Northern California Grantmakers

I’m putting the final touches on our Corporate Contributions Roundtable Newsletter (CCR), which is why I wasn’t on the blog first thing this morning finishing up one of the other posts I have in my drafts folder.

And since I can’t share the CCR newsletter with the blog audience (sorry, it’s a members only privilege), I figured you could at least share some of the articles and research on Corporate Social Responsibility that I found thanks to the #csr convo on twitter.

And here they are:

• Best Current Practices in Purchasing: The Apparel Industry. As You Sow report based on interviews with Gap Inc., Jones Apparel, Levi Strauss & Co., Nike, Nordstrom, Phillips-Van Heusen and Timberland.
• “Creative Ways to Do Well By Doing Good.” SustainGenuity blog post featuring Pepsi, Tropicana, IBM, Shell, Ford, Terracycle, GE, Walker Crisps, Better Place and GM.
• “Does CSR Require Generic Business Skills or an MBA in Sustainability?” Blog post by Aman Singh Das on Forbes.com’s The CSR Blog.
• Employee Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Implications for Your Organization. New study on corporate citizenship by the Center for Creative Leadership.
• “Four Examples of Corporate Social Responsibility Done Right.” Socialbrite article takes a look at Molson Coors, Tyson, Haagen-Dazs and Greenopolis.

Happy reading!

NCG member the Ford Foundation announced today that they will award “a $250,000 grant to the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a global health-focused non-profit started by former President William J. Clinton in 2002. The grant will ensure the continuation of HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention services in Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating January 12 earthquake.”

Read the full press release online.

Visit the NCG website to learn how other NCG members are responding to the crisis in Haiti.

NCG member the Ford Foundation announced this week “a five-year, $80 million effort to ensure Americans get the support they need to stabilize family incomes, cope with unemployment, and keep the jobs they have.”

Ford’s initiative will focus on two related areas:

• Strengthening programs and policies that improve job quality for U.S. workers, especially low-wage employees
• Helping states modernize the delivery of existing public programs to ensure working Americans are able to meet basic needs when their wages are too low to support a family

Read the full press release online.

Read The New York Times article on Ford’s initiative online.