Corporate Citizenship

Following Corporate Citizenship’s recent DJSI webinar, Madeline Ravich blogs about (and debates) indices and their worth. Click here to join the discussion.

JustMeans have started a blog following Corporate Citizenship’s recent DJSI Webinar.
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Companies are increasingly looking to promote their corporate responsibility activities.  External validation is an important avenue for helping consumers, customers, and other stakeholders understand the robustness of your company’s citizenship program.  Dow Jones created its Sustainability Index to recognize publicly traded companies with outstanding economic, environmental, and social performance. Inclusion on this list has now [...]

International Women’s Day is here again, reminding us of women’s role in society. Like every year, we will hear that little progress has been achieved: women only represent 3.6% of FTSE100 executive directors, and their salaries are still 17% lower than men.
However, this year, the gender agenda seems to be making an interesting come-back. It [...]

The sustainability challenges facing the mining sector are both immense and high profile. This seminar provides an opportunity to learn how the mining sector has been working together and with civil society to address these issues.
Kindly hosted by Linklaters, the third instalment of Corporate Citizenship’s Knowledge Series for 2009, “Can Mining Ever be Sustainable?” was [...]

March 2008 
“Pressure from employees is the most significant influence on corporate responsibility in companies, a survey reports. A poll of 150 US and British CSR practitioners, mainly working within companies, found that a third felt employees were exerting a ‘large degree of pressure’ on their organisation to behave in a socially and environmentally responsible manner, [...]

6th March 2008 
“…Chime has bought into the concept with a separate business called the Corporate Citizenship Company, a CSR consultancy that works for such companies as Unilever, Dyson, BP, Diageo, Vodafone, Sky and HSBC.”
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