My wife took me to the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits 20th anniversary celebration tonight. http://www.cen.org At the end of a great evening, I got to meet CEN's founder, Dean Morton.
Dr. Lily Chen received a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the State University of New York School of Medicine in Buffalo in 1991. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA (1991-1993). From 1993-1995, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr.
The SF State MBA program hosted two days of training on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), March 19-20. Trainers Carrie Christopher and Jeff Leinaweaver did a lovely job of demystifying the complexities of the reporting process.
The new version of the standards, titled G4, place particular emphasis on "materiality". That is, rather than giving a huge data dump, reporting companies are encouraged to identify and prioritize the most significant aspect of their operations and focus on telling the story of those aspects in some detail.
