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· BSR Business for Social Responsibility
o A leader in corporate responsibility since 1992, BSR works with its global network of more than 250 member companies to develop sustainable business strategies and solutions through consulting, research, and cross-sector collaboration.
o With six offices in Asia, Europe, and North America, BSR uses its expertise in the environment, human rights, economic development, and governance and accountability to guide global companies toward creating a just and sustainable world.
o »is the world's preeminent business membership and research organization. Best known for the Consumer Confidence Index and the Leading Economic Indicators, The Conference Board has, for over 90 years, equipped the world's leading corporations with practical knowledge through issues-oriented research and senior executive peer-to-peer meetings.«
o »is an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies with more than $5 trillion in annual revenues and nearly 10 million employees.«
· Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
o Founded in 1985, the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship is a membership-based research organization associated with the Carroll School of Management.
o We are committed to helping business leverage its social, economic and human assets to ensure both its success and a more just and sustainable world.
o As a leading resource on corporate citizenship, we work with global corporations to help them define, plan and operationalize their corporate citizenship. Through the power of research, executive education and the insights of our 350 corporate members, we create knowledge, value and demand for corporate citizenship.
o The Aspen Institute mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues.
o The Institute is based in Washington, DC, Aspen, Colorado, and on the Wye River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and has an international network of partners.
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§ Our Policy Work >
· Business and Society Program
· Harvard University >> e.g.
o John F. Kennedy School of Government >
§ Research > Programs > Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (Cambridge) > Programs >
· Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative
o HBS Harvard Business School >
§ Executive Development > Executive Education >> Business Strategy >
· Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategies to Create Business and Social Value
§ >> Working Knowledge > Browse by Topic > Social Enterprise & Nonprofit >
· Corporate Social Responsibility
o HBR Harvard Business Review
· University of California (Berkeley) > HAAS School of Business >
o Center for Responsible Business
· UNC University of North Carolina >> Kenan-Flagler Business School >>
o Kenan Institute >
§ Centers & Affiliates >
· CSE Center for Sustainable Enterprise
o Programs >
§ BCLC Business Civic Leadership Center
· USCIB United States Council for International Business >
o Policy Advocacy >
§ Committees >
· ITA International Trade Administration >> e.g.
· CED Committee for Economic Development (Washington, DC) >
o Issues >
· USAFC USA Freedom Corps Volunteer Network >
o For Organizations > Businesses
o Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs >> Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor >> Labor and Corporate Social Responsibility
· United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) >> e.g.
o Report to Congressional Requesters No. GAO-05-744: Globalization - Numerous Federal Activities Complement U.S. Business’s Global Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts (August 2005; .pdf has 74 pp.)
§ See also related article at SocialFunds:
· GAO Finds Federal Corporate Social Responsibility Programs Widespread But Uncoordinated (28 September 2005)
· UN Global Compact > e.g.
o News & Events >> e.g.
§ U.S. Network Issues Report: CSR and Public Policy (New York, 17 June 2009)
· The U.S. Network of the UN Global Compact issued the report of its first working conference of 2009 - Integrating CSR Into Public Policy Initiatives (.pdf, 15 pp.)
· U.S. Business Roundtable’s Institute for Corporate Ethics (or at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia)
· Santa Clara University (California) >>
o Markkula Center for Applied Ethics >
§ Focus Areas >
· ERC Ethics Resource Center
· ECOA The Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (Based in Waltham, MA) is a non-consulting, member-driven association exclusively for individuals who are responsible for their company’s ethics, compliance, and business conduct programs.
· SCCE The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
· CEBC Center for Ethical Business Cultures (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
· The Society for Business Ethics (SBE) is an international organization of scholars engaged in the academic study of business ethics and others with interest in the field.
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§ 2007 Annual Meeting: Doing Well By Doing Good (3-8 August 2007, Philadelphia)
· Net Impact (Central office in San Francisco)
o »is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of new leaders who use business to improve the world... Spanning six continents, our membership makes up one of the most influential networks of MBAs, graduate students, and professionals in existence today.«
· The Business Ethics Links Library (BELL) »is a comprehensive starting point for research in corporate ethics and social responsibility.«
o »The database provides access to codes of ethics for U.S. companies and trade and professional associations, ethics sites at college and university business programs, industry information resources, and company promotion of social responsibility.«
· Stanford Graduate School of Business (California, USA) >
o Faculty & Research >
§ CSI Center for Social Innovation > e.g.
· Research By Topic: e.g.
o Corporate Social Responsibility
· More content:
o Magazine = SSIR Stanford Social Innovation Review »Strategies, tools, and ideas for non-profits, foundations, and socially responsible business«
· SVN Social Venture Network (Based in San Francisco)
o »Founded in 1987, SVN is a community of leaders - company founders, private investors, social entrepreneurs and key influencers - who share a commitment to building a just and sustainable world through business.«
· SILC Social Impact Leadership Coalition is a “network of networks” comprised of fourteen national non-profit organizations that focus on socially responsible business (people, profit and planet) and issues of economic justice.
· The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) is the only international forum of business CEOs and Chairpersons pursuing a mission focused exclusively on corporate philanthropy.
· The Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network engages and mobilizes millions of volunteers who are helping to solve serious social problems in thousands of communities. > e.g.
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· HACR Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility
· Corporate Responsibility Magazine = CR Magazine (New name of CRO Magazine; SharedXpertise, LLC; Edison, NJ)
· Ethical Corporation »Magazine, Conferences, Reports«
· CSRwire »The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire«
o CSRwire is the leading source of corporate social responsibility and sustainability news, reports, events and information.
o Members are interested in communicating their corporate citizenship, sustainability, and socially responsible initiatives to a global audience.
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· A searchable online resource guide listing more than 2,700 organizations working on all aspects of corporate social responsibility in 105 countries.
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· CBSR Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
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· CCCE Canadian Council of Chief Executives
· LBG Canada (London Benchmarking Group) is a member-driven association working toward a higher standard in the management, valuation and performance measurement of corporate community involvement.
· Government of Canada >> e.g.
o Industry Canada (Strategis has merged with ic.gc.ca to provide a single point of entry to our programs and services.) >>
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· Centre for Excellence on CSR at the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM)
o The Centre for Excellence on Corporate Social Responsibility is being developed by CIM as one of the four pillars of the Canadian government's action plan on CSR, Building the Canadian Advantage, announced last March (2009). Over the coming year, this site will become the hub of knowledge on CSR-related practices and approaches. The focus is to help Canadian companies doing business around the world, and to raise the bar for excellent CSR-related practices in the extractive industry.
· NRTEE National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
· Tremblant Forum »Corporate responsibility and sustainability«
· Corporate Knights Magazine – The Canadian Magazine For Responsible Business
o Founded in 2002, Corporate Knights Inc. is an independent Canadian-based media company that publishes the world’s largest circulation magazine with an explicit focus on corporate responsibility. The mission of Corporate Knights Inc. is to humanize the marketplace. Corporate Knights also publishes the annual Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada as a Globe and Mail insert, and the annual Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World, announced each year at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
· Stratos »is a sustainability consultancy with a national presence and a global outlook.« (Ottawa, Calgary; Canada)
· InterPraxis (Toronto, Ontario) is an established social and economic consulting firm specializing in: ethics and corporate social responsibility; international development; social auditing; and participatory research.
· NBS Network for Business Sustainability (The Network office is located at Richard Ivey School of Business, London, Ontario, Canada)
o The Network fosters collaboration between industry and academia.
o The Network is comprised of over 300 researchers and reaches over 1000 practitioners (as of September 2009) from different sectors in English- and French-speaking Canada and beyond.
· Richard Ivey School of Business (The University of Western Ontario; London, Ontario) >
o Research/Faculty > Cross-Enterprise Leadership Centres >
· Schulich School of Business at York University >
o Executive development >>
§ Sustainable Enterprise Academy
· SFU Simon Fraser University >>
o Sustainable Communities – Centre for Sustainable Community Development >
§ CLI Collaborative Learning & Innovation (ex CIM Centre for Innovation in Management)
· Rotman School of Management (Toronto) > e.g.
o Faculty + Research > Research Institutes >
§ AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship
· Jantzi-Sustainalytics (Toronto)
· EthicScan Canada Ltd. (Toronto) »is a synthesis of three different services – an ethics consultancy, Canada's first corporate social responsibility research house, and a clearinghouse or resource centre for consumer and corporate ethics.«
· EthicsCentre CA - Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy
o »The EthicsWeb is a collection of ethics-related websites, run by philosopher-ethicist Chris MacDonald. Chris has been administering respected ethics-related websites since 1994.«
· Imagine Canada is a national registered charity with offices in Toronto, Calgary and Ottawa that looks into and out for Canada’s charities and nonprofits. >> e.g.
o Nonprofit Library = Library for Charities and Nonprofits > e.g.
§ Special Collections > e.g.
· Corporate Citizenship Collection
· CCIC Canadian Council for International Co-operation »is a coalition of Canadian voluntary sector organizations (NGOs) working globally to achieve sustainable human development.«
· CSRwire »The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire« > e.g.
o CSR Directory > e.g.
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· ConectaRSE (Puerto Rico)
· DERES (Uruguay)
· Cedice (Venezuela)
· Red Puentes es una asociación de ONGs de América Latina y Europa para la promoción de la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial en nuestro continente.
· IDB Inter-American Development Bank = BID Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo = Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento >
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· Tema: Responsabilidad social empresarial:
o Conferencia Interamericana sobre Responsabilidad Social de la Empresa (or at www.csramericas.org)
· Mapeo de Promotores de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial
o El Mapeo de Promotores de RSE es una herramienta de investigación, sistematización, comparación, análisis y difusión de información sobre aquellas organizaciones que trabajan de modo sostenido en diálogo con las empresas para que éstas asuman una cultura de gestión responsable, abordando la RSE de un modo integral o desde uno o varios de sus dominios.
o Creado en 2004, en su actual etapa el Mapeo de Promotores de RSE cuenta con el apoyo de la Fundación Carolina e incluye Promotores de Argentina, Chile, Colombia y México, y Promotores con alcance latinoamericano.
· ComunicaRSE (Argentina) »Comunicación de Responsabilidad Social de la Empresa«
· IARSE Instituto Argentino de Responsabilidad Social Empresaria
· CEADS Consejo Empresario Argentino para el Desarrollo Sostenible
· IDEA Instituto para el Desarrollo Empresario Argentino
· CEDHA Centro de Derechos Humanos y Ambiente
· Sur Norte Inversión y Desarrollo
· GDFE Grupo de Fundaciones y Empresas
· RSE Online es el primer blog argentino sobre Responsabilidad Social Empresaria que está online desde el 7 de marzo de 2004. El blog es editado por Fernando Legrand.
· COBORSE Consejo Boliviano de RSE (Bolivia)
· CEDES Bolivia Consejo Empresarial para el Desarrollo Sostenible
· CEBOFIL Centro Boliviano de Filantropia
· Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social (Brazil)
· FIRJAN Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Rio de Janeiro > e.g.
o Assessoria de Responsabilidade Social Empresarial do Sistema FIRJAN
· Revista Ideia Socioambiental (Sao Paulo)
· Ideia Sustentável - Estrategia e Inteligência em Sustentabilidade (Sao Paulo)
· Ibase Instituto Brasileiro de Análises Sociais e Econômicas
· Instituto Observatorio Social
· GIFE Grupo de Institutos Fundações e Empresas
· CEBDS Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável
· SustainAbility >
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o Research & Advocacy > By Language > Portuguese
o >>
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· Acción RSE (Chile)
· Fundación PROhumana »es una organización sin fines de lucro que desarrolla su trabajo en el área de la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial y Ciudadana.«
· Vincular »Responsabilidad Social Empresarial«
· CCRE Centro Colombiano de Responsabilidad Empresarial (Colombia)
· CECODES Consejo Empresarial Colombiano para el Desarrollo Sostenible
· AED Asociación Empresarial para el Desarrollo (Costa Rica)
· United Nations-mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) >>
o UPEACE Centre for Executive and Professional Education (Located in Costa Rica)
· CIDH Centro Internacional para el Desarrollo Humano > e.g.
· IRSE Instituto de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (Ecuador)
o IRSE is a non-profit organization with a main office in Quito, Ecuador that promotes the relevance of sustainability reporting among businesses, governments, and organizations in Ecuador.
· CERES Consorcio Ecuatoriano para la Responsabilidad Social
· CEMDES Consejo Empresarial para el Desarrollo Sustentable del Ecuador
· CentraRSE en Guatemala (Guatemala)
· FUNDAHRSE Fundación Hondureña de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (Honduras)
· CEHDES Consejo Empresarial Hondureño para el Desarrollo Sostenible
· CEMEFI Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía (Mexico)
· IDEARSE es la Unidad Ejecutora del Programa de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (RSE) de la Universidad Anáhuac, el Instituto de Desarrollo Empresarial Anáhuac (IDEA) y el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID): "Implantación de Medidas de RSE en PyMEs en la Cadena de Valor".
· CESPEDES Comisión de Estudios del Sector Privado para el Desarrollo Sustentable
· UNIRSE Unión Nicaragüense para la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (Nicaragua)
· ADEC Asociación de Empresarios Cristianos (Paraguay) >
o Programas y Proyectos > Responsabilidad Social Empresarial
· Perú 2021 (Peru) es una Asociación Civil sin fines de lucro creada por un grupo de empresarios comprometidos con el país y su futuro.
· ConectaRSE es un centro de recursos de Responsibilidad Social Empresarial (Puerto Rico)
· FUNDEMAS Fundación Empresarial para la Acción Social (El Salvador)
· CEDES Consejo Empresarial Salvadoreño Para El Desarrollo Sostenible
· DERES (Uruguay)
· CEDICE Centro de Divulgación del Conocimiento Económico para la Libertad (Venezuela) >
o Ética y Respon. Social (CEyCC)
· VenAmCham Cámara Venezolano Americana de Comercio é Industria >
o Alianza Social
· CSRwire »The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire« > e.g.
o CSR Directory > e.g.
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· CSR360 Global Partner Network
o Business in the Community (BITC) convenes this network that currently (as of September 2008) comprises 100 partner organisations from 60 different countries around the world.
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§ Magazine >
· Issue 6 - Insights on CSR in South America (February 2010; 6 articles)
· Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
o browse the online library, by: e.g.
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· Americas
· Eldis »sharing the best in development policy, practice and research« >
o Topics > e.g.
§ Corporate responsibility
o Country Profiles >
§ Latin America and Caribbean
· Greenleaf Publishing >>
o The Journal of Corporate Citizenship (JCC) > e.g.
§ Issue 24: A special theme issue on Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Economies (Argentina, Mexico; To purchase)
§ JCC Issue 21 (Spring 2006) = Special Issue on Corporate Citizenship in Latin America: New Challenges for Business
· UNIDO UN Industrial Development Organization > e.g.
o About >
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§ Corporate Social Responsibility CSR - Reaching out to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
o Worldwide >
§ Latin America and the Caribbean Programme
· UNDP UN Development Programme >
o Regions >
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· UNRISD UN Research Institute for Social Development > e.g.
o Research > e.g.
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o Quick links >
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· UNEP United Nations Environment Programme >
o About UNEP > UNEP Offices >>
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o Other thematic areas > Business & Industry > Focus Areas > Finance > UNEP FI (Finance Initiative) > Regional activities >
§ Latin America (LATF – Latin American Task Force)
· World Bank > e.g.
o Countries >
o Learning = World Bank Institute (WBI) >>
§ Business, Competitiveness, & Development = WBI Strengthening Responsible Business and Ethics Program
· ILO International Labour Organization >
o Regions >
§ Americas
· WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Development >
o Regional Network >
o Focus Areas > e.g.
· IBLF International Business Leaders Forum > e.g.
o IBLF Americas
· GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit = German Technical Cooperation > e.g.
o GTZ - Aktuell > e.g.
§ Broschüre Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Mercosur = CSR-Praxisbeispiele von GTZ, AHK und InWEnt (deutsch/spanisch/portugiesisch; .pdf hat 170 pp.)
· CSR Europe »The European business network for CSR« > e.g.
o Activities > CSR Solutions > Search Solutions >
§ Select Place of Implementation: Americas (31 solutions by December 2007)
· CSR News (Based in Hückeswagen, Germany) > e.g.
o Directory = csr-directory.net >
§ Regions > South America
o Local = CSR-local.net >
§ Continent: South America
· INCAE Business School >
o CLACDS Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y el Desarrollo Sostenible
· AVINA
o Mision: Contribuir al desarrollo sostenible de América Latina fomentando la construcción de vínculos de confianza y alianzas fructíferas entre líderes sociales y empresariales, y articulando agendas de acción consensuadas.
· The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) is an independent agency of the United States government that provides grants to nongovernmental and community-based organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean for innovative, sustainable and participatory self-help programs.
· CEPAL Comisión Económica para America Latina
· Organization of American States (OAS) brings together the nations of the Western Hemisphere to strengthen cooperation on democratic values, defend common interests and debate the major issues facing the region and the world.
o = Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA)
· The Aspen Institute (USA) >
o Our Policy Work > Business and Society Program >> Center for Business Education (Aspen CBE) > CasePlace >
§ Browse by Category > Region > Latin America
· M&E Management & Excellence S.A. (Spain) »is a research and rating company in the areas of ethics, sustainability, corporate governance, transparency and corporate social responsibility (CSR) specialized in Latin America, Spain and the oil industry worldwide.«
· The Jus Semper Global Alliance: The Living Wages North and South Initiative (TLWNSI) = La Iniciativa Salarios Dignos Norte y Sur (LISDINYS)
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