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Social Responsibility for Business

As You Sow Corporate Responsibility Program - Since 1992, As You Sow has been transforming corporate behavior by utilizing capital markets, shareholder leverage, and innovative legal strategies to create a more socially and environmentally just society. The Corporate Social Responsibility Program promotes corporate responsibility by engaging publicly held companies to adopt more progressive social and environmental policies - using the power of ownership to promote positive change. The program engages in dialogue with selected companies, file shareholder resolutions, build coalitions, and conduct shareholder education initiatives to raise awareness and promote more responsible corporate behavior. As You Sow is a non-profit organization.

Harvard Business School Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategies to Create Business and Social Value - Designed to help senior executives integrate social responsibility with corporate strategy, CSR explores the political consequences of investment decisions. Participants learn how to improve economic performance while contributing to society.

International Information Programs - Progressive companies today are recognizing that maximizing profits is not all that should matter in their business practices: companies also should contribute to the broader pubic good and treat their employees, at a minimum, with dignity and respect.

Natural Step - Since 1988, The Natural Step has worked to accelerate global sustainability by guiding companies, communities and governments onto an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable path. More than 70 people in eleven countries work with an international network of sustainability experts, scientists, universities, and businesses to create solutions, innovative models and tools that will lead the transition to a sustainable future.

Newswire of Corporate Social Responsibility - CSRwire is the leading source of corporate social responsibility and sustainability news, reports and information. CSRwire members are companies and NGOs, agencies and organizations interested in communicating their corporate citizenship, sustainability, and socially responsible initiatives to a global audience through CSRwire's syndication network and weekly News Alerts. alerts@csrwire.com

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