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September 26, 2008
Corporate Social Responsibility, Climate Change and Document
Management: How Doing Good Can Advance Your Business Objectives
Coro Strandberg will be the keynote speaker at an industry event.
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The Role of Industry Associations in the Promotion of Sustainability and CSR
This study examines how sustainability is advanced through industry
associations and where government can support associations in
the promotion of sustainability and CSR among their members.
Study findings document the current activities of seven Canadian
associations and point to strengths and opportunities for improvement.
The report also proposes sustainability roadmaps for industry
associations and government interested in helping Canadian companies
on their sustainability journeys.
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this study (616k PDF)
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Mining Association
of Canada Benchmark Study - May 2008
Strandberg Consulting and Five Winds International benchmarked the Mining Association
of Canada's sustainability program, Towards Sustainable Mining, against 7 other
industry associations and based on input from 7 member firms.
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Mining Association of Canada Benchmark Study (260k PDF)
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Credit Union Central
of Ontario CSR Publication - Excellence Exchange May 2006
An in-depth analysis of key issues facing credit unions & an
examination of how credit unions are meeting these challenges —
an overview of CSR and Ontario best practice CSR credit unions.
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Excellence Exchange May 2006 (111k PDF)
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CSR: The New Bottom
Line
Globe and Mail
Information Supplement
September 10, 2003
Coro Strandberg presents expert commentary in her article, The Future
of Corporate Social Responsibility, found on page N2 of CSR: The
New Bottom Line, a special information supplement by Canadian
Business for Social Responsibility.
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CSR: The New Bottom Line (1.01MB PDF)
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The Future of Corporate
Social Responsibility
Part of becoming a leader in CSR is understanding the longer-term
trends in social and environmental issues and how they may impact
stakeholder demands, potential partnerships, and consumer attitudes
in the years to come. Vancity Credit Union commissioned Strandberg
Consulting to conduct this study on the future of CSR as part of
an overall scan to understand CSR trends.
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The Future of Corporate Social Responsibility (568k PDF)
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Concern for Community
& Governance Matters
Coro Strandberg was a regular contributor to, and editor of, the
Canadian Co-operative Association quarterly newsletters, Concern
for Community and Governance Matters, where she wrote on corporate
social responsibility.
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CSR: The Way Ahead
InterSector is the flagship publication of the Canadian Co-operative
Association. Published three times a year, InterSector provides
CCA members and interested Canadians with in-depth analysis of issues
and trends facing the co-op sector and highlights of co-operatives
and credit unions that are meeting the challenges of the 21st Century.
In the Autumn 2002 edition Coro looks at the way ahead for CSR.
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the article at the Canadian Co-operative Association website...
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Crisis of Confidence:
Corporate scandals prompt a search for alternatives
The following article by Coro Strandberg appeared on page 3 of the
June 2002 issue of Forum, a quarterly publication of the Social
Investment Organization. An earlier version also appeared in
the January/February 2002 issue of The Corporate Ethics Monitor.
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The Role of the Board of Directors
in Corporate Social Responsibility
The Conference Board of Canada and Strandberg Consulting recently completed a
study on the role of the board of directors in corporate social responsibility
(CSR). The goal of this study was to identify current CSR approaches and trends
as they relate to the role of the board of directors.
Download
the report on The Role of the Board of Directors in Corporate Social Responsibility (801
kb PDF)
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Framework for
CSR Governance (Draft)
Coro Strandberg's views on emerging CSR Governance standards.
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Draft of a 6-step Framework for CSR Governance (98 kb
PDF)
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The Convergence
of Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility - Thought
Leaders Study
Corporate governance reform efforts of the past decade have bumped
into decade-old efforts to mainstream social and environment responsibility
of corporations and a growing awareness that firms’ off balance
sheet environmental and social impacts can have tangible financial
consequences. This encounter has fueled a debate regarding the
degree and nature of convergence between corporate governance and
corporate social responsibility. The Canadian Co-operative Association,
interested in promoting good governance and social responsibility
practices to its member cooperatives, sponsored Coro Strandberg
to conduct an international thought-leaders study on this convergence
issue.
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The Convergence of Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility
(882 kb PDF)
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Green Building and Infrastructure Fund Study - Advisory Role
This study conducted by Trent Berry, Compass Resource Management
Ltd., examines the opportunity of establishing a Green Building
Investment Fund.
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more about the
Green Building and Infrastructure Fund Study
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Draft SRI Continuum:
From Limited Social Change to High Social Change Impact
There is an emerging continuum from SRI “lite” to
SRI deep, as chronicled in the study, “Future of SRI”. A
further evolution is that SRI firms are expected to model the
kinds of practices they require of their investee companies.
This model is an initial attempt to scope out this continuum,
from the perspective that firms with a more robust SRI value
proposition will be able to compete more effectively in a crowded
SRI market. This project is funded by Ethical Funds Inc.
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the draft SRI Continuum (79 kb PDF)
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The Future of
SRI (Corporate
Knights Water and Pollution Issue - 2006)
All signs are pointing to the mainstreaming of socially responsible
investment practices over the next 10 years.
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The Future of SRI (120 kb PDF)
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The Future of
Socially Responsible Investment:
This thought leaders study assesses the trends and drivers of socially responsible
investing over the coming decade.
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The Future of Socially Responsible Investment (386 kb PDF)
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Reducing Supply
Chain Carbon: A Backgrounder
briefing document which provides information on the purchasing trend to reduce
supply chain carbon. A Sustainability Purchasing Network publication compiled
by Coro Strandberg.
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Reducing Supply Chain Carbon: A Backgrounder (5.43 MB
PDF)
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A Credit Union Guide to Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Management
Credit Union Guide on Climate Change, Carbon and Paper Produced by Strandberg
Consulting and sponsored by Doxim Inc., this is a guide for credit unions concerned
about climate change. It provides some suggested steps for reducing their impact.
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A Credit Union Guide to Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Management (191
kb PDF)
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How To Go Carbon
Neutral: A Carbon Neutral Primer
A guide for organizations looking for a simple path towards reducing their greenhouse
gas emissions. Authored by Elizabeth Sheehan and Coro Strandberg and produced
by Strandberg Consulting.
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How To Go Carbon Neutral: A Carbon Neutral Primer (190 kb PDF)
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CSR and Climate
Change: The Credit Union Perspective
What Canadian credit unions are doing to address climate change including a case study on Vancity Credit Union.
Read CSR
and Climate Change: The Credit Union Perspective at Doxim.com
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The Climate
Change Guide
A guide for Canadian businesses seeking to reduce their contribution to global
warming, peer-reviewed by Coro Strandberg.
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The Climate Change Guide (4.49 MB PDF)
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Scan of the Community
Investment Sector in Canada
Coro Strandberg and Brenda Plant wrote this paper as part of the
National Round Table on Environment and the Economy's research program
on Capital Markets and Sustainability. The paper contrasts the Canadian
community investment sector - including pension fund and green venture
fund investments - to the US community investment sector and highlights
barriers and opportunities for growth.
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Scan of the Community Investment Sector in Canada (143 kb
PDF)
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The Emergence of
Community Investment as a Strategy for Investing in Your Community
Coro Strandberg delivered this paper at the Saskatchewan “Investing
In Your Community Conference” in March 2004. It provides an
overview of how the Community Investment Industry in Canada can
be a tool to tackle issues of unemployment, poverty, social exclusion,
economic restructuring and environmental degradation in Canadian
communities.
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The Emergence of Community Investment as a Strategy for Investing
in Your Community (174 kb PDF)
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Global Profit and
Global Justice: Using Your Money to Change the World
Inhance CEO and Portfolio Manager, Deb Abbey offers a tough critique
of the globalized economy as well as pragmatic ideas for dealing
with its negative consequences. In addition, several guest authors,
including Coro Strandberg, fill the pages with a wealth of experience
on the cutting edge of social change. They are honest about the
challenges that lie ahead, but face them with a steadfast optimism
fed by successful consumer and shareholder campaigns.
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more about Global Profit and Global Justice.
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Future of Sustainable Insurance: Thought Leaders Study
The Co-operators Group Limited hired Strandberg Consulting to conduct
a
Thought Leaders Study in their effort to understand the opportunities
and threats to the insurance industry and the role a responsible
insurance company should take to chart a path that puts it on a
sustainable course, while contributing to the betterment of society,
the economy and the planet.
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Future of Sustainable Insurance: Thought Leaders Study (256 kb PDF)
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Best Practices in
Sustainable Finance
A profile of 21 best practice financial organizations and initiatives in CSR
covering banking, asset management and insurance.
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Best Practices in Sustainable Finance (339 kb PDF)
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Future of Sustainability
Finance - Thought Leaders Study
The views of 50 international thought leaders on the future of CSR in banking,
asset management and insurance.
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Future of Sustainability Finance (247 kb PDF)
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Credit Union Report:
Sustainability Finance Study - A Study of Best Practices, Standards
and Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is emerging as a significant international
business trend, becoming a preoccupation of many business executives worldwide.
In an effort to understand how this trend is playing out in the financial services
sector, 10 Canadian financial co-operatives funded a study to assess international
best practices, standards and trends in CSR or sustainable finance.
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Sustainability Finance Study - A Study of Best Practices, Standards
and Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility (91 kb PDF)
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Social Finance
Forum
Notes from Canada's first national forum on social finance with financial industry,
October 2007.
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Report on Canada’s First National Social Finance Forum (456 kb PDF)
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The Social Purpose
Capital Marketplace
A paper on the opportunity for creating a social capital marketplace in Canada.
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The Social Purpose Capital Marketplace (230 kb PDF)
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Scaling up the
Canadian Social Finance Sector National Strategy Session
October 2006 meeting notes.
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here to download the meeting notes (480 kb PDF)
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21st Century
Financing: Exploring New Sources of Investment for Social Transformation
Tides Canada Foundation, the Plan Institute for Caring Citizenship,
Ashoka and Vancity Credit Union hosted a roundtable dialogue
on 21st Century Financing: Exploring New Sources of Investment
for Social Transformation. Attended by over 30 representatives
from social enterprises, non-profit organizations, governments,
financial institutions, and other businesses. This dialogue is
the second in a series of roundtable discussions on the Social
Capital Marketplace.
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21st Century Financing: Exploring New Sources of Investment for
Social Transformation (228 kb PDF)
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Over The Horizon:
The Future of Canada’s Capital Market for Social and Environmental
Innovation
Tides Canada Foundation and Social Capital Partners hosted a roundtable
dialogue on the state of "social" capital markets in
Canada to look at the new forms of innovation in finance for social
purpose initiatives led by non-profit or charitable organizations
or hybrids involving for-profits.
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Over The Horizon: The Future of Canada's Capital Market for Social
and Environmental Innovation (319 kb PDF)
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HBC Ethical
Sourcing Case Study
HBC established the foundation for their ethical sourcing program in 1998, when
they established a Code of Vendor Conduct (CVC). Their program has evolved
since then into a broader Social Compliance Program (SCP), which was formalized
in 2001, containing the CVC and a monitoring and remediation process, the overall
goals of which are to improve factory conditions, educate buyers and share industry
knowledge.
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HBC Ethical Sourcing Case Study (178 kb PDF)
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Catalyst Paper
Sustainable Supply Chains Case Study
As a significant purchaser of BC forest fibre, Catalyst focuses
most of their sustainability purchasing efforts on fibre sourcing,
to ensure that their suppliers meet the company’s environmental
standards.
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Catalyst Paper Sustainable Supply Chains Case Study (91 kb PDF)
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Reducing Supply
Chain Carbon - DRAFT
The following backgrounder was compiled by the Sustainability
Purchasing Network (www.buysmartbc.com)
and is to be used to provide a context for why and how an organization
would consider responsibly managing the carbon in its supply
chain. It provides a definition and a business case and
includes 8 case studies (3 UK, 1 US, 1 Denmark and 3 Canadian)
providing examples of how firms and governments are reducing
their supply chain carbon.
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Reducing Supply Chain Carbon - DRAFT (100 kb PDF)
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Sustainability
Purchasing Trends and Drivers By Coro Strandberg and
Amy Robinson
This paper documents the trends and drivers for sustainability
purchasing, including green, ethical and social purchasing, globally
and in Canada, and considers multi-lateral and regulatory developments
that are advancing sustainability in the marketplace. Two
case studies of firms integrating ethical and environmental performance
standards in their procurement programs are provided as examples
of sustainable purchasing in practice.
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Sustainability Purchasing Trends and Drivers (4.75 MB
PDF)
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Guide
to the Business Case for Sustainable Purchasing By Coro
Strandberg and Amy Robinson.
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Guide to the Business Case for Sustainable Purchasing (626k PDF)
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Sustainable
Purchasing Survey A survey of information, training,
and collaboration needs and priorities of sustainable purchasers
in Greater Vancouver.
Download
the Sustainable Purchasing Survey (268k
PDF)
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Sustainability
Purchasing Initiative: A Study Assessing Interest in a Sustainability
Purchasing Network to Grow Sustainability Purchasing in the Greater Vancouver Regional District
By C. Easton and Associates, Tim Reeve and Associates and Strandberg
Consulting.
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Sustainability Purchasing Initiative (236k PDF)
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How To Guide for
Establishing Values-Based Business Networks
Nearly 150 businesses indicated their interest in the establishment
of a values-based business network in Greater Victoria, BC, through
a consultation process advised by eight business, environmental
and social sector representatives during 2003. This Guide provides
a summary of the approach taken to establish the network.
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How To Guide - Establishing Values-Based Business Networks (57KB
DOC)
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Developing A Sustainability Vision
and Management System
A guidance document to help firms develop a Sustainability Vision
and Management System. Strandberg Consulting excerpted and adapted
this material from Andrew Savitz’s book, “The Triple Bottom Line”.
Developing A Sustainability Vision and Management System
(70 kb PDF)
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Conducting
a Materiality Analysis
Identify and prioritize issues to better allocate
space in reports to those issues that are truly important
to stakeholders.
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the Materiality
Analysis
(1.97 MB PDF)
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Stakeholder
Engagement Guidance Document
A guidance document to help firms develop a comprehensive
stakeholder engagement program in order for them to better manage
their stakeholder risks and to maximize business opportunities
available to them through active stakeholder engagement. Strandberg
Consulting excerpted and adapted this material from Andrew Savitz’s
book, “The Triple Bottom Line”..
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the Stakeholder Engagement Guidance Document
(73 kb PDF)
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10 Shopping List for Sustainable Purchasing
A simple checklist outlining 10 environmental sustainability
purchase areas, ideal for those just embarking on an environmental
purchasing program.
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the Shopping List from the Sustainability Purchaisng Network
(1.71 MB PDF)
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10 Ways to Start
or Enhance your Sustainability Purchasing Strategy
Sustainability Purchasing can be as simple as choosing office products with recognized
green certifications, buying from local suppliers or leasing equipment for temporary
needs instead of buying it.
10
Ways to Start or Enhance your Sustainability Purchasing Strategy
(169 kb PDF)
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Draft SRI Continuum:
From Limited Social Change to High Social Change Impact
There is an emerging continuum from SRI “lite” to SRI deep, as chronicled
in the study, “Future of SRI”. A further evolution is that
SRI firms are expected to model the kinds of practices they require of their
investee companies. This model is an initial attempt to scope out this continuum,
from the perspective that firms with a more robust SRI value proposition will
be able to compete more effectively in a crowded SRI market. This project
is funded by Ethical Funds Inc.
Download
the draft SRI Continuum (79k PDF)
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Framework for
CSR Governance (Draft)
Coro Strandberg's views on emerging CSR Governance standards.
Download
Draft of a 6-step Framework for CSR Governance (68k PowerPoint)
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The CSR Continuum
Find out where your organization is on the "CSR Continuum",
a tool developed by Strandberg Consulting to help organizations
see the range of styles and approaches to corporate social responsibility.
Click
here to download the CSR Continuum.
Click here to download the CSR Continuum Worksheet
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