Links & Resources
Related Speaking of Faith Programs
- The Gods of Business
- [http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/godsofbusiness/]
- In an age of Enron and WorldCom, how can we imagine a place for business ethics, much less religious virtue, in the global economy? Krista spoke with Prabhu Guptar, a Hindu international business analyst who offers learned, fascinating observations about how the world's myriad religions have shaped global business norms and practices.
- Money and Moral Balance
- [http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/moneymorals/]
- With financial educator Nathan Dungan, we explore the turmoil many of us experience with money in our day-to-day lives. How might we work towards a moral and practical balance for ourselves and the next generation?
Selected Articles and Sites
- "43 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World"
- [http://www.fastcompany.com/social/2007]
- For the past four years, Fast Company magazine has been ranking burgeoning businesses that are finding better ways to do good and staying true to their capitalist principles.
- Tappening
- [http://www.tappening.com/]
- A campaign to encourage people to drink tap water. The site offers some compelling arguments for consuming tap water rather than buying bottled water, and gives some arousing facts on the cost, health, and environmental benefits of tap water.
- Ethos Water and WaterPartners International
- [http://water.org/waterpartners.aspx?pgID=902&newsID=65&exCompID=108]
- An NGO devoted to clean water for the poor and a water bottling company team up. Their story here.
- Frontline Series on Social Entrpreneurs
- [http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html]
- PBS' Frontline/World has put together a series of short films on social entrepreneurs about "people who innovate in ways that truly transform our interconnected world." It's stories like these that give meat to Greenblatt's concept of "homemade" solutions.
- Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
- [http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/social_entrepreneurship_the_case_for_definition/]
- Roger Martin and Sally Osberg call for a more rigorous definition of "social entrepreneurship" in this article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
- Representing the Socially Responsible Enterprise
- [http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1907]
- The co-founders of B Lab participate in Stanford University's series on Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders. Here you can watch a video podcast of them explaining why and how higher standards in corporations can not only improve people's lives but create a healthier corporate structure all.
- "Millions for Millions"
- [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/30/061030fa_fact1?currentPage=1]
- A 2006 New Yorker article about microfinance as a solution to global poverty, the entrepreneurs who are investing in it (including Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay), and the conflict among them over how to do microfinance well and make a profit.
- The Marketplace Greenwash Brigade
- [http://www.publicradio.org/columns/sustainability/greenwash/]
- The Marketplace Greenwash Brigade blogs about the use of corporate greenness as marketing.