Socially Responsible Investment

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 focused on ethics and corporate social responsibility. Published exclusively online since 2006, it is read by leaders in business, investing, academia, government and civil society organizations interested in corporate social responsibility issues.

Calvert Foundation: Community Investment Profiles
www.calvertfoundation.org/impact/profiles
Investing in a professionally managed portfolio of loans to more than 240 nonprofits and social enterprises working in over 100 countries to alleviate poverty, the Calvert Foundation provides a searchable database of these different organizations. These investments are clustered in four principle impact sectors: housing, microlending, small business, and community development. The site also provides a tool for individuals to calculate the impact their investment will have based on the amount, duration, and sector of the investment.

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 3,200 publicly traded U.S. and Canadian companies.

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Ethical Markets
www.ethicalmarkets.com
Ethical Markets is an independent media company that strives to promote a global economy that is sustainable and just.  Providing a perspective on the Green Transition, Reforming Global Finance, SRI and more, Ethical Markets provides a useful research resource for information relating to this global shift.

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 since 1999 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
Proxy Voting Services, a division of RiskMetrics, (formerly 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/Key+Studies
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.