Is Your Business Doing Good in the Community?
Knoxville Convention Center
March 20, 2024
Doing Good Here Summit is a gathering of business leaders to learn how their business can impact the community for good. The Summit will educate, inspire, and challenge businesses in the greater Knoxville area to leverage their influence and resources to put purpose above profit. It will facilitate connections between businesses and non-profits to accomplish the goal.
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Breakouts
- It’s About More Than Money Best Practices of Doing Good
Speaker: Matt Ryerson, CEO United Way of Knoxville
Description: This breakout will explore the full range of ways business can serve the community including principles of serving that preserve recipients’ dignity. - Building Doing Good into Your Business DNA
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Description: It’s easier to pick up a piece of paper before you run over it with the lawn mower. The best time to include doing good into your business plan is at the beginning. - Doing Well by Doing Good How Doing Good Enhances Profitability
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Description: - The New Employee Benefit Doing Good in Employee Recruitment/Retention
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Description: How do I find/keep good employees? is every business person’s question. This breakout shows how doing good in the community answers that questions. - The Power of Business to Impact the Community
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Description: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is how businesses leverage their considerable influence and power in their community.
One of the best things about philanthropy is that there are no boundaries for doing good. Community needs are so great and so underserved in most places that any well meaning corporate philanthropic organization can probably find something to do with its money and its volunteers.
Marc Benioff
Compassionate Capitalism