Who's Who
Major Organisations, Agencies and Educators

CSR Europe
CSR Europe is a business-driven membership network. Our mission is to help companies achieve profitability sustainable growth and human progress by placing corporate social responsibility in the mainstream of business practice.
CSR Europe, Rue Defacqz, 78-80, Brussels 1060, Belgium
tel + 32 2 541 1610, fax +32 2 502 8458, email info@csreurope.org

Business in the Community
Business in the Community is a unique movement of 700 member companies committed to continually improving their positive impact on society.
Business in the Community, 137 Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7RQ
Tel: 0870 600 2482, information@bitc.org.uk

World Council for Sustainable Development
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a coalition of 170 international companies united by a shared commitment to sustainable development via the three pillars of economic growth, ecological balance and social progress. Our members are drawn from more than 30 countries and 20 major industrial sectors.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), 4, chemin de Conches, 1231 Conches-Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (22) 839 3100, Fax: +41 (22) 839 3131, E-mail: info@wbcsd.org

United Nations Global Compact
Through the power of collective action, the Global Compact seeks to advance responsible corporate citizenship so that business can be part of the solution to the challenges of globalisation. In this way, the private sector – in partnership with other social actors – can help realize the Secretary-General’s vision: a more sustainable and inclusive global economy.
The Global Compact Office, United Nations, Room S-1881, New York, N.Y. 10017, USA
Email: globalcompact@un.org.

EMPRESA
EMPRESA brings together CSR-based organizations and associated companies that share the same vision of promoting CSR in the Americas. It provides support to those organizations and its members in order to encourage CSR practices within other American companies. EMPRESA works jointly with other kinds of organizations on a case-by-case basis, to develop projects specially focused on promoting CSR within a specific country or region.
EMPRESA. Ebro 2740, OF. 301 Las Condes, Santiago, Chile / Tel. (56 2) 431 0310 / Fax: (56 2) 378 7290

Net Impact
Net Impact is working to foster a new generation of leaders who use the power of business to create a better world.  Our programs are designed to support our network, equip and educate our members, and inspire our members to take action.

WorldCSR: a gateway to some leading CSR organizations.

Earthwatch Institute,
Earthwatch Institute engages people worldwide in scientific field research
and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment.

European Business Ethics Network: Academic resources and publications, plus the Ethics Practitioner Forum

Ethics Resource Center

International Business Ethics Institute

The Interself Foundation is a nonprofit U.S. organization that promotes global peace through intervention and remediation at the local and regional levels.  It serves to facilitate the partnering of Business, NGOs, and Government in order to resolve conflict(s) and the conditions that precipitate/perpetuate them.  lar@if-peace.org or help@if-peace.org.

OECD responsible business guidelines for MNCs

Oneworld Net: An online network of social, ethical, and environmental organizations and resources
www.oneworld.org

Sustainability Education Center, The Sustainability Education Center was created in 1995 in response to the growing need for educational materials, professional development and community education focused on sustainability. First founded as a program of The American Forum for Global Education, the Center spun off and became an independent organization in July of 2002. While continually expanding its range of products and services, the Center builds on the American Forum's twenty-eight years of program expertise in global and environmental education, technical assistance, curriculum and professional development.

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The Ashridge Centre for Business and Society (ACBAS) is a leading authority on relations between the corporate sector, government and communities, with particular emphasis on the changing role of business. ACBAS is part of Ashridge, the international business school based in Hertfordshire, UK. The work of ACBAS focuses on the rapidly changing relationship between public, private and voluntary sector organisations. Within this theme, ACBAS aims to further the debate on how issues of corporate governance, employee relations, supplier alliances, business values, community investment and government relations impact upon the long-term viability of business.

Asian Institute of Management - The Ramon V. del Rosario, Sr. AIM Center for Corporate Responsibility (RVR Center) is a research and program center within the Asian Institute of Management. Its main task is the management of corporate social responsibility relative to the competitiveness of firms and its impact on society. The Center is engaged in case writing and research, program development and executive education and training. A lecture series and an annual conference on Corporate Responsibility are programmed each year. A Corporate Responsibility Awards program is to be launched in the future.

Boston College - Centre for Corporate Citizenship is a leading resource on corporate citizenship, providing research, executive education, consultation and convenings on citizenship topics. Our mission is to establish corporate citizenship as a business essential, with the goal that all companies act as economic and social assets by integrating social interests with other core business objectives.

University of Cardiff BRASS - Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society at Cardiff University: research centre with useful research findings and links.

University of British Columbia - W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics acts as an interdisciplinary research centre, the on a diverse range of topics, including health care practices, business and professional procedures, new information technologies and environmental issues; trains ethicists grounded in the theories and methods of ethics and political economy, a robust knowledge of the subject matter (e.g., medicine, commerce, environmental science), as well as expertise in social science research methodologies; and consults for private, public, and not-for-profit institutions and groups; publishes Directory of Business Ethics Resources on WWW

Colorado State University - E-Center for Business Ethics: O.C. Ferrell's centre at Colorado State University aims to create a virtual community of organizations and individuals that share best practices in the improvement of business ethics useful video feeds on Enron etc, lots of information and links to articles. 

Forum for the Future is an educational and learning charity and this is underlined across its various projects and programmes. In this section of the website we present the themes of what we do in education and learning and explain what we mean by Learning for Sustainable Development.

University of Georgetown Georgetown Business Ethics Institute was established to foster the creation and dissemination of significant conceptual, empirical and applied knowledge in business ethics

The Global Reporting Initiative develop global standards for corporate sustainability reporting. www.globalreporting.org

Harvard Business School - Corporate governance, leadership and values Workshop Series

Hong Kong Baptist University Centre for Applied Ethics

Jacanda: the word means “a safe and responsible guide” which is the principle used by Jacanda to underpin its mentoring, training and development programmes on diversity and the effective management of complex and diverse enterprises seeking to get the best from all the talents of all its people

University of Leeds Centre for Business and Professional Ethics

McGill University - Master of Management for National Voluntary Sector Leaders - a graduate-level program, dealing with national issues, for senior national leaders in the voluntary sector. Offered with the assistance of the J. W. McConnell Family Foundation.

New Academy of Business  was founded in 1995 to provide entrepreneurs, managers and organisational leaders with the insights and capacities necessary to respond progressively to the emerging challenges of sustainability and organisational responsibility. Our education and research programmes focus on the social, ethical and environmental dimensions of business and management practice.

Norwegian School of Management Center for Ethics and Leadership

Project SIGMA is one of the first collaborative projects of its kind seeking to provide practical guidance on how organisations can develop in more sustainable ways.  SIGMA’s unique value is that focuses on the provision of guidance as opposed to prescription and therefore avoids furthering the so called ‘check-box’ mentality.  The project is generating great interest worldwide and its guidelines (launched in mid 2003) are viewed as a model of how to implement and improve sustainability management in organisations. Freely available resources on the SIGMA site (www.projectsigma.com).  These include the guidelines themselves, plus 13 tools (developed with leading organisations) to help companies to manage their environmental and social impacts (the SIGMA toolkit).

University of Toronto Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics

Warwick University Corporate Citizenship Unit is centre of excellence in the area of research and teaching in corporate citizenship by bringing together diverse people from business, government, and civil society organisations to examine changes in the relationship between corporations, states and communities.

Wharton School of Management - The Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research was established in 1997. The mission of the Center is to sponsor and disseminate leading edge research on critical topics in business ethics. The Center's broad research focus includes global business ethics, corporate governance, social contracts, deception, disclosure, bribery and corruption.

Yale School of Management
The International Institute for Corporate Governance (IICG) at the Yale School of Management (SOM) was established in July 2001. Its objective is to be the leading research, teaching, and policy center focused on the institutional framework for corporate governance, and the principles and practices of effective corporate governance.