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Working and Learning Online During a Pandemic

In this uncertain environment we’re facing during the COVID19 pandemic, it’s important that learning continues, even if it can’t happen in person. Pearson, the world’s learning company, is committed to providing access to expert faculty, best practices, and other online learning resources for people who are studying, teaching, or working remotely. 
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Protecting the Most Vulnerable: A Business Response Framework

In this paper, we set out a COVID-19 Response Framework for how businesses can support the most vulnerable. The framework builds on the excellent analytical work that has already been done in the last couple of weeks by McKinsey, the World Economic Forum, and others, and draws on the experience of our own two organizations and the companies we work with.
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Is your company working to advance the Sustainable Development Goals?

Is your company working to advance the Sustainable Development Goals? Does your organization transform lives and markets with sustainable solutions to development challenges? If so, we want to hear from you.
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How Can We Measure, Manage and Get the Most From Our Social Impact?

Join us for a live written discussion with a panel of experts to discuss how businesses can measure, manage and get the most from their social impact. Live Panel taking place on Thursday, 27 February, 10-11am EST (3pm-4pm GMT)
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Positive Impact Tool – Shape the Future of Investor Impact Measurement

Introducing the Positive Impact measurement tool. The UNEP FI want businesses to help shape how this tool is developed further. Hear from Careen Abb in this exclusive presentation to find out more about how the tool works. Your feedback will help shape the future of this work.
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Adjusting the Lens on Inequality

Inequality is our era’s defining challenge. The new UNDP Human Development Report argues that we must overturn systemic drivers of inequality to narrow the human development gap for those furthest behind while addressing the risks posed by emerging inequalities. Collective action must be part of the solution, and business has a role to play.​
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Tackling Recruitment-Fee Debt Bondage Through Technology

Modern slavery is often invisible, hidden in factories, small farms, plantations, or single-operator boats supplying seafood. A consumer goods company may be many tiers away from workers in these settings. This makes modern slavery very challenging to detect – and even harder to eradicate – in these and other parts of global supply chains.
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What Difference Can a Multinational Make? With the Right Management Practices in Place, a Lot.

The potential for multinational companies to tackle global issues such as poverty, climate change and gender inequality is immense. With their reach, they have the ability to transform low income markets through innovative business approaches and help lift millions – even billions – out of poverty. Inclusive business is one such model, but numerous internal barriers are preventing multinationals from adopting or scaling this approach.
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Watch the Videos: Business Fights Poverty NYC 2019

On 23rd September, over 150 individuals from business, civil society and government came together for Business Fights Poverty NYC 2019 to explore the theme of rethinking collaboration for the SDGs. Watch the videos of the plenary sessions, by our film partner Be Inspired Films.
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How Companies Can Tackle Gender Based Violence

Gender Based Violence (GBV) affects 1 in 3 women globally and has been referred to by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as a political ‘global pandemic’ and ‘a mark of shame on all our societies’. A new Business Fights Poverty toolkit has been published to help companies tackle violence and harassment and domestic violence. These two forms of violence can affect employees full and equal participation in the workforce.
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A Man’s Place: How Men Can Tackle Everyday Workplace Sexism

There’s a strong call for men to step up to help deliver gender equality of opportunity. Research shows there is a gap between being supportive of action and knowing what action to take. This blog suggests practical actions that individual employees and middle managers can take and leaders of organisations can facilitate.
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Inclusive Business – Make or Buy?

Corporates venturing into low-income markets should ask themselves: could we buy one or several inclusive businesses to achieve our objectives? Our latest study reviews when investing instead of building makes sense, how to set up such investments and who can help.
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New Fund to Address Social Isolation Through Technology Closing Soon

Social isolation can affect people at any stage of their life and technology has a unique power to prevent this, bringing people together and redefining connection. Nesta Challenges’ Tech to Connect challenge seeks to offer civil society organisations support in helping to build more connected communities and reduce social isolation.
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SURVEY: Advancing Gender Equality by Engaging Men as Allies Survey

This survey forms part of the Business Fights Poverty Challenge: How can business advance gender equality across the value chain by engaging men as allies? The objective of this survey is to engage the Business Fights Poverty network of members and other experts in order to collectively benefit from our shared knowledge and experience.
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How Can We Save Purpose from Purpose-Wash?

Join us for a live written panel discussion exploring how can we save purpose from purpose-wash.There is much talk about purposeful business as a force for good, but it is for real or just rhetoric? This discussion will explore thought-provoking topics linked to purpose and use examples from leading companies across industries.
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Welcome to Business Fights Poverty Magazine Issue 2 on Purposeful Collaboration

Interested in learning about Purposeful Collaboration? Hear from the experts on how it can help Business deliver on the promise of positive social impact in Business Fights Poverty Magazine’s latest issue​
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PREVIEW #BFPOXFORD Connection Lunch: Oxford Researchers Look to Tackle Multidimensional Poverty with Social Enterprise sOPHIa Oxford

Researchers from the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) have launched sOPHIa Oxford, the University’s first social enterprise spinout, to bring a multidimensional poverty-fighting method created by OPHI to businesses to help efforts to tackle poverty.
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Business Briefing on Unpaid Care and Domestic Work

A new report from Oxfam looks at Why unpaid care by women and girls matters to business, and how companies can address it ​
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No Time to Waste: The Plastic Crisis and the World’s Poorest

IDS Research Fellow Patrick Schröder explores how a moving from a ‘throwaway economy’ to a ‘circular economy’ could help tackle the environmental issues that are riding high on current media and political debates
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Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019 – Last Chance to Register

Last chance to join GSK, Unilever, Visa plus CARE, Oxfam, WWF and many more at Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019 on July 11th
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