The Power to Make Things Happen

Nadia Williams – Social Investment Officer, is proud and humbled to be part of the team and infrastructure that develop financial and societal health among citizens through social interventions, under the pillars of ‘Power to Help’, ‘Power to Care’, ‘Power to...

RBC Employees Give Back to Youth 

In 2015, 15-year-old Kristohn Lewis fell ill. He’d had a fever off and on for some time, but it kept climbing and his mother couldn’t get it down. Now it was accompanied by a searing headache.   Not long after, Kristohn was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma – a...

So You Call This CSR

By James Epstein-Reeves It’s not a good sign when an entire profession can’t agree on what to call itself. Here’s a short list: Corporate responsibility (CR), sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainable development, corporate accountability,...

Strengthening the Brand Inside Out

CSR experts today increasingly prefer the term Shared Value Agenda to the more familiar Corporate Social Responsibility. At Sagicor Life Inc Trinidad and Tobago, it’s particularly apt. The financial service company’s culture of volunteerism, encouraged by an...

The St Dominic’s Children’s Home

Corporate voices are needed to help legislate change by Robert Clarke   Sister Arlene Greenidge could use some targeted corporate hand-holding. At the top of a hill off Belmont Circular Road, she presides over the St Dominic’s Children’s Home, which houses 60...