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COPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Business for Social Responsibility

Business for Social Responsibility is a global organization that helps member companies achieve success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment. BSR provides information, tools, training and advisory services to make corporate social responsibility an integral part of business operations and strategies. A nonprofit organization, BSR promotes cross sector collaboration and contributes to global efforts to advance the field of corporate social responsibility.

Net Impact

Net Impact is a network of business leaders committed to using the power of business to positively impact social and environmental concerns throughout the world. Originally founded as Students for Responsible Business in 1993, Net Impact has developed from a great idea shared by a few MBA students into a mission-driven network of nearly 10,000 new leaders for better business and more than 90 graduate student and professional chapters.

Social Venture Network

Social Venture Network promotes new models and leadership for socially and environmentally sustainable business in the 21st century. We champion this effort through initiatives, information services and forums that strengthen our community and empower our members to work together on behalf of their shared vision.

Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility

HACR is a coalition of the national Hispanic organizations. HACR is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC, which strives to ensure that there is an equitable participation of the Hispanic community in corporate America commensurate with the Hispanic purchasing power. HACR focuses on four areas of corporate economic activity and refers to them as indicators of corporate responsibility and "Market Reciprocity." They are: employment, procurement, philanthropy, and governance.

Institute for Global Ethics

Institute for Global Ethics is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian, and nonpartisan organization dedicated to elevating public awareness and promoting the discussion of ethics in a global context. As an international, membership-based think tank, they focus on ethical activities in education, the corporate sector, and public policy.

Institute of Business Ethics

The Institute of Business Ethics aims to emphasize the essentially ethical nature of wealth creation, to encourage the highest standards of behavior by companies, to publicize the best ethical practices and to demonstrate that business ethics involve positive initiatives as well as constraints.

Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility

The Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility is an international, not-for-profit, professional institute dedicated to the promotion of social, ethical and overall organisational accountability, a precondition for achieving sustainable development.

International Business Ethics Institute

The International Business Ethics Institute is a 501(c)(3) private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational organization. The Institute was founded in 1994 in response to the growing need for transnationalism in the field of business ethics. The Institute is located in Washington, DC, with an affiliate office in London.

The Institute promotes business ethics and corporate responsibility through two key program areas. First, it works to increase public awareness and dialogue about international business ethics issues through such educational resources and activities as the Roundtable Discussion Series, the International Business Ethics Review and this website. Second, the Institute works closely with companies to assist them in establishing effective international ethics programs. The Institute is dedicated to disseminating business ethics information to demonstrate the positive, tangible changes that responsible business can generate.

Center for Ethical Business Cultures

The Center for Ethical Business Cultures assists leaders in creating ethical and profitable business cultures at the enterprise, community and global levels.

New Ways to Work

New Ways is a team of experienced and dedicated professionals focused on improving the lives of our nation's youth. New Ways helps communities build systems that connect schools, community organizations and businesses, and improve the services, educational programs and support the community provides for its youth.

Society for Business Ethics

The Society for Business Ethics is an international organization of scholars engaged in the academic study of business ethics and others with interest in the field.

Walker Information

Walker Information is a global authority in measuring and managing stakeholder relationships. Our purpose is to provide the best information-based measurement solutions to help companies improve their financial performance by enhancing business loyalty and critical relationships with customers, employees and other key stakeholders.

World Business Academy

The World Business Academy is founded on the understanding that business is the dominant institution in society today and the one most capable of responding to rapid change. As such, business must adopt a new tradition of responsibility for the whole. It must do this by defining business interests within the wider perspective of society in order to create a positive and sustainable future.

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING

Accion International
The mission of ACCION International is to give people the tools they need to work their way out of poverty. By providing "micro" loans and business training to poor women and men who start their own businesses, ACCION's partner lending organizations help people work their own way up the economic ladder, with dignity and pride. With capital, people can grow their own businesses. They can earn enough to afford basics like running water, better food and schooling for their children.

Calvert Group
Known for offering the largest family of socially-screened mutual funds as well as award winning tax-free investment products, Calvert Group, Ltd. has quickly evolved from a single-fund management company in 1976 to become one of the Washington D.C. area's largest mutual fund management firms with more than $9 billion in assets under management for over 300,000 investors.

Calvert Social Investment Foundation
The Calvert Social Investment Foundation (Calvert Foundation) was established with a simple goal: to help end poverty through investment. It serves as a facility for individuals and institutions, seeking to place capital on softer terms to finance affordable homes, fund small and micro businesses and to make available essential community services. Calvert Foundation works in disadvantaged communities with local partner non-profits that use common sense and compassion to provide the investment capital people need to work themselves out of poverty.

Citizens Funds
Citizens Funds offers a family of five socially and environmentally responsible non-load mutual funds including the fast-growing Citizens Index Fund, as well as an income fund, a mid-cap fund, a global fund and a money market fund.

Clean Yield Asset Management
Founded in 1984, Clean Yield is an SEC-registered investment and advisory firm working exclusively with social investors. Clean Yield's principals are professional money managers who have been with the firm from its beginnings.

Council of Institutional Investors
The Council of Institutional Investors is an organization of large public, labor funds and corporate pension funds, which seeks to address investment issues that affect the size or security of plan assets. Its objectives are to encourage member funds, as major shareholders, to take an active role in protecting plan assets and to help members increase return on their investments as part of their fiduciary obligations.

Council on Foundations
The Council on Foundations is a membership organization of more than 2,000 grantmaking foundations and giving programs worldwide. We provide leadership expertise, legal services and networking opportunitiesÑamong other servicesÑto our members and to the general public. 

Environmental Investor's Network
EnvironmentalInvestors.com is the Internet's first (and possibly only) socially responsible investment search engine.  Its portal (1) profiles private and public companies which have environmental or other socially responsible technologies, products or services and mutual funds with SRI holdings, which benefit the planet and Mankind and (2) disseminates late-breaking socially responsible news releases.  Revenue is generated from the fee-based Corporate Profiles, banner ads and dissemination of the corporate news releases.

GreenMoney Journal and Online Guide
The Green Money Journal is a 10 year old bimonthly newsletter (24 pages) featuring socially and environmentally responsible investing (SRI) business and consumer resources.

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
For over thirty years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has been a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement. ICCR's membership is an association of 275 faith- based institutional investors, including national denominations, religious communities, pension funds, endowments, hospital corporations, economic development funds and publishing companies.

Investor Responsibility Research Center
IRRC is the leading source of high quality, impartial information on corporate governance and social responsibility. Founded in 1972, IRRC provides proxy research and analysis, benchmarking products, as well as proxy voting services to more than 500 institutional investors, corporations, law firms, foundations, academics and other organizations.

Investors' Circle
Investors' Circle is a leading social venture capital intermediary whose mission is to support early-stage, private companies that drive the transition to a sustainable economy.

Parnassus Funds
The Parnassus Fund was founded in 1984. The Fund bases its investment decisions on two primary factors --- a company's financial strength and its environmental and social policies.

Pax World Funds
Pax World Funds seek to enable persons of conscience to invest in keeping with their ethical values and to challenge corporations to establish and meet certain ethical standards. The Funds invest in companies that produce goods and services that improve the quality of life such as health care, technology, housing, food, education, pollution control, utilities, and leisure-time activities. The Funds do not invest in companies that make defense or weapons-related products or that derive revenue from the manufacture of tobacco, alcohol, or gambling products.

Portfolio 21
In the 21st century and beyond, bold new thinking is required to transform our society into one that is in balance with nature. Portfolio 21 is a no load mutual fund for individuals and institutions committed to investing in a sustainable future. We believe that companies using sustainability principles as a core part of their business strategies are positioned to prosper in the future and can be more efficient and profitable today. Portfolio 21 concentrates on companies that have made a commitment to environmental sustainability and have demonstrated this commitment through their business strategies, practices and investments.

Self-Help Credit Union
Self-Help is a community development lender that has provided over $3.5 billion in financing to 40,000 home-buyers, small businesses and nonprofits. Self-Help reaches people who are underserved by conventional lendersÑparticularly minorities, women, rural residents, and low-wealth familiesÑthrough the support of socially-responsible citizens and institutions across the U.S.

Social Investment Forum
The Social Investment Forum (The Forum) is a national non-profit membership association dedicated to promoting the concept, practice and growth of socially responsible investing (SRI).  The Forum is comprised of investment practitioners and institutions from across all fields who seek to use their investment dollars to encourage positive social and environmental change in society.

Trillium Asset Management
For over twenty years, Trillium Asset Management Corporation has been the leader in socially responsible investing. We are guided by a belief that active investing can offer good returns to the investor, while also promoting social and economic justice. Trillium Asset Management is an independent employee-owned firm, dedicated to professional, high quality, individualized service for our valued clients.

Walden Asset Management
Walden Asset Management has provided socially responsive investment services to individuals and institutions since 1975. With approximately $1 billion in socially screened assets under management, Walden provides an array of domestic social investment services.

Winslow Environmental News
The only U.S. investment firm with an exclusive focus on green investing, Winslow manages the endowments of nonprofit institutions, pension funds, and high net worth individuals by investing solely in environmentally proactive and environmentally responsible companies. Total assets under management are $85 million.