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The Centre for Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:42:20 +0000

http://www.cim.org/csr/
“The Centre for Excellence on Corporate Social Responsibility is being developed by The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum as one of the four pillars of the Canadian government’s action plan on CSR, Building the Canadian Advantage announced in March 2009. Over the coming year, this site will become the hub of knowledge on CSR-related practices and approaches as they apply to the extractive sector. The focus is to help Canadian companies doing business around the world, provide tools and information for all stakeholders, and to raise the bar for excellent CSR-related practices in the extractive industry.”

National Whistleblowers Center

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:08:21 +0000

http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php
The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) is the premier advocacy organization for whistleblowers. NWC’s staff is comprised of nationally recognized whistleblower advocates, experts in whistleblower protection law, and campaigners committed to facilitating improved protections for all workers to speak out about wrongdoing in the workplace.

Investor.gov

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:00:57 +0000

http://investor.gov/
This new site, established by the Securities and Exchange Commission, contains a section on investor fraud, with alerts and updates on specific scams

Progressive Business Leaders Network

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:12:49 +0000

http://www.pbln.org/
The aim of the Progressive Business Leaders Network is “to help invent a more sustainable economy that fosters lasting and shared prosperity as well as social and environmental justice. This ambition requires business leaders to engage in a new way with each other and with shapers of public policy around the challenges of our times.”

Lifeworth – People for Changing Business

admin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:26:34 +0000

http://www.lifeworth.com/search-jobs
This UK organization offers information related to jobs in corporate social responsibility. You can sign up on their site to have job listings emailed directly to you. In addition to providing assistance to both job candidates and employers, Lifeworth hosts conferences and seminars, and also produces publications, including the Annual Review of Corporate Responsibility.

Workers Rights Consortium

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:32:38 +0000

http://www.workersrights.org/
“The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is a non-profit organization created by college and university administrations, students and labor rights experts. The WRC’s purpose is to assist in the enforcement of manufacturing Codes of Conduct adopted by colleges and universities; these Codes are designed to ensure that factories producing clothing and other goods bearing college and university names respect the basic rights of workers. There are more than 100 colleges and universities affiliated with the WRC.”

Green America’s Shareholder Activism page

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:49:43 +0000

http://www.coopamerica.org/socialinvesting/shareholderaction/index.cfm
For the past 20 years, Green America has played a leadership role in mobilizing people in their roles as investors to insist on corporate responsibility.

Amnesty International USA’s Business and Human Rights Program

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:49:43 +0000

http://www.amnestyusa.org/business-and-human-rights/page.do?id=1011004
“All companies have a direct responsibility to respect human rights in their own operations. Amnesty International believes that the business community also has a wider responsibility — moral and legal — to use its influence to promote respect for human rights.”

Advocacy and Public Policy Program (Social Investment Forum)

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:41:06 +0000

http://www.socialinvest.org/projects/advocacy/
The Advocacy and Public Policy Program implements its goals by providing information, recommending action and creating opportunities to collaborate for socially responsible investing professionals, and by conducting media and public education campaigns on issues relevant to socially responsible investing.

American Marketing Association – Statement of Ethics

admin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:16:41 +0000

http://www.marketingpower.com/AboutAMA/Pages/Statement%20of%20Ethics.aspx

New Economics Foundation

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:34:11 +0000

http://www.neweconomics.org
The NEF describes itself as “an independent think and do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being.” Their website includes information about their annual publication Real World Economic Outlook, looks at the global economy from the perspectives of economic and environmental justice with a particular emphasis on the issue of globalization. The organization has also embarked on a project entitled “The Ethical Pioneers,” with the goal of coming to “a better understanding of what ethical businesses need in order to thrive in mainstream markets.”

Council of Ethics-Based Organizations Associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:52:27 +0000

http://cebo.org/index.html
This site contains links to U.N. documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Convention on the rights of the child. Links are also provided to member organizations. In addition to sections on Human Rights, Sustainable Development, and Peace & Conflict, there is a section on Corporate Ethics, covering “Ethics in corporations and government: accountability, fiscal transparency, greenwashing, bluewashing, best practices and abuses.”

Northeast Ohio Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:29:38 +0000

http://www.neogbc.org/index.php

Citizen Works

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:27:21 +0000

http://www.citizenworks.org/
“People-powered democracy, not corporate rule, will create a sustainable and just society.”

CERES – Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:25:39 +0000

http://www.ceres.org/
CERES is a “U.S. coalition of environmental, investor, and advocacy groups working together for a sustainable future. Companies have committed to continuous environmental improvement by endorsing the CERES Principles, a ten-point code of environmental conduct.”

Center for Public Integrity

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:22:54 +0000

http://www.public-i.org
Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest. Interested in issues of ethics and politics? (They do go together, by the way.) Founded in 1989, The Center for Public Integrity “is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization that conducts investigative research and reporting on public policy issues in the United States and around the world.”
“Through thoughtful and objective analyses, the Center hopes to serve as an honest broker of information – and to inspire a better-informed citizenry to demand a higher level of accountability from its government and elected leaders.”

Capital Ownership Group

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:19:06 +0000

http://cog.kent.edu/index.html
“The Capital Ownership Group (COG), a non-profit network of professionals, business, labor and government leaders and staff, academics and activists on six continents, works to broaden ownership to deal with the negative effects of globalization.”

CBSR – Canadian Business for Social Responsibility

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:11:25 +0000

http://www.cbsr.ca/
CBSR is a “non-profit membership network of innovative companies working to improve their social, environmental and financial performance.”

Business in the Community

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:05:01 +0000

http://www.bitc.org.uk/index.html
Headquartered in the UK, Business in the Community “is a unique movement of 700 member companies committed to continually improving their positive impact on society. We are an independent charity with 20 years experience of achieving our charitable purpose to create a public benefit by working with companies to improve the positive impact of business in society.”

UK Department for Business Innovation & Skills – CSR Site

admin — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:16:28 +0000

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.