CSR Conference Week Preview

Get ready! This week is jam-packed with CSR conferences, and I will be reporting back to you within the week. Here is a preview of what is on the slate:

The Foundation on Social Change and the Hatchery will be hosting the NYC Symposium for Social Change, which is designed to "bring together the powerful economic tools of Wall Street with the entrepreneurship of social innovation" to impact education, environment, and impact investing in NYC. The Chancellor of the NYC Department of Education, President of NYC Economic Development Corporation, and a broadway actress named Simone will headline the symposium, which will also include speakers from Rockefeller Foundation, Donors Choose, B Lab, Bank of America, Sea Change Capital, and Con Edison.

The New York Better Business Bureau is hosting the Good Business 2010 CSR Forum. The focus of the conference will be how to engage customers to build business. Featured speakers from Ogilvy, Edelman, and Ernst & Young will speak on topics including how to manage your brand's reputation, how to drive business growth with CSR programs, and valuable ways to engage customers.

Ceres, the Boston-based non-profit dedicated to facilitating stakeholder engagement for major corporations, is hosting its annual conference. Featured speakers include the CEO of SC Johnson and Son, the Global Head of Carbon Markets at Bank of America, and the CEO of the California pension fund CalPERS. Workshops will focus on:

Routine stakeholder engagement topics such as supply chains, human rights, and responsible political engagement

Industry-focused sessions concentrating on utilities, energy, and IT

Investor-oriented subjects including ESG data and governance

A series of climate change sessions focused on policy developments, SEC's views on climate change, energy efficiency management within corporate real estate portfolios, and implications of the Senate energy bill

Preview concluded. I look forward to reporting back to you after the CSR conferences.

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