Social Responsibility « ZOË Alliance

Announcing New Partnership in Ottawa!

INTRODUCING…EQUITAS!

Every day at ZOË seems to bring exciting new developments! Today we have the privilege of introducing you to Grow. Grow is a social enterprise in Ottawa, Canada that provides training and employment opportunities for adults with disabilities.

Two of their projects include wood and pottery shops, and we are delighted that the teams working in [...]

How We Define Ourselves and Others

Recently, I’ve come to a greater appreciation for the importance of how we define ourselves and others. It was all triggered by the new partnership we just launched in Ottawa with Grow, a social enterprise that employs adults with disabilities in various services and product based initiatives.

Launching the product was easy and went live on [...]

Face to Face with Wilma & the Power of Our Gift Choices

This week we follow the storyline of impact created by a simple decision. A small decision that didn’t take much time for one person however substantially improved the life of another and her entire family.

It all began with a large financial services client who was planning a fall conference for their associates. Like many of [...]

Is ZOË Alliance Socially Responsible?

Social Responsibility covers a very broad range of potential action in our businesses and personally. At ZOË, social responsibility is at the core of our business, we enable people to have impact in one small, but powerful, area – leveraging existing promotional & gift budgets for sustainable change. While we are only 3 years old, [...]

What CEO's are Saying About Sustainability

The UN Global Compact has 766 corporate members globally who are committed to sustainability and responsible business practices. The June 2010 CEO Study released by Accenture outlines had some interesting highlights to share in terms of CEO opinions. Some of the top ones were:

93% of CEOs believe that sustainability issues will be critical to [...]

Scaling Up - Increasing Village Impact

Exciting days are ahead and we thought it would be fun to give you a glimpse into our future. In the past months we have been working alongside some great colleagues in international development to document our development model for rural villages and to articulate the framework to measure the true societal impact.

The challenges we [...]

Are Promotional Products Effective...Wasteful?

It’s summer and our minds have turned to backyard barbeques, the cottage, family vacations, and hopefully a more relaxed pace of life. At work we usually enjoy a bit of a reprieve in our schedule, lunches on patios with colleagues, or business meetings on the golf course.

If you are in the [...]

Responsible Purchasing - #1 on Employee CSR Radar

This year Hewitt Associates and Canadian Business for Social Responsibility partnered in a study that encompassed over 2,000 leaders from more than 230 workplaces.

The objective – to discern if there is a linkage between CSR and employee engagement. They studied the 2010 Best Employers in Canada and Best Small to Medium Employers in Canada. We [...]

Q&A with ZOË Advisory Board Member Stephen Barry on CSR

ZOË Alliance is privileged to have an advisory board comprised of experienced and supportive professionals with a broad range

Stephen Barry – overseeing international operations is China, India, and Pakistan as part of a 50 year textiles business in Canada.

of expertise. Today’s blog is a Q&A with one of our advisors Stephen Barry. Stephen is [...]

Meet Lilly

Recently, I’ve been working on an exciting initiative in Guatemala with CH Global. CH Global has been working in an impoverished rural community called Lake Amatitlàn, Guatemala for several years. They are a great organization that specifically focuses on enabling people with disabilities who are often marginalized in developing nations and experience close to 100% [...]

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