Encouraging Business to Consider Social Goals: a Sampling of Grants

Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York): To create a group of activists who will work to

hold meatpacking and poultry-processing corporations accountable for unethical hiring practices, low wages, poor treatment of immigrant workers, and harmful effects on the environment: $95,000 to the Center for New Community (Chicago).

Energy Foundation (San Francisco): To develop and put in place strategies for developing monitoring and reporting standards for greenhouse gas emissions and educating businesses and policy makers about them: $225,000 to California Climate Action Registry (Los Angeles).

Ford Foundation (New York): To expand educational work within the Israeli business community on issues of corporate social responsibility: $200,000 to MAALA Business for Social Responsibility in Israel.

J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation (New York): To conduct an annual competition designed to boost the leadership and ethical decision-making capacity of business-school students: $1,000,000 to the Aspen Institute Initiative for Social Innovation through Business (New York).

Joyce Foundation (Chicago): To design and implement a program to purchase “green” vehicles by fleet managers in the Great Lakes region: $77,800 to Tellus Institute (Boston).

Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York): To encourage corporate consumers to purchase Chilean forest products that come from sustainably managed resources: $75,000 to Forest Ethics (Berkeley, Calif.).