Corporate social responsibility
Take
a look at following cases about how chambers can work and support businesses in
their endeavours to help them address their social responsibility actions
towards community, environment, workplace and marketplace activities.
Auckland Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry – CadetMax
CadetMax is a solution-based programme developed by the Auckland Chamber to respond to youth unemployment and to build a future workforce. The programme is a partnership between local government, central government, employers, a community and the Chamber and provides career opportunities for at-risk youths. Since 2008, CadetMax has worked with more than 600 young people, providing essential life skills, mentoring and career counseling on the journey to education and employment, resulting in major changes in every aspect of the health and wellbeing of young people, their family and the community.
Full project description (PDF)
Bogota Chamber of Commerce – Hermes
Hermes, a programme to
manage school conflicts, began on January 2001 as an initiative of the Bogotá
Chamber of Commerce. The programme works under the pretext that the value of
the educational processes to transform beliefs and cultural paths must be
impressed in children early on.
Full project description (PDF)
Chilean Chamber of Construction – Prisoner training and social/work re-entry
The project promotes prisoner work and social re-entry through job training and the acquisition of proper working habits and values. The programme has a significant economic impact on the beneficiaries and their families and the results show that to date approximately 65% of all participants in the programme continue working in the companies where they did their work experience.
Full project description (PDF)
Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Best CSR project
The Dubai Chamber has various CSR initiatives - from green building to the University of Dubai, the Centre for Responsible Business and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Award – which it groups as part of its CSR project. Each one plays an important role, helping the Dubai Chamber to improve its own sustainability and its contribution to its stakeholders, strengthening job skills and entrepreneurship among the community, as well as improving and celebrating the responsibility of its members.
Full project description (PDF)
Istanbul Chamber of Commerce – Ozimek
In an interdependent economic system, a global economic crisis leads to deterioration to some extent in each country’s economy. Prior to the 2009 crisis, Turkey’s unemployment problem needed significant care, yet after the crisis unemployment became a deeper problem that should be resolved to support vulnerable sectors. The main objectives of the project are the preservation, the development and the increase of the employment by enabling individuals to benefit from vocational and technical education institutions.
Full project description (PDF)