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New York Times
Stephanie Strom
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Such is the fate of many “orphan” trusts and foundations around the country that have been left in the hands of lawyers or local banks that have then been swallowed up by multinational financial institutions.

With no family members to encourage gifts to the original donor’s favorite causes, the banks and lawyers have wide latitude to change the way the trusts operate and to decide which charities will receive grants.

Banks can reduce gifts and increase the foundation’s assets, thus increasing their fees. At the same time, banks and lawyers stand to gain personal influence and prestige by selecting new charities.

“Donors who’ve given us money for years die, their money ends up in a foundation controlled by their lawyer or their bank, and we don’t get any more grants,” said Juliana Eades, president of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund.

http://thecaq.aicpa.org/Resources/Sarbanes+Oxley/
This page, part of the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) contains the full text of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a summary of the act’s provisions, and a link to an SEC authored Frequently Asked Questions page.

http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/sectors/lowcarbon/cr-sd-wp/page50437.html
Did you know that the UK has a Minister for Corporate Social Responsibility? This site, providing the mission and priorities of the department also links you to the UK government’s Report on Corporate Social Responsibility as well as the EU Green Paper on CSR. Government and business resources are also listed.

http://www.wri.org/
The World Resources Institute engages in “policy research and analysis on global environmental and resource issues and their relationship to population and development goals.”

http://www.fairlabor.org/
Saying that “One sweatshop is too many,” the Fair Labor Association is a non-profit organization combining the efforts of industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), colleges and universities to promote adherence to international labor standards and improve working conditions worldwide. The website contains a Fair Labor Assessment portal, which offers a wide range of tools to assess the level of code compliance of companies and suppliers.

http://www.aspaonline.org/ethicscommunity/compendium/ete.html
“The Ethics Section of the American Society for Public Administration developed this comprehensive Ethics Training Compendium in furtherance of our mission to advance ethics in public administration. This collection of ethics training resources – materials, books, articles, and websites – provides information and knowledge in ethics.” This site has 3 main sections: Ethics Directory, Applied Ethics and Ethics Theory.

http://www.theecoa.org/
Describes itself as “the only organization exclusively serving ethics and compliance practitioners.”

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/
Based in London, Ethical Corporation produces reports, publishes a magazine, holds conferences, and acts as a resource for businesses on the issue of sustainability.

http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/
Located at Clark Atlanta University, the Center “was formed in 1994 to serve as a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility siting, land use planning, brownfields, transportation equity, suburban sprawl, and Smart Growth. The overall goal of the center is to assist, support, train, and educate people of color students, professionals, and grassroots community leaders with the goal of facilitating their inclusion into the mainstream of environmental decision-making. The center is multi-disciplinary in its focus and approach. It serves as a bridge among the social and behavioral sciences, natural and physical sciences, engineering, management, and legal disciplines to solve environmental problems.”

http://www.environmentalintegrity.org
The Environmental Integrity Project “is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to more effective enforcement of existing federal and state environmental laws and to the prevention of political interference with those laws. EIP’s research and reports sheds light on how enforcement and rulemaking affect the public health. EIP also works closely with local communities seeking the enforcement of environmental laws.”

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