Organizations

SAN FRANCISCO – Van Jones, founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC) will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Business for Social Responsibility Annual Conference, November 11-14, 2003 in Los Angeles.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two leading organizations have launched ClimateBiz.com, a free Web site to help companies address climate change in a way that aligns environmental responsibility with business success.

Los Angeles – More than a dozen manufacturers, retailers and shipping companies today announced the Clean Cargo Environmental Performance Survey for shippers to gauge their carriers’ environmental management performance and address the enviro...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- A new report, Strengthening Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains, issued by Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), and the Copenhagen office of PricewaterhouseCo...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Socially responsible investing (SRI) in the United States remained robust during 2001 and 2002, even as the rest of the investment world was stagnant. Assets in socially screened portfolios climbed to $2.15 trillion in 2003, an increase over the $...

Washington, D.C. - What is Proxy Access?
On Oct. 15, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published proposed rules allowing shareholders a new, but severely limited ability to propose nominees for corporate boards. Earlier this year, the S...

WASHINGTON, DC - Fall marks the traditional kick-off of the country's workplace giving season, when thousands of employees, corporate and otherwise, will pledge a small portion of their paychecks to support the charities and causes that matter to them. Thanks to an...

LONDON - The Responsible Competitiveness Consortium has been created to explore the strategic role of "corporate responsibility" in contributing to the competitiveness of nations and communities. Its overall goal is to increase the impact of corporate responsibility p...

STAMFORD, CT – As the world's largest recycler of aluminum beverage containers, Anheuser-Busch Recycling Corporation recycles more than 100 percent of the aluminum cans sold domestically by Anheuser-Busch. Considering it takes the same amount of energy to make one alu...

SAN FRANCISCO – Business for Social Responsibility is pleased to announce that Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Ventura-based Patagonia, Inc., will be a featured speaker at this year’s Business for Social Responsibility Annual Conference, November 11-14, 20...