Win-Win Report
Win-Win: Competitive Advantage Through Community Investment tells how executives from nearly 40 nationally recognized companies have developed untapped markets, addressed their purchasing and procurement, human resources problems, and branding issues, and increased the efficiency of their real estate and corporate assets decisions through win-win strategies. Features 19 more company success stories than the 2002 version.
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Bringing Home More Than Bacon: Innovative Benefits for Lower-Wage Employees
July 2004 journalist audio conference featuring executives from the Ford Foundation, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Eastman Kodak, Seedco, and Volunteers of America, discussing innovative work supports for lower-wage employees that also benefit corporations by lowering turnover, increasing loyalty, reducing absenteeism, and increasing productivity.
Moderated by Ellen Galinsky, Families & Work Institute
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Not Your Father's Chamber of Commerce: Regionalism and the New Business-Civic Organizations
June 2004 journalist audio conference featuring executives from the Ford Foundation, MetroBusinessNet, Chicago Metropolis 2020, the Bay Area Council, and the St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association on how a new breed of business-civic organizations are tackling complex regional challenges that impact business competitiveness.
Moderated by Bruce Katz, The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
Listen to the Audio (60 MB / 53 minutes)

Training the Next Generation of Workers: The Win-Win of Workforce Partners
February 2004 journalist audio conference featuring executives from TJX, Manpower, CVS Pharmacy, Standard Aero, and Monterey Mushrooms on the role of training in workforce development.
Ford Foundation, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Network of Sector Partners, CAEL, and FIELD.
Moderated by Robert Giloth, Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Listen to the Audio (68 MB / 59 minutes)

High Impact Strategies for Marketing Financial
Services to Low-Income Consumers
November 2003 journalist audio conference features executives from VISA, Bank of America, SSA Baltimore Credit Union, and New South Savings Bank on the viability of low-income consumers for retail and mortgage products. Ford Foundation, Shorebank, MetroEdge, and Center for Community Capitalism at UNC Chapel Hill
Moderated by Eric Belsky, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Listen to the Audio (58 MB / 50 minutes)

Business With a New Beat: Corporate Strategies
for Business and Community Benefit
A journalist roundtable featuring a stimulating dialogue
between executives from State Farm, Visteon, Merrill Lynch, their national nonprofit partners, and journalists from Inc,
the BBC, London Times, New York Times, and several other members of the national print and broadcast media
Listen to the audio (92 MB / 180 minutes)

Press Releases

(6/28/05) "New Research Report and Peer-to-Peer Network Promote Integration of Corporate Citizenship into Core Business Strategy"
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(4/26/05) "Ethical Marketplace Announces Experts and Companies Featured in First Season; Groundbreaking Television Show Features over 80 Experts and Executives from Leading Organizations and Companies Across the Nation
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(4/21/05) "Measuring Social Returns on Community Development Venture Capital Investment"
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(3/9/05) "BellSouth Joins Bring IT Home"
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(1/25/05) "Corporate Voices for Working Families Launches 2005 Tax Credit Toolkit for Low-Wage Earners"
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(12/2/04) "Citigroup & National Community Capital Association Announce Financial Education and Innovation Partnership to Help Low-Income Communities Across the US"
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(11/15/04) "U.S. Inner Cities contain solid MIDDLE INCOME population, providing UNTAPPED market for RETAILERS, Study finds"
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(11/8/04) "Social Accountability International Named Policy Leader on the 2004 'Scientific American 50'"
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(11/3/04) "CDFI Initiatives in Distressed Communities to Benefit From a New Agreement Between National Community Capital Association and Fannie Mae"
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(10/15/04) "Verizon Avenue and One Economy Team Up to Put Affordable, High-Speed Internet Access into the Homes of Low-Income Americans"
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(10/14/04) "Center for Financial Services Innovation Study Highlights Successful Credit Union-Check Casher Partnership: Program Offers Members Improved Access, Service and Convenience"
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(9/20/04) "Center for Financial Services Innovation to Have Major Presence at BAI Retail Delivery: Presentations and Exhibition Community Will Showcase Successful Programs for the Underbanked"
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(9/14/04) "Global Corporations Unite to Examine World-Class Performance in Corporate Citizenship"
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(9/8/04) "Center for Financial Services Innovation Awards Half Million in Investments: Winners Offer Advanced Options for Underbanked Consumers"
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(9/3/04) "Labor Day Outlook: Low-Wage Workers Want Better Jobs Not More Jobs"
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(8/17/04) "NeighborWorks Insurance Alliance Marks 10 Years -- Group Improves Insurance Affordability, Accessibility"
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(8/12/04) "Corporate Voices Welcomes Public Policy Dialogue on America's Workforce"
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(7/19/04) "NAR & Neighborhood Reinvestment Enter Partnership to Promote Housing Opportunities"
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(6/23/04) "New Global Rating Challenges Top 100 Companies' Accountability"
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(6/2/04) "Exelon & Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Lead Region in Transitioning Employees: Workforce Chicago 2.0 Releases Progressive Downsizing Recommendations"
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(5/20/04) "Manpower and U.S. Department of Labor Mark One-Year Anniversary of Workforce Development Partnership"
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(3/29/04) "Fair Trade Market Achieves Record Growth in 2003"
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(2/24/04) "Executives, Workforce Experts, Respond to State of the Union and Community College Training Programs"
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(2/24/04) "Workforce Chicago 2.0 Initiative Recognized as Winning Workforce Intermediary"
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(1/9/04) "U.S. Department of Labor and CAEL Address Critical Nursing Shortage with Chicago Pilot Project"
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(1/22/04) "Alcan Prize for Sustainability to inject US $1 million a year into not-for-profit sector to promote sustainable development"
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(11/11/03) "AccountAbility launch 'Conversations with Disbelievers' website and 'Community-enabled Innovation' report"
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(10/29/03) "Diverse Business, Labor, NGO and Government Leaders Find Common Ground To Promote Global Corporate Social Responsibility: Kenan Institute Study Group Issues 18 Recommendations to the U.S. Government"
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(10/28/03) "Self-Help, Ford Foundation, Bank of America, Chevy Chase Bank and Fannie Mae Announce Successful Completion of $2 Billion Homeownership Initiative
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(10/16/03) "Forum Brings Together National Leaders to Focus on America's Inner Cities"
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(10/16/03) "Groundbreaking study maps inner cities in America's 100 largest metropolitan areas"
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(10/10/03) "Manpower Receives New Freedom Initiative Award from U.S. Department of Labor for Creating Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities"
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(10/7/03) "Chiquita, Southwest and Carrefour to be Honored at SAI Corporate Conscience Awards Tonight"
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(10/6/03) “New Report Cites Six Cutting-Edge Business Schools In U.S. and Canada”
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(8/25/03) "SunGard & Partners Support U.S. Savings Program for Low-Income Households - "Online IDA" Beta Test Live at Three National Sites"
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(6/18/03) "Evans Welcomes Creation of Corporate Stewardship Award"
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(6/17/03) "Multinationals in the Neighbourhood: Driving Economic Development or Simply Crunching Numbers?"
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Press Kit and Fact Sheets
Win-Win press kit, including fact sheets for industries such as energy, financial services, retail and others

About the Ford Foundation
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About the Corporate Involvement Initiative
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Business Challenges and Innovative Solutions (all industries)
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Business Challenges and Innovative Solutions
(financial services industry only)
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“Win-Win Strategies: Applications in the Retail Industry”
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Clippings
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View PDF - ICIC report on 100 fastest-growing Inner City 100 businesses
View PDF - onPhilanthropy highlights research from John Weiser, Brody Weiser Burns on developing Win-Win partnerships
View PDF - Report from the Kenan Institute stresses inner-city spending power in the Philadelphia Daily News
View PDF - ICIC research on inner-city retail demand featured in the Indianapolis Star
View PDF - Financial Times highlights growing value of the Net Impact network
View PDF - Inc magazine highlights the impact of the Inner City 100
View PDF - Center for Financial Services Innovation highlighted in the Chicago Sun-Times
View PDF - Inner City 100 highlights urban development in Detroit
View PDF - Baltimore captures 4 spots on the Inner City 100 list
View PDF - New tools from U.S. Chamber of Commerce featured in Inc magazine
View PDF - ICIC's newest project targets differing economies in Brooklyn
View PDF - Associated Press highlights asset-building benefits of IDAs
View PDF - ICIC looks to address challenges of Detroit's economic freefall
View PDF - TransFair USA featured in USA Today for adding fair-trade chocolate to the mix
View PDF - EITC tool kit from Corporate Voices for Working Families highlighted in USA Today
View PDF - ICIC's Inner City 100 highlighted in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
View PDF - New ICIC study on inner city economies featured on MSNBC
View PDF - NeighborWorks Insurance Alliance featured in Best's Review for bringing insurance education to urban markets
View PDF - American Banker highlights CFSI's work to serve the unbanked
View PDF - CFSI program winners featured in The Credit Union Journal Daily
View PDF - Spotlight on Jobs for the Future in the Financial Times
View PDF - CFSI funding highlighted in The Daily Oklahoman
View PDF - Committee for Economic Development featured in the New York Times
View PDF - USA Today highlights ICIC and the business case for inner-city markets
View PDF - Atlanta Journal-Constitution highlights new report from Corporate Voices for Working Families
View PDF - Working Today profiled in Christian Science Monitor
View PDF - NMSDC and the Milken Institute featured in Fortune special section on supplier diversity
View PDF - Net Impact featured in Fast Company article on social enterprise
View PDF - Spotlight on One Economy in the Washington Post
View PDF - NeighborWorks Insurance Alliance featured in Insurance Journal magazine
View PDF - AccountAbility's Rating Report 2004 featured in the Financial Times
View PDF - Spotlight on ICIC in Economic Development America's special issue on Regionalism
View PDF - Spotlight on the Social Investment Forum in Chronicle of Philanthropy article on socially responsible investing
View PDF - Michael Porter and ICIC featured in Inc article on the Inner City 100
View PDF - CDVCA highlighted in Inc magazine article on investing in the inner city
View PDF - New York Times Magazine highlights success of TransFair USA
View PDF - Post-Dispatch highlights new breed of civic organizations in MetroBusinessNet
View PDF - Workforce Chicago 2.0 and CAEL featured in Chicago Tribune article on workforce training
View PDF - Monterey Mushrooms featured in Training Forum magazine for innovations in workforce development
View PDF - TransFair USA featured in the New York Times
View PDF - Corporate Voices for Working Families report highlighted in BusinessWeek
View PDF - CFSI featured in Chronicle of Philanthropy article on marketing financial services to low-income consumers
View PDF - CFED highlighted in Chronicle of Philanthropy article on the challenges of Individual Development Accounts
View PDF - NAM featured in USA Today article on workforce challenges in manufacturing
View PDF - NeighborWorks Network survey featured in Black Enterprise magazine
View PDF - Financial Times highlights housing partnerships at BofA and Citibank
View PDF - Study Finds Loans to Low-Income Borrowers No More Risky than Conventional Loans
View PDF - National spotlight on regional approaches to economic development in USA Today
View PDF - Net Impact and the Aspen Institute featured in Financial Times article on social awareness in MBA programs
View PDF - Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College on business-nonprofit partnerships in the Financial Times
View PDF - TransFair USA and SAI featured in USA Today
View PDF - Social Investment Forum report featured in the Chronicle of Philanthropy
View PDF - Working Today named among Top Social Capitalists by Fast Company
View PDF - Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College featured in BusinessWeek
View PDF - TransFair USA showcased in USA Today article on Fair Trade coffee movement
View PDF - Spotlight on One Economy in BusinessWeek article on bridging the digital divide
View PDF - CFSI research on bringing financial services to low-income areas featured in the Chicago Tribune
View PDF - Kenan Institute study group gains national attention
View PDF - Aspen's newest report: "Beyond Grey Pinstripes" featured in the Wall Street Journal
View PDF - BusinessWeek highlights Inner-City Renaissance and Interview with ICIC's Michael Porter
View PDF - Shorebank featured in BusinessWeek article on Chicago's inner-city development
View PDF - CDVCA highlighted in New York Times article on Community Development Venture Capital Funds
View PDF - Pfizer and IBM featured in Fortune's "Diversity Factor"
View PDF - Aspen's newest report: "Beyond Grey Pinstripes" highlighted in BusinessWeek Online
View PDF - CEO of BSR featured in the Financial Times
View PDF - NAM featured in the Wall Street Journal
View PDF - DiversityInc article highlights women-owned business enterprises
View PDF - NMSDC President featured in DiversityInc article on supplier diversity
View PDF - Linking Diversity to Executive Compensation: More Companies Find it Pays Off
View PDF - Social Accountability International highlighted in Ethical Corporation Magazine
View PDF - SAI featured in IndustryWeek's Value Chain series
View PDF - NMSDC president highlighted in DiversityInc
View PDF - Spotlight on IBM in new DiversityInc article
View PDF - One Economy featured in Portland Business Journal article on sustainability
View PDF - Aspen Institute featured in HR Briefing's WinWin Best Practice Series
View PDF - Workforce Innovation Networks highlighted in newest Ford Foundation report
View PDF - Aspen Institute’s efforts in industry-specific workforce development in HR Executive
View PDF - SBC featured in Fortune special section on Corporate Social Responsibility
View PDF - New York Times features new study by the Aspen Institute
View PDF - New Report from the National Insurance Task Force highlighted in Insurance Journal

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