EBBF Profile: Shervin Setareh, NGO-Business Partnerships and the Real CSR
“Let’s not think about staying in the same company, making the same things, and just working more ethically. We are currently producing widgets, nuts, bolts—but are we really producing the things that are really useful in this world?”
“We are finding that when [business and NGOs] work together a kind of symbiosis is created, wherein each part benefits from the other’s expertise and vision.”
“We have to shift from ‘Where can we make profit?’ to ‘Where can we serve AND make a profit?’”
In this interview Shervin Setareh shares his experience working on bringing together NGOs and business to enhance each other’s work, and on rethinking the very aims of business.
Flash News:
News of EBBF's presentations at the United Nations on "Gender Diversity Opportunities" and your own opportunity to take part in EBBF's European Parliament presentation on Social Entrepreneurship and the "Living Values" EBBF weekend 5-7th June near Rome or if you happen to be there, the Canadian Annual ConferenceRead More >>
EBBF Profile: Victoria Thoresen, Educating Civic Consumers
“An aware citizen will be able to provide accurate information to business about what society really needs.” “Education is a way of both helping people to gain knowledge and to build an understanding of their own values. Also, education helps them find ways to put those values into action.”
In this interview, teacher trainer Victoria Thoresen talks about her work with “consumer citizenship education”, the values behind it, and about the importance for business of having consumers who integrate their own values with their pocketbook.
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News and Cluster Activities
Highlights of EBBF activities around the world.
EU News Column
Our EBBF representative to European Union Institutions, Daniel Schaubacher, compiles highlights from Brussels.
Video Reviews
Richard Barrett, long time EBBF friend and member, is the second person offering his views on values based leadership in this interesting video.
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Warm Welcome to New Members
Profiles and welcome to the most recent individuals to join EBBF, with the opportunity to browse the entire list of EBBF profiles or to join EBBF.
Words of Wisdom
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken," 1920
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