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“Jella Sujatamma is part entrepreneur, part healthcare advisor, part hygiene specialist and part mother in the many villages in India that she visits each week as Unilever India’s most successful Shakti Amma [empowered mother],” writes Janet Roberts, one of the student reporters at the October 2006 Business and World Benefit Conference in Cleveland.1 Sujatamma, a weaver who lost work when synthetic fabrics came into popularity, became the first Shakti entrepreneur on $200 in borrowed startup funds. Even though she is illiterate and needs the assistance of her husband and sons to perform inventory and accounting functions, her sales have made her the top-earning woman in Project Shakti (between Rs. 3,000 and 7,000 or U.S. $60 to $150 per month). “Sujatamma takes her unique knowledge about what the village needs and which products are in demand,” adds Roberts, “and couples it with important lessons in sanitization and hand washing to prevent diarrhea and in the vital role that iodine, consumed through salt, can have in nurturing healthy children.”
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For Jella Sujatamma, see Nancy Roberts, “Project Shakti: Growing the Market While Changing Lives,” BAWB Newsletter 2, no. 2 (February, 2006), online at worldbenefit.case.edu.
See “District of Columbia Neighborhood Market Drill Down” (March 28, 2004), online at www.socialcompact.org.
For In a recent survey by GlobeScan, see “Corporate Social Responsibility Monitor,” (2006).
From John M. Imperiale, “Aligning and Integrating Corporate Citizenship: Practitioners Speak About their Key Successes and Challenges” (Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference presentation, April 1, 2003).
See “Manpower’s TechReach Program” (Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, In Practice Brief, February 10, 2003).
In “Turner Construction” (Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Case Study, October 14, 2004); on Focus HOPE, see also Linda St. Clair, “A Global Model for the Business of Corporate Citizenship: The Success Story of Focus HOPE,” in Global Corporate Citizenship: Doing Business in the Public Eye by Noel Tichy, Andrew R. McGill, and Linda St. Clair (San Francisco: The New Lexington Press, 1997).
Statistics from Michel Kahane, “Making Markets Work for the Poor,” (Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference Presentation, March 30, 2004).
See Jonathon Levine, “Coffee with a Conscience,” The Corporate Citizen 2006 (Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, January 5, 2007)
See “Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and TransFair” (Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, In Practice Brief, November 8, 2004); for more partnerships see Business and Community Development: Aligning Corporate Performance with Community Economic Development to Achieve Win-Win Impacts (Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, 2002).
See “The 2007 Cone Cause Evolution Survey” (July 9, 2007), at www.coneinc.com.
See “The 2006 Cone Millennial Cause Study” (October 24, 2006), at www.coneinc.com; also see Bruce Tulgan and Carolyn Martin, Managing Generation Y (Amherst, MA: HRD Press, 2001).
See Product RED campaign by Dan Henkle, “Taking Corporate Citizenship to Market: The Gap Story” (Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference Presentation, March 27, 2007).
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Googins, B.K., Mirvis, P.H., Rochlin, S.A. (2007). Taking Citizenship to Market. In: Beyond Good Company. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609983_12
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