Do you view "corporate philanthropy" as a totally egalitarian effort on the part of organizations? Why or why not?.
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In theory, I do believe that the efforts of corporate philanthropy are applied to a belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social and civil rights. These beliefs, however, come from a self-serving purpose, or as Elexis de Tocqueville dubbed it, "enlightened self-interest". Enlightened self-interest was a concept that Alexis de Tocqueville discussed in his work Democracy in America (Volume I, 1835 and Volume II, 1840). The notion he held was that Americans voluntarily join together in associations to further the interests of the group and, thereby, to serve their own interests. As examples, corporations give contributions to scholarship programs. They do this to educate their future workers. These same corporations may also support cultural programs in the cities where their corporate headquarters are located; one motivation for their doing so may be to make those cities more attractive to the people they are recruiting to work for them.
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These days, I feel that corporate philanthropy has been enforced and even expected from our world society. Given that the economy, human ecology and sociology of today's world is greatly affected by the businesses within it, these expectations are becoming more and more demanding. One such effect of this higher demand is the rise of new organizations that exist primarily to help society enforce the responsibilities of the businesses to the relative societies, ranging all the way from local to global. The following are some of the organizations that exist today:.
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Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): http://www.oecd.org/home/.
Social Accountability International (SAI): http://www.cepaa.org/AboutSAI/AboutSAI.htm.
International Labour Organization (ILO): http://www.ilo.org/.
MHC International LTD.