Blog Entries tagged 'TIME Magazine'

Why Buy1GIVE1 is Creative Capitalism in Action

louise — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:00:00 +0100

Masami Sato, Founder of Buy1GIVE1™ recently expressed her gratitude for being part of a movement that encourages businesses to get creative with how they do business. The power of gratitude, acting as a key driver for this paradigm shift shou [...]

A Word from Bill - Yes, THE Bill Gates

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:00:00 +0100

You'll be aware of Bill Gates recent departure from Microsoft to focus full-time on giving, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that’s created a lot of media commentary, most recently the front cover of TIME magazine. And we’re so grateful. Because it reminds each one of us that creating effective giving in business and in our life is now a ‘movement’ [...]

Bill Gates and Creative Capitalism - SMART giving

pauldunn — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:00:00 +0100

In TIME Magazine recently, Bill Gates wrote a keynote piece on giving. It's 'required' reading for all of us here at B1G1.

The accompanying diagrams with the article showed how giving 'started' in the 19th century (funnily enough with Cadburys!) and then really picked up in pace since 1960 when people like Dave Packard (of HP fame) were making statements about Corporate Responsibility.

The article also shows how, until now, CSR has been the 'domain&# [...]