Author Archives: Instituto Geracao

Collaboration is key to addressing innovation needs in global philanthropy

An extra day making a longer February sounds especially good and prosperous in the Year of the Dragon. I’ve learned a lot during the 2012 Family Philanthropy Conference, organized by the Council of Foundations that took place on 13-15 February … Continue reading

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Who should make the social investment of financial education for the population in emerging countries?

What is the healthy balance between giving poor communities access to services and goods and teaching them not to consume more that they can afford? Who is paying attention to the debt level of the population in fast-growth countries? Several … Continue reading

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What to expect from Brazilian corporate social investments in 2012 – hoping for the best, but shouldn’t we be prepared for the worst?

Trying to analyze corporate social investment in Brazil, Comunitas launched the 2011 report of Benchmarking the Corporate Social Investment (BISC) on 7 December. Figures in the report are related to the 2010 fiscal year and rely on the collaboration of 23 … Continue reading

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The growing role of NGOs in democracies

Everything started with a government financial crisis and quickly became a movement of reform and request for change. I am not talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement nor any other Occupy somewhere else movement, I am talking about the French … Continue reading

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Corporate Social Responsibility: a business mega-trend

The 7th Edition of the Women’s Forum Global Meeting for the Economy and Society (www.womens-forum.com) took place on 13-15 October 2011 in Deauville, France. One of the sessions in the main auditorium captured my attention when I saw that CSR … Continue reading

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