The company must cover all costs and make profit, at the same time achieve the social objective, such as, healthcare for the poor, housing for the poor, financial services for the poor, nutrition for malnourished children, providing safe drinking water, introducing renewable energy, etc. in a business way.
This Conference is being organized from 12 to 15 December 2012 at the Marian College, Kuttikkanam, Kerala, by the International Council on Social Welfare, South-Asia, with support of the UNESCO Office in New Delhi, as part of decennial year celebrations of the Marian School of Social Work, with the objective to discuss social protection issues of the South Asian Region and to formulate effective social protection schemes.
He said he believed the key objective of social services was to enable people to live independent lives in the community for as long as possible.
But he and other party leaders remain focused on the party's paramount objective: maintaining social stability.
Reform of social care has been the objective of successive governments and in 2010 economist Andrew Dilnot was commissioned by the coalition government to examine options for overhauling the system.
In an example of a network that failed, a multinational consulting firm set up an internal social network with the vague objective of getting its consultants to work together more effectively.
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On the other side, a well-branded, highly integrated social media campaign is a secondary objective, at best.
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For businesses utilizing genetic resources, the new Protocol is particular important, but for all businesses, the broader objective is to ensure social equity with respect to the use of all biological resources.
However, tax reform should have another, equally important, objective: reduce government social engineering.
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Asked whether Facebook and MySpace compete with dating sites, Match.com said social-networking sites have a different objective.
He argues that the rules that regulate the industry are too vague and do not include measurable, objective targets for labour and social reforms.
Economic and social reform seemed to me the overriding objective.
While the panelists highlighted several paradigms that come with infusing the traditional 10-K with environmental and social information, each had a common objective: To explain why they chose to publish sustainability reports and how they countered the challenges that emerged along the way.
Success in social media per se is not a rational objective for most organizations or for most individuals.
This a major failing, because organizations are only able to perform well on the triple bottom line measures of profitability, sustainability, and social impact when they are designed with this objective in mind.
Yin Gang, a Middle East analyst at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says China's overarching objective in the region is to maintain friendly ties with its four main groups: Arabs, Turks, Persians and Jews.
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Although it is widely recognised that eliminating gender disparities with regards to access to education is essential for long-term social and economic development, progress towards this objective has been limited as evidenced by, for example, the limited range of adult literacy programmes targeting women.
On the other hand, young female graduates seem to complain from the absence of or the inappropriateness of career guidance and counseling services, from lack of formal channels of recruitment and objective hiring practices which heavily rely on social and personal connections and favoritism, and from the lack of internship and training opportunities their universities offer them.
Some strategies: You might go out to eat together or enlist an objective third party, such as a minister, social worker, geriatric-care manager or friend.
Enhanced investments would facilitate sustained coordination across research and regulatory agencies with the objective of reducing or eliminating harmful environmental exposures and modifying social and lifestyle factors implicated in breast cancer.
There's been kind of a classical dilemma in the field of reporting, saying we have to be objective or we can be a bit of an agitator for social change.
Although still staffed by politicians holding genuine beliefs and values, these modern parties are inclined to see their main objective as winning elections rather than forming large membership organisations or social movements, as was once the case.
The main objective will be to raise awareness and foster commitment towards the development of social protection policies based on high quality research.
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