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		<title>ASQ Expands Social Responsibility Portfolio in Advance of October ISO 26000 Standard Release</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 12, 2010—A new international standard on social responsibility (SR), ISO 26000, Guidance on Social Responsibility, will be made available October 15, 2010 through ASQ (American Society for Quality). ASQ serves as the U.S. TAG (Technical Advisory Group) secretariat to ISO Working Group 26, developers of ISO 26000. Specific information about ISO 26000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milwaukee Rotary Centennial Arboretum Kicks Off First Tree Planting Tues, June 29</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milwaukee, WI &#8211;  Rotary Club of Milwaukee&#8217;s ambitious plans for the City&#8217;s first arboretum begin when the first tree is planted on the 40 acre site Tuesday morning, June 29.  The 10:30 a.m. ceremony will occur just to the west of the Urban Ecology Center &#8211;a primary partner behind this endeavor&#8211; at 1500 East Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MATC Receives $740,364 in Funding from U.S. Department of Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE (June 17, 2010) &#8211; The United States Department of Energy and U.S. Senator Herb Kohl announced today that Milwaukee Area Technical College is one of four Wisconsin educational institutions/companies that will receive funding from the Department of Energy for Advanced Energy-Efficient Building Technologies and Commercial Building Training Programs. Fifty-eight projects will receive more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potawatomi Bingo Casino Recognized For Its Responsible Gaming Efforts</title>
		<link>http://thesro.org/potawatomi-bingo-casino-recognized-for-its-responsible-gaming-efforts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potawatomi Bingo Casino will be given the Corporate Social Responsibility Award from the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) at its annual conference in Portland, Ore., on Friday, June 11.
The mission of the NCPG is to increase public awareness of problem gambling, ensure the widespread availability of treatment for problem gamblers and their families and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does Social Responsibility Mean To You?</title>
		<link>http://thesro.org/what-does-social-responsibility-mean-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 21:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it’s being environmentally friendly, or maybe it’s creating responsible business practices. If you will be attending the World Conference on Quality and Improvement in St. Louis, May 24-26, stop by the Social Responsibility booth in the ASQ Center and answer the question, “What Does Social Responsibility Mean to You?”
To help you answer this question, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Pathways to Social Responsibility: Successful Practices for Sustaining the Future</title>
		<link>http://thesro.org/2010-pathways-to-social-responsibility-successful-practices-for-sustaining-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus of this year’s Pathways stories is on three of the seven core areas of the ISO 26000 Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility: Community Involvement and Development, Organizational Governance, and Environment.
The stories included in this monograph are all companies and organizations that have embarked on their own paths to social responsibility, providing a broad spectrum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISO 26000-Social Responsibility Webinar Update</title>
		<link>http://thesro.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility-webinar-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author and ASQ SR Discussion Board Moderator, Chad Vincent, provides this webinar overview of SR, its connection to the upcoming ISO 26000 standard and an update on its progress. Click here to view the webinar.
* Your computer may need to install a WebEx viewer to view this webinar.
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		<title>ASQ Social Responsibility Think Tank Executive Summary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local and worldwide accountability and transparency on social, financial, and environmental issues are bringing about an increased interest in social responsibility (SR). An emerging international standard—ISO 26000—provides guidance to organizations that seek assistance in integrating SR into their practices. The importance of SR and the many wide-ranging and critical issues currently facing society prompted ASQ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodwill SEW Social Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://thesro.org/goodwill-sew-social-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin, a nonprofit organization with a long history of social responsibility, successfully uses lean techniques and kaizen events to improve processes and enhance its social responsibility efforts.
Within two years of introducing lean techniques, Goodwill had completed16 process improvement events that saved an estimated $2.8 million in labor and supplies.
To click here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISO 26000 – Social Responsibility Executive Briefing</title>
		<link>http://thesro.org/iso-26000-%e2%80%93-social-responsibility-executive-summary/</link>
		<comments>http://thesro.org/iso-26000-%e2%80%93-social-responsibility-executive-summary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future International Standard ISO 26000, Guidance on social responsibility, will provide harmonized, globally relevant guidance for private and public sector organizations of all types based on international consensus among expert representatives of the main stakeholder groups and so encourage the implementation of best practice in social responsibility worldwide.
This article  first appeared in the September-October [...]]]></description>
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