Socially Responsible Business Networks:Business for Social Responsibility Business for Social Responsibility is a global nonprofit organization that partners with member companies to pursue commercial success -- in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities, and the environment. BSR provides advisory services, collaborative opportunities, information resources, and networking to make corporate social responsibility an integral part of business operations and strategies. Its Global Business Responsibility Resource Center offers consultations, seminars, strategic tools, and training. BSR’s reports cover climate change, alternative energy and energy efficiency, green building, and product design. Business for Social Responsibility BSR Forum:http://www.bsr.org/BSRForum/index.cfm CERES: Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies
Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies Phone: 617-247-0700 Conference Board http://www.conference-board.org Corporate Citizenship Working Groups: Co-op America, a national nonprofit organization founded in 1982, provides the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for small businesses and individuals to address today's social and environmental problems. While many environmental organizations choose to fight important political and legal battles, Co-op America is the leading force in educating and empowering our nation's people and businesses to make significant improvements through the economic system. CSR Europe SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) Compass: Eurosif (European Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum) PO Box 504 4100 AM Culemborg The Netherlands Ph: 31-345/523-332 Fx: 31-345/510-053 Forum EMPRESA Corporate Social Responsibility Forum Member, EMPRESA Future 500 provides businesses with tools and techniques for thriving in an environmentally responsible and resource-efficient economy. It provides workshops, round-table discussions, and publications devoted to the principles of industrial ecology. Industrial ecology incorporates some of the following topics: design for the environment, sustainable building, industrial metabolism, eco-industrial parks, systems thinking, and life-cycle assessments. Fortune 500 publications provide instruction on management, accounting, product development, marketing, and public policy; its workshops and round-table discussions help make these concepts applicable to real business practices. Future 500 Phone: 415-248-0011 The Social Venture Network brings together in two annual meetings businesses with a social conscience: those interested in combining good business with sustainability, livable workplaces, and social justice. Members of the network often work with each other on new ventures. The network's programs include the urban enterprise initiative, the standards for corporate social responsibility project, the sustainable trade initiative, and the social action initiative. The annual Social Venture Institute offers a forum on the challenges of doing socially-conscious business. Mentors from the Social Venture Network are available to speak with other businesses and the media. Social Venture Network Phone: 415-561-6501 World Business Council for Sustainable Development World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Business Center features extensive resources and environmental information for industry and business schools. Working with corporate partners like General Motors, BP Amoco, and Monsanto, WRI's Business Leadership efforts focus on climate change. The Climate Protection Initiative works to accelerate the business community's acceptance of climate change as a real, manageable problem as well as to encourage innovative private sector solutions. "Safe Climate, Sound Business" is a collaborative effort between WRI and major corporations to find and demonstrate ways to reduce emissions and protect the climate system while ensuring a sound business future for industry. "Taking a Byte Out of Carbon" profiles electronics technologies used by companies that reduce or eliminate the need to burn fossil fuels. World Resources Institute Phone: 202-729-7600 The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College
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