Below is a list of academic-based programs and institutes and nonprofit
organizations focused on corporate social responsibility, or some aspect
of such. For the most part, these are programs that approach corporate
philanthropy in a traditional way - corporations and businesses pushing
for nonprofits to work a certain way, per the corporate view of how issues
should be approached, corporations focused on CSR and philanthropy in
order to provide "leadership" in their communities, however they might
define their communities, corporations looking at CSR primarily as a way
to increase profits and customers, etc.
- 3BL
Association is the organization that generates the annual “100
Best Corporate Citizens” list.
- Boston
College Centre for Corporate Citizenship - one of the prominent
leaders in the CSR field. While some online resources are available only
to members, even non-members can find valuable information on the site,
particularly under the Conferences & Events and Knowledge
& Events tabs.
- Business for Social
Responsibility (BSR) is a global nonprofit organization that seeks
to help businesses operate in a way that contributes in the creation of
“a just and sustainable world” through implementation of their
suggested strategies.
- Business in the
Community a British outreach charity promoting responsible
business, volunteering, and CSR.
- CSR Europe
says they are the “leading European business network for Corporate
Social Responsibility”.
- CSR News covers
international news items related to corporate social responsibility.
While the German site is updated more frequently than its English
counterpart, both are great sources of current events and up-to-date
information.
- CSRwire along
with Justmeans.com,
Triple Pundit,
is part of the 3BL Media family of companies and platforms, raising
awareness for CSR and sustainability initiatives around the globe.
- Center for
High Impact Philanthropy, University of Pennsylvania. Provides
analysis on a broad range of causes (e.g., U.S. education, global public
health priorities like malaria or child survival rates, effective
disaster response), as well as challenges faced by all those seeking
social impact (e.g., How to define social impact goals, measure and
manage progress, estimate the social return on investments). Also
provides educational programs and consulting.
- Charities@Work
is an alliance of three nonprofit organizations that collectively
represent more than 3,000 of the leading health, environmental,
international development, and community nonprofits. Charities@Work
"bridges the corporate and nonprofit sectors in order to achieve greater
social impact." The annual Charities@Work Employee Engagement Summit
brings together corporate citizenship and employee engagement
professionals to learn and network, share promising practices, discuss
the latest trends, and create greater social impact together.
- Corporate
Knights is a Canadian-based print magazine and interactive web
site.
- Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) Advice for ethics, strategies & operations
from Jayne Cravens (coyotebroad / coyote communications). This advice
regarding CSR - financial donations, in-kind donations, employee
volunteering or taking on community roles as a representative of a
company, such as serving on an advisory board at a nonprofit or
government group - is different from most, and maybe all, of the other
advice you may have been reading or hearing.
- Ethical
Corporation is a British company that addresses CSR and other
issues.
- Harvard
Kennedy School of Government (The CSR Initiative) provides
original content used by students for research papers and publications.
- Points
of Light Foundation Corporate Resources provides a roundup of
pro-corporate news regarding CSR.
- Stanford Social
Innovation Review publishes articles on social business, global
issues, nonprofit management, employee volunteering, social
entrepreneurship, and more.
- UN Global
Compact is a “strategic policy initiative for businesses” that
matches current strategies and operations with “ten universally accepted
principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and
anti-corruption”.
- Workforce.com
is not a nonprofit or academic institute, but I'm including it anyway
because it's my favorite resource regarding practical
information about corporate social responsibility, especially regarding
employee volunteering..
- Nonprofit AF is a web site, with a Twitter feed and Facebook account,
that explores what it is like to work in nonprofits, including
fundraising, working with donors, special events, community engagement,
donor cultivation, program implementation, outcomes and metrics, etc. -
but usually does this exploration in a very funny or provocative way. On
Facebook Nonprofit
AF featured this question in July 2020: What is the most
ridiculous thing a donor or funder said to you? The
answers are hilarious and... sad and should be read by all
corporate giving and foundation program staff. And on Twitter, at the
start of the pandemic in the USA, the #CrappyFundingPractices
of several foundations got special attention, like those
of the United Way,
Region's Bank, or
the Amelia Peabody Foundation.
I have a CSR
Twitter list that is a curated list of Twitter accounts related to
corporate social responsibility. It's public, so you can subscribe to it
and keep up-to-date about discussions and announcements related to CSR.
Also see:
- A history of the Smart Valley
initiative
In 1994, perhaps earlier, an initiative called Smart
Valley was launched in California. Smart Valley was a 501(c)(6)
nonprofit organization focused on creating an "information
infrastructure" in Silicon Valley, California - Palo Alto, Mountain
View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, San José, Santa Clara and the surrounding
area, creating projects to enhance the quality of life in Silicon
Valley. Smart Valley's projected included SmartSchools NetDay and PC
Day, Smart Voter, to help people learn about upcoming elections, Connect
96: The Global Summit on Building Electronic Communities, the Public
Access Network (PAN), a Telecommuting Initiative, and the Smart Valley
Webmasters Group. Smart Valley was also affiliated with the nonprofit
organization Plugged In, one of the first digital divide efforts,
working to bring "the tremendous technological resources available in
the Silicon Valley to youth in low-income communities" in East Palo Alto
and SV-PAL, the Silicon Valley Public Access Link.
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