Who is Ethos Alliance?
We are a global coalition of citizen, civic, and business leaders that acts as a platform of participation to ensure that corporations abide by their social and ethical responsibilities. We are savvy pragmatists focused on getting different organizations to work together toward a common goal. We are not an anti-business organization.
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What is the mission of Ethos Alliance?
The mission of Ethos Alliance is to ensure that corporations live up to their social and ethical responsibilities as ethical citizens of their communities—not simply as value-enhancers for their shareholders. We are about doing the right thing.
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What does Ethos Alliance do?
EA selects one corporate social problem at-a-time and:
1. Publicizes the problem so that citizens are aware and fully informed.
2. Mobilizes citizen, civic, and business leaders to work together to identify and achieve a solution to the problem.
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How does Ethos Alliance select which corporate social problem to solve?
Ethos Alliance evaluates the following criteria to determine which problem to tackle:
(1) scale of the problem (e.g., national, local, or global),
(2) degree of public awareness about the problem,
(3) gravity of the problem (e.g., how many people affected, how long the problem has gone unsolved, etc), and
(4) level of progress made in solving the problem (e.g., which organizations and people are actively solving the problem, how much money has been invested, etc).
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What makes Ethos Alliance different?
Unlike many other NGOs dedicated to corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues, Ethos Alliance bridges the gap between corporate and personal responsibility through collective action.
In the case of oil contamination in Ecuador, a number of points make us different. First, we're focused on humanitarian relief, very little of which has been delivered to the affected Ecuadorians by other organizations so far. Second, we're unique in our use of the social Web to help build a grassroots movement on a scale that has not been accomplished for this particular issue. Third, we're not relying on the legal outcome to start providing humanitarian relief—we're starting now. Finally, we are not activist-based. Our founder comes from the business world and spent his entire career building teams, organizations, and alliances.
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Our First Issue: Oil Contamination Disaster in Ecuador
ETHOS ALLIANCE IS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION OF ITS KIND
working to provide humanitarian relief to Ecuadorians independent and apart from the ongoing lawsuit between Chevron and 30,000 Ecuadorians
WE WILL WORK WITH ORGANIZATIONS ON THESE KEY INITIATIVES::
1. Clean Water
Provide clean drinking water for thousands of affected Ecuadorians in the Lago Agrio area whose water supply has been contaminated as a result of oil exploration. We'll keep you updated here and via email with more program details in the coming months.
2. Medical Services
Deliver medical care and supplies to thousands of affected people in the San Carlos, Ecuador region. We'll keep you updated here and via email with more program details in the coming months.
3. Restoration of Lifestyle and Land Use
Restore indigenous tribes' lifestyle and traditional use of land in the Lago Agrio area of Ecuador. We'll keep you updated here and via email with more program details in the coming months.
TO THAT END, WE ARE ASKING YOU—CITIZENS, CIVIC, AND BUSINESS LEADERS—TO:
1. Join | contact Ethos Alliance
2. Participate by donating $5 (PayPal or major credit cards accepted):
$2.50 will help spread the word about the issue in Ecuador and Ethos Alliance's mission
$2.50 will go toward the project(s) above.
3. Volunteer whatever time you have.
4. Encourage others to join and visit www.ethosalliance.org.
5. Mobilize like-minded organizations to team up with Ethos Alliance.
“Thorough and impassioned… intelligently and artfully made.”
– A.O. Scott, The New York Times
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100% of profits go toward humanitarian relief for oil contamination victims in Ecuador.
We are fast at-work looking for the brightest student leaders to rise up, raise their hands, and take the reigns of Ethos Alliance chapters at some 30 college campuses—and counting—across the U.S. Here are some thoughts from new Ethos Alliance student members:
“I like the fact that Ethos Alliance provides humanitarian relief without getting involved in the blame game. In the present, they care about helping the affected people and, in the future, making sure companies do the right thing.”
– David Madeira, Brown University, class of 2008
“I feel obligated, as an American business student, to help enforce corporate responsibility. By joining Ethos Alliance I am able to contribute to the empowerment of others in order to make much needed change.”
– Vanessa Brownstein, Babson College, class of 2010
“As a social entrepreneur and human activist, it is clear that Ethos Alliance's inspiration, expertise, and actionable roadmap will bring us together to solve the worst problems in the places that need us most.”
– Mellisa Rad, Babson College, class of 2010
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