Corporate clients love it because they can tell we have been around for seven years and are very solid and ethical. Mogus is also trying to encourage other high-tech workers to embrace philanthropy. He is working with the BC Technology Industries Association to form a foundation to encourage more charity work within the sector, and is a member of Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, a group that shares socially responsible business practices. The firm employs 12 people and has raked in revenue of more than one million dollars this year. We choose to do work for nonprofits because we want to use business to make the world a better place.
Many businesses today make giving a part of their business plan.
They look at community partnerships as a way to give back to a community that has helped provide them with their livelihoods, passions and successes. BIV has often recognized businesses for their generosity and good works. In fact, for BIV's 40 under 40 competition 2000, judges paid particular attention to those entrepreneurs who have demonstrated social and environmental stewardship. None approached the scale of Volken's project. Crime, poverty and vandalism corrupt the business environment as much as the social environment.