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Sunshine Coast TAFE certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Sunshine Coast Environment Council award and a national Australian Training Marketing Association award in the last month. "Education of our staff and students was the critical element to our TAFE becoming carbon neutral," said Ross Hepworth, SCT director. ...

Australian and NZ companies increase community giving in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... redirected to support those in more immediate need." According to the report, health received 23% of contributions, education/young people received 20% of contributions and emergency relief jumped from 5% in 2010 to 20% in 2011. Contributions per employee ...

ANZ's employee engagement, net profit increases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... partnered with the Brotherhood of St Laurence since 2002 on the Saver Plus program, which is a matched savings and financial education program to assist people on low incomes to develop savings. Participants set savings goals and receive financial education ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... include Westpac, St. George, Bank of Melbourne, BankSA, RAMS and BT Financial Group continued to focus on financial education and literacy. For example, the Westpac retail group launched the Davidson Institute, an education resource to increase access ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... 2011 and a remuneration module scheduled for February 2012. The group also pointed to its five-year old research and education partnership with Bond University through the Mirvac School of Sustainable Development, which includes a Masters program that ...

CSL, NAB recognised for advancing women in the workplace

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... contribution to "advancing women in the workplace." "CSL Limited opened its Thinking Kids Children's Centre, an early childhood education and care centre at CSL's Parkville site in Victoria, meeting an identified need among its 1800 local employees to ...

Community finance draws eye of institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... providing AU$6m to Social Enterprise Solutions. Foresters is one of two fund managers selected by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to administer the AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). SEDIF ...

New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... us savings in both carbon and cost, but it is also exciting to think what this might mean for the future of customer education and purchasing. In a world where knowledge is power, the GHG Protocol Product Standard gives us and our customers the information ...

Microfinance a source of financial and social return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... evaluates their investments both from the investment worthiness and the impacts they have." See Also: Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

Christian Super allocates $6m to social enterprise fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Community Finance. Foresters' Social Enterprise Solutions brand is one of two fund managers selected by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to administer the AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). ...