Interview with Carmen Perez, Senior Research Analyst, Global Valuation at the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) at the 2013 VolunteerMatch Client Summit in New York City, May 2013. Carmen talks about the role of volunteering in CECP's partnerships with businesses around the world on the most important societal issues. She discusses the growth of volunteering as a priority for large corporations globally, and how it's becoming a strategic focus on both social and business levels.

Aaron Hurst, Taproot Foundation - Imperative and CECP: The CEO Force for Good are teaming up with a small group of leading employers on a new initiative to redefine corporate service and volunteering through the science of purpose.

Aaron Hurst, Imperative's CEO, founded the Taproot Foundation and led the skills-based volunteering and pro-bono revolution. He then catalyzed Billion + Change and discovered the Service Enterprise. CECP, since its founding by Paul Newman, John Whitehead and others, brings together CEOs of the world’s largest corporations -- and their trusted delegates -- to advance new perspectives and pioneer more effective collaborations and innovations as they work to create a better world through business.

Now in his third year with the Vineyards at Chateau Hough, Mansfield Frazier has just received angel funding to kick off his next urban agriculture project, the BioCellar at Chateau Hough.

Remove the shell of any of the 15,000 abandoned homes in Cleveland that are beyond repair, and build a greenhouse over top, leaving the basement under the frost line, where mushrooms, selling for $12 a pound, can be grown in a hi-tech BioCellar to grow crops, create jobs and reuse the land, for a triple net bottom line.

Democracy Now for today, May 20th reports on the hundreds of farmworkers and their supporters who are in New York City ahead of Wendy's shareholder meeting to ask for improved working conditions for those who pick its tomatoes in the Fair Food campaign organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. CIW farmworker and organizer, Gerardo Reyes-Chavez talks about the campaign.  So far McDonald's, Subway, Burger King and Taco Bell have all joined the White House-recognized Social Responsibility Program, agreeing to pay an extra penny per pound of tomatoes to raise wages and only buy from fields where workers' rights are respected.

Business and Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility

The fifteen-day, 200-mile March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food came to a loud, colorful, and jubilant end on Sunday, March 17th outside Publix corporate headquarters in Lakeland, Florida.

Part One of the second panel of the Business in the Community Ireland Summit on Corporate Responsibility: Transforming to a Sustainable Business was held on Thursday 18th November 2010.

The panel includes James Quincey, The Coca Cola Company; Sir Stuart Rose, Chairman, Marks & Spencer; Prof Roger Steare, Cass Business School; Richard Jackson, Olympic Delivery Authority; and Gerard O'Neill, Amarach

Most of the world still lacks adequate technology which hurts business growth, slows aid to disaster victims, and keeps people from communicating with each other. NetHope is the bridge across the technology gap. We bring together the world's leading humanitarian groups and high tech companies in a common cause, which multiplies the power of these groups. The narrator is Frank Schott, Global Program Director at NetHope.

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000). April 2011.

Open Source Ecology Website is here.

Biggest challenge is bringing sustainability to people and making it relevant to lives of our customers says Director of Plan A, CSR & Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer.  Richard Gillies shares his thoughts on "shwopping" and other opportunities for making sustainability relevant to consumers at BSR Conference 2012: Fast Forward.