Archive for April, 2009

The Justmeans CSR and Social Media Summer Internship

Justmeans is recruiting a cohort of CSR and Social Media Summer Interns for the summer of 2009. Applicants should be enrolled in, or have just completed an MBA program and have an interest in sustainability, social enterprise, corporate social responsibility and responsible investing.

Applicants will answer one of the following two questions reflecting their philosophy related to sustainability and responsibility.

  1. Is Social Responsibility more or less important in a recession?
  2. Why is the Press Release dead?

May 1, 2009, 11:59 p.m.: Application and voting deadline.

Read more at:

http://www.justmeans.com/challenge/CSRinternship

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Green is beautiful:) Happy Weekend:)

Spring flag, originally uploaded by kavan..

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Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting

The Board of the Global Reporting Initiative has issued the Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting.

The Board calls on government to design policies requiring companies to address publicly environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

According to GRI’s Board, the governments should:

  • introduce policies requiring companies to report on ESG factors or publicly explain why they have not done so.
  • require ESG reporting by public bodies – in particular: state owned companies, government pension funds and public investment agencies.
  • integrate sustainability reporting within the emerging global financial regulatory framework being developed by leaders of the G20.

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CSR-pedia

CSR-pedia is a  website that categorizes, catalogs, and describes corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs developed by companies to help solve social and environmental problems around the world.

The two main features of this website are a CSR Program Directory, and a Socially Responsible Business List.

In the CSR Program Directory, each socially responsible and/or environmentally sustainable activity is categorized by:

The Socially Responsible Business List consists of international companies that engage in major socially responsible acticities.  Companies are currently being selected based on prevalence in CSR literature.

CSR-pedia was created by a team of researchers under the supervision of  Dr.Mary-Ann Ferguson from the Department of Public Relations, University of Florida.

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