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Business for
Social Responsibility (BSR) - An excellent resource for learning about
corporate social responsibility (CSR). Includes research, news summaries,
best practices and other topical resources.
Canadian
Centre for Social Entrepreneurship - An information clearinghouse on the
latest developments in social entrepreneurship in Canada and internationally.
Canadian
CED Network - A website dedicated to local economic development as a way of
simultaneously achieving social and economic objectives while also addressing
socio-economic inequalities.
Canadian Cooperative
Association An umbrella organization to promote, develop and unite
cooperatives and credit unions. CCA publishes a newsletter entitled
"Concern for Community"
Ethical Investors Group / Groupe d'investissement éthique
EIG is a Montreal-based investment club that maintains a portfolio made up self-picked, socially responsible (SR) investments. The group's mission includes; 1) purchasing equity in
socially responsible firms; 2) providing capital to economically disadvantaged individuals with promising business projects; 3)
demonstrating that financial returns can be obtained in tandem with environmental and social dividends; and 4)
promoting socially- and environmentally-responsible business practices and investment
decisions.
EthicsCentre.ca
(formerly Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy) The Centre explores
and promotes the role of ethics in the conduct of all business by corporations,
organizations and individuals.
Ethics
Toolkit for Managers - An easy-to-follow resource by Carter McNamara
outlining the basics of business ethics and why they are important to your
workplace.
Kairos is an ecumenical coalition of churches in Canada which promotes socially and
environmentally responsible practices among Canadian-based corporations. In 1999
it published Benchmarks which laid out a comprehensive set of social and
environmental performance indicators for business covering human rights, labour
and environmental standards and principles.
International
Business Ethics (University of Pittsburgh) - contains information on
business ethics cases, cultural contexts, legal codes and stakeholder priorities
in a number of countries around the globe.
International
Development Ethics Association (IDEA) A resource for academics and
international development practitioners for considering ethical dimensions of
international development and globalization.
Social
Investment Organization - A comprehensive resource for socially responsible
investment in Canada.
TurnAround Couriers
- a socially responsible bicycle courier business that recruits youth at risk to be both the bicycle couriers and the back office staff in an attempt to enable youth at risk to gain the experience, confidence and financial means to enter the job market
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