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Origins

08.12.2009
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a proud sponsor of the 2009 China-Japan CEO Forum. extended their market reach into the middle market with the introduction of Futurestep, our outsourced recruiting subsidiary. Between the sixties and seventies, well-known companies and institutions in the United States staged a series of corruption scandals that generated a progressive loss of confidence in the public and which affected the income of certain companies. Then comes a critical movement that speaks of “Business Ethics”, ethics in business. A proliferation of publications on the subject, created professorships, institutes, foundations and associations that seek to recover the economic objective of meeting the needs of all citizens. In Europe, this movement is played during the seventies and eighties and added to some of the major ideological traditions of the continent, such as the cooperative movement, anthroposophy or the Church. In parallel, several groups Anglos begin to become aware of the importance of controlling the fate of their savings.First are the groups opposing the Vietnam War and then opposing the apartheid regime in South Africa. At the same time in the South, given the lack of access to the large economy and the mainstream financial system, there were many local economic networks that generated different funding mechanisms and local solidarity, among which microcr. What funding channeled and strengthened ethics. It’s a very diverse movement that brings into different types of organizations and takes different forms depending on the specific needs of each group.However, we find two common denominators: the effort from the third sector and social movements and citizens to create solidarity networks to channel financial resources towards social projects that are excluded from bank financing and willingness to overcome the lack of information available on the use made of our savings in order to know which companies are investing and, ultimately, what we are funding with our resources. All these movements have promoted ethical finance instruments, and when these instruments are considered insufficient establishing ethical banking, popular term equivalent to social banking and banking alternative.

Background By

08.12.2009
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Background XX By the late 1940s, the state of Sao Paulo produced consumer goods distributed throughout the country. Meanwhile, in cultural terms his greatest accomplishment was the Week of Modern Art in 1922, not fully understood by the Brazilian society. In that scenario, Assis Chateaubriand, founder and owner of Di rios Associados, the largest communications network of the time in Brazil, conceptualized the creation of a museum under an innovative model that function as a dynamic center of generation and dissemination of culture, reflecting the dynamism of the economy of the state, without the radicalism of some elements of modernism and traditionalism without elements linked to a antiquities conservative view of the arts. In the words of Chateaubriand, antiquities dealers ” antiquities for sale … a house painting and sculpture to educate and interest our people in the arts. ” Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1445-1510). The antiquities auction Virgin and Child with Saint John the Egyptian antiquities Baptist, 1490/1500. Tempera on panel, diameter 74 cm.Chateaubriand intended to host a future museum in Rio de Janeiro, however, chose to Sao Paulo as he considered that in this city would have a greater opportunity to raise the funds necessary to form an art collection, given the rich local coffee intake and industries. a collection of Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Central European, Byzantine and Islamic are very special and expensive Another important factor to enable the formation of the acquis was the European art market trends, market influenced by the end of World War II, a circumstance that allowed acquiring masterpieces then affordable price. To get moving in that market in order to shape the collection of the Museum, was necessary technical expertise and experience: Chateaubriand suggested to Pietro Maria Bardi, gallerist, collector, journalist and critic of Italian art, the challenge of creating a Museum Ancient and Modern Art. Bardi objected that there should be no distinction between the arts and proposed only a “Museum of Art”, accepting the invitation of Chateaubriand.While Bardi had planned to be leading the project for just one year, was devoted to him from the rest of his life, having led the institution for almost fifty years. He brought to Brazil, his private collection and a collection of 20 thousand photographs of Western art, one of the largest teaching collections of the world.