General Resources

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre provides extensive information and resources on the business and human rights subject. It reports on the human rights impacts of companies worldwide, covering 6,000 companies in over 180 countries. Information is available by region/country, sector, individual company, or business organization. Other topics include issues, laws and lawsuits, principles, the United Nations, and other international organizations.

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) is an organization that promotes social responsibility for companies of all sizes. It provides its members with a wide array of tools to design and successfully implement policies that are in line with social, economic, and environmental responsibility. Additionally, BSR provides news and analysis of current issues as they pertain to sustainable development, training, and advisory services for member companies.

The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire (CSR Wire) is a newswire service which promotes the growth of corporate social responsibility and sustainability through solutions-based information and examples. The site's core content includes news, corporate reports and links, CSR events and CSR live, an interactive forum relating to corporate citizenship, sustainability, and social responsibility initiatives.

GoodCorporation focuses on responsible business management in several sectors, specifically in areas where risk is present. This site includes a news section, resources and guidelines to assess corporations, and a listing of GoodCorporation members and clients.

This is a sub-website within the Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge website. It provides featured research reports by HBS professors on the topic of the social responsibility of enterprises. In addition, it also provides featured links to books and websites that focus on corporate social responsibility topics.

A site devoted to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) news and resources, Mallen Baker provides visitors with up-to-date news, archived content, and other web links. A free monthly newsletter is offered to voluntary subscribers, which offers a pro-business, pro-responsibility perspective on current topics regarding CSR in the workplace.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is an official collaborating center of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with direct cooperation with the Secretary-General. Its mission is to develop guidelines by which companies can voluntarily report the dimensions of their social, economic, and environmental policies. It offers news, events, forums and reports.

The Corporate Giving by the FTSE 100 report, provided by the Charities Aid Foundation, offers detailed information regarding the level of charitable contributions given by the largest companies in the United Kingdom. The report offers a wide variety of data ranging from a ranking of industries with the highest corporate giving totals to a summary of aggregate FTSE 100 corporate giving over the last several years. Opens in PDF.