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"After understanding your goals and the communities your
company touches, lead with your technologies and your know-how. This could be the most powerful of all philanthropic things you
can do."
Key Takeaways:
- Most companies are not familiar with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and yet have the opportunity, through their philanthropic programs, to work with the U.N. on these initiatives to eradicate poverty by 2015. The MDGs are specific metrics that capture efforts like reducing mortality by two-thirds or reducing hunger by half. The MDGs should play a major role for companies organizing their international public policy.
- Poverty is often at its worst in regions where there is little or no multi-national corporate presence. Therefore, giving officers should consider ways in which their companies can individually and collectively assume the global leadership and become goodwill ambassadors in the fight against disease and poverty.
- By leveraging technology and corporate resources beyond the dollar, and cooperating with one another, corporate philanthropists can help provide livelihood for some of the poorest communities in the world. Companies are encouraged to add their individual expertise, knowledge, and assets to address the overall puzzle of social betterment.
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