March 9th, 2010
From Danna Moore, our Stakeholder Campaigns Director:
Over the years, I’ve worked, interned and volunteered in the activist community. As a student and resident in San Francisco, it wasn’t difficult to find a highly-active grassroots network of organizations and individuals fighting against war, poverty and environmental degradation. The progressive culture here is an inspiring and passionate bubble that creates a thirst for knowledge in the political and social sphere.
That progressive culture has led me to where I am today, a campaign organizer working on climate policy at a non-profit based out of SF. When I first came to Future 500, it took me a while to fully understand the model. The organization simultaneously works with both the activist community and (gasp) the corporate sector, searching for common ground opportunities.
The interesting set of bedfellows we engage brings, not surprisingly, skepticism from both sectors, and elicits eye-opening reactions.
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March 5th, 2010
From Juliette Terzieff, Senior Director, Global Stakeholder Initiatives:
Interaction with United Nations Special Representative John Ruggie is an eye-opener. Well, I guess he’d say “a game changer,” but however you want to phrase it, Ruggie’s work to define roles and recommend parameters for his 3 pillar approach to business and human rights is going to change the way corporations and their stakeholders view human rights.
It’s about time.
For the last couple decades environmental and human rights activists groups have increasingly targeted corporate behavior in their campaigns – there have been some noticeable campaign “victories” and positive changes.
But broadly speaking the systemic problems at the root of issues like child labor, freedom of expression remain. Figuring out the role corporations and their stakeholders can play in addressing them remains a time-intensive conundrum.
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