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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

sgEngage

While not a new concept or strategy, environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs are on the rise. Ahead of the full release, we wanted to give a preview and share an excerpt focused on the history of ESG as a pillar of CSR. Throughout the timeline, you will find links to explore each event further.

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Let’s take a look at what we can learn from the history of nonprofit organizations. The government also became much more involved in social and cultural welfare programs.

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Could this rare bean be the solution to the global coffee crisis?

Fast Company Tech

“What history shows us is that sometimes the world doesn’t give you a choice, and right now there are many coffee farmers suffering from climate change that are facing this predicament,” said Aaron Davis, head of coffee research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London. Excelsa could play a key role in adapting.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g. the large government-linked corporations setting up their own venture arms (e.g. Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam each have a couple of very good VC firms.

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Tazah gets pre-seed funding to make Pakistan’s agriculture sector more bountiful

TechCrunch

Agriculture is Pakistan’s biggest sector, contributing about 24% of its gross domestic product and employing half of its labor force, according to government statistics. Some of the barriers they face include lack of formal credit histories or access to financial institutions that usually don’t open branches in rural areas.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''m amazed at how well most of the answers in this post hold up two-plus years later (though I would revise my answer to #8 if I were writing this today).

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Why do we keep working in museums?

Museum 2.0

The National Museum of African American History & Culture is only a few miles from the former home of Confederate General Robert E. Government agency. Lee (the site of Arlington Cemetery if you didn’t know). is a short educational film produced by the U.S. War Department in 1943 and re-released in 1947.

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