Other News
UN MDG Update
Monday, 19 July, 2010
Mixed 2010 report card on anti-poverty goals highlights challenges ahead for September Summit The economic crisis took a heavy toll on jobs and incomes around the world, but its impact does not threaten achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of cutting the rate of extreme poverty in half by ...
KOTO Anniversary
ABV client KOTO celebrates its 10th year
Thursday, 24 June, 2010
From making sandwiches to changing lives First published in The Australian 23 June 2010. Words by Gary Evans. JIMMY Pham ran a street-side sandwich shop in 1999 on one of the busiest streets in Hanoi. Every day he saw dozens of disadvantaged and poor street kids, recognised their plight and resolved to do ...
Corporate Social Responsibility: International Corporate Volunteering Workshop
Learning from the practitioners
Thursday, 10 June, 2010
Learning from the practitioners The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) movement is drawing considerably more interest from the world’s leading corporations. Many of these corporations are showing that international corporate volunteering (ICV) is an effective way to move beyond the old philanthropic model, ...
PEDSS Appointment
ABV-SECC Project
Thursday, 18 March, 2010
The Provision of Experts for Development of the Securities Sector (PEDSS) project involves ABV volunteers providing advice to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia with respect to reviewing and drafting securities regulations. This work is in preparation for the launch of Cambodia’s first stock ...
Building Leaders
Tuesday, 2 February, 2010
To help prepare promising leaders for the future, top companies are forcing their employees to take on new (global) risks. By Geoff Colvin, Fortune Magazine For John Tolva, IBM's Chicago-based director of citizenship and technology, the value of his four-week assignment to Ghana last year really hit him during a ...
Altruism Recognised
Gossip
Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Mr. David Moore OAM and ABV CEO Mr. Michael Lynch proudly presented volunteers Suzanna Edwards & Peter Stanbury with the 2009 ABV Altruism Award. The Altruism Award recognises the efforts of the Volunteer who has best embodied the core value of altruism during the past 12 months. Suzanna & Peter ...