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Corporate citizenship, corporate social responsibility |
Aspen Institute Business and Society Program - dedicated to helping business executives integrate financial success and social and environmental progress.
Beyond Grey Pinstripes - "identifies the leading schools and faculty that are devoting the deepest attention to social impact and environmental management as well as those that are beginning to weave together this triple bottom line."
Business for Social Responsibility - a nonprofit global organization that "helps member companies achieve success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment. BSR provides information, tools, training and advisory services to make corporate social responsibility an integral part of business operations and strategies."
Canadian Democracy and Corporate Accountability Commission - "Representatives from corporate Canada, organized labour and political sectors are working together to develop practical measures that address issues of corporate accountability."
Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College - "engages with companies to redefine business success as creating measurable gains for business and society. Our vision is that business will use its assets to help assure economic prosperity and a just and sustainable world."
Center for Corporate Citizenship, U.S. Chamber of Commerce - "nonprofit organization that serves as a resource and a voice for businesses and their social concerns."
Community Wealth Ventures, Inc. - "a consulting firm that helps nonprofit organizations become more self-sustaining by generating revenue through business ventures and corporate partnerships and helps corporations improve their bottom line through the design and implementation of community investment strategies."
Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire - "The leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news."
CorpWatch - "fostering democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization--a diverse movement for human rights, labor rights and environmental justice."
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility - works "to hold corporations publicly accountable for the human, social and environmental consequences of economic globalization." ICCR is an association of 275 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish institutional investors which press companies to be socially and environmentally responsible.
International Right to Know Campaign - "When U.S. companies treat workers poorly, destroy the environment or collaborate with oppressive governments that violate human rights, they are undermining social and economic development, jeopardizing our security and dishonoring American values. American companies have a responsibility to act as good ambassadors and their business activities should reflect our democratic values to the rest of the world."
Net Impact - "a network of emerging business leaders committed to using the power of business to create a better world. Originally founded as Students for Responsible Business in 1993, Net Impact offers programs to help members broaden their business education, refine their leadership skills, and pursue their professional goals, while building their network."
Social Investment Forum - Advancing socially and environmentally responsible investing - "a membership organization of more than 500 social investment practitioners and institutions, including financial professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, mutual funds, researchers, foundations, community development organizations, and public educators."
Sweatshop Watch - a coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry.
Union of Concerned Scientists - "Citizens and scientists for environmental solutions."
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