhile we were seriously bummed about missing out on one of the most important volunteerism conferences happening this year. But then, we realized that given the live webcasts, blogs, and twitter it turns our we just might be able to keep up with what’s going o...

Get Rewarded for Recycling

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:25:12 -0700

A friend sent me a link a while back to an interesting company called RecycleBank. RecycleBank is essentially a rewards program for recycling. You recycle all your recyclable material, recyclables are tracked via an ID tag, and RecycleBank awards you points for how much you recycle. These points are then redeemable for rewards at participating stores like CVS, Target, Bed Bath and Beyo...

Why You Should Delay Your Computer Purchase

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:24:51 -0700

Due to the severity of today's economic downturn, more businesses and individuals have been cutting costs to survive the recession. One area where I think many are saving and many more could be saving is to delay your technology purchases. This is obviously not very good if you are a PC maker, but for consumers of technology products, this could be huge savings for you. There are ...

Its Not Just Trees

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:57:10 -0700

It is important that we try as we might to save trees. However, its not just the trees we need to worry about. We need to take a long hard look at what we are doing to the water we drink and the air we breathe. We all need to adapt a healthy love for our home world and we all need to do our part in finding ways to conserve and to pollute less. The thing that we all need to understand is that...