Partners

The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship is a membership-based research organization associated with the Carroll School of Management. It is committed to helping business leverage its social, economic and human assets to ensure both its success and a more just and sustainable world. As a leading resource on corporate citizenship, the Center works with global corporations to help them define, plan, and operationalize their corporate citizenship. Through the power of research, executive education, and the insights of its 350 corporate members, the Center creates knowledge, value, and demand for corporate citizenship.

www.BCCorporateCitizenship.org

The Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business cultivates leaders to solve the world’s toughest social and environmental problems. Graduates from the center’s Public Management Program are prepared to apply their management education in innovative ways that create positive social value, such as helping corporations improve their sustainable practices and launching social enterprises that bring life-changing solutions such as loans to small businesses and safe lighting to the world’s poorest places. The center provides research, education, and experiential programs that reach across the business, nonprofit, and government worlds. The center promotes development of innovative solutions to build a more just, sustainable, and prosperous world. http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/.

Paul Newman and Ken Derr are the founding co-chairs of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), the only international forum of CEOs exclusively focused on corporate philanthropy. CECP's mission is to lead the business community in raising the level and quality of corporate philanthropy. Engaging with the public, private, and independent sectors, CECP's 175 members seek and create opportunities to help advance the case for philanthropy and inspire other business leaders to make a lasting commitment to community giving. www.CorporatePhilanthropy.org.

Communications4Good is a public relations/branding agency that creates expert communications as part of the solution to global economic, environmental and social challenges. We work with early stage and legacy companies, who share common ground, in developing their sustainable brand promise.  We start by identifying the "head and heart" story that inspires every product design, each company formation in order to communicate authentically to key stakeholders. This intertwined rationale becomes the goodness narrative that underpins authentic positioning. We recommend strategic direction, develop go-to-market communications plans, launch companies, create industry categories, develop brand positioning messaging and elevator pitches, create and implement social media campaigns, execute media relations and outreach, identify and leverage partner relationships, build awareness, maintain product momentum, and engage communities through extensive outreach programs. Find out more at www.communications4good.com/

CSRwire is the leading source of corporate social responsibility news, reports and information.  CSRwire members are companies, NGOs, and organizations interested in communicating their sustainability, and socially responsible initiatives to a global audience.  CSRwire content covers Philanthropy, Socially Responsible Investing, Environment, Human Rights, Workplace Issues, Business Ethics, Community Development and Corporate Governance.
www.csrwire.com

Entrepreneur’s Foundation has aligned with Fidelity Charitable^SM, a public charity with a national donor-advised fund program, to bring expertise, experience, and efficiency to those who would like to simplify their charitable giving and potentially minimize their taxes.

With a donor-advised fund, donors make tax-deductible contributions of cash, securities and certain other assets which are then invested and have the potential to grow so donors can give more support to the causes they care about.

• The Complex Asset Group at Fidelity Charitable has the technical expertise and experience to accept most contributions of illiquid assets — private C- and S-corp stock, restricted stock, limited partnership interests, and other privately held assets.
• The Charitable Investment Advisor Program allows qualified independent investment advisors to provide investment management services for the charitable assets held in their clients' Giving Accounts.

For more information, please contact Jai Chanda at 617-563-3963
or visit FidelityCharitable.org.

Fidelity Charitable is a brand name for Fidelity® Charitable Gift Fund, an independent public charity with a donor-advised fund program. Various Fidelity companies provide services to Fidelity Charitable. The Fidelity Charitable name and logo are service marks, and Fidelity is a registered service mark, of FMR LLC, used by Fidelity Charitable under license. Giving Account is a registered service mark of the Trustees of Fidelity Charitable.

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The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) drives sustainability reporting by all organizations. GRI produces a comprehensive Sustainability Reporting Framework that is widely used around the world, to enable greater organizational transparency. The Framework, including the Reporting Guidelines, sets out the Principles and Indicators organizations can use to measure and report their economic, environmental, and social performance. GRI is committed to continuously improving and increasing the use of the Guidelines, which are freely available to the public.   www.globalreporting.org

HandsOn Bay Area (HOBA) creates opportunities for people to volunteer, learn and lead in their communities. We strive to provide volunteers with a high-quality experience that fuels further action, HOBA staff works with local nonprofits, schools and parks to identify high-impact, group-based volunteer projects. Volunteers are then recruited to get the job done as each project is led by a trained Project Leader to ensure that both the community partner and the volunteers are satisfied with the work. Throughout the month, we manage and lead 120 direct-service projects and offer educational programming to help volunteers become well-informed community leaders.

For corporate clients, we offer comprehensive planning services for employee volunteer events. We work with companies to further their corporate social responsibility goals by engaging their employees in hands-on service.

Every year, our volunteer projects provide more than 65,000 hours of free service to more than 200 nonprofits across the Bay Area. HandsOn Bay Area is an affiliate of HandsOn Network & the Points of Light Institute, an international alliance of innovative volunteer management organizations.  www.hoba.org

Since 1994, LRN has helped 15 million people at 700 companies worldwide simultaneously navigate complex legal and regulatory environments and foster ethical cultures. LRN's combination of practical tools, education and strategic advice helps companies translate their values into concrete corporate practices and leadership behaviors that create sustainable competitive advantage. In partnership with LRN, companies need not choose between living principles and maximizing profits, or between enhancing reputation and growing revenue: both are a product of principled performance. In 2008, LRN acquired green strategy firm GreenOrder. LRN works with organizations in more than 100 countries, and has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Mumbai.

For more information, visit www.lrn.com or follow @LRNinc on Twitter.

The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. We provide a forum for entrepreneurs, industry experts, venture capitalists, private investors and technologists to exchange insights about how to effectively grow high-tech ventures amidst dynamic market risks and challenges. In a world where markets change at breakneck speed, knowledge is a critical source of competitive advantage. Our forums provide an excellent opportunity to network and learn about pivotal business issues, emerging industries and the latest technologies.  www.vlab.org

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) seeks to foster greater understanding of the importance of venture capital to the U.S. economy, and support entrepreneurial activity and innovation. The NVCA represents the public policy interests of the venture capital community, strives to maintain high professional standards, provides reliable industry data, sponsors professional development, and facilitates interaction among its members. Additional information about the NVCA can be found at www.nvca.org.

For 25 years, SVB Financial Group and its subsidiaries, including Silicon Valley Bank, have been dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed. SVB Financial Group is a financial holding company that serves companies in the technology, life science, private equity and premium wine industries. Offering diversified financial services through Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Analytics, SVB Capital, SVB Global and SVB Private Client Services, SVB Financial Group provides clients with commercial, investment, international and private banking services. The company also offers funds management, broker-dealer transactions, asset management and a full range of services for private equity companies, as well as the added value of its knowledge and networks worldwide. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., SVB Financial Group operates through 28 offices in the U.S. and five internationally in China, India, Israel and the United Kingdom. More information on the company can be found at www.svb.com.

Banking services are provided by Silicon Valley Bank, a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve. SVB Private Client Services is a division of Silicon Valley Bank. SVB Financial Group is also a member of the Federal Reserve.

The Kauffman Fellows Program identifies, develops, and networks emerging global leaders in venture capital. Working full-time at a venture capital firm, Kauffman Fellows engage over 24-months in a practical apprenticeship of professional coaching, mentoring by senior partners, and quarterly sessions of industry and leadership curriculum. As ongoing participants in the Society of Kauffman Fellows throughout their careers, fellows benefit from a trusted network -- in Silicon Valley and around the world -- that includes fellows, faculty, mentors, and partners alike. Insights are shared and resources are made available, opportunities are efficiently vetted and syndicated. The result is enhanced returns to venture fund investors. Based in Palo Alto, California, the Kauffman Fellows Program is administered by the Center for Venture Education, a 501(c)(3) post-graduate educational institution dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship throughout society. Inspired by Ewing Marion Kauffman's legacy of promoting "economically independent individuals who are engaged and contributing citizens," Kauffman Fellows to date have made $4 billion in venture capital investments, sparking growth in 400 new enterprises, $12 billion in annually recurring revenues, and the creation of 42,000 jobs. Visit www.kfp.org to learn more.

YourCause provides companies with the CSRconnect Employee Engagement Platform, a dynamic online community tool that consolidates core programming, elevates limited communications, increases participation and truly measures success through comprehensive real-time reporting. The fully-hosted and managed platform contains flexible choices of modules for programs such as employee giving, volunteer, disaster relief, grant management, payroll deductions and more.

YourCause's four pillars of core values (customer service, flexibility, partnerships and fun) contribute to their continual ability to develop solutions that cater to the growing demands of the CSR market. YourCause views all clients and partners as part of their team and mission to "develop global good."   www.yourcause.com