The World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainability as: “Living in such a way that we can meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
Sustainability in a voluntary sector context means two things. Firstly, organisations must take responsibility for minimising their impacts on the environment, and secondly, organizations should ensure they will be around to continue their work in the years to come.
The integration of sustainability into a charity’s overall strategic can be hugely beneficial to its operation, by improving accountability and efficiency, income and reputation.
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GuideStar UK and its subsidiary trading company GuideStar Data Services have become part of the Directory of Social Change.
Moving British Waterways out of the public sector and into the voluntary sector would create the 13th-largest charity by income and the fifth-largest fundraising charity, according to a new report outlining the pros and cons of the idea.
The National Trust for Scotland’s governance arrangements are “inflated” and too complex, according to the second strategic review report by the Rt Hon George Reid.
Jewish poverty-reduction charity Tzedek has decided that the problems faced by its developing-world beneficiaries are so intertwined with climate change that it has adopted an ambitious environmental policy that will govern all its operations both here and overseas.
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