Are CSR and Community Development Really Joined At the Hip?
Is your organization implementing socioeconomic development, environmental or charity projects that benefit communities? Do you think this automatically makes these projects a demonstration of social responsibility? Well, don’t be so sure! It is now common practice for modern businesses to take great care of their corporate image by investing into socioeconomic development and environmental preservation projects – which are as well communicated as possible – be it to boost their marketing or even to comfort […]
An Early Holiday Present for Our Users: Interactive Stakeholder Mapping
The Holiday Spirit has been around for quite some time at our headquarters: our product development team’s been working like Santa’s little elves to make sure our December release is all you’ve wished for. We’re proud to present the latest improvements to our application, many of which are follow-ups of our big update of Analytics last fall. Stakeholder mapping is great, but making it interactive is better! We added new features to our stakeholder mapping […]
Recent Partnership Between Boréalis and Cumbre del Sajama Will Provide New CSR Opportunities For the Mining Industry in Bolivia
Boréalis today announced a new partnership with Bolivian company Cumbre del Sajama, a privately owned service provider pro social development for companies, cooperatives, communities, local organisations and public institutions linked to the mining industry. This is Boréalis’ seventh partnership of this kind in Latin America, where a combination of services, local expertise and software maximises outcomes for both businesses and communities. With over 18 years’ experience as a consulting and advising firm for mining companies, […]
Boréalis Partners With Teng Tuuma Geoservices to Promote Good Mining Practices in Burkina Faso
Boréalis today announced a second partnership in West Africa, this time with Burkinabe firm Teng Tuuma Geoservices (TTG). This partnership is happening a few months after the reform of the mining code and will contribute to the development and promotion of good practices for the mining industry in Burkina Faso; an industry that boomed over the last decade with the opening of 8 industrial gold mines and multiplication of small-scale production thanks to the rise […]
Avoiding the Garbage In Garbage Out Experience: Social Performance Beyond the Software
Let’s face it, many companies have assumed that purchasing an information management system (can also be referred to as: IMS, software or application) was the silver bullet in getting social performance right. After all, these systems can generate wonderful reports, do trend analysis and yield powerful graphs. Frankly, it is the ideal tool that has the potential to transform raw data into management information; to make sense of data that in isolation is quite bland […]
Assessing Social and Environmental Impact and Engaging Supply Chain Actors through our Alliance with GeoTraceability
Together Boréalis and GeoTraceability provide tools for gaining visibility on the social and environmental impact of businesses and addressing challenges around stakeholder engagement at the start of supply chains. Increasingly, the media and consumers are interested in the social and environmental impact of companies. Investment banks and equity funds are also concerned about possible impacts and want assurance that evaluations are performed and mitigation strategies are available. This is starting to influence commercial decisions, beyond […]