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SHRM Foundation

    SHRM Foundation Updates - Marti Bookstein, SPHR and Lisa Kettyle, PHR Co-Directors

     Foundation Corner

    Do you know what the SHRM Foundation does and how it benefits you? Please take the time to read the SHRM Web site information about the SHRM Foundation, the 501(c)(3) non-profit affiliate of SHRM. You may be pleasantly surprised. You can order DVDs, benchmarking and research reports, training aids, brochures, and all types of helpful tools. For example:

     Trust Travels: The Starbucks Story on DVD.

     Organizations today struggle to build a workplace based on trust and values, such as honesty, integrity and respect. Starbucks has succeeded because it has stayed true to its core values. With 137,000 employees in 40 countries at the height of their business, Starbucks clearly demonstrates that trust and values can travel to different cultures.

     The SHRM Foundation produced a 20-minute DVD that explores how Starbucks achieved financial success by treating employees well. The DVD is free to chapters, educators and businesses. The Foundation also offers a discussion guide and Power-point presentation.

     Did you sip a Starbucks coffee today? Could such a 20-minute DVD help you with Training? Team-building? Ethics? Corporate culture? Do you see some potential value in this for you and your company?

     SHRM believes you will! And that’s what the SHRM Foundation is about. Of course, it only happens with your tax-exempt donations to the very future of HR; and your support for academic research, scholarships, educational programs and practitioner resources to advance the HR profession. If you make a personal SHRM Foundation donation online or at the GSC SHRM Conference, below, please also indicate your affiliation with JSAHR.

     The JSAHR makes annual donations to the SHRM Foundation and has received the SHRM 2008 & 2009 Chapter Champion Award! Our April 2009 dessert theater fundraiser for the Foundation netted $252! The 18th annual GSC SHRM NJ State Conference featured a $500-value donation from JSAHR (a Jersey shore dinner and an overnight B&B stay!) for the Foundation’s Silent Auction. Watch for upcoming chapter events to raise awareness, with ways you can participate and continue to make a difference for the future of HR.

     See SHRM.org/About SHRM/SHRM Foundation for other SHRM Foundation DVDs and helpful programs.

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