CSRwire Events

"Funnel Your Energy" Event To Repair Homes Hit by Disasters May 30

05.22.2012 - 09:09AM

Rebuilding Together in Springfield is commemorating the first anniversary of the devastating tornadoes by rebuilding homes with hundreds of volunteers! The event is called “Funnel Your Energy 2012”.Our event is a follow up to last October’s “Rebuilding 25 Homes in 5 Days with 1,000 Volunteers”.

Rebuilding Together is the only nonprofit in the city rebuilding homes for low-income families that sustained damage so that they may return to a home that is safe and restored. A recent assessment has over 100 family households in the city with over $1.4 Million in rebuilding costs that either did not have insurance, inadequate insurance or where the contractors took off with the insurance money and did not finish the job. Rebuilding Together is here for this daunting task.

Innovating for Sustainability

05.21.2012 - 08:45AM

Exploring the link between sustainability and financial performance, this Harvard Business School program helps companies deliver value to both shareholders and society. You will discover how leading companies are developing innovative products, processes, and business models to achieve financial goals while meeting objectives—and government mandates—for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance.

Please visit www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/ifse or email executive_education@hbs.edu to learn more.

Corporate Social Responsibility Program

05.21.2012 - 08:44AM

Emphasizing the alignment of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with business strategy, the CSR program offered by HBS Executive Education helps you define priorities, integrate social responsibility throughout your business, and build social and business value. You will strengthen your ability to define and implement powerful CSR strategies that position the firm, its reputation, and its way of doing business for enduring success. In addition, you will have numerous opportunities to learn from the diverse experiences and perspectives of peers from around the world.

For more information click here: http://www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/csr/

Smart Cities Executive Evening

05.17.2012 - 06:01PM

AGRION presents the Smart Cities Executive Evening, sponsored by JETRO and Schneider Electric.

Join us for an evening of dinner and networking, while we discuss opportunities for creating smarter urban infrastructure in a world challenged by resource constraints.

Panelists will explore financing distributed generation in urban areas, integrating energy efficiency and renewable energy into existing buildings, and modernizing transportation and the grid. Speakers Include:

CBS EcoMedia, Paul Polizzotto, President
Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Michel Di Capua Head of US Analysis
NRG Energy, Eric Curry Director, Strategic Partnerships
Alliances IBM, Joe Phillips Director of Smarter Cities/ Smart Buildings
McKinsey, Dr. Nikhil Krishnan Associate Principal
Schneider Electric, Mike Calise, Director of Electric Vehicle Business
Zipcar, Jon Zeitler, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development
GE Energy, Michael Mahan, Product Manager, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

This event is open to both members and non-members of the AGRION network. Please visit our site for more information. www.agrion.org #SmartCitiesEE @AGRION

Optimizing Wind Power O&M

05.16.2012 - 04:26PM

With new wind installations in the US forecast to slow down beyond the end of 2012, the onus for optimizing the performance of existing assets has increased. Developers are looking at shifting more resources towards the O&M side of their business, whilst for OEMs, a softening sales market is enhancing the need for maintaining exceptional after-sales services and performance.

The 4th Annual Optimizing Wind Power O&M conference returns as an interactive and intimate setting for addressing your critical operational challenges, with a keen focus on real experiences and enhancement of O&M strategy.

The agenda is designed around the key factors that can improve the operational performance of your projects:

Are you involved with equipment that is coming out of warranty?
Can you share your experiences with implementing a predictive approach to maintenance?
Do you oversee a data analysis team that has achieved breakthroughs in advancing your wind asset management strategy?
Is your company achieving improved reliability and reductions in down-time?
Have you successfully conducted retrofits or repowering on older wind farms?

Confirmed speakers include:

Brian Hayes, Executive Vice President, Asset Operations, EDP Renewables, North America
Dan Brake, Technical Services General Manager, Renewables, NextEra Energy Resources
Gerrud Wallaert, Regional Operations Manager, Midwest / Northeast, E.ON Climate and Renewables
Jean Lemaire, Project Director, Akuo Energy
Dave Magill, Senior Vice President, Asset Management, Competitive Power Ventures
Todd Wynn, General manager of Wind Operations and Maintenance, Enel Green Power
Ryan McGraw, Head of Asset Management, Orion Renewable Energy Group
Steve Gilbert, Senior Manager Renewables O&M, Alliant Energy
Gabriel Vaca, Director, Asset Management, NaturEner
Valerie Peters, Wind Reliability Lead Analyst, Sandia National Laboratory

For more information visit our event website - http://www.greenpowerconferences.com/link/WE1209US.html?=csr

10th Anniversary Cause Marketing Forum

05.10.2012 - 02:00PM

Cause marketing is now widely recognized as one of the most powerful marketing strategies for both companies and causes with conservative estimates quantifying corporate cause sponsorships at $1.68 billion in 2011.

The annual Cause Marketing Forum is the must-attend conference of the year focusing solely on this increasingly important marketing approach and subset of corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts. Appropriate for both novice and seasoned cause marketers, the annual Cause Marketing Forum covers a wide range of topics featuring expert cause marketing speakers and discussion group leaders. From legal considerations to forming the perfect corporate-nonprofit partnership to harnessing the power of social media for your cause marketing campaign, no cause-related marketing topic is left uncovered.

Attendees will hear from executives, marketing and corporate social responsibility professionals from companies including Zynga, Procter & Gamble, Campbell’s Soup Company, Whirlpool, ANN Inc., Yum! Brands, The Coca-Cola Company, AOL/Huffington Post Media Group and others.

Nonprofit speakers include executive and cause marketing representatives from U.S. Fund for UNICEF, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, KaBoom!, ACCION, World Wildlife Fund, DoSomething.org, March of Dimes, Adopt a Clasroom and others.

Highlights include:

A behind-the-scenes look at the integrated cause-related marketing effort, Arctic Home, partnering The Coca-Cola Company and World Wildlife Fund and lessons learned from this major initiative.
Keynotes by U.S. Fund for UNICEF’s President and CEO Caryl Stern and Procter & Gamble’s Group Vice President for North America Melanie Healey
The Great Breast Cancer Debate – a panel discussion of this cause marketing poster child that generates more corporate funding and more controversy than any other in the field.
Digital sessions offering trends on crowdsourcing and the gamification of cause marketing. - A practical cause marketing Legal Update from Attorney Ed Chansky
The Perfect Pitch - A new, edutational session starring three cause marketing pros pitching a single nonprofit to a panel of judges and
The Cause Marketing Halo Awards – the brightest and best examples of 2011 cause marketing campaigns from 9 individual categories. Hear lessons learned from two of this year’s winners in Halo Spotlights.
A frank conversation about how to bridge the divide between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Cause Marketing efforts.
Networking receptions, including our festive Opening Reception, sponsored by .ORG, the Public Interest Registry.
A lively celebration of Cause Marketing Forum’s 10th Anniversary year, including the 10th Birthday Bash, sponsored by MSLGROUP Americas.

Bridging the Americas Seminar 2012: Corporate Accountability and Sustainability in Latin America

05.09.2012 - 01:34PM

The Bridging the Americas Seminar 2012 is a hands-on, interactive workshop that focuses on the rapidly growing links between old-fashioned corporate social responsibility and new-fashioned corporate sustainability in Latin America. Designed to meet the needs of corporate executives, government officials, leaders in the nonprofit world, and academics working in this emerging field.

Features:

Internationally prominent speakers from the US, Mexico and Brazil
Small group dynamics
Development of tools in accountability and sustainability with special reference to the Latin American context

Speakers include:

Luiz Eduardo Osorio, Raízen, São Paulo, Brazil
Charles Ansbach, Ansbach and Associates Sacramento, California
Martha Honey, Center for Responsible Travel, Washington, D.C.
Bianca Brasil, Instituto LIFE, Curitiba, Brazil
Paul Rice, Fair Trade USA, Oakland, California

Registration fee: $2,200. Includes hotel, meals, simultaneous translation and instructional materials.

Sponsored by LLILAS (the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies) and the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.

PR News' SEO Webinar: Day-to-Day SEO Tactics to Amplify All Your PR Messages

05.09.2012 - 10:13AM

Join PR News on May 16 for this tactics-packed webinar that will make you a master at understanding search and how best to optimize your content.

This SEO webinar will show you how to select effective keywords that resonate with your intended audiences and have an impact on search results; how to optimize video, photos, images and social media for search; develop content grounded in SEO principles that does not conflict with Google's guidelines; write SEO-driven copy that turns readers' heads without turning them off; and measure the results of your efforts to take back to senior management.

PR News' Platinum PR Awards - Entry Deadline is Friday, May 11

05.08.2012 - 04:32PM

PR News' Platinum PR Awards salutes the year’s most outstanding communications initiatives and programs in the highly competitive and dynamic PR arena. The coveted awards set the industry benchmark for excellence across all areas of PR.

The winners of the Platinum PR Awards are from corporations, agencies and nonprofits large and small who took chances, made tremendous strides and understand the power of public relations. Your hard work is done – now it’s time for you and your team to get recognized for it!

The Entry Deadline is this Friday, May 11. Are you ready to enter? It’s simple to compete, as your campaigns and people speak for themselves. But you have to enter to be considered, so don’t let your competitors steal the show.

We’ll be honoring the winners in September 2012 in New York City, and in the annual PR News PR Platinum Awards Issue. Please contact PR News' Laura Berdichevsky at lberdichevsky@accessintel.com with any questions.

Social Innovation Summit 2012: Featuring Alicia Keys, Tiki Barber, Jeff Swartz and Jeffrey Hollender

05.08.2012 - 08:00AM

We are pleased to invite CSRwire members to join us for the 2012 annual Social Innovation Summit at the United Nations for unparalleled networking opportunities with an exclusive mix of global attendees on May 30 - 31, 2012.

Social Innovation Summit 2012 is a premier invitation-only conference connecting and inspiring a unique network of Business, Technology, & Community leaders interested in affecting positive social change. The summit balances significant networking time with high-profile global speakers presenting emerging trends across social innovation themes such as economic development, education, women & girls, sustainability and global health.

We are happy to offer CSRwire members this opportunity to join an otherwise closed event with a fantastic lineup of world class speakers including:

Alicia Keys, Multi-Platinum Grammy Singer, Songwriter, Actress & Philanthropist
Howard W. Buffett, Executive Director, Howard G. Buffett Foundation
Craig Venter, Chairman & President, J. Craig Venter Institute
Jonathan Greenblatt, Head, Office of Social Innovation, White House
Kay Koplovitz, Chairman, Liz Claiborne
Jean-Pierre Rosso, Chairman, World Economic Forum USA
Peter Bloom, Managing Director, General Atlantic; Chairman at DonorsChoose.org

Along with our event partners the United Nations Office for Partnerships we would be honored if you would accept our invitation, with details as follows:

Agenda:

Thursday, May 31st

9:00-6:00pm: Main Event Program

6:00-8:00pm: Networking & Cocktail Reception

Pre-Conference: Wednesday, May 30th (**optional)

2:00-6:00pm: Interactive Workshops & Roundtables

6:00-8:00pm – Networking Reception

Partial List of Confirmed Speakers:

Adam Brotman, Chief Digital Officer – Starbucks
Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman of the Executive Committee – Hasbro
Alicia Keys, Multi-Platinum Grammy award-winning Musician, Actress & Philanthropist
Bill Gross, Chairman & CEO – Idealab
Craig Venter, Chairman & President – J. Craig Venter Institute
Desh Desphande, Chairman & Co-Founder – Sycamore Networks
Dov Seidman, Chairman & CEO – LRN
Ellen Lambert, Executive Director, Corporate Contributions – Merck
Howard W. Buffett, Executive Director – Howard G. Buffett Foundation
Hunter Walk, Head of Social Good Initiatives – YouTube
James Gowen, Chief Sustainability Officer – Verizon
Jean-Pierre Rosso, Chairman – World Economic Forum USA
Jeff Swartz, Former CEO & President – Timberland
Jeffrey Hollender, Co-Founder – Seventh Generation
Jonathan Greenblatt, Head, Office of Social Innovation – White House
John Abele, Founder – Boston Scientific Corporation
John Wood, Co-Chairman & Founder – Room to Read
Kay Koplovitz, Chairman – Liz Claiborne
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, President – Marc and Laura Andreessen Foundation
Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman & Founder – One Laptop Per Child
Nick Beim, General Partner – Matrix Partners
Rebecca Lucore, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility – Bayer Corporation
Rhonda Mims, President – ING Foundation
Shannon Schuyler, Senior Managing Director, Corporate Responsibility – PwC
Soon-Hong Choi, Chief Information Technology Officer – United Nations
Steve Gleason, Former NFL Player; Founder – Team Gleason Foundation
Timothy McClimon, President – American Express Foundation
Tiki Barber, NFL Former Pro Bowl Running Back & NBC Broadcaster
Tom Shadyac, Director, Screenwriter, and Producer – Ace Ventura, Bruce Almighty, I Am

Online Registration
Summit Website: www.socinnovation.com
Ticket Price: $1295 for two-day conference; $995 for one-day
VIP Code: CSRwire10 (10% discount for CSRwire members)

Confirmed Attendees: Attending will be an elite invitation-only gathering of top Fortune 500 corporate executives, venture capitalists, government leaders, heads of CSR, foundation presidents, and social entrepreneurs including firms such as:

Abbott
American Express
AOL
Bank of America
Bristol-Myers Squibb
CBS
CDW
Citi
Cisco
Deutsche Bank
Discovery Communications
Draper Richards Foundation
eBay
F5 Networks
Facebook
First Round Capital
Ford Foundation
Gap
General Electric
Gilt Groupe
Goldman Sachs
Google
Heineken
Hewlett-Packard
ING
Intel
J. Craig Venter Institute
JPMorgan Chase
Lockheed Martin
MasterCard
Merck
McKesson
McKinsey
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
National Geographic
NBC Universal
Nike
NYU
Omidyar Network
Oracle
Pfizer
PwC
Robin Hood
Salesforce.com
Samsung
Siemens
Skoll Foundation
Sony
Starbucks
T-Mobile
Twitter
Time Warner
United Nations Foundation
Verizon
Viacom
VMware
Wall Street Journal
Wal-Mart
Walt Disney
Western Union
William J. Clinton Foundation
World Bank
Zynga

Webcast: How to Become a CSR 2.0 Leader

05.07.2012 - 12:59PM

As part of the ongoing Conversations with Stephen series, Katherine Pickus, Divisional Vice President of Global Citizenship and Policy at Abbot and Vice President of the company's foundation, the Abbott Fund will join Stephen Jordan for the discussion "How to Become a CSR 2.0 Leader." The interview will discuss how companies can create sustainable, scalable solutions that meet their CSR programs goals through business innovation.

About the Conversations with Stephen Series
U.S. Chamber BCLC’s Conversations with Stephen series is produced and moderated by BCLC founder and executive director Stephen Jordan. Guests engage in thoughtful, solution-oriented discussions and debates about the CSR field.

The six-part 2012 series is offered at no charge as part of BCLC’s commitment to share knowledge and best practices with current and upcoming CSR practitioners, in collaboration with strategic partner CSRwire.

Redesigning Your Employee Volunteer Programs for Value and Impact [California]

05.07.2012 - 09:56AM

A one-day workshop designed to help increase the value and strategic relevance of your employee volunteer program.

June 6, 2012 Rosemead, Calif.

Are you concerned that your employee volunteer program isn't delivering value and impact? Frustrated that the program is not attracting more employees?

We'll also explore policies, procedures, and practices required to produce both results and meaningful metrics to incrementally improve your program.

This workshop is for you if you want to:

• Develop concrete next steps in improving your employee volunteer programs

• Learn how to eliminate practices that limit success

• Implement emerging practices to boost impact

• Explore strategies that lead to company-wide support

Redesigning Your Employee Volunteer Programs for Value and Impact [Ohio]

05.07.2012 - 09:55AM

A one-day workshop designed to help increase the value and strategic relevance of your employee volunteer program.

May 23, 2012 - Columbus, Ohio

Are you concerned that your employee volunteer program isn't delivering value and impact? Frustrated that the program is not attracting more employees?

Redesigning Your Employee Volunteer Programs for Value and Impact is a one-day workshop designed to help you rethink the possibilities of your volunteer program. You will learn what it takes to overcome limitations, maximize participation and connect the program to your organization's broader corporate citizenship strategy. We'll also explore policies, procedures, and practices required to produce both results and meaningful metrics to incrementally improve your program.

This workshop is for you if you want to:

• Develop concrete next steps in improving your employee volunteer programs

• Learn how to eliminate practices that limit success

• Implement emerging practices to boost impact

• Explore strategies that lead to company-wide support

Smarter Sustainability Reporting

04.27.2012 - 09:07AM

The Smarter Sustainability Reporting Conference is taking place on May 15, 2012 at 76 Portland Place, London, UK. CSRwire members can receive 15% off when quoting CSR15 at the time of registration.

Smarter Sustainability Reporting is global event which illustrates strategies for companies to improve upon the development, quality and communication of their sustainability report. Speaking organisations include Wyndham Worldwide, Novo Nordisk, DuPont, Coca-Cola Enterprises, GRI, IIRC and more.

Shop Your Values Week

04.23.2012 - 07:02PM

Shop Your Values Week (http://shopyourvaluesweek.com) is a NYC-wide event to encourage all New Yorkers to buy from local, ethical, and sustainable businesses from May 3 - 10th, 2012.

Take the pledge to enjoy free events & discounts across NYC.

Major partners of the week include Meatless Monday, Green Table, Just Food, BSR, Eco Biz NYC, Green Map NYC, Fab NYC, Solar One, Realty Collective, Social Innovators Collective, Nona Brooklyn, M&M Pest Control, Green Mountain Energy, ThinkEco, Just Food, GrowNYC, Epicurean Management, 14th Street Y, IOBY, Brooklyn Food Coalition, Eat Well Guide, Restaurant Opportunities Center of NY, COMMON, and the Bard MBA in Sustainability.

Webinar: Making the most of CDP

04.23.2012 - 02:36PM

Investor survey, many companies are already beginning to get their submissions ready. But what’s the real benefit of a CDP submission and how do smart companies get the most value from it?

Corporate Citizenship, a CDP Consultancy Partner in the UK and a 2012 Accredited Provider, is offering a free webinar to provide insights into the CDP reporting process.

Megan DeYoung, Director, US Office and Yohan Hill, Senior Consultant will leverage their experience advising companies on environmental reporting, assurance and corporate responsibility index submissions to discuss the following topics:

How to maximize the value of your CDP submission.
Internal benefits of CDP reporting.
Tips to creating an effective CDP response.

The free webinar will be offered two times on Thursday, April 26th 2012:

First offering at 9:00 AM EDT / 2:00 PM BST.
Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/786121761

Second offering at 12:00 PM EDT / 5:00 PM BST.
Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/130413784

About Corporate Citizenship

Corporate Citizenship is a full service corporate responsibility management consulting company, with offices in the US and the UK. Since 1997, we have advised leading, multinational corporations on how to enhance and align their citizenship and traditional business activities to create strategic business value. Our clients are international and domestic companies from many industries including Unilever, Abbott, HSBC, Verizon, National Grid, State Street, and Diageo.

Spring of Sustainability

04.20.2012 - 06:50PM

What if you could get on the phone with a world-class leader in sustainability every day for three months? ... and had access to a free replay if you couldn't make the call in real time?

The Spring of Sustainability, lasting through June 22, 2012, is bringing renowned sustainability pioneers to the public in free daily phone/webcast interviews, featuring Q&A’s that allow callers to interact with leaders and luminaries directly.

For Earth Day, Spring of Sustainability is offering a two-hour live-stream webcast presentation from 11am-1pm Pacific on Saturday, April 21 (after registering for the program, you can view the event at www.swcoalition.org/programs/earthday). The event will feature performances with Earth-honoring messages, including members of the Thrive movie creative team, Gary Malkin and Neal Rogin, award-winning poet Drew Dellinger, and a "sonic invocation" by Mystic Alchemy.

The core of the event will be a short, breathtaking film, The Awakening Universe, which powerfully expresses the evolutionary context of the Earth.

Spring of Sustainability highlights for the period surrounding Earth Day:

• Friday, April 20 – eco-philosopher Joanna Macy (free replay available for short time)

• Monday, April 23 - former Sierra Club President Adam Werbach

• Tuesday, April 24 – Your Money or Your Life author Vicki Robin

• Wednesday, April 25 – Endangered Species Coalition President Brock Evans

• …and coming up in a few weeks – former Presidential adviser Van Jones (Wednesday, May 16)

The half-hour weekday interviews are webcast – and accessible by phone – live at noon Pacific. A replay window is available for 24 hours.

Registration for the Spring of Sustainability is free, as is access to all the teleseminars. Sign-up is available at https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/SoSAffiliate/csrwire/ . Downloads and transcripts of the entire series are available for purchase.

Major environmental organizations are also participating in this massive, unprecedented global initiative.

Ceres Conference 2012

04.17.2012 - 02:14PM

A weak economy, partisan politics and fragmented and unsettled environmental policies have created a wrongful perception that climate change and other sustainability threats are being ignored by the global marketplace.

In reality, companies and investors, from Akron to Asia, from Billings to Brazil are innovating to use fewer resources, utilizing cutting edge low-carbon technologies and adopting paradigm-changing business models that will build the sustainable global economy.

Over the course of two days, Ceres conference attendees will engage in a dynamic and interactive program that will examine some of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges, create a forum for sharing best practices and present groundbreaking solutions that will drive us toward a more sustainable economy.

Tim Hortons: A Quiet Sustainability Leader

04.17.2012 - 09:18AM

If you haven’t heard the Tim Hortons sustainability story you’re not alone – this is an organization that does things quietly. But don’t mistake quiet for ineffective; whether you’re talking about coffee, cups, community or culture – Tim Hortons is a true sustainability leader.

Attendees of this event will learn more about the Tim Hortons Coffee Partnership and…

Why eco-labels (especially for coffee) often don’t tell the whole story

Tim Horton’s supplier codes for coffee – driven by ethics and transparency

How investing in the Tim Horton’s Coffee Partnership led to other business benefits

How sustainability reporting drove change at Tim Hortons

And engage in an open discussion about, “Whose responsibility are all those cups?”

For more information or to register, please click here. This event is also available via FREE WEBCAST and offers a webcast/Twitter chat hosted by Aman Singh, Editorial Director of CSRwire.

GBCHealth Conference and Awards Dinner

04.16.2012 - 10:06AM

Join corporate executives, government leaders, policy makers and global health visionaries as we gather to explore the future role of business in creating a healthier workplace and world. This year’s GBCHealth Conference features eight major sessions exploring critical topics on business and health, presentations by visionary thinkers, more networking time than ever, and presentation of the 11th Annual Business Action on Health Awards.

The Conference and Awards Dinner brings together a distinguished group of senior leaders and participating speakers that include Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women; Sarah Brown, CEO of the Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown & President of PiggyBankKids; Barbara Bush, CEO and Founder of Global Health Corps; Ray Chambers, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria; Deepak Chopra, Founder of The Chopra Foundation; Richard Edelman, President & CEO of Edelman; Julio Frenk, Dean of Faculty at Harvard School of Public Health & former Minister of Health of Mexico; Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company; Madam Bongi Ngema-Zuma, First Lady of South Africa; and Dean Ornish, Founder and President of Preventive Medicine Research Institute.

For more information, see Who's Attending and learn about last year's Conference, which more than 1,000 global leaders attended. For information on tickets, visit our Registration page.

Follow our Conference updates on Twitter using our Conference hashtag #GBCH12.

If you have any questions about GBCHealth's Conference and Awards Dinner, please email us at conference@gbchealth.org.

About GBCHealth

GBCHealth serves as a hub for private sector engagement on the world's most pressing global health issues. Since 2001, GBCHealth has worked with hundreds of members—individually and in partnership with one other—to tackle the challenges of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, diabetes and other health issues facing the workplace and communities where business is conducted.

The SRI Conference

04.10.2012 - 03:56PM

The SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing (formerly SRI in the Rockies) is the premier annual gathering of investors and investment professionals working to direct the flow of investment capital to enhance the common good in the United States and around the world.

The 600+ attendees at The SRI Conference will include licensed investment professionals serving investor clients; representatives of SRI mutual fund companies, asset managers, social research organizations, and other product/service providers to the industry; and non-profit organizations, community development financial institutions, faith-based organizations, and other groups working with the SRI community on various social change issues.

The 23rd annual SRI Conference will once again feature a stellar, inspiring and provocative agenda, its legendary networking opportunities, and excellent access to sponsors in the Exhibit Hall.

Dates: October 2 - October 4, 2012

Location: Mohegan Sun Conference Center, Uncasville, CT

Gulf Conference on Social Responsibility & ISO 26000

04.10.2012 - 08:55AM

Under the Patronage of His Excellency Dr. Rashid Ahmad bin Fahad Minister of Environment and Water, Chairman of ESMA,we are pleased to announce the Gulf Conference on Social Responsibility & ISO 26000.

Around the world, any organization's performance in relation to the wider society and environment it operates in has become a critical part of measuring its overall performance. Now more than ever, organizations, whether they are big multi-nationals, sector corporations, SMEs, non-governmental or government agencies, are subject to greater scrutiny by their various stakeholders.

ISO 26000, launched in November 2010, provides social responsibility guidance for all types of organizations. The seven principles of socially responsible behavior as outlined in the standard are: accountability, transparency, ethical behavior, respect for stakeholder interests, respect for the rule of law, respect for international norms of behavior, and respect for human rights.

As the world moves towards an age of radical transparency, organizations and stakeholders are becoming increasingly aware of the need for socially and environmentally responsible behavior. ISO 26000 is thus a timely and relevant guide to help organizations understand what social responsibility is and what they need to do to operate in a socially responsible way.

In response to this, the Emirates Authority For Standardization & Metrology (ESMA), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Abu Dhabi University / AIM Events are pleased to provide you details of the forthcoming first Gulf Conference on Social Responsibility & ISO 26000.

Free Webinar: P&G Supplier Environmental Scorecard and YOU

04.09.2012 - 10:05AM

Take advantage of this opportunity to hear from those on the forefront of P&G’s global sustainability efforts. We’ll share what we’ve learned as a Company over the past few years developing an environmental supply chain scorecard. We’ll also show you how you can apply it to your own business.

In this webinar, you’ll see:

The lessons we’ve learned since launching our Scorecard
A live demo of the Scorecard in use
Ideas for reapplying the Scorecard to your own business—including how to use the publicly-available scorecard analysis tool

Speakers:

Dr. Peter White, Director of Global Sustainability, P&G
Larry Loftus, Director of Purchases Capability & Strategy, P&G

Date:

Wednesday April 18th, 9-10am EDT (3-4pm CEST)

Click here to register for this free Webinar: www.cvent.com/d/lcqpfp

For information on the results of P&G's Supply Chain Scorecard, view the recent press release here.

2012 BALLE Business Conference: Real Prosperity Starts Here

04.03.2012 - 07:35PM

The 2012 BALLE Business Conference: Real Prosperity Starts Here connects you to the best people, resources and ideas to unleash local prosperity. Join more than 700 community innovators, business owners, and investors to:

Learn from pioneering entrepreneurs what business practices have the most triple bottom line impact
Network with the nation's local movement founders and visionaries
Witness how the latest community capital techniques are transforming the local economy
Catch the latest local business developments in public policy and economic development
Be inspired by local, community-supported everything: food, finance, manufacturing, energy, retail, and more

Real Prosperity Starts Here is proud to be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, named “America’s Greenest City” by Fast Company magazine. As home to nationally acclaimed BALLE network and conference cohost, Local First West Michigan, Grand Rapids has put apathy, malaise and economic decline on the ropes, and you don’t want to miss the final round.

FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Conference & Awards

04.03.2012 - 12:13PM

The FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Conference is the major event on sustainable finance for industry leaders, corporate decision makers and financiers from around the world.

Now in their seventh year, the Sustainable Finance Awards reflect the growing role that the financial sector plays in addressing some of the world's most pressing challenges, including climate change and environmental degradation, social exclusion, food security, improving access to finance and using technology to better serve the world's poor.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

H.R.H Princess Maxima, Netherlands
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO, Women's World Banking
Sara Akbar, CEO, Kuwait Energy Company
Runa Alam, CEO, Development Partners International
Ladi Balogun, Group Managing Director / CEO, First City Monument Bank plc
Alan MacKay, CEO, Hermes GPE LLP
Dominic Scriven OBE, CEO, Dragon Capital Group Limited
Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Network Head, Sustainable Development, World Bank

Visit www.ft-live.com/sustainablefinance for more information.