A newly-minted lawyer aspiring to discover the intricacies of law and promote a practical way to bring about social change. Living in various countries around the world for over three years has aided Alissa in bringing a unique perspective to solving legal issues. She primarily helps clients with issues relating to corporate governance, environmental law compliance, and renewable energy ventures.
Alissa has been cited in several publications including and featured in numerous online publications such as Next Now Collaboratory.
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SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INITIATIVES IN THE US
For a clear and concise explanation of the essential terms relating to Corporate Social Responsibility, click the links below.
Common Good Corporations are...
corporations that freely chooses to have their highest priority be the good of the one and only whole...
The Fourth Sector is...
a new generation of value-driven consumers and shareholders who are demanding that corporations benefit their communities...
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Fourth Sector Organizations are...
organizations that integrate social and environmental aims with business methods...
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New Hybrid Legal Forms in the U.S.
As social entrepreneurs and businesses attempt to surf the wave towards a Fourth Sector by seamlessly blending a social purpose with their business agenda, a collaborative effort has begun to develop new hybrid legal entities to support such a venture...
INTERNATIONAL CSR INITIATIVES
International Hybrid Legal Forms
A new socially conscious company is emerging in virtually every country, and the U.S. is far behind in its effort to supportu hybrid organizations...
European Cooperative Society (SCE)
The SCE was created in 2003 by Council Regulation 1435/2003 and entered into force on August 18, 2006 nizations...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Europe and the US
Some US and EU corporate directors no longer abide by Milton Friedman’s famous declaration that a corporation’s only social responsibility is to provide a profit for its owners...
Socially Resonsible Organizations/Blogs
- Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) - Information for CSR companies.
- Social Enterprise Alliance- Tools and resources for Social Enterprises.
- Trusteeship Institute- Tools and resources for Common Good corporations.
- FourthSector.net- Resources on how to participate in the Fourth Sector movement.
- CSREurope- Tools and resources for CSR companies in Europe .
- Just Means- Blog/Forum to dialogue with socially responsible companies .
- Social Edge- Blog/discussion forum for social entrepreneurs.
- The Non-Profit Enterprise Forum- Blog/discussion forum for social enterprises.
- ADERSE-research on CSR acitvity in France - CSR activity in France.
- csr.gov.uk- CSR activity in the UK
- Community Interest Companies- information on CIC companies in the U.K.
- International Co-operative Alliance-Information on co-operative societies.
- European Monitoring Centre on Change-Place for exchanging practice, information and ideas on the management and anticipation of change in Europe.
- Sociétés Coopératives d'Intérêt Collectif- Information for co-operative societies in France .
- Social Economy Centre-Information on Social Economy movement.
- European Coalition for Corporate Justice- Active lobbying NGO for Business and Human Rights in Europe
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My Recommended Reading List
- 2008 UN Report on Business and Human Rights- Respect, Protect, and Remedy ("The Ruggie Report") by John Ruggie - Report by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.
- The Emergence of New Corporate Forms by Susan Mac Cormac.- An informative and insightful discussion on alternative corporate designs that integrate financial and social missions.
- Corporation Social Responsibility: Impact of Globalization and International Business, by Kim Kercher - The history and current support of value-driven organizations in America and abroad.
- Social Enterprise: A Legal Context, by Robert Wexler - Understanding the legal framework through which hybrid organization attorneys and social entrepreneurs will view their social enterprise business plans.
- Social Enterprise: A Lawyer’s Perspective, by Allen Bromberger - Using existing legal entities to establish hybrid arrangements.
- The Case for Introducing Stakeholder Corporations, by Shann Turnbull - A detailed description of how corporations can and should be reformed to make them an explicit instrument for building an efficient, equitable and sustainable society that is locally controlled. The article suggests a Global Community Investment Code to promote the adoption of incentives, to create stakeholder corporations and to counter concerns over globalization.
- Corporate Design: The Missing Business and Public Policy Issue of Our Time, by Marjorie Kelly and Allen White - How can corporations be designed so as to blend social, environmental, and financial mission at their very core? This is the design challenge of the 21st century.
- Michael Gottesman, From Cobblestones to Pavement: The Legal Road Forward for the Creation of Hybrid Social Organizations, 26 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 345 (2007).
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