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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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2022 Concordia Lexington Summit Report
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Winter 2023 Libra Internship Program Applications Now Open
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March 2, 2022 - The Libra Internship Program (LIP) is now accepting online applications for the Winter 2023 Internship Program which will run from January 30 to May 5, 2023. LIP offers unique paid opportunities for college/university students to intern with the Libra Group and it...
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Winter 2022 Orientation Week
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January 31st, 2022 - Last week, we were thrilled to host our Winter 2022 Virtual Orientation with interns from Greece and Colombia. The interns had the opportunity to meet and converse with dozens of Libra Group executives and employees as well as with other representatives from ...
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The 2022 P3 Impact Award Applications are Now Open
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January 20, 2022 - The P3 Impact Award was created by Concordia, the University of Virginia Darden School Institute for Business in Society, and the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Partnerships to recognize and honor leading public-private partnerships (P3s) that impr...
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Applications for the Envolve Award Greece 2022 Open
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Achim Boehme Scholarship Program announces First Recipients
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December 3, 2021 - We are very proud to announce the first four recipients of the Achim Boehme Scholarship that honours the former CEO of our shipping company, Lomar, who tragically died last year. The scholarships are designed to perpetuate Achim's lifelong contribution to shipp...
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Concordia Releases the 2021 Annual Summit Report
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