Posts Tagged ‘CSV’

Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value: Winner to be announced on 27 May

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

The first edition of the Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value was a great success with more than 500 applications received from all over the world. Thank you to all participants for sending us their project applications!

Applications received represented a broad range of approaches to problems of nutrition, water, or rural development. Examples of projects included innovative solutions for improving access to and management of water, for improving the lives of farmers and rural communities, or delivering high nutritional value to populations suffering from nutritional deficiencies.

The Nestlé Prize Screening Committee selected the best applications from the pool of entries and the Nestlé Advisory Board on Creating Shared Value will choose the Nestlé Prize Laureate. Mark your calendar: the winner will be announced on 27 May, 2010!

The Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value seeks to recognize successes in the areas of nutrition, water, and rural development. More information about the Prize can be found on http://www.nestle.com/CSV/CSVatNestle/CsvPrize/About.htm.

Nestlé will commit to the Prize winner an investment of up to CHF 500,000 for a specified period of time, to assist in the development and scale-up of the innovation.

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Nestlé Malaysia Participates Actively at CSR Asia Summit 2009

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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The seventh CSR Asia Summit was held in Kuala Lumpur on 27 and 28 October 2009 and aimed to be the most innovative and challenging conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Asia-Pacific region. The participants were reminded that amidst the global economic crisis, CSR is more important than ever. With the theme “Sustainable Business as the Road to Recovery”, the event was attended by more than 300 delegates from all over Asia. It explored key CSR issues and strategies to demonstrate leadership in times of turbulence. Nestlé Malaysia was an active participant in the Summit, featuring exhibits to introduce Nestlé’s concept of CSR, which is Creating Shared Value (CSV). The booth showcased both local and global CSV initiatives, as well as Nestlé Malaysia’s reporting initiatives.

Nestlé’s CSV initiatives in Nutrition, Water and Rural Development were highlighted as exhibits as well as via a video. Apart from the breakout sessions, roundtables, training and stakeholder sessions were also organised for the delegates. The topics were mainly focused on Asia and brought new insights for businesses, governments, NGOs and other CSR practitioners.

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Developing micro-businesses: ice cream street selling

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

The ice cream street selling business gives people the opportunity to develop their own business and helps small and medium scale entrepreneurs to become micro-distributors. While Nestlé invests in freezers, vending carts and motorbikes, the micro-distributors provide capital for buying the products which the NESTLÉ Ice Cream vendors sell.

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Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value: Call for Nutrition Projects

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

The Nomination Period for the Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value will close on October 31st and we would welcome applications in the field of nutrition, so do not hesitate to nominate worthy projects or encourage self-nominations!

Examples of nutrition entries could be found in the fields of food science and technology, fortification, nutrition education and healthy lifestyles programmes, or other initiatives aimed at fighting malnutrition. The nomination form is available here.

The Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value seeks to encourage and reward innovative approaches to the problems of nutrition, water, or rural development. Information on how to participate can be found on http://www.nestle.com/CSV/CSVatNestle/CsvPrize/About.htm

We have already received many great nominations from all over the world. Most projects nominated so far seek to improve access to and management of water or improve the lives of farmers and rural communities.

Nestlé will commit to the Prize winner an investment of up to CHF 500,000 for a specified period of time, to assist in the development and scale-up of the innovation.

You can also help us spread the word about the Nestlé Prize by talking about it on your blog, Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn or by sending the Nestlé Prize flyer (attached below) to your local charity, NGO or community group.

Creating Shared Value Prize Brochure (PDF)

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Harvard Business School Offers Executive Education Program on Corporate Social Responsibility

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Make note of this upcoming seminar at Harvard Business School. Called Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategies to Create Business and Social Value the program is designed to help executives align corporate social responsibility with business strategy and successfully manage through the downturn. Now in its fifth year, this annual Executive Education offering will be held November 4 to 7, 2009, on the HBS campus in Boston. Click here for more information or to apply online. Early application is encouraged

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If We Ran the World

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Consultant Cindy Gallop, former chairman of BBH, New York, is working to establish her vision for a new corporate-social-responsibility model through IfWeRanTheWorld.com, launching this fall. Here, she discusses her plans to transform CSR as it exists today. Her premise is quite similar to Creating Shared Value – that there is “an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives — to do good and make money simultaneously.”

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Netizens driving firms’ social responsibility

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Note this interesting study from ZDNet Asia about how online communities are making a bigger impact on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the Asia-Pacific region. According to CSR Asia’s The Future of CSR: 2009 Report, the Internet and online community emerged No. 10 on the list of factors driving CSR agendas, marking the first time the category is listed in the report. The biggest CSR influencer in the region are local governments, followed by stock exchanges, securities regulators and institutions tasked with tackling health and safety.

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