Weegy: Organizations are beginning to place more importance on developing social responsibility strategies – which help accomplish business goals and reinforce values of an organization.
At a recent ASAE Convene Green Alliance CGA) Focus Forum, Jim Clapes, [ manager of conferences and events for the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), detailed why and how his association has conducted several legacy projects at USGBC annual meetings during recent years.
In 2008, for example, USGBC members volunteered to develop a green building education program and successfully integrated it into the K-8 curriculum in the Boston school system.
“We tried to capitalize on the building industry that was happening in Boston at the time,” Clapes explained. “The American Institute of Architects and the Boston Society of Architects were both meeting in Boston that spring, so that was a nice tie-in.”
The success of that effort drove USGBC to sponsor two legacy programs in Phoenix at its 2009 Annual Meeting. There, members built a net-zero energy LEED Platinum home that was given to a needy family at the end of the conference. The organization also built a solar commons in the light rail right-of-way that will provide solar energy for the Phoenix community for years to come.
In 2010, USGBC obtained community grants to conduct six legacy projects at its Chicago annual meeting, including building a Habitat for Humanity home, creating a mobile food market for underserved communities, planting a rooftop recovery garden, assisting a family shelter service, teaching elementary school students about environmental issues, and helping underprivileged youth with cleanup and environmental sustainability projects. ]
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