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AccountAbility Forum
Quarterly journal provides information on the practice and theory of social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting. Worldwide.
Audit Integrity
Provides companies with quarterly accounting and governance reports to assure the accuracy of their financial disclosures. Helps public corporations prepare accurate financial statements. United States.
Business Ethics 100 Best Corporate Citizens
Magazine annually researches, names, reviews corporate citizenship. Also publishes annual socially responsible investing issue.
Centre for Australian Ethical Research
Offers corporate ethics research services for institutional investors in the Australian ASX 300 market index.
Centre Info SA
Swiss company offering advice and research regarding sustainability, corporate responsibility, and socially responsible investing for investors and financial institutions. Multi-lingual.
CERES Principles
U.S. coalition of environmental, investor, and advocacy groups working together for a sustainable future. Maintains and promotes a 10-point code of environmental conduct that companies can become signatories of.
CERES: Coalition for Environmentally Responsible E
Maintains and encourages companies to endorse the "CERES Principles." Publishes issue reports, corporate sustainability reports, and environmental performance reviews.
Claros Co.
Consulting, information, and guidance on socially responsible investment (SRI) for pension managers, institutional investors, and fund managers.
Clean Edge - The Clean-Tech Market Authority
Helps investors and innovators understand clean technology via consulting services, market research, publications, and conferences.
CorporateRegister.com
Directory of corporate non-financial reports. Information on environmental, social and associated reports by companies worldwide.
CorpWatch
Research guide for social investors, activists, students.
CSR Asia
Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia: The issues, as they emerge in the Asia-Pacific Region.
CSRwire
Corporate social responsibility news and press releases from publicly traded corporations. Investors may use the information to evaluate the CSR practices of current or potential holdings.
Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
Maintains investable indexes to benchmark the performance of investments in sustainability companies and funds. Maintains independent indexes as a basis for derivatives and funds focused on sustainability companies. Switzerland. Global.
Ecostructure.us
Using the tools of business to replicate already-successful ecosystem vitality programs. Venture "angel" capital program. USA
ETHIBEL
Independent consulting agency in The Netherlands that rates and audits sustainability, ethics, and social responsibility metrics of corporations. Maintains a standardized labeling scheme for European SRI funds. Multilingual.
Ethical Corporation
Monthly global business publication providing corporate social, environmental, and financial responsibility news, advice, and examples.
Ethical Investment Research Service (EIRIS)
European research organization founded by churches and charities to investigate companies' ethical, environmental and social policies and performance. Also provides information to the general public on personal finance to enable people to put their principles into practice.
Ethical Performance - CSR news
Newsletter for professionals in corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment. Covering Europe, The Americas, and Asia Pacific regions.
EthicScan Canada Limited
Original and regular research on paper and electronic files on major public corporations, both Canadian and transnational. Performance reporting across a broad range of corporate social responsibility and corporate governance topics.
FTSE4Good
Developed and maintains a series of global sustainable investment indexes for use in benchmarking and portfolio construction.
Global Ethics Monitor
News service for business and financial professionals with information needs in the areas of corporate responsibility, socially responsible investing, corporate governance, and other related areas.
Global Reporting Initiative
Develops and disseminates globally applicable "Stainability Reporting Guidelines" for voluntary use by organisations reporting on the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of their activities, products, and services.
GovernanceMetrics International
Independent global corporate governance ratings agency. Subscription-based research service and institutional advisory services.
Heartland Labor Capital Network
Organization explores and promotes jobs-oriented investment strategies. United States.
IdealsWork Financial
Software that allows financial professionals to conduct custom tailored social screening research and company rankings. Ratings are available on a range of personal standards, sustainability, and risk factors. USA
Innovest: Publications
Free PDF downloads of research articles on the value of corporate ethics and social responsibility.
InSITE Fellowship
Mentorship program of New York business and law students to support entrepreneurs in the development of businesses and the pursuit of Private Equity / Venture Capital or Angel investments.
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
Forum for collaboration between pension funds and other institutional investors on issues related to climate change. Europe.
InterPraxis Sustainability Consulting
A social and economic consultancy specializing in ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), non-financial corporate reporting and social auditing. Canada
Invest Green
Information for those who wish to invest in environmentally friendly stocks. Field research for hire. Canada.
Investor Network on Climate Risk
Organization serving institutional investors to increase understanding of climate risk on portfolios. Coordinates related UN Summits, conferences, briefings, meetings, and the publication and distribution of reports. Member and public access. United States.
Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC)
Source of information on corporate governance and social responsibility issues affecting investors and corporations worldwide. Provides research, software products, and consulting services to institutional investors, corporations, law firms and other organizations.
KLD Research & Analytics, Inc.
Subscription-based social and environmental investment research database services for institutional investors. Includes daily pricing of KLD indexes, Socrates database, & SRI bibliography. USA
Michael Jantzi Research Associates Inc.
Investment research and support for institutional and professional social investors. Maintains a Canadian social investment database and the Jantzi Social Index.
OneReport: The Sustainability Reporting Solution
Electronic reporting network that consolidates data requests from research firms with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework, provides companies with data management tools, and distributes sustainability data to the marketplace.
Portfolio21, Stock at Stake NV
Research service for institutions using human rights criteria in the management of investment portfolios. Netherlands.
Rating Agency of France
Social and environmental rating agency of European companies. Site is in French and English.
Results for America, CookingYourNestEgg.org
Gives investors information they can use to assess the extent to which their mutual funds do or do not contain major holdings that are endangered by the financial risks posed by global warming. United States
SageCap
Private equity investment research and analysis. Specializing in environmentally sustainable industries and companies. United States
Social Investment Research Analyst Network
Analyst network that supports North American social investment research analysts from investment firms, research providers, and affiliated investor groups. USA
Socially Responsible Investment by Pension Funds:
2001 report generated by literature review, discussion with experts, and publicly available information.
Socially Responsible Investment Coalition
Offers definitions, annotated links to SRI research and advisers.
SolAbility
In addition to corporate sustainability services, SolAbility provides corporate research for financial institutions. Swiss-Korean Joint Venture.
SRI World Group
Provider of news, research, and consulting for social investing, corporate social responsibility, and corporate governance and ethics.
sristudies.org
Reviews and bibliography of academic and juried studies related to the quantitative effects and results of socially responsible investing and business.
Sustainable Investment Research Institute Pty Ltd
A dedicated research group providing social and environmental investment research to investors, lenders and other users of financial data. Database primarily comprises the ASX 300 and NZSE 40 companies.
Sustainable Investment Research International Comp
Research and consulting services geared to the needs of institutional investors. Offers construction of SRI indices, provision of weighted company ratings, SRI fund monitoring, and strategic SRI consultancy.
Sustainable Investment Research International Grou
Grouping of many independent local SRI research organizations spanning three continents. Provides harmonized social investing profiles of major global public companies.
The Corporate Library
International corporate governance research. Current news, extensive reports, and database products on the relationship between company management, their boards, and shareholders.
UNEP Finance Initiatives
United Nations Environment Programme working group on integrating sustainability into investment management.
Verite
Non-profit social auditing and research organization looking at issues related to safe, fair, and legal working conditions. Research for shareholder activists and investors. United States. Global.
VINCULAR Responsabilidad Social Empresarial
Established in 2001 by the Pontifical Catholic University specializing in Corporate Social Responsibility. As well as Chile it has partners in many other Latin American countries.
www.DivestTerror.org
A project of the Center for Security Policy. Learn how to help divest your money from terrorist-sponsered states and activities. Global