Green Mountain Energy, founded in 1997, is the longest selling retailer of carbon offsets in the country with a lofty mission: To change our dependence on power generation from coal and nuclear energy to renewable sources. With...

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Toronto Call Centre, eBusiness and mail house specializing in fundraising services blogging about non-profit, CSR, social media and other business...

With 82 percent of U.S. consumers affected by the economic downturn, the percentage of consumers involved in a cause dropped from 60 percent to 53 percent between 2010 and 2012, the only decline among the 16 countries surveyed. Yet, for the first time ever, the U.S. was the only country to believe the responsibility of tackling society’s issues falls most heavily on the shoulders of “people like m

Toronto Call Centre, eBusiness and mail house specializing in fundraising services blogging about non-profit, CSR, social media and other business...

Toronto Call Centre, eBusiness and mail house specializing in fundraising services blogging about non-profit, CSR, social media and other business...

If the company isn't the one driving a social/environmental initiative, what's in it for them? In other words, why would any firm commit its time and resources to tackling problems that the firm might not be directly benefiting from?

What does employee engagement have to do with global sustainability or caring for the poor in India or the hungry in Africa? One simple premise: What gets our attention gets our time and dollars.

There are many ways to define a green company. For a company to be green they have to meet at least one of the following three criteria: conduct business in...

CSR Data Management Strategies For Successful CSR Data Lifecycle Management 19 April 2012, Wolverton House, London

a new approach to CSR, which I call Systemic CSR, or CSR 2.0. This is a purpose-driven, principle-based approach, in which business seeks to identify and tackle the root causes of our present unsustainability

In order to be able to grow Unilever is working on sustainability and CSR. How does that work? For most companies CSR is a defensive strategy, designed...

"The social impact – and what we can do with our consumers and employees to better their communities – is not lost on us. This report is one more tool to ensure we are on target and forever committed to raising the bar on the positive impact we can have."

The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) is pushing for collaborative responsibility across the industry's supply chains to not only answer regulatory pressures but also promote transparency and standards. A conversation with John Gabriel, chairman of the EICC board.

Naysayers of capitalism say the system is selective, linear and perishable; that the market needs an alternative form of business. Many of these complaints come from the public sector, the activists and environmentalists who tire of tackling our world's problems alone. Who should play what part? Can nonprofit and NGOs fill the gap between social needs and government inaction effectively? An in-dep

Unilever’s Keith Weed appeared to strike a chord when he peppered his keynote address at the Advertising Association’s Lead 2012 summit with calls for a more responsible approach to m...

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