Starbucks In Our Communities
Hi all,
Here is some homework that will help us to understand civic participation by organizations in relation to community building and social responsibility.
Go to a Starbucks and find one of their "Starbucks in our Communities" brochure that they have in their stores or better still go to starbucks website at http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/csr.asp (given that we are focusing on online communities). Read about the compay's social responsibility and then discuss how this strategy builds social capital, trust, reciprocity, honesty etc.
Register your responses as a comment to this post. We will use this then as an example to focus on civic participation next week, as well as religious participation.
See ya'll next week.
Ian
Here is some homework that will help us to understand civic participation by organizations in relation to community building and social responsibility.
Go to a Starbucks and find one of their "Starbucks in our Communities" brochure that they have in their stores or better still go to starbucks website at http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/csr.asp (given that we are focusing on online communities). Read about the compay's social responsibility and then discuss how this strategy builds social capital, trust, reciprocity, honesty etc.
Register your responses as a comment to this post. We will use this then as an example to focus on civic participation next week, as well as religious participation.
See ya'll next week.
Ian
posted by Make change ... at 1:54 PM
1 Comments:
I think it's great that their helping out with the community, and if they benefit from that, then good for them. In fact, I'd be a little worried if I were a stockholder or employee if that wasn't part of their plan, because aren't they a business first and foremost? Their whole purpose for existing is to make money, and if they can help others in the process, then they should be rewarded by having more people come to their store.
Also, they already have donated to community projects. Here are a few in particular:
http://www.americascores.org/index.php?id=445
http://www.drug-rehabs.com/starbucks-youth-program.htm
http://librarygrants.blogspot.com/2005/07/starbucks-foundation-offers-funding.html
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