“..Paula Bennett should not need to spend five weeks away from her Beehive desk to find the “piece missing in the middle” of the corporate social responsibility jigsaw.
The answer lies squarely in the incentives offered to the business world to help the less well-off by supporting the work of non-government organisations.
The generosity of the government carrots in the United States has sponsored a culture of giving .. that has only the glimmer of an echo in this country.
Work associated with the Social Development Minister’s Eisenhower Fellowship will merely confirm how much it will take to bridge the gap.
It is unsurprising, however, that the Prime Minister has approved the trip.
While working in the US, he came to admire Americans’ benevolence ..
.. in terms of personal donations to charity, endowments to alma mater, and in corporate philanthropy..”
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