Additional Resources
Links
Corporate Social Responsibility
Blended
Value Review of relationships and possible collaborations
between CSR, social entrepreneurship, SRI, etc.
Business
for Social Responsibility Membership organization
for companies seeking to sustain their commercial success in
ways that demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities,
and the environment.
Wharton
Net Impact Career Handbook
CasePlace
A free, online service for business school faculty, students
and businesses. We can help you find some of the best
cases, references,
and commentary
published by and for business educators and business executives.
CSR
Wire A newswire service devoted to corporate social
responsibility (CSR) issues.
UN
Global Compact An international initiative that
brings companies together with UN agencies, labor and civil
society to support ten principles in the areas of human rights,
labor, the environment, and anti-corruption.
Nonprofit Management
Compass
Point Nonprofit Services A nonprofit training,
consulting and research organization with offices in San Francisco
and Silicon Valley.
Idealist.org
Leading career services professionals with a special
commitment to nonprofit and socially responsible careers, developed
this series of guides about working in the nonprofit sector.
Bridgestar
A nonprofit organization dedicated to developing leadership
for the nonprofit sector.
Environmental management and
sustainability
UC Berkeley Environmental Events Calendar
UC Berkeley Environment Portal
Co-op
America Mission is to harness economic power—the
strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to
create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
Natural
Step works to accelerate global sustainability
by guiding companies, communities and governments onto an ecologically,
socially and economically sustainable path.
ClimateBiz.com
A free, Web-based resource to help companies of
all sizes and sectors understand and address climate change
in a way that aligns environmental responsibility with business
success.
Roberts
Environmental Center Site contains reports on Corporate
Environmental and Sustainability Reporting.
Community Development and Microfinance
Community
Development Society An international association that
works with members of various sectors including neighborhood
organizing, community planning, education and University Extension,
economic development, environment, health, housing, social services,
and more
Home
Development Helps improve people’s lives
in developing countries by building partnerships and information
systems that provide access to knowledge for development.
Global
Envision The site offers an online community supporting
economic development and responsible free markets, with a goal
of reducing poverty. Contains articles, resources, opportunities
to get involved, news, and more.
Microfinance
Gateway A comprehensive
online resource for the microfinance industry. It includes research
and publications, specialized resource centers, organization
and consultant profiles, and the latest news, events, and job
opportunities in microfinance.
Books
and Articles
Corporate
Social Responsibility
Everybody’s
Business by Adrienne Hodges
Rod Eddington writes “This handbook
provides a unique, practical resource for managers at all levels
to consider the wider social, environmental and economic impact
of our business operations.”
Transforming
Leadership: The Pursuit of Happiness by James MacGregor
Burns, 2003
The publisher writes “ Burns illuminates
the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains
of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies,
to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of liberty and
happiness during the American Revolution. Along the way he looks
at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders
who attempted to transform their worlds”
The
Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through
Profits by C. K. Prahalad
The
publisher states "In the book and accompanying CD videos,
Prahalad presents: why what you know about BOP (Bottom of the
Pyramid) markets is wrong; unlocking the "poverty penalty";
the most enduring contributions your company can make; and corporations
and BOP entrepreneurs."
Nonprofit Management
Strategic
Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: Enhancing the Performance of
Your Enterprising Nonprofit
by Gregory Deesy, et al
“As a follow-up
to their book Enterprising Nonprofits, the authors of Strategic
Tools for Social Entrepreneurs provide a full set of practical
tools for putting the lessons of business entrepreneurship to
work in your nonprofit.”
Breakthrough Thinking for Nonprofit Organizations: Creative
Strategies for Extraordinary Results by Bernard Ross
and Clare Segal
“Using examples
of best practices from innovative organizations in both the
corporate and nonprofit worlds, Breakthrough Thinking for
Nonprofit Organizations offers a mix of "how-to"
advice and case studies that will guide readers on a new road
to creativity.”
Environmental
Management and Sustainability
Natural
Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, & Hunter Lovins
“The short answer
to the logical question (What is natural capitalism?) is that
it is a way of thinking that seeks to apply market principles
to all sources of material value, most importantly natural resources.
The authors have two related goals: first, to show the vast
array of ecologically smart options available to businesses;
second, to argue that it is possible for society and industry
to adopt them.” From Publisher’s Weekly.
The
New Economy of Nature: The Quest to make Conservation Profitable
by Gretchen Daily & Katherine Ellison
“The New Economy of Nature
brings together Gretchen Daily, one of the world's leading ecologists,
with Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist,
to offer an engaging and informative look at a new "new
economy" -- a system recognizing the economic value of
natural systems and the potential profits in protecting them.”
Walking
the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development
by Charles O’Holliday Jr., Stephan Schmid Heiny, Philip
Watts.
“Swiss industrialist
Stephan Schmidheiny, Charles O. Holliday (Chairman and CEO,
DuPont) and Philip Watts (Chairman, Royal Dutch/Shell) argue
that sustainable development is good for business. Drawing upon
67 business case studies from around the world, the authors
present evidence that good corporate social and environmental
performance benefits the bottom line as well as the planet.”
From BN.com.
Community Development and Microfinance
Banker
to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunis, 1999
“The simple idea of micro-loans is
revolutionizing developing economies. Instead of lending large
sums of money to often corrupt bureaucracies, economist Muhammad
Yunus founded Grameen Bank to offer tiny sums, as little as
$5, to individual craftspeople, tenant farmers, and subsistence
entrepreneurs so they could keep themselves afloat between buying
and selling. That was in 1983. Sixteen years later, with $2.5
billion being dispersed annually to more than two million families
in rural Bangladesh and repayment rates close to 100 percent,
Yunus is being hailed as the father of a new economic model
that is bringing people out of poverty. In Banker to the
Poor, Yunus explains why his program works.” From
BN.com.
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