The following Web sites have been selected by Bowman Librarians
as examples of sites appropriate for college research. Keep in mind,
however, that free Web resources are rarely filtered, often making
it difficult to determine the content's accuracy. Use our guide
Evaluating
Web Resources to help you review the authority, currency, and
objectivity or bias of every site you use.
Center
for Ethical Business Cultures
http://www.cebcglobal.org/KnowledgeCenter/Standards.htm
Center for Ethical Business Cultures, affiliated with the University
of St. Thomas, lists annotated links to several corporate social
responsibility standards.
Foundation Center
http://foundationcenter.org/
Founded in 1956, the Center is the nation's leading authority on
philanthropy and is dedicated to serving grant seekers, grant makers,
researchers, policymakers, the media and the general public. This
site contains reports and statistical information, as well as a
directory of foundations (featuring IRS Form 990 and a guide to
understanding it).
GuideStar
http://www.guidestar.org/
GuideStar is a project of Philanthropic Research, Inc. (PRI), a
nonprofit organization.
Its database contains records on more than 700,000 nonprofit organizations;
data is collected directly from the charities, and from the IRS
Business Master File and Forms 990. Online, line-by-line IRS Form
990 tutorial is also available.
CSRwire (Corporate
Social Responsibility Wire) Directory
http://www.csrwire.com/resources/directory
This site has a searchable directory of more than 1,700 organizations
working on all aspects of corporate social responsibility in more
than 90 countries.
CorporateRegister.com
http://corporateregister.com/
CorporateRegister.com is a comprehensive directory of corporate
non-financial reports, on topics such as the environment, social
impact, sustainability or corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Established as a free service by Next Step Consulting in 1998, the
site aims to provide access to all current reports, as well as developing
an archive of all reports published since 1990. Free registration
required.
Business for Social Responsibility
(BSR)
http://www.bsr.org
BSR is a global, non-profit organization providing information,
tools, training and advisory services about corporate social responsibility.
Follow the “BSR Resources” link to browse “Issue
Briefs” (critical summaries) and in-depth reports on corporate
social responsibility issues.
Social Returns
http://www.socialreturns.org/
Much of the material contained on the Social Returns Web site was
developed for the Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs
Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures. Social Returns gives
its members (free registration) access to the latest research on
nonprofit enterprises, how-to guides, publications and articles,
case studies, profiles of business ventures, and more.
Center
for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University School
of Business
http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/case/leaders/
Follow the “publications” and “resources”
links in the “Overview” text to access case studies
and working papers, as well as an extensive, annotated list of publications,
organizations and initiatives concerned with social entrepreneurship.
Stanford Social Innovation
Review
http://www.ssireview.org/
Stanford Social Innovation Review publishes "strategies, tools
and ideas for non-profits, foundations and socially responsible
business.” Note that full text of articles is available through
ProQuest.
UN Principles for Responsible Investment
http://www.unpri.org/
The Principles for Responsible Investment provide a framework incorporating
environmental, social and corporate governance issues into management
of investment portfolios. The Principles were created by UN-invited
representatives of 20 institutional investors from 12 countries.
RISE (Research Initiative
on Social Entrepreneurship) Double Bottom Line Investors Directory
http://www.riseproject.org
RISE is a project at Columbia Business School. RISE studies the
growing practice of building profit and nonprofit ventures that
aim to achieve social and financial impact through their products,
services and other business practices, and the entities that fund
them. The site features RISE Double Bottom Line Investor Directory.
You might also be interested in research reports and tools, such
as the RISE Social Venture Rubric, a diagnostic tool developed
to aid evaluation of social ventures.
Show
Me the Money
http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/show_me_the_money.pdf
The Show Me the Money summary report synthesizes more than
1,000 pages of research from the mainstream financial analyst community.
It has been prepared by the asset management working group of UNEP-FI
(United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative) which
explores the association between environmental, social and corporate
governance considerations, and investment decision making.
