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Resources for Your Business |
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BUSINESS TOOLKITS
The Livable Jobs Toolkit, from the Vermont Business for
Social Responsibility, includes information on workplace practices that attract
and keep employees. This kit is filled
with ideas and tips, resources needed, specifics around options for upgrading
pay levels, economic security for your employees, and worksheets specific to
cost-benefit analysis, effects of employee turnover, action plans, etc. You can view or download the toolkit at www.vbsr.org.
National Child
Care Information
Center Employer Toolkit Having
stable child care often makes the difference in keeping a job or losing it. This
toolkit highlights information particular to how employers can support the
child care needs of their employees. It
provides information about a variety of options to consider, such as flextime,
financial assistance, etc. Other useful information contained in the toolkit: equity
issues, a business self-assessment, and assessing costs and benefits of
child care investments. You can view and/or download the toolkit from www.nccic.org/ccpartnerships/
toolkit/toolkit
CCH Business Owner's Toolkit Ready-to-use business tools
including business documents (sample letters, contracts, forms, policies);
financial spreadsheet templates; checklists; government forms. Some of the
topics included in the toolkit are: Compensation and
Benefits, Employee Management, Firing &
Termination, Government Contracting Forms, Marketing,
Recruiting & Hiring, and Workplace
Safety. http://www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/tools.asp#DZ30
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CEI IN THE NEWS! |
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CEI partners in the “Cod Academy”. CEI is helping to organize a free cod farming course for large boat fishermen from Maine’s two easternmost coastal counties, Hancock and Washington. Read more here. CEI Investment Notes are a way for you to invest in your community, to help others, and to reap social, environmental and economic benefits. Details here. U.S. Finance Expert Encourages Banking Investment in Maine Communities
At CEI's 32nd Annual Meeting, Ellen Seidman, Exec. VP of ShoreBank in Chicago, and Sr. Research Fellow with the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, urged Maine bankers and community activists to consider “greater community investment…meeting the actual needs of the community, not just counting dollars invested.” See full speech.
See annual meeting remarks by Ron Phillips, CEO, on triple bottom line investing and the next 5 years for CEI. See the 12/14/09 article on CEI and the state of investing in communities. It’s where mission happens… CEI Receives $125 Million in NMTC Through its subsidiary, CEI Capital Management LLC, CEI will use the allocation to attract private capital investments for primarily rural economic development projects. See press release.
CEI Receives Investment Funds
In partnership with Manufacturers Association of Maine, CEI will receive $765,000 over from the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Community Services (OCS), to finance several job-generating small-to-medium enterprises. This funding will create 78 full-time, year-round jobs. Read press release here. Bangor Savings Bank and CEI offer low-interest loans to small and medium-sized enterprises in disadvantaged areas in Maine. Read more here. |
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Transforming Work |
The bottle room at Hannaford Brothers' Forest Avenue store gets very hectic. Maine's busiest supermarket processes more than a thousand returnables every day.
It can be tough keeping up with the constant flow of plastic, aluminum, and glass, but Charlie Wass is a hard worker. He arrives on time, follows directions, and gets the job done. When Charlie's day is over, he likes to "feel he's done as much as he can". Charlie doesn't work for Hannaford, though. He is an employee of CEI Staffing Services, Inc. (CSSI), a new nonprofit CEI subsidiary.
As a person with a disability, Charlie wasn't often given opportunities to grow in previous jobs. With the support of his CSSI job coach, Charlie is trying new things--fixing machines, using the computer and even helping customers. Charlie has grown so much at Hannaford that he plans to apply for a permanent job.
And, perhaps try bagging.
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Business Advice and Training 
