CSR Marketplace in Turkey before 19th November, CSR Marketplace in Ukraine

Have just returned from CSR Marketplace in Turkey which accidently and fortunately (:)) coincided with my birthday. Was extremely interesting event, within which 21 Turkish companies, among which were Vodaphone, Avea, Shell, Coca Cola, TEB Bank, etc, presented their CSR projects. Was impressed with companies' 5 years programs on CSR. And imagine, company has been implementing CSR program for 5 years. The winner was Vodaphone. To my opinion, it was mostly charitable project but at CSR Marketplace always the company wins which can present its project. Vodaphone team was capable in presentation. It was really great.

On 19th November first CSR marketplace will be in Ukraine. Now we try to register companies - but it's so difficult, companies or people in them do not want to take extra efforts to promote their companies. So will see which company in Ukraien is doing the most for society on 19th November

CSR-Review.net - new portal about CSR in Ukraine

Centre for CSR Development invites all stakeholders to subscribe to new web-portal RSS - http://www.csr-review.net/
This is the first portal in Ukraine in Russian and English where companies can place their press-releases, find out about key events on CSR in Ukraine and world, and be in line with all CSR trends in the world.

CSR Centre invites companies to participate in CSR Marketplace in Ukraine, first time!

November 19, 2010, Kyiv, «Premier Palace»

Centre for CSR Development within the Project “Development of national CSR agenda” invites  companies to participate in the first in Ukraine exposition of companies’ CSR projects – CSR Marketplace.The objective of this unique initiative is to promote the idea of corporate social responsibility among the companies, employees, local communities and to introduce companies’ projects to general public. Participants will have a possibility to exchange the experience and present their CSR activities. 

According to the international standard ISO 26000, corporate social responsibility – is the company’s responsibility for the impact of its decisions on society and environment through transparent and ethical behavior. More companies in Ukraine implement social and ecological projects, prepare non-financial reports. Therefore, Centre for CSR Development organizes the first CSR Marketplace in Ukraine, focusing on the best European practices. CSR Marketplace in other cpountries has been conducted for several years and positively perceived by both visitors and event participants. 

At CSR Marketplace compnies will present their projects and programs in the spheres of labor relations, development of local communities, environment management and reporting. This event can be interesting for top-managers of the companies, CSR managers, HR managers, PR-managers, internal communicatiosn managers, marketing and environment specialists, other employess, consumers, NGOs, students and teachers at the Universities and business schools.
Besides, the best non-financial reports will be awarded at the evenr and this will happen also, first time in Ukraine!

Registration will last till 01 November 2010. Contacts: phone: (044) 280 11 47 or yakovleva@csr-ukraine.org

Photo is courtesy of Smartkolektiv, Serbia

Role of HR in sustainable development of the company

HR professionals from leading companies in Ukraine met this week to discuss first chapter of the guide "Role HR in the sustainable development of the company". The project is implemented by the Centre for CSR Development under support of the JTI copany. This is a unique initiative in Ukraine because of different reasons:
1. first time CSR Centre raised the issue of the role of HR department in CSR;
2. first time we united companies-leaders for developing guide for other companies;
3. first time we united HR-directors.
The meeting was devoted to developing mission, vision and values of the company, engaging employees in this process and communicating them to employess. The questions which really heated discussions were:
- do we need to engage all employees in developing of company values, mision and vision?
- have corporate values something to do with personal values of an individual?
- is there  a big gap between new Ukrainian companires in Ukraine and old big enterprises from Soviet time?
- what profile of readers will be of this guide?
Updates of the process you could see at this web-site later. We are planning to finalize the Guide by December, but in the meatime 3 other meetings are planned.
More about CSR Centre - http://www.csr-ukraine.org/
More about JTI - http://www.jti.com.ua/
Survey about partnership practices between CSR and HR - http://www.csr-ukraine.org/userfiles/file/GUIDE_2.pdf