Useful Links
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AccountAbility/Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability
AccountAbility is an international, not-for-profit, professional institute dedicated to the promotion of social, ethical and overall organizational accountability, a precondition for achieving sustainable development and the AA1000 Series of standards.
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Business for Social Responsibility
BSR is a global nonprofit organization that helps member companies achieve commercial success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment.
http://www.bsr.org -
Business Impact
The Business Impact Taskforce is an initiative announced by The Prince of Wales in 1998 to identity and promote socially responsible best practices for businesses which maximize competitive as well as social benefits.
http://www.business-impact.org -
Business in the Community
A nonprofit organization based in the United Kingdom that strives to "inspire business to increase the quality and extent of their contribution to social and economic regeneration by making corporate social responsibility an essential part of business excellence.
http://www.bitc.org.uk -
Center for Ethical Business Cultures (CEBC)
BSR is a global nonprofit organization that helps member companies achieve commercial success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment.
http://www.bsr.org -
Centre for Innovation in Corporate Responsibility
This is the website for CSER (corporate social and environmental responsibility) a responsible business approach that is committed to integrating environmental, social and ethical management into the overall business strategy. CSER combines environmental management with corporate social responsibility (CSR), as well as strategies to manage the "Triple Bottom Line."
http://www.cicr.net -
The Conference Board
A global business membership and research group linking executives from different companies, industries and countries to improve business enterprise systems and enhance the contribution of business to society.
http://www.conference-board.org -
CSR Europe
CSR Europe is a European business driven membership organisation "whose mission is to encourage and help companies to prosper in ways that stimulate job growth, increase employability and prevent social exclusion; thereby contributing to a sustainable economy and a more jsut society"
http://www.csreurope.org -
CSR Forum
The vision of the Forum is that businesses will adopt socially responsible practices and, as good corporate citizens, that they will be a positive force for change to help improve the quality of people's lives.
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Electronic Policy Network
This is the website for the Electronic Policy Network, a consortium of top public policy organisations and advocacy groups. This is a resource for new thinking in progressive economic policy.
http://www.epn.org -
Ethics Resource Center
Ethics feature strongly in CSR and this site provides data from several business ethics surveys run between 1994-2000. There are links to other ethics-based websites and also there's a research bibliography covering topics such as ethics programmes or ethics in a global economy. Check how ethical your company is with the "Ethical Effectiveness Quick Test" which can be completed online with results emailed to you.
http://www.ethics.org -
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
Promotes investments in community economic development within its coalition of more than 275 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish institutional investors with an estimated combined portfolio value of $110 billion. Each year ICCR-member religious institutional investors sponsor over 100 shareholder resolutions on major social and environmental issues.
http://www.ICCR.org -
International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) works to promote "socially responsible business practices that benefit business and society and which help to achieve social, economic and environmentally sustainable development in emerging and transition economies.
http://www.iblf.org -
Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC)
Provides institutional investors with impartial research on a full spectrum of corporate social responsibility issues, as well as their relationships to the financial performance of companies worldwide.
http://www.ethics.org -
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
Promotes investments in community economic development within its coalition of more than 275 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish institutional investors with an estimated combined portfolio value of $110 billion. Each year ICCR-member religious institutional investors sponsor over 100 shareholder resolutions on major social and environmental issues.
http://www.irrc.org -
The Natural Step
The website for a growing sustainability movement. The Natural Step (TNS) is an initiative founded in Sweden by Dr Karl-Henrik Robert in 1989. It provides a practical framework for businesses to operate sustainably. New Zealand companies such as The Warehouse and Phoenix Natural Foods have implemented the framework and internationally companies such as McDonald's and Electrolux are using it. It's fairly bare bones, but this site gives all the basic information you need to find out about ground level TNS. It offers a quarterly subscription newsletter from the US branch of TNS, case studies from companies using the framework and online written resources from sustainability gurus like Paul Hawken.
http://www.naturalstep.org.nz -
The Observatory of European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
The Observatory of European SMEs was established by the Commission in December 1992 in order to improve the monitoring of the economic performance of SMEs in Europe. Its task is to provide information on SMEs to policy-makers, researchers, economists and SMEs themselves. The Observatory today consists in a series of reports on SME-related issues that are published on a non-regular basis. The research is carried out by ENSR (the European Network for SME Research), co-ordinated by EIM. The reports rely also on a Survey conducted among over 7600 SMEs in Europe.
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PRé Consultants
PRé Consultants helps companies implementing Life Cycle oriented tools. The site contains many resources regarding the environmental aspects of companies' triple bottom line.
http://www.pre.nl -
Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum (PWBLF)
The vision of the Forum is that businesses will adopt socially responsible practices and, as good corporate citizens, that they will be a positive force for change to help improve the quality of people's lives.
http://www.pwblf.org -
Study Center for Corporate Social Responsibility (ORSE)
ORSE is a nonprofit French network begun in 2000 to study and promote socially responsible investment (SRI), corporate social responsibility and all the issues related to sustainable development.
http://www.orse.org -
Social Accountability International
SAI works to improve workplaces and combat sweatshops through the expansion and further development of the international workplace standard, SA8000, and the associated S8000 verification system.
http://www.sa-intl.org -
Social Investment Forum
A U.S. nonprofit organization of more than 600 investment professionals and institutions that promotes the concept, practice, and growth of socially responsible investing. The group offers the "Online Guide to Socially Responsible Investing."
http://www.socialinvest.org -
Social Venture Network (SVN)
A nonprofit network whose members have launched new enterprises, taken stands on public policy issues and improved their own "triple bottom line" performance for people, planet and profits. SVN has developed "Standards of Corporate Social Responsibility" and an integration guide for companies, and promotes community investment and fair trade.
http://www.svn.org -
Sustainable Business
A good site for keeping up to date with news and initiatives in the field of sustainable business. There's a "green dream jobs" section, links directory, and green business directory which lists everything from loan funds for green projects to business opportunities
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com -
United Nations Global Compact
The Global Compact is a value-based platform designed to promote institutional learning. It utilizes the power of transparency and dialogue to identify and disseminate good practices based on universal principles. The Compact encompasses nine such principles, drawn from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ILO's Fundamental Principles on Rights at Work and the Rio Principles on Environment and Development. Thus, the Compact promotes good practices by corporations; it does not endorse companies.
http://www.unglobalcompact.org -
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
The homepage for the World Business Council for Sustainability. Here you can read the business case for sustainability, implications of the Kyoto Protocol on business, as well as access latest news and case studies from the world of sustainability. Not particularly comprehensive, but the site contains some useful information.
http://www.wbcsd.org/ -
World CSR
This site describes itself as "the gateway to the leading business led organisations on CSR worldwide". A useful site to launch a foray into CSR, it includes a link to http://www.business-impact.org, a site that contains a database of links to CSR organisations such as the World Council for Sustainable Development and the Institute for Global Ethics.
http://www.worldcsr.com -
Other Links:
http://www.bsr.org/BSRResources/index.cfm Business for Social Responsibility Resources for Corporate social responsibility
http://www.fedee.com Federation of European Employers (FedEE)
http://www.csrwire.com/ the Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire Service.
http://www.bitc.org.uk/ the Business in the Community website
http://www.ert.be/ the European Round Table of Industrialists
http://www.euractiv.com/ European Union News, Policy Positions and Actors Online - Corporate Social Responsibility Section
http://www.copenhagencentre.org The Copenhagen Centre - New Partnerships for Social Responsibility