Journals

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility  For over thirty-five years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility ( ICCR ) has been a leader of the Corporate Social Responsibility movement.  ICCR is an association of 275 faith- based institutional investors who advocate for corporate social responsibility,  file shareholder resolutions and engage in dialogue with corporate management on issues related to people , places , and policy such as; Global Warming, Human Rights, Corporate Governance, Food Safety and Security, Environmental Justice, Human Trafficking, Violent Video Games  and Predatory Lending.  ICCR has also created a team of Advocates.  Advocates are individuals who support the work of ICCR by joining our grass roots efforts (such as web and email campaigns), keep up to date on issues concerning corporate social responsibility and help spread the work of ICCR through their networks and affiliations.  ICCR ’s approach to tackling issues through both shareholder advocacy and grassroots efforts is truly unique and allows all who are interested to be involved in this work.   Americans for Informed Democracy Americans for Informed Democracy (AID) empowers and equips young people in the United States to address global issues — poverty, health, climate change, peace and security —through awareness raising and actions that promote just and sustainable solutions on their campuses, in their communities, and nationally. Find out more   Sparkseed Sparkseed offers a two-year training program to university undergraduates in the U.S. The first year focuses on starting and testing the venture locally. In the second year, Sparkseed helps its innovators scale their projects. Sparkseed innovators address a variety of issues . From empowering women in rural China to providing microloans to U.S. immigrants; from catalyzing the youth food movement to supporting students in Tanzania, this class of ventures is on a mission to change the world.   Sparkseed hosts monthly skill-building webinars.  The topics vary from month to month -- each workshop is designed to help student social entrepreneurs strengthen business skills and increase their impact. Past workshops:     Event Planning     Media Outreach (Traditional)     Publicity (Non-traditional / Guerrilla)     Press Release Templates & Strategies     Using Facebook     Effective Twitter Strategies     Delegating Leadership     Elevator Pitches,     "Making the Perfect Powerpoint", etc. If you are interested in joining these skill-building webinars, send an email to jenny@ sparkseed .org   American Medical Students Association The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States, makes medicine a better place for students, patients and communities . AMSA’s goal is simple: make better doctors and healthier patients! To this end, we have several leadership development opportunities as well as ways for students to engage in various forms of advocacy work. Ultimately we hope to achieve what is outlined in our strategic priorities:   Quality Affordable Health-care for All Global Health Equity Enriching Medicine Through Diversity Professional Integrity, Development, and Student Well-being. From its beginnings, AMSA has been speaking up for the rights of medical students, improving the quality of their medical education and advocating for patients by raising awareness about issues important to patient care while engaging students in making policy changes that will further the rights of patients.   International Womens Health Coalition   The International Women’s Health Coalition leads global and local actions to secure every woman’s right to a just and healthy life. We are creating a world where women are free from discrimination, sexual coercion and violence, and have access to health services and information. To find out more, please visit www. iwhc .org .           E+Co   E+Co makes clean energy investments in developing countries.  With 15 years of experience and offices in 10 locations, E+Co's innovative business model provides lasting solutions to climate change and poverty.   E+Co's clean energy businesses are located in the following countries : B olivia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, The Gambia, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.  (www.eandco.net) LiNK Liberation in North Korea raises awareness about the human rights and humanitarian crisis in North Korea through the use of media and grassroots support. LiNK helps those who have fled their country because of this crisis – refugees – by sheltering them, advocating for them to governments all over the world, helping them resettle in countries that will accept them, and ultimately empowering them to live new lives.   Restore   Aiming to offer the first residential facility for women escaping enslavement by the sex trade in New York, Restore hopes to provide a long-term recovery program in New York City to women who have been victimized by the sex trade through trafficking and prostitution. The ultimate benefit of this initiative is to provide hope, healing, ongoing support and the alleviation of poverty to an extremely traumatized and greatly underserved population.    Responsible Endowments Coalition The Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC) works to build and unify the college and university-based responsible investment movement, both by educating and empowering a diverse network of individuals to act on their campuses, and by fostering a national network for collective action. We empower young people to defend human rights and the environment while making both corporations and universities accountable to global stakeholders. Our goal is to foster social and environmental change by making responsible investment common practice amongst colleges and universities, and to support the next generation of activists with a new and powerful toolkit.   Center for Inquiry The mission of the Center for Inquiry is to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. In aiming to foster a secular society, we do not seek to abridge the rights of believers. We vigorously object to government support of religion and the use of religious dogma to justify public policy; we do not oppose the free exercise of religion. The secular society we are building is a community of reason and compassion in which the dignity and fundamental rights of all individuals are respected. The Center for Inquiry is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, recognized as a 501(c)(3) charity in the United States. The Center for Inquiry does not promote any political party or political ideology.