Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR has often become a website ‘must have’; a publicity checkbox exercise to demonstrate to markets and customers that their firms have a more palatable side to that perhaps demonstrated in the aggressive world of business engagement. This is not to taint all firms with the same brush; fortunately the actions of many reflect the words of their social responsibility ethics, but it is this type of firm Effective Medical was set up to be. A firm that recognises the importance of corporate responsibility throughout the organisation, not just as lip service.

Roots

Our social responsibility programme has its roots in Salesforce’s Foundation model (http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/). One of the key initiatives started by Will Cawthorne (now Director, Business Relations) on joining as Non-Executive was the One&One model, the programme that recognises the time and support that can be provided to philanthropic issues by every size of organisation.

“I learnt many wonderful things during my time at Salesforce.com but the most important by far was the impact an organisation can have in helping the community, not just in terms of providing charitable funding, but also time and expertise. Supporting your own employees and customers with freedom to give back on issues important to them is invaluable.

I also realised that, if possible, such a programme needs to be baked into a firm from the start. Only then does it form part of your firms’ DNA and in turn becomes second nature for all community, employee and customer relationships.”

Will Cawthorne, Director, Business Relations

One&One Programme

At Effective Medical we want to ensure that our philanthropy programme leverages every aspect of our business including our employees, customers and balance sheet. Correspondingly, we looked to the Salesforce Foundation for inspiration and created the One&One Programme, based on two key aspects:

  1. Equity; Offering grants and funding to projects and initiatives inspired by our employees, customers and partners.
  2. Time; Supporting our employees with time and the culture to support initiatives that are close to their hearts.

Anyone at Effective Medical will welcome a conversation on our programmes so if you are interested to know more, please speak to any of our employees.

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Effective Medical is a growing business in a thriving industry. We’re always looking to hire great people with experience in medical regulatory, pharmacovigilance and general medical writing.

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