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100
This issue based organization that is part of the US Chamber of Commerce focuses on helping businesses maximize their impact to address societal challenges.
What is the BCLC (Business Civic Leadership Center)?
100
This reporting protocol refers to gases that trap heat in the atmosphere not unlike a growing structure commonly used by gardeners and farmers.
What is GHG Protocol (Greenhouse Gases)?
100
Five Center team members were exploring the 4th Generation of this reporting framework while wearing wooden shoes.
What is GRI (Global Reporting Initiative)?
100
This membership organization is our top competitor as highlighted in our most recent member survey.
What is BSR (Business for Social Responsibility)?
100
This 3-character description describes some social sector organizations by naming one sector through which they are not incorporated.
What is NGO (Non-governmental Organization)?
200
This Boston based organization has a mission to mobilize investor and business leadership to build a thriving, sustainable global economy. Its name is the same as a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships.
What is CERES?
200
This acronym does not refer to Every Human Swims but rather is the traditional name of the department responsible for implementing and managing pollution control and accident prevention programs.
What is EHS (Environment Health and Safety)?
200
Not to be confused by where you get your favorite jeans, these concepts, developed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, determine how organizations in the United States prepare, present, and report their financial statements.
What is GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)?
200
This organization offers certification to business and has two missions: to make a profit and serve a social purpose to provide more than a BUZZ about your business.
What is B Lab?
200
This does not stand for "some return inevitable" but rather asset portfolio management that is values-based.
What is SRI (Socially Responsible Investing)?
300
We did not post our 2013 conference on this organization’s board. This member based organization works within and across four main subject areas – Corporate Leadership; Economies, Markets & Value Creation; High-Performing Organizations; and Human Capital.
What is the conference board?
300
Full disclosure requires us to report that this organization provides the only global system for companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share vital environmental information.
What is the CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)?
300
This four letter acronym is a favorite of Accountants and develops the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.
What is FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board)?
300
This organization founded by a former President convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world's most pressing challenges.
What is CGI (Clinton global initiative)?
300
Located in at a prominent Boston area university and home of a former department of our Center, this center is focused on the study of nonprofit organizations and civil society.
What is Hauser Center?
400
Membership organization works from the ground up to support grantmakers in various aspects of management.
What is Council of Foundation?
400
The symbol of this voluntary standard appears on every Center printed publication indicating that we have made an effort to use a supply chain that protects forests for future generations.
What is FSC (Forest Stewardship Council)?
400
While its acronym is out of order, this Switzerland-based organization brings together representatives from around the world to agree on international standards for everything ranging from the diameters of bicycle tires to the safety requirements for industrial robots.
What is ISO (International Organization for Standardization)?
400
This competitor targets C-Suite executives to achieve progress on societal challenges while driving business performance.
What is CECP (Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy)?
400
Not to be confused with the Executive Vice President, this type of corporate program aims to engage employees while helping the local community.
What is EVP (Employee Volunteer Program)?
500
This three letter acronym represents 75 local networks that businesses join to share effective practices and address community needs through workplace volunteering, many of which are affiliated with the HandsOn Network?
What is CVC (Corporate Volunteer Councils)?
500
This recent movement among financial institutions attempts to price the indispensable resources and benefits, essential for human survival and economic activity, provided by the ecosystem. Non-commonly accepted yet for the non-cost Accounting Professionals.
What is Natural Capital Accounting?
500
This is four letter acronym for a standard setting organization is engaged in the development and dissemination of industry-specific sustainability accounting standards.
What is SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board)?
500
This 4 letter acronym that represents the world’s leading electronics companies in their effort to improve their social, ethical and environmental responsibility in the global supply chain?
What is EICC (Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition)?
500
You wouldn’t be able to use a compact car to navigate the global scope of this initiative. This global initiative, established in the year 2000, provides a principal-based framework for businesses to adopt more sustainable and socially responsible policies in the areas of human rights, labor standards, anti-corruption, and the environment.
What is UNGC (United Nations Global Compact)?