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March/April 2009
March/April 2009

CiCi Awards - Our 4th Anniversary!

Another year has come and gone and we are both proud and excited to present our 4th anniversary edition of the Corporate Investment & Community Impact (CiCi) Awards....and from a personal standpoint, not a moment too soon. I'm exhausted - what a grueling task! After receiving over 1,000 submissions from across the country, we had the difficult mission of narrowing the list down to only 30 winners - 15 for Corporate Investment and 15 for Community Impact.
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Beyond Corporate Citizenship
By: Jane Mather, Ph.D.

With all the talk, and action, on sustainability and corporate social responsibility, you might think that we are finally on the road to averting the climate crisis and achieving other environmental and social goals. Unfortunately not. Consider this quote from Alan Greenspan, head of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006:   “I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interest of organizations, specifically banks and others, was capable of protecting their own shareholders and the equity in the firms.”   more...

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