How to strengthen NGOs working with CSR

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How to strengthen NGOs working with CSR?
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• Cooperate with companies
• Get in touch with international NGOs
• Cooperate with other NGOs in your country
• Cooperate with media
• Organize trainings, conferences educate
  yourself
• Be confident

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1. Cooperate with companies

• Build good relationship with wide range of
  companies
• If parent company is involved in CSR, try to
  encourage the subsidiary to get involved, too
• Prepare a list of possibilities on how companies
  can contribute to sustainable development

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2. Get in touch with international NGOs

• Learn new stuff, get more experienced
• Get involved in international projects
• Invite people from foreign NGOs to your country
  and visit them share knowledge and experience

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3. Cooperate with other NGOs in your country

• Consider other NGOs in your country as partners,
  not as competitors (you are trying to reach the
  same goal)
• Join forces to influence companies

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4. Cooperate with media

• Keep your outputs consistent, use the same
  vocabulary
• Involve journalists into projects
• Convince a newspaper / magazine to regularly
  publish information about CSR
• Help them with content!!!

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5. Organize trainings, conferences

• Invite speakers from abroad to see different
  views on the topic
• Create interesting program to attract managers
  from companies
• Educate yourself

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6. Be confident

• Corporate social responsibility importance is
  going to grow
• Companies need partners in NGO sector to help
  them focus their activities and funds

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How do we achieve our goals?

• Cooperation with companies (regranting
  programmes)
• Organization of educational and CSR-promoting
  events
• Via Bona Slovakia Award
• Business Leaders Forum administration
• London Benchmarking Group
• Engage Employee volunteering programme
• Surveys and publications
• Cooperation with international NGOs BLF
  International, CSR Europe, Business in the
  Community, Global Reporting Initiative, UNDP
  Global Compact

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• Thank you!
• michal.kissa_at_pontisfoundation.sk
• www.pontisfoundaton.sk