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PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
Designed to help address ethical questions facing the
business community during an era of increasing
globalization, the center will provide opportunities to
study the social and environmental responsibilities of
multi-national companies to the communities in which they
operate.
Initial funding for staff and for student scholarships
will include £3.8 million ($5.7 million), over three
years, from British American Tobacco. The company is
funding three specific areas: a professorial
chair/directorship, a visiting professor from the
developing world, and competitive scholarships in
developing countries where the company has major corporate
interests.
According to the Associated Press, anti-tobacco
organizations have been highly critical of the donation,
with Britain's largest cancer charity, the Cancer Research
Campaign, calling the gift "another example of the tobacco
companies' attempts to buy respectability."
But officials at Nottingham University defended the
donation. Said university vice-chancellor Sir Colin
Campbell, "British American Tobacco is working hard to
address the changing expectations of society and its
stakeholders."
"Nottingham University Business School to Establish International Center for Corporate Social Responsibility."
University of Nottingham Press Release 12/4/2000.
"Tobacco Money Used To Finance Center." Associated Press 12/4/2000.
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