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What influences corporate giving priorities? The Conference Board tells all

Assess your workforce development program with the Aspen Institute’s Business Value Assessment
 
Read the Brookings Institute’s preliminary report on 59 “weak market” cities and strategies for revitalizing them

CCCBC lists ‘100 Best Corporate Citizens’ for 2006

John Weiser, Partner, at Brody Weiser Burns authors partnership article in onPhilanthropy

Read the Win-Win Report

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Attend the ICIC 100 Awards Summit, May 2-3, 2007.

Don’t miss SVN’s Social Venture Institute, September 5-9, 2007

The Conference Board holds its Corporate Community Investment Conference, July 26-27, 2007



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Organizations and Expert Resources for Business
 
Branding and Corporate Citizenship
Business for Social Responsibility seeks to create a just and sustainable world by working with companies to promote more responsible business practices, innovation and collaboration. A global nonprofit organization, BSR helps its member companies to achieve commercial success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment. Advancing the adoption of business practices that build a more just and sustainable world, BSR provides information, tools and advisory services to make corporate social responsibility an integral part of business operations and strategies. BSR also promotes private, public and independent sector collaborations and contributes to global efforts to advance the field of corporate social responsibility. BSR member companies have nearly $2 trillion in combined annual revenues and employ more than six million workers around the world
for more info
For information on contacting BSR, visit
http://www.bsr.org/Meta/About/ContactUs.cfm
The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College provides leadership in establishing corporate citizenship as a business essential. Through its research, executive education, consultation and convenings on issues of corporate citizenship, The Center support the successful design and implementation of win-win corporate community involvement strategies. for more info
Contact: Steven A. Rochlin
Phone: (617) 552-4545
www.bc.edu/corporatecitizenship
The Conference Board, a trusted source for business information for nearly a century, is a business membership organization that provides executive conferences, research and case studies on the country’s most innovative and successful practitioners of corporate involvement in community economic development. for more info
Contact: David Vidal
Phone: (212) 759-0900
www.conference-board.org
Independent Sector is a nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of more than 700 national organizations, foundations, and corporate philanthropy programs. Its mission is to promote, strengthen, and advance the nonprofit and philanthropic community to foster private initiative for the public good.
for more info
Contact: Patricia Nash
Phone: 202-467-6100
www.independentsector.org
AccountAbility (Institute for Social and Ethical AccountAbility) is the pre-eminent international, professional institute active in the field of social and ethical accountability. Its mission is to enhance social, ethical and overall organisational performance by developing and promoting effective tools and professional expertise, and by advocating an effective enabling environment for organisations to embrace the accountability dimensions of sustainable development. for more info
Contact: Simon Zadek
Phone: (011) 44-20-7549-0400
www.accountability.org.uk
Net Impact is a network for young business leaders interested in using the power of business to create a better world. Through its central office and 50 local business school chapters, Net Impact helps members broaden their business education, refine their leadership skills, and build meaningful careers. for more info
Contact: Ben Klasky
Phone: (415) 984-3300
www.net-impact.org
The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum is an international not-for-profit organization which was founded in 1990 to promote socially responsible business practices that benefit business and society, and which help achieve socially, economically and environmentally sustainable development. The Forum works at the very highest levels in over 60 of the world’s leading multinational companies, and is active in some 50 emerging and transition economies. for more info
Contact: Peter Brew
Phone: (011) 44-20-7467-3604
www.csrforum.com
Social Accountability International is a charitable human rights organization dedicated to improving workplaces and communities by developing and implementing socially responsible standards. SAI fulfills its mission by: convening key stakeholders to develop consensus-based voluntary standards; accrediting qualified organizations to verify compliance; and promoting understanding and implementation of such standards worldwide. for more info
Contact: Alice Tepper Marlin
Phone: (212) 684-1414
www.sa-intl.org