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The Aspen Institute
leverages the power of leaders to improve the human condition.
In 1997, the Institute began its research on industry-specific
workforce development – employment training strategies
for low-income people that create win-win solutions for targeted
employers, industries, and disadvantaged individuals. The Institute
now fields, analyzes, and disseminates original research that
tracks trainees and participants, documents best practices,
and articulates the business case for employers and industries.
for more info
Contact: Maureen
Conway
Phone: (202) 736-1071
www.aspenwsi.org |
Brody
Weiser Burns is a management consulting firm that utilizes
business tools to facilitate social change. Founded in 1984,
BWB specializes in developing corporate community partnerships
that create business value and improve the lives of low-income
individuals. BWB also develops business plans for nonprofit
ventures, and advises private placement social investors. for
more info
Contact: John Weiser
Phone: (203) 481-4199
www.brodyweiser.com |
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Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program produces
research that helps advance public understanding and policy
reforms in the areas of metropolitan growth, central city
competitiveness, neighborhood poverty, and community and family
wealth creation. for more info
Contact: Bruce Katz
Phone: (202) 797-6139
www.brookings.edu/metro
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Business and Society Program at
the Aspen Institute provides valuable insight into
the business leaders of tomorrow by having its finger on the
pulse of today's business school students. Through research
and surveys, Aspen BSP is the leading source tracking national
attitudes and practices in the top business schools.
for more info
Contact:
Judy Samuelson
Phone: (212) 895-8000
www.aspeninstitute.org/bsp |
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
Contact: Lisa
Acree
Phone: (415) 984-3200
www.bsr.org |
The
Calvert Social Investment Foundation (Calvert Foundation) is
creating community investment as a new asset class. Through
its financial instruments and online information services, the
Calvert Foundation enables individuals and institutions to channel
capital to low-income communities. Calvert's below-market financial
instruments yield a combination of financial and social returns
on investment. for more info
Contact: Shari
Berenbach
Phone: (800) 248-0337
www.calvertfoundation.org |
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
supports the successful design and implementation of win-win
corporate community involvement strategies. for
more info
Contact: Bradley Googins
Phone: (617) 552-4545
www.bcccc.net |
The Center for Financial
Services Innovation (CFSI), an initiative of Shorebank
Advisory Services, brings together diverse members of the
financial services marketplace to encourage the development
of asset-building opportunities that create value for both
customers and companies. CFSI provides funding and resources,
enables partnerships, and develops and distributes authoritative
information on how to respond to the needs of the underbanked
profitably and responsibly. for more
info
Contact: Jennifer
Tescher
Phone: (312) 881-5856
www.cfsinnovation.com
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Community
Development Venture Capital Alliance has approximately
100 members, including more than 80 community development venture
capital funds that provide equity capital finance to small businesses
to create good jobs, wealth, and entrepreneurial capacity that
benefit low-income people and communities in throughout the
United States and around the world. for
more info
Contact: Kerwin Tesdell
Phone: (212) 594-6747
www.cdvca.org
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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 |
Corporate Voices for Working
Families is a nonprofit corporate partnership organization
created to bring the private sector voice into the public
dialogue on issues affecting working families. Corporate Voices
brings business leaders, corporate perspectives, and working-family
expertise to the table with policymakers and activists to
develop, share, and achieve solutions.
for
more info
Contact: Donna
Klein
Phone: (202) 429-0573
www.cvworkingfamilies.org |
CFED
(formerly the Corporation for Enterprise Development)
promotes asset-building and economic opportunity strategies
that bring together private markets, community practice, and
public policy in new and effective ways. CFED encourages microenterprise
and development finance to increase access to business investment
in undercapitalized areas. for more info
Contact: Andrea
Levere
Phone: (202) 408-9788
www.cfed.org |
The Council for Adult and Experiential
Learning (CAEL) is a national leader in the fields
of workforce development and adult learning. Founded in 1974,
CAEL provides companies, colleges and universities, labor organizations
and state and local governments with the tools and strategies
they need for creating practical, effective learning/training
solutions. for more info
Contact: Pam Tate
Phone: (312) 499-2600
www.cael.org |
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