Socially Responsible Investment
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Support Organizations \ Models
& Best Practices
Research Resources \ Articles-Publications
RESEARCH RESOURCES
AccountabilityCentral.com
www.accountability-central.com
Launched in 2006, Accountability Central aims to serve as
a clearinghouse for news, intelligence, insight, perspective,
opinion, and advice on issues concerning corporate governance,
corporate social responsibility, shareholder activism, and
socially responsible investing and related issues.
Business
Ethics
www.business-ethics.com
Founded in 1987, Business Ethics magazine is the only U.S.-based
business magazine focusing on ethics and corporate social
responsibility. Published four times a year with a total distribution
to approximately 10,000 readers, it is read by leaders in
business, investing, academia, government and civil society
organizations interested in corporate social responsibility
issues.
Center
for Responsible Business
www.haas.berkeley.edu/responsiblebusiness
Founded in 2003 and housed at the Haas Business School at the University
of California, Berkeley, the Center for Responsible Business strives
to be a leader in corporate social responsibility research, both
in the academic and practitioner arenas. This site contains a series
of working papers on stakeholder engagement, with a focus on developing
quantitative measures.
Corporate
Library
www.thecorporatelibrary.com
The Corporate Library is a private company that offers comprehensive
research on corporate governance and compensation, including
issuing a number of reports illustrating the disjuncture between
CEO pay and company performance. Founded in 1989, the company
offers data on more than 2,100 publicly traded U.S. companies.
FSG Social
Impact Advisors
www.fsg-impact.org
Founded in 1999 by Michael Porter to be a for-profit consulting
firm, FSG Social Impact Advisors became a nonprofit organization
in 2006. The group aims to change the practice of philanthropy
and corporate social responsibility both through client-based
consulting work as well as through field-spanning conferences
and reports, a number of which are available for free download
from its website.
Green
Money Journal
www.greenmoneyjournal.com
Founded in 1993, this journal covers a broad range of issues in
the socially responsible investing and corporate social responsibility
world. Back issues of magazine articles for the past half dozen
years are available on line.
Hazel Henderson
www.hazelhenderson.com
Based in St. Augustine, Florida, Dr. Hazel Henderson is a syndicated
columnist, producer of the television series, Ethical Marketplace
(broadcast on PBS, see: www.ethicalmarkets.com), and a consultant
on sustainable development. The website includes a wide range of
her writings on socially responsible investment and related issues.
Proxy Voting
Services
www.pvsproxy.com
PVS, an independent division of Institutional Shareholder Services
Inc., is dedicated to serving Taft-Hartley investment managers and
public plan sponsors with comprehensive proxy voting, research and
shareholder advisory services. PVS votes proxies in the best long-term
economic interest of plan participants and beneficiaries, fully
conforming to AFL-CIO voting guidelines that are based on the “worker
owner view of corporate value.”
Social Funds.com
www.socialfunds.com
SocialFunds.com features over 10,000 pages of information on SRI
mutual funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner
actions, and daily social investment news.
Studies
of Socially Responsible investing
www.sristudies.org/html/sixteen_studies.html
Assembled by Lloyd Kurtz, a professional portfolio advisor and a
Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas
School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley, this
site contains links to a group of studies that compare the financial
performance of socially screened funds against comparable conventional
investment funds.
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