GB Civic and Social Organizations

Good Business organizations focused on business activity with civil society and social issues, social entrepreneurship, micro finance, and worker rights.

Acumen Fund
Provides a blueprint for building financially sustainable and scalable organizations that deliver affordable, critical goods and services to the poor.
http://www.acumenfund.org/

Alliance of Work/Life Professionals
Dedicated to advancing work-life as a business strategy integrating work, family and community
http://www.awlp.org

Ashoka
Develops the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world by investing in people.
http://www.ashoka.org

Aspen Institute
An international nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/

Brinq
Focuses on the role of business in the Base of the Pyramid, develops on-the ground methodologies and knowledge needed to re-imagine this intersection of business, poverty and innovation.
http://www.brinq.com/about/

Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Promotes ethical leadership on issues of war, peace, religion in politics, and global social justice.
http://www.cceia.org

Center for Partnership Studies
The mission of the Center for Partnership Studies is to advance human development by accelerating movement to the partnership model of relations
http://www.partnershipway.org/ 

Change Makers
Inspires social change by providing resources in an online community that competes to find the best solutions to social problems, then collaborates to refine enrich and implant them.
http://changemakers.net/

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
A non-profit organization committed to improving the effectiveness of international actors who provide humanitarian assistance, engage in peace practice, and are involved in supporting sustainable development.
http://www.cdainc.com/cdawww/default.php

Draper Richards Foundation
Helps people create wide-reaching social change by providing funding and business mentoring to individuals and their non-profit organizations.
http://www.draperrichards.org/

Enterprise for a Sustainable World (ESW)
A not-for-profit organization dedicated to effectively addressing the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems through a new and more inclusive form of capitalism: Sustainable Enterprise.
http://e4sw.org/

Fair Labor Association
A non-profit organization dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide and building innovative and sustainable solutions to abusive labor conditions.
http://www.fairlabor.org

Families & Work Institute
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization whose studies of the changing workforce, workplace, family, and community result in action.
http://www.familiesandwork.org

Global Giving
Enables individuals and companies to find and support social and economic development projects around the world.
http://www.globalgiving.com/

Internatinal Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
A not-for-profit organization that works with businesses, governments and civil society to enhance the contribution that companies can make to sustainable development.
http://www.iblf.org/

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
International policy research institute and non governmental body working for more sustainable and equitable global development.
http://www.iied.org/

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
A non-profit policy research institute that promotes change towards sustainable development.
http://www.iisd.org/

Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers Rights
Maximize the effectiveness of implementation and enforcement of codes of conduct, by ensuring that resources are directed as efficiently as possible to improving the lives of workers and their families.
http://www.jo-in.org

Kauffman Foundation
Improves economic welfare and academic achievement of children in low-income families by promoting entrepreneurship-friendly policies and research in technology and education.
http://www.kauffman.org/

One World
Online media gateway designed to inform individuals about human rights and sustainable development worldwide.
http://us.oneworld.net/

Partners in Change
A non-governmental organization exclusively focusing on engaging with business to minimize its negative impact and maximize its positive impact upon the lives of the most vulnerable and marginalized, as an integral part of doing business.
http://www.picindia.org/

Philippine Business for Social Progress
A non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting business sector commitment to social development.
http://www.pbsp.org.ph/

Skoll Foundation
Advances systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs.
http://www.skollfoundation.org/

Social Accountability International
Promote human rights for workers around the world as a standards organization, ethical supply chain resource, and programs developer.
http://www.sa-intl.org

Social Enterprise Alliance
Dedicated to building stronger, more effective social enterprises by mobilizing a community of practitioners and investors to advance earned income strategies.
http://www.se-alliance.org/index.cfm

Students Against Sweatshops
An international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers' rights.
http://studentsagainstsweatshops.org

Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN)
Works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights and development issues with a particular focus on energy, climate change, environmental justice, gender equity, and economic issues.
http://www.seen.org/

The Business Humanitarian Forum
An organization working to bridge the gap of understanding and promote cooperation between humanitarian organizations and private business, encouraging both sides to work together to solve complex development problems.
http://www.bhforum.org/

The Schwab Foundation
Supports social change as a key element to advance societies and address social problems.
http://www.schwabfound.org/index.htm

United Nations Initiatives
United Nations Global Compact
A framework for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption .
http://www.unglobalcompact.org/

Verite
Ensure that people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal working conditions
http://www.verite.org

World of Good Development Organization
Dedicated to eliminating poverty and structurally improving the quality of life for artisans in very low income craft producing communities around the world.
http://www.worldofgood.org/

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