Non-profit Organizations - Animal Advocacy
Animals Australia
Animals Australia represents 38 animal advocacy organizations. It unites organizations and individuals in
Australia who share the conviction that animals suffering is unnecessary and unjustified.
Animal Rights International
ARI strives to do more than simply make the public aware of animal suffering.
ARI aims to turn words into action to effect real change reducing animal
suffering.
Farm Sanctuary
Farm Sanctuary strives to combat the abuses of industrialized farming and to
encourage a new awareness and understanding about "farm animals."
Great Ape Project
The Great Ape Project is an international group that works for the global
protection of great apes through the implementation of basic legal principles
designed to provide these creatures with the right to life, the freedom of liberty and protection from torture.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
PETA is dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals.
PETA operates under the principle that animals are not human's right to eat,
wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.
Non-profit Organizations - General Advocacy
AccountAbility: The Institute for Social and Ethical AccountAbility (ISEA)-UK
AccountAbility promotes accountability innovations that advance responsible business practices
and the broader accountability of civil society and public organizations.
Better Business Bureau
The BBB is a nationwide system that works to solve marketplace problems fairly
through the use of voluntary self-regulation and consumer education.
Business Council for Sustainable Energy
The BCSE is an organization dedicated to implementing market-based
approaches to reducing pollution and providing a diverse, secure mix of energy resources.
Business for Social Responsibility
BSR helps companies of all sizes and sectors achieve success in ways that
demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities and the environment.
Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics
The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics is an independent
organization that works to renew and enhance the link between ethical behavior and business practice.
Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
CBSR is a business-led, non-profit CSR consultancy and peer-to-peer
learning organization that provides its members with candid counsel and customized advisory services.
Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy
EthicsCentre CA aims to champion the application of ethical values
in the decision-making process of business and other organizations.
Caux: International Conference Center for Moral Re-Armament
This organization runs the "Initiatives of Change" conference. Initiatives of
Change is an international network of people from many cultures and creeds,
across the generations, engaged in the process of ´remaking the world´.
Center for Ethical Business Cultures
CEBC assists leaders in creating ethical and profitable business cultures at
the enterprise, community and global levels.
Council for Ethics in Economics
The Council is a worldwide association of leaders in business, education, and
other professions working together to strengthen the ethical fabric of
business and economic life.
Ethics Officer Association
The ECOA is a non-consulting, member-driven association exclusively for
individuals who are responsible for their company’s ethics, compliance, and
business conduct programs.
Ethics Resource Center
ERC advances understanding of the practices that promote ethical conduct,
through research, measurement of ethics and compliance program effectiveness
in individual organizations, and the development of white papers and
educational resources based on overall findings.
European Bahá'i Business Forum
EBBF works to empower its members to make a values-based difference in their
own work environment, promote a new paradigm of work in the world of business
at large, and educate the leaders of tomorrow.
European Business Ethics Network
UBEN-UK aims to to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss
and debate issues to do with business ethics / corporate social
responsibility.
The Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable
The GHBER is a voluntary professional organization dedicated to promoting
ethical business practices and serving as a forum for the exchange of
information and strategies regarding implementation, administration and
compliance of ethical business conduct programs.
Institute for Global Ethics
The IGE is dedicated to promoting ethical action in a global context. Its
challenge is to explore the global common ground of values, elevate awareness
of ethics, and provide practical tools for making ethical decisions.
Institute of Business Ethics (IBE)
The IBE encourages high standards of business behavior based on ethical values
by raising public awareness of the importance of doing business ethically.
International Business Ethics Institute
The IBEI works to foster global business practices that promote equitable
economic development, resource sustainability, and just forms of government.
International Society of Sustainability Professionals
An international professional membership organization that works toward "making sustainability standard practice."
International Association for Business and Society (IABS)
IABS is dedicated to research and teaching about the relationships between
business, government and society.
Social Investment Forum
The Social Investment Forum is a national nonprofit membership association
dedicated to promoting the concept and practice of socially responsible
investing.
Transparency International
Transparency International is a global civil society organization leading the
fight against corruption. The organization brings people together in a
powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on
men, women and children around the world.
U.S. Business and Industry Council
AmericanEconomicAlert.org was founded by the U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation,
a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research and educational organization dedicated to improving the American people's
awareness of critical public policy issues in such diverse fields as trade, taxation, education, health care,
foreign relations, defense, and national security, among others. USBICEF is affiliated with the U.S.
Business and Industry Council, a 501(c)(6) non-profit business association.
Non-profit Organizations - Consumer Advocacy
National Consumers League
NCL provides government, businesses, and other organizations with the
consumer's perspective on concerns including child labor, privacy, food
safety, and medication information.
Public Citizen
PC works for openness and democratic accountability in government, the right
of consumers to seek redress in the courts, sustainable energy sources; social
and economic justice in trade policies, strong safety and environmental
protections, and safe and affordable prescription drugs and health care.
Non-profit Organizations - Environmental Advocacy
American Solar Energy Society
ASES is a national organization dedicated to advancing the use of solar energy
for the benefit of U.S. citizens and the global environment.
CERES - Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies
Ceres is a national network of investment funds, environmental organizations
and other public interest groups working to advance environmental stewardship
on the part of businesses.
Echoing green
Echoing Green works to spark social change by identifying, investing and
supporting the world's most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations
they launch. Through a two-year fellowship program, Echoing Green helps its
network of fellows develop new solutions to society’s most difficult
problems.
EcoTrust - Building a Conservation Economy
EcoTrust operates from the premise that economic and ecological systems are
mutually interdependent. EcoTrust has developed five integrated programs:
native programs, fisheries, forestry, food and farms, and citizenship.
Rocky Mountain Institute
RMI is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient
and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous,
and life-sustaining.
Non-profit Organizations - Labor Advocacy
Fair Labor Association
The FLA helps participating companies adopting the FLA Code of Conduct for
fair labor and implement comprehensive compliance programs, including internal
monitoring, throughout their supply chain.
Fair Trade Certified
TransFair USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is one of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling
Organizations International (FLO),
and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States.
Fair Trade Federation
FTF is committed to promoting fair wages, cooperative workplaces, consumer
education, environmental sustainability, financial and technical support,
respect for cultural identity, and public accountability.
International Labour Organization (ILO)
The ILO publishes materials and information that are meant to help trade
unions and non-governmental organizations closely related to them promote
education and training activities.
Research Network for Business Sustainability (RNBS)
"The Network facilitates business sustainability in Canada through research and evidence-based management.
Our Network members are interested in research and evidence-based management relating to sustainable development,
social responsibility, and ethics within organizations."
Social Accountability International
SAI is an international non-profit human rights organization dedicated to the
ethical treatment of workers around the world.
Non-profit Organizations - Non-profit Advocacy
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
NCRP advocates for the philanthropic community to provide nonprofit organizations with essential
resources and opportunities to work toward social and economic justice for disadvantaged and
disenfranchised populations and communities.