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Thursday Feb 09, 2006
Should shout out about good work
Sir Digby Jones, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry, spoke recently at the Charities Aid Foundation about the good work - and the good intentions - of many businesses engaging with the public sector and, increasingly, charities. A similar extract in the Guardian.
"Business does understand its responsibility to society. When engaging in CSR it is often suspected of having an eye solely on profit, but so often the motivation is simply that it is the right thing to do."
No suspicion here, I'm never cynical! He further argues that it's the job of the voluntary sector, long an effective counterpart to the "nanny state" the public sector encapsulates, to welcome in private industry.
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