facebook account required to vote in mission:small business program June 29, 2012
Posted by Bradley in : life , add a commentI received a notification that a small business I have dealt with had applied for support under the Mission: Small Business program run by Chase and Living Social (and they have produced a credit card together also). The deadline to vote is tomorrow, but in order to vote for a business to receive a grant you need to have a facebook account, which I don’t have (JP Morgan was one of the underwriters of the facebook ipo).
Looking at the JP Morgan Chase website it is striking how much CSR is going on. The 2011 Annual Report states:
We also continued our support of communities. We raised $68 billion for not-for-profits and public services. And we hired more than 3,000 military veterans as a proud founding member of the 100,000 Jobs Mission.
The amount of money donated is smaller. The Chairman’s letter states:
In 2011, JPMorgan Chase contributed more than $200 million directly to community organizations and local not-for-profits. Our employees also provided nearly 375,000 hours of volunteer service through our Good Works program in local communities.
That’s considerably less than the billions of dollars of recent derivatives-related losses.
international literacy day September 8, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : life , add a commentOn this international literacy day UNESCO focuses on the links between literacy and peace.
a green and pleasant land July 10, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : life , add a commentHow much pleasanter will the UK be without the News of the World? Perhaps a bit until the Sunday Sun (not a cynical replacement for the News of the World) comes online. It’s a bit greener: this new map of the UK produced by the Center for Ecology and Hydrology is pretty green. And the UK cuts are forcing some new green behaviour: to save money on landfill tax Councils are encouraging residents to separate food waste from other waste. Some councils seem to have a more aggressive attitude than others to policing whether waste is put in the right places.
friday miscellany June 10, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : life , add a commentSimon Jenkins on Grayling’s folly (nb Grayling complains about reactions to the idea); Frank Turner (England Keep My Bones); lobbying as corruption in disguise; European fish week.
vatican’t deal with the 21st century September 15, 2010
Posted by Bradley in : life , comments closedVia the BBC, on reports that said that Cardinal Walter Kasper said that arriving at Heathrow airport was like landing in a “Third World” country:
Vatican sources said …. his “Third World” comment referred to the UK’s multicultural society.
And that is supposed to make it better?
tree house September 7, 2010
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It seems the neighbours object.
taking advantage of relationships May 24, 2010
Posted by Bradley in : life , comments closedIt’s a pity the Duchess of York couldn’t get this job.
moment of incomprehension February 2, 2010
Posted by Bradley in : life , comments closedAs I’m doing the morning school run this morning I’m listening to a woman on the radio explaining her belief that people (the government) should not be able to take money away from some people to spend on other people, and I drive into a large hole that seems to have opened up in the road since yesterday (well, it’s not entirely new but suddenly much deeper – we have had a lot of rain the last few days). And I think about what it would be like to live in a world where you only got access to the roads you could pay for, or the health care, or the clean water, or the police protection you could pay for ………
weeks and years January 11, 2010
Posted by Bradley in : life , comments closedAs classes start up again at the law school, I notice that it is National Influenza Vaccination Week. I had my H1N1 shot already so can’t participate.
Meanwhile, the EU is dedicating a whole year to combating poverty and social exclusion, and for this year the European capitals of culture are Essen in Germany, Pécs in Hungary and Istanbul in Turkey. I’m not quite sure why the EU is recognizing Istanbul (beautiful and culturally significant as it is) as a European capital of culture given that Turkey isn’t yet a member ….