The Canadian red cross is a very successful NGO and helped millions of people throughout the years, including the Pakistani refugees in India, victims of the Guatemala earthquake that killed 22,000, the Southeast Asia refugees and victims of war in 1970. In 1998, In September the Canadian Red Cross helped the Chinese Sister Society’s after 14 million people were left homeless due to catastrophic flooding of 29 provinces in China. Canadians donated more than $1 million to help the relief efforts. In the winter of 1998 an unprecedented ice storm hit southern Quebec, eastern Ontario, and parts of Atlantic Canada. Over 3,000 Red Cross volunteers hurried to rescue and relief efforts.
Oxfam is an international organisation meaning it spreads across the world. Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organisations working in more than 90 countries worldwide to find lasting solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world. In all Oxfam’s actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives. Oxfam works directly with communities and seeks to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them. Each organization works together internationally to achieve a greater impact through collective efforts.
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE® 50 company that serves approximately 15 million customers a week at more than 1,750 home improvement stores in the United States, Canada and Mexico (Lowe's Companies, Inc, 2011). Lowe’s offer several different incentives to shop which lures customer to the home improvement retail center. These incentives, such as the “My Lowe’s” program, price matching, the Lowe’s Consumer Credit Card and their own durable, long-lasting and cost effective products. INTRODUCTION Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE® 50 company that serves approximately 15 million customers a week at more than 1,750 home improvement stores in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Lowe’s is an American chain of retail home improvement and appliances.
P1 Oxfam Oxfam is a charity organisation that works for no profit, Oxfam was founded in 1942 in Oxfordshire during World War 2 and they are an international charity which includes 17 organisations who work with them. Oxfam is a global organisation which work with approximately 98 countries one of the main reasons of this organisation to get started was because in between the World War 2 there was a lot of destruction so a committee got together and built a service which will provide for the people in need. Oxfam is an international business right now but it wasn’t always international, Oxfam was formed internationally in 1995 by a group of independent people it was a non-governmental organisation. Their major aim to work with in the international
“Singer Solution to World Poverty” Interpretive Summary In the excerpt from “The Singer solution to World Poverty,” by Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, he reveals to the audience of The New York Times Sunday Magazine,, that further aid (in the form of donations and money,) needs to be sent to the places of the world who are in dire need of food and medical support. Singer implies this implication with the use of statistics and moral values to draw the reasoning for his argument (his main idea of the text,) which is a simple formula that states, whatever money we are not spending on luxuries, not necessities, should be given away. The compelling phrases that Singer uses such as, “…it is much easier to ignore an appeal for money to help children that you will never meet,” and “If you still think it was wrong for Bob not to flip the switch that would’ve diverted the train to save a child’s life, then it is hard to see how you could deny that it is also very wrong to not send money to the organizations listed above,” helps Singer insinuate that we are immoral if we do not aid these helpless children. Singer indicates that an average American family with the income of 50,000 spends 30,000 on necessities, which leaves 20,000 left over, which as he states “donations to help the world poor should be as close to 20,000$ as possible.” Here, Singer argues that we the people are more concerned with luxuries and getting the newest, bigger and better version, than we are with helping an aidless child get through the most important years of their lives. Singer assumes that we are more concerned with possessions than we are with supporting a child.
There are more than 700K system associates, more than 3500 products, 250 bottling partners and 900 plants worldwide (The Coca-Cola Company, 2014). The company also has more than 23 million retail customer outlets (The Coca-Cola Company, 2014). Coca-cola believes that to continue to thrive over the next ten years and beyond, they must look ahead, understand the trends and forces that will shape the organization and prepare for the changes to come. Their mission statement is to refresh the world, to inspire moments of optimism and happiness, and to create values and make a difference. Their vision is to bring the world
Main Body Path And The Safe Water Project funded by the Bill and Milanda Gates Foundation, was awarded a $17 million dollar grant to evaluate how a market-base approach could help accelerate a widespread adoption use of household water treatment and safe storage. The main objective was to spread their products towards different countries and target the middle and low income populations. Their main focus was to target countries that were using unimproved water sources for drinking. The Safe Water Project team primary objective is to conduct different sales strategy, such as door-to-door sales, salespeople on bicycles, a sales force of part-time students, sales through government health station, with microfinance institutions, a retail sales model and including safewater products through a basket of goods approach. Path And The Safe Water Project objective was to target countries such as India, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Kenya that were using unimproved water sources heavely for drinking, the main goal is to improve access to safe water through Innovative Sales and Distribution Models.
This document is an excerpt of the very beginning of the book entitled Self Help and written by Samuel Smiles in 1859. Samuel Smiles was born in a family of a papermaker and shopkeeper, he had a medical degree, and worked as a journalist in Leeds, and then in the railroad industry. He wrote many works and achieved his worldwide fame through books on morality and personal behaviour. He published Self Help in 1859, the same year Darwin published Origin of the Species. While Darwin demonstrates how closer adaptation to environment refines life, Smiles advocates self-help and the spirit of personal responsibility as a source of advances and improvement.
There are 55,000 social enterprises in UK and the list is growing every day (Appendix A). These enterprises are diverse and range from small community-owned shops to large enterprises. These enterprises in UK alone generate more than £27 billion turnover and their contribution to GDP is around £8 billion a year (Social Enterprise Action Plan – Scaling New Heights HMSO 2006). A widely accepted definition of social enterprise in UK is “A social enterprise is a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximize profit for shareholders and owners” (DTi, 2002). From this definition above, it is clear that a social enterprise is an organization that carries its operations as a business entity but instead of measuring only fiscal performance (profit or loss) they add another bottom line that also measures their performance in terms of positive social impact.
In the end, the organizations themselves are responsible for the way their employees are affected by this epidemic. Certain measures should be taken to ensure employee well being, while also maintaining the corporate goals of a profitable company. There is one thing that is shared among all employees throughout the world. No matter the country, the industry, or even level of responsibility, stress has been and always will be an influential force within organizations across the globe. There are many theories of what causes stress and techniques that can be employed to try and lessen the effects of stress.