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Libra Social Responsibility

At Libra, we seek to turn family values into guiding business principles. One core value is a strong sense of respect and trust in the individual. Another is a sense of community – recognizing that together we can be more. While a business is a community it must also acknowledge its responsibilities to the wider world, the global community.

Hope and opportunity

Investing in the community is not just a matter of ‘paying back’ with the fruits of commerce; it is good business in its own right. Because a community with hope and opportunity is one better equipped to contribute in tomorrow’s world.

Active contribution

The general principle of alleviating struggle by facilitating self-sufficiency has a long history. The 12th-century philosopher Maimonides in his writing regarding the duty of charity, he wrote about the need to prevent poverty, not merely to alleviate it: ‘assist the disadvantaged by a gift or loan of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding up his hand for charity.’

A helping hand

This is translated into popular philosophy in the adage: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” And it reverberates in much of what the Libra Group does today.

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New York, July 25 2018 - Livia, Summer 2018 Libra Social Responsibility Intern, Concordia: Six weeks into the Libra Internship Program on a Friday, I awoke to the sound of an alarm at three in the morning - I had a plane to catch to Bogotá, Colombia. The past few weeks had bee...
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City of Charleston Business and Neighborhood Services to Partner with Envolve Entrepreneurship for 2018 Award Season
07/16/2018
Washington D.C, July 16, 2018 - The city of Charleston Business and Neighborhood Services (BNS) Division is partnering with Envolve Entrepreneurship (Envolve), a 501(c)(3) entrepreneurship organization, to provide various support services, and resources for Charleston’s entrepren...
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Student entrepreneurs of Georgia State University and community at-large set to win startup funding with Envolve for 2018 USA Award open to Atlanta
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Washington D.C., July 13 2018 - Today, Envolve Entrepreneurship, a 501(c)(3) entrepreneurship organization, announces the Envolve Award USA (formerly the American Entrepreneurship Award) is open to the Metro Atlanta community, along with its partnership with Georgia State Univers...
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Concordia Partners with The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
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New York, July 3, 2018 - Concordia is partnering with the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP), nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to understanding and supporting new and emerging democracies in the Middle East. We are proud to enter our fourth year of prog...
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